Toronto - Legal scholar Iain Benson rejects New Atheism’s teaching that religion leads to division and violence. Benson, a lawyer and lecturer, spoke to an audience from the legal and Catholic community on how difference, including a difference in religion, can be a social good.
St. Augustine’s prof appointed bishop in India
By Erik CTORONTO - A professor of theology at Toronto’s St. Augustine’s Seminary has been chosen to lead the Syro-Malabarrite Diocese of Chanda, India.
Iraqi Christians rally in Toronto for persecuted brethren at home
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Dressed in shirts that proclaimed “I am Christian, I am Iraqi,” carrying signs pleading for protection of their families still in Iraq, 5,000 Iraqi Christians and their supporters marched on Queen’s Park August 10 to draw attention to the plight of their brethren back home.
Fr. Gravel, who sat in Parliament as a BQ MP, dies at 61
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPriest, politician, Scripture scholar and lightning rod for controversy Fr. Raymond Gravel has died.
Ontario CWL to focus on social justice over the coming year
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterOntario’s Catholic Women’s League plans to bolster its social justice work during the forthcoming year.
St. Ann’s has served Catholics from far, and near
By Erik CTORONTO - A century ago, the faces of Irish immigrants dominated the congregation at St. Ann’s parish.
deVeber award named after palliative care pioneer
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThomas Andrew Echlin will never know what he started in 1955, when he died at home with his mother just days after he was born.
Collins says we need reasoned approach like Thomas More
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterToronto - Cardinal Thomas Collins wants Catholics to follow the example of St. Thomas More and what More can teach us about religion’s role in civil society.
Demolition begins in the Diocese of Antigonish.
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterIn the small township of New Waterford, N.S., a parish has fallen.
God's natural law supersedes any man-made law, says Chaput
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Natural law, that which reflects the sense of order God inscribed on humanity upon creation, needs to be recognized by contemporary society as the underpinning of our civil laws.
Religion pushed to side in Canada, Faith in the Public Square conference told
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Canada's laws and courts promote secularism over religious and moral pluralism, a Montreal university professor said on the opening day of the Faith in the Public Square conference Aug. 5.