TORONTO - When Marshall McLuhan woke up on a typical work day he didn’t immediately grab a New Testament. He grabbed three. One in the original Greek, the Vulgate Latin translation and then a version in another language he felt a need to work on — German, Portuguese, maybe Italian.

TORONTO - While living and working in El Salvador, Sr. Martha Zechmeister learned that to be truly Christian one must embrace suffering and those who endure it.

TORONTO - For his career-long commitment to Catholic education and students, Noel Martin was honoured with the Catholic Education Foundation of Ontario’s 2013 Medal of Honour.

OTTAWA - As he prepares to retire, Archbishop James Weisgerber has called on the Canadian Church to be more responsive to the plight of aboriginal peoples.

TORONTO - Calling the situation of Christians in the Middle East “catastrophic,” the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation has issued a document decrying the perils faced daily by Christians from Iraq to Egypt.

OTTAWA - The Quebec National Assembly may have approved euthanasia Bill-52 “in principle,” but euthanasia opponents are seeing positive signs in the vote.

OTTAWA - As Quebec’s euthanasia Bill-52 faces its first vote today, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) and the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) put out urgent calls to oppose the bill.

Pope Francis has named Victoria, B.C., Bishop Richard Gagnon as the new archbishop of Winnipeg to replace Archbishop James Weisgerber.

TORONTO - Often it is said that the devil is in the detail, but with the illuminated St. John’s Bible it is God’s Word in the detail.

Jesuits take their vow of poverty seriously, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need money. It just means they spend it on things that will help them work harder, longer and better on the spiritual well-being of everybody else.