OTTAWA - Participants in this year’s National March for Life May 9 came away equipped with a new awareness of the horrors of female gendercide.
Pro-lifer finds ‘healing in the revealing’
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - For Debbie Fisher the only way to overcome the trauma caused by having an abortion is to break the silence and speak out against the life-ending medical procedure.
D&P funds for Myanmar on hold
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) is not ready yet to commit $50,000 to help internal refugees in Myanmar.
MP Warawa gets his say in House of Commons
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Conservative MP Mark Warawa defied Tory party efforts to muzzle him and spoke on the gendercide of baby girls May 9 in the House of Commons.
Atlantic bishops back EI fight
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe bishops of Atlantic Canada have declared themselves on the side of fishermen, loggers and other seasonal workers in their fight against new Employment Insurance regulations.
The social justice of adoption combats the injustice of abortion
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - One of the most powerful forms of social justice is adoption because it unleashes purpose, love and mercy, says Ryan Bomberger, co-founder of the Radiance Foundation.
O’Connor’s Estate House rises up from the ashes
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - One year after a devastating fire destroyed years of work, Senator O’Connor College School’s heritage house restoration project is almost complete.
Dream comes true for Toronto's newest priest
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Joshua Roldan got his wish May 11. A month ago the archdiocese of Toronto's lone candidate for the priesthood in 2013 told 1,700 well wishers gathered for the annual Serra Club Ordinandi Dinner, "The only thing I want to do is give my life to God."
Sharing a moral responsibility
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterMore than 700 bodies have been recovered from the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh. Loblaw Cos. Ltd. has stepped forward to offer compensation to families of dead workers at one of the factories that operated inside Rana Plaza where Loblaw’s Joe Fresh clothing line sourced its products.
Greed should not be the driving force of economy
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - When the economy becomes a game don’t be surprised if people game the system. The financial crisis of 2008 exposed not just structural and regulatory weakness in global capitalism but the cost of an amoral business ethic detached from the real economy, outgoing Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney told a Bay Street audience.
Christian groups join to intervene in prostitution appeal
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal of Canada’s prostitution laws June 13 and several Catholic groups are among those prepared to argue against decriminalization on moral grounds.