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Euthanasia’s forgotten casualty: palliative care

Euthanasia’s forgotten casualty: palliative care

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As support for euthanasia grows across the country, the line between genuine and holistic palliative care and medical assistance in dying has become increasingly blurred nearly inconclusively according to palliative care professionals in Canada.

Harvest Ministries seeks ruling its Charter rights infringed when rally cancelled

Harvest Ministries seeks ruling its Charter rights infringed when rally cancelled

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A lawsuit launched last August against the Quebec government by pastor Art Lucier and Harvest Ministries International (HMI) was, according to their lawyer, never about the money.

Dufferin Peel Catholic board turns down Pride flag, again

Dufferin Peel Catholic board turns down Pride flag, again

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An attempt to overturn a decision to not fly the Pride flag on Dufferin Peel Catholic school properties was defeated June 11.

J.E.H. MacDonald’s Crucifixion from St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto. The work was destroyed when the church went up in flames June 9.

‘Invaluable’ Group of Seven works lost in church blaze

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The only church to feature artwork by members of the famed Group of Seven Canadian artists burned to the ground, taking with it the “stunning” murals on its walls and dome.

On May 29, 2024, community members discovered the St. Albert Lacombe Statue in St. Albert, Alta. smeared with red or brown paint, painted handprints and the message "No Rest For the Wicked." St. Albert Catholic Parish officials hired a company to clean the statue. An RCMP investigation is underway.

Oblate's memorial latest to be vandalized

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The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has  condemned the recent defilement of multiple religious monuments, the most recent being an Edmonton-area statue of an Oblate priest vandalized May 29.

Controversial Online Harms Bill debated in Parliament

Controversial Online Harms Bill debated in Parliament

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More than 100 days after its introduction, Bill C-63, The Online Harms Act, which immediately sparked passionate reactions of furor or support, was debated for the first time in the House of Commons June 7.

Pope Francis greets Canadian Father Michael Brehl, superior general of the Redemptorists, as the pope leads an audience with students and staff of the Alphonsian Academy at the Vatican Feb. 9, 2019.

Redemptorist Brehl named new Bishop of Pembroke

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Fr. Michael Brehl, leader of the Canadian Redemptorists, has been named new bishop for the Diocese of Pembroke.

From left, Stephen Lecce, Ontario’s Minister of Education, Trevor Jones, Chatham-Kent-Leamington MPP, and Fulvio Valentinis, chair of the Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board, at St. Louis Catholic Elementary School in Leamington in May of 2023. The WECDSB recently opened a new six-classroom addition at St. Louis.

Ontario Catholic schools see enrolment boom

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The Ministry of Education’s 2023-24 Capital Priorities Program is helping Ontario’s Catholic school boards alleviate overcrowding in schools and helping offset an expected rise in enrolment.

Norman Lévesque, founder and director of the Green Churches Network, which has ceased operations.

Funding struggles force Green Church Network closure

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A Quebec-based non-profit that helped churches to “go green” has been forced to close its doors less than 10 years after it was incorporated.

Children stand next to a burned vehicle during clashes between Iraqi security forces and al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the northern Iraq city of Mosul June 10, 2014. It has been 10 years since the fall of Mosul June 4-10, 2014, when Islamic State insurgents took over the city from the Iraqi army.

10 years after Islamic State group's bloody rampage, Iraq's displaced Christians still struggle

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For Iraqi Catholics, it's a date they will never forget. The takeover of Mosul by militants of the Islamic State group 10 years ago began their bloody and destructive rampage over the weeks that followed through the country's ancestral heartland which Christians called home for the past 16 centuries.

The Cistercian-Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Calvary in Rogersville, N.B., is closing after 122 years. The Cistercian monks, along with lay brothers, operated the monastery since 1902 as a farm.

Moncton monastery closes after nearly 125 years

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For 122 years, the monks who called the Cistercian-Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Calvary in Rogersville, N.B.,  bonded over their devotion to God and a love of agriculture.

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