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JERUSALEM -- Finding solutions to the situation in Gaza is a complicated task, said Archbishop Richard Gagnon of Winnipeg, Man.
Quebec to take ethics, religious culture out of school curriculum
By Philippe Vaillancourt, Catholic News ServiceQUEBEC CITY -- The government of Quebec is about to eliminate its Ethics and Religious Culture curriculum, which replaced catechesis in schools in 2008.
Government launches consultation on assisted suicide
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA -- As the federal government launches a public consultation on laws governing assisted suicide, opponents are calling any move to expand the practice proof of the slippery slope they have long predicted.
Community shares in the grief over Ukrainian airline victims
By MICKEY CONLON AND ANDREW EHRKAMPA solemn vigil for seven students — including a Catholic high school student and an adult studying English at a Catholic school — began with two students singing the haunting words of Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sounds of Silence,” and for the most part it was an evening of silence as hundreds gathered to remember the young lives cut short Jan. 8 by the downing of a Ukrainian airliner over the skies of Tehran, Iran.
Ontario Catholic teachers plan one-day strike Jan. 21
By Catholic Register StaffOntario’s Catholic teachers will be holding a province-wide one-day strike Jan. 21.
Student pulls back curtain on addiction
By Agnieszka Ruck, Canadian Catholic NewsVANCOUVER -- When Myka Kollmann isn’t buried in textbooks at the University of British Columbia, she can often be found playing games with, running errands for, and laughing with recovering drug addicts at Luke 15 House.
Winnipeg Free Press partners with faith communities to put religion back in the news
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterWhether Canada’s faith life is hidden, secret or just ignored, it represents a rich vein of news for any enterprising journalist, as far as Winnipeg Free Press columnist John Longhurst is concerned.
Halifax pastoral plan on ‘pretty good’ path
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic RegisterA pastoral plan three years in the making which resulted in a two-thirds reduction of parishes in the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth has put the archdiocese in a position to succeed amid the realities of the modern Church, said John Stevens.
Sisters of Sion ‘horrified’ by anti-Semitic attacks
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterA spike in attacks on Jews in North America and Europe has prompted the Sisters of Sion in Canada to speak out.
Campus pro-life group wins appeal over security fees
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAlberta’s top court has sided with a pro-life group that claimed a security fee imposed by the University of Alberta violated its right to freedom of expression.
Fr. Pier Giorgio Di Cicco: Priest, poet, author
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterFr. Pier Giorgio Di Cicco — Toronto’s former poet laureate, a writer and consultant on urban affairs, jazz trumpeter, ground-breaking literary critic and the author or editor of over 20 books — has died. He was 70.