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Bishop Lionel Gendron, president of the CCCB, said some bishops are concerned the Pope could be sued if he were to apologize in Canada for the Church’s role in residential schools.

Bishops ponder liability if Pope apologizes in Canada

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There may be good reasons for not inviting the Pope to Canada, but the risk of being sued isn’t one of them, said a litigation lawyer who has taken the Church to court.
The gymnasium at St. Thomas More was packed with donated food items in donated beer cases last Halloween.

Food drive aiming for scary heights

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100K in one day… that’s the motto — and the goal — at St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School in Hamilton. 
Women in Montreal protest a proposed city Charter of Values in this 2013 file photo.

New Quebec law about state neutrality on religion deemed "discriminatory"

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QUEBEC CITY – The new Quebec law on state neutrality on religion is under fire, as many deem it "discriminatory" against some Muslim women.
A drum circle is just one of the many activities at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax that focuses on aboriginal heritage.

Schools mounting ambitious plans with Indigenous communities

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Every Catholic college and university in Canada has woken up to the call for truth and reconciliation between Indigenous Canadians and the rest of us.
Voices of Canada's working poor growing louder

Voices of Canada's working poor growing louder

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OTTAWA – The working poor continue to make up an overwhelming majority in Canada’s poverty statistics, a fact that has helped make the fifth annual Chew on This! campaign the largest ever.
A Toronto woman praying with her 92-year-old father at Riverdale Hospital in 2004.

Ontario falls short of hospice bed target

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The Ontario government will fall 35 per cent short of its own goal for expanding hospice access by March 31, 2019, The Catholic Register has learned. 
Quebec provincial flags are displayed outside a building across the street from the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Quebec in Quebec City Oct. 5.

Breaking the unwritten rule, Quebec municipal candidates talk faith

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MONTREAL – A few years ago, lawyer Dominique Boisvert left Montreal looking for a quieter place. He moved to Scotstown, population just over 500. For this father of the voluntary simplicity movement in Quebec, the time had come to slow down the pace and lighten commitments.

Baum became a professor of theology and ethics at the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. He eventually left the priesthood in 1974 and married.

Controversial Canadian theologian Gregory Baum dead at 94

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One of Canada’s most influential and controversial theologians, among the few remaining living links to the Second Vatican Council, has died.
Focus groups in Montreal prepare for Youth Synod. Many dioceses approached consultations in a combination of one or all three methods: online surveys based on the Vatican’s synod questionnaire, consultations with key groups and open town-hall meetings for the general public.

#Synod2018: Youth seek pastoral presence from Church

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Canadian bishops heard it loud and clear. Young people are looking for accompaniment as the Canadian Catholic Church prepares for the 2018 Synod on Young People.
At issue is a new mandatory requirement by the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) compelling all its members to “create and abide by” a statement of principles which promotes equality, diversity and inclusion.

Christian lawyers threatened by new law society requirement

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OTTAWA – The Ontario law society has gone too far by compelling lawyers to submit a “politically correct” statement of principles that may “override core Christian beliefs,” said the president of the Catholic Civil Rights League.

Sr. Nuala Kenny in front of an icon of St. Joseph as she speaks at Novalis’ Living with Christ Appreciation Night Oct. 4 at Toronto’s Regis College.

Euthanasia misses the message

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Medicine in Canada has been undermined by the most permissive assisted dying laws in the world, physician and medical ethicist Sr. Nuala Kenny told about 150 Catholics gathered at the University of Toronto’s Regis College on Oct. 4.

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