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Archbishop Anthony Mancini of Halifax-Yarmouth, left, says the CCCB is still involved in social justice, including staying as a member of the Canadian Council of Churches, which is led by executive director Rev. Karen Hamilton, right.

Bishops endorse social justice after Kairos exit

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A recent decision to withdraw from Kairos doesn’t in any way diminish the commitment of Canada’s bishops to ecumenism or social justice action, according to the bishops.

MP Cathay Wagantall introduced the private member’s Bill C-225 to protect unborn children in the womb, which was defeated by the House of Commons 209-76 on Oct. 19.

Father vows to keep fighting after Molly and Cassie’s law defeated

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OTTAWA – Jeff Durham vows to keep fighting for changes in the law in the wake of the defeat of Cassie and Molly’s Law, a bill named after his murdered unborn daughter and her mother, Cassie Kaake.

Two days after the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Donald Bolen, pictured, was installed as Archbishop of the Regina Archdiocese, Oct. 14.

Archbishop Bolen returns to his Regina roots

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REGINA – Two days after the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Donald Bolen was installed as Archbishop of the Regina Archdiocese.

A private member's bill known as Cassie and Molly's law, named after Cassie Kaake, pictured, was defeated in the House of Commons Oct. 19. The bill would make it a crime to kill or injure an unborn child while committing a crime against the mother.

Cassie and Molly’s Law defeated in Parliament

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OTTAWA —A private member’s bill aimed at protecting pregnant women against violence went down to defeat in the House of Commons Oct. 19 by a 209-76 vote.

The fallen cross is lit up at night with Montreal’s landmark cross atop Mount Royal in the background.

Toppled Montreal cross exhibit resurrected

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MONTREAL – A controversial artwork that a former Montreal mayor ordered destroyed on the eve of the 1976 Olympics because it was disrespectful to the Church has been recast and installed near a historic religious institution in spite of objections from the convent’s superior general.

Halifax-Yarmouth Archbishop Anthony Mancini, pictured, says the reasoning behind CCCB's split with Kairos is prompt by a combination of ideological differences and minor legal changes to the ecumenical coalition.

Bishops split with Kairos over legal, ideological issues

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TORONTO – Canada’s Catholic bishops will no longer be part of Canada’s ecumenical social justice coalition known as Kairos.

CCCB president Bishop Douglas Crosby, pictured here in a file photo, urges federal immigration Minister John McCallum to speed up the processing of refugees.

Act now to process refugees, Bishop Crosby tells minister

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OTTAWA – The president of Canada's bishop conference has written a frank letter to the federal Immigration Minister urging immediate government action to unclog delays in processing refugee applicants in order to preserve "confidence" in the refugee sponsorship program.

Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto and spokesman Larry Worthen before a parliamentary committee earlier this year. Worthen is a spokesman for the five doctors and three groups that have co-launched legal action against College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario over assisted suicide policy.

Ontario's bishops rally behind doctors fighting assisted suicide policy

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OTTAWA – Ontario's bishops are putting their weight behind doctors who are going to court to defend their religious and conscience rights to refuse to refer patients for assisted suicide.

El Salvador, as a result of lobbying by the country's bishops, banned mining in 2007. A suit by Canadian-Australian mining firlm Pac Rim Cayman for profits loss profit as a result of the ban was rejected Oct. 14.

Canadian-Australian mining firm’s El Salvador claim rejected

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A Canadian-Australian mining company that went to court because the government of El Salvador wouldn’t give it a mining permit has had its $328 million claim rejected and was ordered to pay $10.5 million in legal costs to El Salvador.

A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is carried through the crowd at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. Thousands of pilgrims visit the shrine each year. Lucia dos Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, received the first of several visions May 13, 1917.

Our Lady exhibit aims at renewing Marian devotion

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Toronto and Hamilton parishes are celebrating the month of October with a new exhibit on Marian apparitions from around the world.

Heads of delegations at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which led to the signing of the Paris Agreement, Nov. 30, 2015.

Paris climate deal can go further, proponents say

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OTTAWA – Groups concerned about man-made climate change are applauding Canada’s ratification of the Paris climate accord Oct. 5.

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