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OTTAWA - A popular American psychologist and author told an Ottawa audience he hopes bishops attending this month’s Synod on the Family in Rome will address the importance of strong fathers in the family.

Msgr. Formosi, former Catholic Missions head, passes on

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TORONTO - Former Catholic Missions In Canada president Msgr. Roger W. Formosi passed away Oct. 6 after a lingering illness. He was 73.

Anti-poverty campaign wants candidates to Chewonthis!

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OTTAWA - Lost in the “fight for the middle class” in the federal election campaign is the plight of Canada’s poor, said Joe Gunn of the Citizens for Public Justice.

St. Michael's bids a fond farewell to Michael Burgess

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TORONTO - One of Michael Burgess's final requests was to have St. Michael's Choir School participate at his funeral Mass. With hundreds of mourners packing Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church on Oct. 5, that request was granted.

All God’s children deserve to be treated reverence, cardinal tells health care workers

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TORONTO - Catholic health care workers must always remember that their patients are “a child of God” to be treated with special reverence from beginning to end, Cardinal Thomas Collins told the Catholic Health Association of Ontario.

Ontario teachers still waiting on sex-ed curriculum guidelines

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TORONTO - With classes well underway, teachers are still awaiting many of the teaching supplements to instruct them on how to teach Ontario’s new sex-ed curriculum through a Catholic lens.

Quebec day care more apt to produce criminals, study shows

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OTTAWA - Boys enrolled in Quebec’s universal child-care program are more likely to partake in criminal behaviour than boys from other provinces, a new study has found.

Saskatchewan doctors denied conscience rights

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SASKATOON - Saskatchewan doctors concerned about their loss of conscience rights are saying they will now be discriminated against for expressing conscience concerns on certain procedures.

Leaders need political will to combat global warming

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OTTAWA - World leaders need to exercise some political will to ensure there are binding agreements on climate change, says a Filipino cardinal.

School community unites around family devastated by crash

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VAUGHAN, ONT. - The St. Joachim Separate School community is coming together to console each other after two of its students were among four family members killed in a traffic collision Sept. 27.

Bishops sign on to interfaith declaration on climate change, poverty reduction

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OTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops have joined other churches in signing an inter-faith declaration seeking action on climate change, poverty reduction and justice for aboriginal peoples.