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Ashley Aperocho, second to the left, is spending a year working in Guyana with Scarboro Missions. She is one of two women representing the new style of missioners Scarboro Missions is seeking, devoting a year to their work rather than three years as has been the case in the past. Scarboro Missions is taking applications for such positions until Feb. 16.

Scarboro Missions puts out the call

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Scarboro Missions is seeking those with the guts and grit to answer God’s call to serve as a foreign missioner on a short-term basis.

Photo of Major Alan G. Rogers during the wedding ceremony of Jason Cianciotto and Courter Simmons. Alan can be seen in the background as Rev. Gary Simmons presided over the ceremony.

Anglicans asked to deny gay marriage for good of church

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The international Anglican commission with responsibility for keeping the Anglican Communion together has asked the Anglican Church of Canada not to change its canon law to allow same-sex marriage.

Jesuit Father Nawras Sammour is head of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Syria. Despite the grave conditions in the nation due to Syria’s civil war, Sammour is maintaining hope for the future.

Christians maintain hope in Syria’s bleakness

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TORONTO - It’s not easy being Syrian, especially if you’re the forgotten minority caught in the tsunami of sectarian massacres and ethnic cleansing referred to as the Syrian civil war.

Janice Robinson is now the executive director of Catholic Children's Aid Society in Toronto. In this photo dated July 6, 2012, she was the executive director of the Children's Aid Society of Haldimand and Norfolk. She is the second to the right.

New executive director for CCAS in Toronto

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TORONTO - A new year brings a new exective director for the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto.

Sr. Helena Burns and crew in Italy filming Father James Alberione, a documentary on the founder of the Pauline Family, to be released Jan. 25.

Daughters of St. Paul: media mavens for 100 years

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TORONTO - Over the years, the strongest of Pauline Sisters could manage the huge printing presses and handle the massive rolls of paper — work that men usually did. But these women religious were determined to share the Gospel the way their founder thought best a century ago: The Daughters of St. Paul were made for media.

Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine celebrated the Mass to reopen Saint Nom-de Jésus Church on Christmas Eve. Among the congregants was local MP Marjoline Boutin-Sweet.

Five years after closure, Montreal’s East End Cathedral reopens

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Due to an editing error, a previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Montreal's Saint Nom-de-Jesus church was closed due to a fire. There was, in fact, no fire but the church was closed at the insistence of fire inspectors.

MONTREAL - Five years after it was closed, more than a thousand parishioners and visiting dignitaries filled Montreal’s historic Saint Nom-de Jésus on Christmas Eve to celebrate the reopening of their church.

Fr. Kevin Belgrave will deliver a talk in Toronto Jan. 13 on preparing parishioners spiritually for the end of life.

Catholics need better spiritual preparation for the end of life

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TORONTO - Priests need to preach the Church’s teachings on end-of-life issues more frequently to better spiritually prepare parishioners for the inevitable, Fr. Kevin Belgrave believes.

Campaign Life Ottawa lobbyist Johanne Brownrigg says that the abortifacient drug RU-486 causes harm to unborn children and women.

Pro-lifers hope new law will keep RU-486 out of Canada

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OTTAWA - Canadian pro-lifers hope that a law requiring mandatory reporting of adverse drug reactions will be enough to keep the abortifacient drug RU-486 out of Canada.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops address modern challenges that parishes face, including changing demographics, loss of cultural values and increasing secularism, in a new document shown inset.

Parishes have a missionary role

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OTTAWA - The Canadian bishops’ doctrine commission, in a new booklet, is stressing the role of all Catholics in the new evangelization.

High atop “Catholic Hill” in Guelph, Ont., sits the Church of Our Lady Immaculate. The church was designated a basilica earlier this month. Among its past parishioners is Toronto’s Cardinal Thomas Collins.

Guelph landmark church designated a basilica

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Guelph, Ont.’s Church of Our Lady Immaculate now dons the title basilica. The landmark church perched on a hill overlooking the city was designated a basilica earlier this month by Pope Francis, catching parishioners by surprise.

The Holy Door at Quebec’s Cathedral-Basilica of Notre Dame closes Dec. 28, but not before 350,000 have passed through.

350,000 pass through Quebec Holy Door

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A year of celebration in the Archdiocese of Quebec drew more than 350,000 pilgrims through the Holy Door of Quebec City’s Cathedral-Basilica of Notre Dame de Québec.

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