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With another, bigger Synod coming next October to discuss Christian family life, Canadian bishops are beginning to ask themselves: “What next?”
Cardinal delivers message of joy to packed audience
By Catholic Register StaffTORONTO - Christians must pay attention to the reality of evil but do so with hope-filled joy, Cardinal Thomas Collins told a packed hall at the annual Cardinal's dinner.
Former Kingston priest nine new sex assault charges
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterA former priest of the Archdiocese of Kingston faced nine additional sexual assault charges when he appeared Nov. 5 in a Kingston court on previous sex charges.
Skepticism greets update to Live-in Caregivers Program
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Months of closed-door conversations, community consultations and a lack of follow-up communication leaves Faye Arellano skeptical about the federal government’s intentions to clear up the Live-in Caregivers Program’s backlog.
Catholics, Anglicans to bring ‘Pilgrims Together’
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Convinced that Church unity can only be the result of devout prayer and serious thinking, Anglicans and Catholics are getting together to do both at St. James Anglican Cathedral in Toronto Nov. 9.
Coming to grips with Catholicism under the Nazis
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - “Historians don’t use right or wrong. Catholics do, but historians don’t,” said Catholic Holocaust scholar Suzanne Brown-Fleming.
No denying, Canada is on slippery slope to euthanasia
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterUpdated 11/6/14
TORONTO - Canada's health care industry is already on a slippery slope to accepting euthanasia and it may soon turn into a full-blown avalanche, warns Alex Schadenberg.
Justin Trudeau’s ‘doctrine of double truth’
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s abortion policy is an example of the “doctrine of double truth” that leads to oppression, said McGill University Professor Douglas Farrow.
The battle to save Assumption Church
By Ron Stang, Catholic Register SpecialWINDSOR, ONT. - Windsor’s historic Our Lady of Assumption Church closed its doors Nov. 3 while the Diocese of London considers a financial rescue package to renovate the church and reopen it again.
Emotional, spiritual healing needed at end of life
By Tony Gosgnach, Catholic Register SpecialHAMILTON, ONT. - A palliative care nurse offered moving accounts of how a person’s last days of life can be some of his or her most fulfilling, enlightening and spiritually rewarding when she spoke at Hamilton Right to Life’s Annual Respect Life Fundraiser Dinner Nov. 3.
Exhibition honours chaplains’ service during conflict
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - For the first time in Canadian history, the men and women who ventured into war unarmed, carrying a holy book, ready to listen to and serve soldiers in distress are being remembered with a museum exhibition.