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Dr. Balfour Mount, considered the “father of palliative care in North America,” has written an open letter to Quebec’s new premier advising him against re-introducing the euthanasia bill.

'Father of palliative care' warns Couillard against euthanasia legislation

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OTTAWA - Dr. Balfour Mount, considered the “father of palliative care in North America,” has written an open letter to Quebec’s new premier advising him against re-introducing the euthanasia bill.

Archbishop Paul-André Durocher and Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Catholic bishops raise concerns, at home and abroad, with PM

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OTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has raised concerns about “serious challenges” at home and abroad in an open letter to Prime Minister Harper dated April 17.

The latest statement from Ontario’s bishops revives a conversation about farming and faith that the bishops initiated 25 years ago.

Getting back in touch with the land

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Is there anything sacred about the soil? Is there holiness in meals we share? Does our Catholic religious imagination extend to how we nourish ourselves and our families?

Canada is home to 29 L’Arche communities. L’Arche is marking its 50th year in 2014.

L’Arche turning 50 this year

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For 50 years, L’Arche has been a community and a school of life. It has been taking in developmentally disabled adults, but not simply as an alternative to the old asylums where people with Down’s syndrome and similar problems used to disappear. The L’Arche model is an alternative to any society that has no room for people who can’t conform to expectations.

Anita Healy, left, shares the stage with Dorothy Pilarski at the Dynamic Women of Faith conference in Toronto.

Women need to embrace their ‘Feminine Genius’

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TORONTO - God has entrusted humankind to women, said Anita Healy at the fifth annual Dynamic Women of Faith conference, and so women must pray to God for the courage to embody their “Feminine Genius.”

Fr. Raymond de Souza

Fascination with sex overtakes discussion on religion, public policy

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TORONTO - A debate about how much, if at all, religion should be allowed into public policy debates ended up being mostly about sex.

St. Peter's Seminary

Diocese of Hamilton donates $2 million to St. Peter’s Seminary

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The Diocese of Hamilton, Ont., has gifted St. Peter’s Seminary with its largest donation to date.

Toronto’s Cardinal Thomas Collins preaches at the annual Chrism Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral April 15.

We must serve Christ the liberator

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TORONTO - As he blessed the oil of Chrism and led more than 400 priests in a recommitment to their ordination, Toronto Archbishop Cardinal Thomas Collins preached the message of Christ the liberator.

Fr. Peter Bisson, provincial superior of the Jesuits in English Canada

Canadian Jesuit provinces are to reunite

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THORNHILL, ONT. - Canada’s French- and English-speaking Jesuits plan to rejoin into a single Canadian province of the world’s largest Catholic religious order of men.

Jim Flaherty, who was then Canada’s finance minister, speaks at the annual Cardinal’s Dinner in Toronto in 2007 as Cardinal Thomas Collins looks on. Mr. Flaherty died April 10.

Flaherty’s Catholic heritage shaped his political thinking

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OTTAWA - Jim Flaherty was buried out of Toronto’s Anglican St. James Cathedral in a state funeral on April 16 but the political life of the former Finance Minister was shaped by his Catholic upbringing, said former colleagues.

Bishop William McGrattan speaks to reporters at St. Michael’s Cathedral upon the 2013 election of Pope Francis. McGrattan has been chosen Bishop of Peterborough.

McGrattan to take reins of Peterborough diocese

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TORONTO - Taking his cue from Pope Francis, Toronto Auxiliary Bishop William McGrattan plans to be a better bishop and a better Christian as he moves on to become bishop of Peterborough.

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