News/Canada

In Saint John, N.B., restoring the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is as much about preserving the local heritage as it is saving a church.

Luigi Pautasso the driving force behind Radio Maria in Canada

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TORONTO - Luigi Pautasso lived to teach, lived his faith and knew his vocation.

Canadian organizers get lesson in unity preparing for unity week

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TORONTO - When Saskatoon Bishop Don Bolen suggested St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter one, verse 13 as the starting point for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity not everybody on the Canadian writing team jumped on board.

Cana pilgrimage brings with it a surprise proposal

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EDMONTON - When Kristin Kopp read in her Sunday bulletin last Easter about Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith’s Jubilee Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she knew she had to be there.

Edmonton to consolidate fundraising

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EDMONTON - Charitable appeals made in parishes across the Edmonton archdiocese will be rolled into one starting in Lent 2014.

Supreme Court strikes down Canada’s prostitution laws

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Updated 12/23/13

OTTAWA - Everything from sex tourism to prostitutes attending high-school career days is possible unless Parliament writes new legislation in the wake a Supreme Court ruling that struck down Canada’s prostitution laws, warn anti-prostitution advocates.

Saskatchewan dioceses to launch diaconate

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The permanent diaconate is moving west. Two of the four dioceses in Saskatchewan will begin training men to become permanent deacons in 2014 and the other two are mulling it over.

Ordinariate ‘instrument’ of unity

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OTTAWA - Former Anglicans who convert to Catholicism must be a bridge to Christian unity and a force for true ecumenism, said the leader of North America’s Anglican ordinariate as four former Anglican priests were ordained to the Catholic priesthood.

Poor under government radar

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OTTAWA - With the Dec. 10 release of the House of Commons Finance Committee Dec. 10 report on income inequality, Citizens for Public Justice says it is clear that Canada’s poor are not on the radar with the government.

Assumption shifts its focus to chaplaincy

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One of Canada’s oldest Catholic universities is claiming it has gained a new lease on life by selling its buildings.

Online ‘pastoral conversation’ off to slow start

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Updated - 12/20/13

Less than 20 per cent of Canadian dioceses are using their web sites to consult the laity in advance of next year’s extraordinary synod on the family.