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OTTAWA - Two prominent Quebec organizations hoping to block the province’s euthanasia Bill 52 submitted forceful briefs to the Health and Social Services committee seeking public input on the bill.

SAINTE-ADELE, QUE. - In his final address to Canada’s Catholic bishops Sept. 23, the papal nuncio told the bishops Pope Francis was giving them “a powerful lesson on the qualities that should characterize the episcopal ministry.”

Pope Francis’ warning about overemphasizing Church teaching on abortion and other social doctrines is no cause for Canada’s pro-life movement to change its tactics or rethink its priorities, say veteran pro-life campaigners.

VAUGHAN, ONT. - Four days after a deadly suicide attack on the historic All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, more than 200 Pakistani Canadians descended on Pakistan’s remote consulate located in suburban Vaughan to protest against the brutality and send a clear message to the Pakistani government.

OTTAWA - The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) has published a booklet warning that yoga, meditation, Reiki and other activities of the New Age movement are dangerous.

SAINTE-ADELE, Que. - Charity or caritas needs to begin face-to-face, at the local parish level, Caritas Internationalis president Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga told Canada’s bishops Sept. 24.

SAINTE-ADÈLE, Que. - Canada’s Catholic bishops have responded to Pope Francis’ call to minister to those on the periphery of society while making efforts to ensure the Church herself is not marginalized, said the bishops' conference's outgoing president.

OTTAWA - Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine has warned against the Parti Quebecois’ plans to enshrine Quebec values in a charter.

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI - Some Prince Edward Island Catholics are confident that their very first bishop, Angus Bernard MacEachern, will one day be recognized as a saint. A committee has started the process it hopes will lead to his canonization.

Throughout our lifetime there are many wonderful people who cross our paths and influence us in many ways. Msgr. Thomas J. Raby was one of these people.