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When Bonnie Vadacchino saw the white smoke rise above St. Peter’s Square on television from her home in Welland, Ont., March 13, it signalled two things to her. First, that a new Pope had been elected, and second, it was time to go to Rome.

VATICAN CITY - An Oblate who spent the last years of his life in western Canada is among seven people whom Pope Francis has recognized for their "heroic virtues."

OTTAWA - Pro-life and pro-family groups decried the March 21 decision by a parliamentary sub-committee to make Motion-408 condemning sex-selection pregnancy termination non-votable.

TORONTO - Fr. Alexander Osei may be a priest, but he sees himself as a missionary first.

VATICAN CITY - Montreal's Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, speaking of newly elected Pope Francis, said he was "always struck by that man, who is a holy man, a man of prayer."

A week before Israeli Apartheid Week is set to send Canadian universities into their annual turmoil over the Middle East, a group of young Israelis are storming campuses armed with a capacity for conversation.

VATICAN CITY - Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet said the conclave "opens up a new future" for the church and is a responsibility the cardinals see as "their main task."

OTTAWA - Canada’s new religious freedom ambassador says his “deep Christian faith” will be “central” in informing the work he will do in addressing religious freedom.

TORONTO - Though some were due back in class in an hour or two and others were generations removed from their last lecture, everybody at Fr. Robert J. Madden’s funeral Feb. 20 was there as a student paying respect to a great teacher.

TORONTO - The Catholic Civil Rights League of Canada has joined with other upset people in condemning a satirical skit that mocked one of the Church’s holiest sacraments.