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Can a doctor-assisted death be ‘natural’ and ‘suicide’?
Whenever a doctor assists in a suicide in Ontario by injecting a patient with chemicals to stop the heart, it is recorded on the death certificate as a natural death.
Artist Ken Woo puts his unique, traditional stamp on Toronto’s Church of the Holy Family
The way artist Ken Woo sees the Mass, it’s a “gateway to Heaven.”
The umbrella organization for hundreds of St. Vincent de Paul councils in parishes across Canada is getting ready to step into the national spotlight.
A new report from the Angus Reid Institute showing poverty may be a bigger problem than official statistics indicate is ramping up pressure on Ottawa to unveil a federal poverty reduction strategy.
Canada’s two largest churches, which represent two-thirds of Canadian Christians, have jointly declared that climate change and ecological degradation are central, enduring concerns for Christians.
Talking about theology and mining in the same breath is not uncommon in Latin America.
Long line of bishops help tell Toronto's story
There are many ways to tell the story of a city. In Extraordinary Ordinaries, Fr. Seamus Hogan explores aspects of Toronto’s history by examining the challenges, successes and even the blind spots of the 12 men who have served as the bishop or archbishop of Toronto.
Canadian Church coming to terms with Humanae Vitae
Canadian controversy over Humanae Vitae began long before Pope Paul VI issued his controversial encyclical.
Memorials continue to grow as Cardinal Thomas Collins asks for prayers for the victims of a shooting spree on Toronto's Danforth Ave. on July 22 that claimed three lives, including a 10-year-old girl.
New Canadians are keeping the Catholic faith alive
Anyone who has stepped inside a church in the last 40 years doesn’t need a nationwide poll to tell them that the most religious Canadians are the newest Canadians. Immigrants are driving the bus for almost every faith community in Canada, but none more-so than Catholics.