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Euthanasia misses the message
Medicine in Canada has been undermined by the most permissive assisted dying laws in the world, physician and medical ethicist Sr. Nuala Kenny told about 150 Catholics gathered at the University of Toronto’s Regis College on Oct. 4.
Physicians offer support to pro-life undergrads
For the first time in nearly 20 years of pro-life medical conferences, Canadian Physicians for Life will offer a pre-conference event for students thinking about applying to medical schools.
Bubble zone legislation is 'simply wrong'
Bubble zone legislation proposed to keep protesters away from abortion clinics in Ontario is “an unjust denial of freedom of expression and Charter rights,” according to Ontario Civil Liberties Association executive director Joe Hickey.
Province targets pro-life seniors
Archbishop LeGatt releases report on state of diocese to the public
Church on the edge of freedom fight
In a trend that alarms Catholic thinkers, for the 11th year in a row freedom around the globe declined in 2016.
Teaching resource examines Christian-Jewish relations
With people marching through downtown Charlottesville, Va., in crash helmets, carrying shields and truncheons and giving Nazi salutes, there can’t be much question of the need for everybody to review the history of Christian- Jewish relations since the world learned the horrors of Auschwitz in the Second World War, says the director of the Institute for Jewish- Catholic Relations at Philadelphia’s St. Joseph’s University.
Exhibit puts Reformation history in focus
It begins with the Beguines — the Reformation, that is.
Winnipeg Catholic hospital draws euthanasia battle lines
All summer long Winnipeg’s St. Boniface Hospital has been in the eye of a storm over its right as a religious health care institution to refuse to provide euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Mary Wagner’s war
Women in jail tell Mary Wagner about their abortions.