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Canada’s Salvadoran community unites to celebrate Romero
It’s a nine-hour flight from Toronto to Vatican City. It’s seven hours by jet to El Salvador. But Msgr. Oscar Romero’s canonization on Oct. 14 will not be a distant event for many Catholics.
Saint Paul University professor axed after sex abuse complaint
One of the world’s leading experts in Church law as it applies to the liturgy has been removed as a full professor at Ottawa’s Saint Paul University after a complaint from a man who says he was abused as a teen.
Toronto ready to host the World Parliament of Religions
There’s more to the world’s largest interfaith event than 10,000 people talking about religion.
Montreal Sisters divest from fossil fuel industry
Another Canadian Catholic institution has joined in the movement to sell off all carbon-based energy stocks and forbid portfolio managers from buying any more.
New federal government rules to monitor euthanasia and assisted suicide are opaque and weak at a time when legally induced deaths are rising at alarming levels, warn several organizations.
Abuse victim starts parish on the road to healing
Parishioners at St. Luke’s Parish in Thornhill, Ont., like Catholics around the world, have been wounded by the Church’s sexual abuse scandals. Now they’re ready to apply a little talk therapy to the wounds.
Study proposes merging Ontario’s Catholic and public boards, heating up a long-running debate
It isn’t just polls that show more than half of Ontarians wish there were no publicly funded Catholic schools.
‘Apology without action is empty,’ Canadian abuse victim John Swales tells Pope Francis in letter
Canadian abuse victim John Swales has responded to an open letter from Pope Francis with his own letter to Rome in which he rejects what he terms the Pope’s “empty” apology and calls for “real” change founded on “honesty and accountability.”
Clericalism: Abuse and the dynamics of power
By now thousands of people have either scoffed at or praised Pope Francis for responding to another round of sexual abuse revelations with a long letter condemning clericalism.