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Southdown making it easier to access help
One of the world’s leading institutes treating the mental health of clergy, religious and lay people in full-time ministry is getting a little closer to the people it serves. The Southdown Institute will open an outpatient clinic in North York on Nov. 20.
Conscience rights battle wages on several fronts
As Alberta debates a private member’s bill to protect conscience rights for doctors and other health care providers, Ontario’s government is saying little about a lack of protection for doctors forced to provide referrals for assisted suicide, abortion and other procedures.
Poverty and giving has a long history
Poverty isn’t always misfortune or bad luck. Sometimes it’s a vocation.
Facing down poverty
You would think people might notice the poor.
Sr. Kenny: The good doctor
When Archbishop Anthony Mancini of Halifax-Yarmouth visits his old friend Sr. Nuala Kenny, he likes to find a chair and get comfortable.
A challenge to save Indigenous language
A Catholic organization committed to improving relations between the Church and Canada’s Indigenous peoples has issued a challenge to Catholics to help revive Indigenous languages.
Motherhood, feminism and the Bible
What motherhood means ought to be obvious. We all have mothers. We all know mothers. Some of us are mothers. What is there to explain?
Synod shows signs of growth for ‘a different Church’
From coverage that’s been splashed across both Catholic and secular media, you might suppose the Synod on the Amazon was all about long-standing bones of contention between liberal and conservative Catholics – married priests, authoritative roles for women, liturgies that don’t look like a pontifical high Mass. But it wasn’t really about any of that. It was actually about the Amazon.
The archbishop without a home
A fresh outbreak of violence across Iraq is preventing the Chaldean Archbishop of Iraq from visiting Canada.
Do your ‘fair share,’ government told
Churches and volunteer associations who sponsor refugees are calling on the federal government to shoulder a fairer share of the burden.