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Euthanasia case results in apology from Catholic health care provider in Alberta

October 29, 2018

EDMONTON – At what point does a health care provider become complicit in the act of medically-assisted death?

Opus Dei at 90: Making life extra-ordinary

October 29, 2018

VANCOUVER – The summits of B.C.’s Coastal Mountains and Rockies inspire longtime artist Arnold Shives.

Missions accomplished: After 100 years, Scarboro Missions in Toronto is closing its doors

October 26, 2018

At 60, Fr. Ron MacDonell is the youngest of the Scarboro Missions priests. Even as his fellow priests back home in Toronto move into a seniors’ residence, MacDonell is working today in the upper reaches of the Amazon basin among Brazil’s Makushi people, bringing together village elders and young people to recover their vanishing language and culture.

African Mass offers a taste of home in north Edmonton

October 25, 2018

EDMONTON – Thirteen-year-old Emmanuel Eremionkhale knows one or two words in Esan, and a couple more in Igbo, the Nigerian languages of his father and mother.

Rosary-inspired idea revitalizes garden

October 25, 2018

One woman’s labour of love has seen an overgrown peace garden at a Catholic school in Orangeville, Ont., brought back to life as a Rosary Garden.

One in six Canadians are poor, Citizens of Public Justice report says

October 24, 2018

Helping 5.8 million Canadians out of poverty isn’t a charity project. It’s about building a better economy and living up to the human rights we proclaim as a nation, said the author of a new report on poverty.

Domestic abuse victims of Catholic marriages say escape is no easy matter

October 24, 2018

VANCOUVER – Nothing could have prepared Adelaide for the nightmare that was 18 years of her life.

Quebec bishops denounce alleged Oblate sex abuses investigated, aired by Radio-Canada

October 23, 2018

MONTREAL – In a statement issued a few minutes after the broadcast of a story from Radio-Canada investigating sexual abuse allegedly committed by 10 Oblate missionaries in First Nation communities, the Quebec Assembly of Catholic Bishops told of their "indignation and shame" for the "terrible tragedy of sexual and physical abuse of minors by members of the clergy or religious communities."

Free speech policy in universities called ‘small Band-Aid’ on gaping wound

October 22, 2018

VANCOUVER – Dehumanized. Spat on by a professor. Attacked. Assaulted.

Thieves target gravesite vases in Mississauga

October 22, 2018

Peel police are investigating a rash of thefts at three Catholic cemeteries in Mississauga, Ont., where thieves have made off with bronze vases from gravesites.