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St. Augustine’s prof appointed bishop in India

August 11, 2014

TORONTO - A professor of theology at Toronto’s St. Augustine’s Seminary has been chosen to lead the Syro-Malabarrite Diocese of Chanda, India.

Iraqi Christians rally in Toronto for persecuted brethren at home

August 11, 2014

TORONTO - Dressed in shirts that proclaimed “I am Christian, I am Iraqi,” carrying signs pleading for protection of their families still in Iraq, 5,000 Iraqi Christians and their supporters marched on Queen’s Park August 10 to draw attention to the plight of their brethren back home.

Fr. Gravel, who sat in Parliament as a BQ MP, dies at 61

August 11, 2014

Priest, politician, Scripture scholar and lightning rod for controversy Fr. Raymond Gravel has died.

Ontario CWL to focus on social justice over the coming year

August 10, 2014

Ontario’s Catholic Women’s League plans to bolster its social justice work during the forthcoming year.

St. Ann’s has served Catholics from far, and near

August 9, 2014

TORONTO - A century ago, the faces of Irish immigrants dominated the congregation at St. Ann’s parish.

deVeber award named after palliative care pioneer

August 8, 2014

Thomas Andrew Echlin will never know what he started in 1955, when he died at home with his mother just days after he was born.

Collins says we need reasoned approach like Thomas More

August 8, 2014

Toronto - Cardinal Thomas Collins wants Catholics to follow the example of St. Thomas More and what More can teach us about religion’s role in civil society.

Demolition begins in the Diocese of Antigonish.

August 7, 2014

In the small township of New Waterford, N.S., a parish has fallen.

God's natural law supersedes any man-made law, says Chaput

August 7, 2014

TORONTO - Natural law, that which reflects the sense of order God inscribed on humanity upon creation, needs to be recognized by contemporary society as the underpinning of our civil laws.

Religion pushed to side in Canada, Faith in the Public Square conference told

August 6, 2014

TORONTO - Canada's laws and courts promote secularism over religious and moral pluralism, a Montreal university professor said on the opening day of the Faith in the Public Square conference Aug. 5.