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Catholic bishops raise concerns, at home and abroad, with PM

April 22, 2014

OTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has raised concerns about “serious challenges” at home and abroad in an open letter to Prime Minister Harper dated April 17.

Getting back in touch with the land

April 19, 2014

Is there anything sacred about the soil? Is there holiness in meals we share? Does our Catholic religious imagination extend to how we nourish ourselves and our families?

L’Arche turning 50 this year

April 19, 2014

For 50 years, L’Arche has been a community and a school of life. It has been taking in developmentally disabled adults, but not simply as an alternative to the old asylums where people with Down’s syndrome and similar problems used to disappear. The L’Arche model is an alternative to any society that has no room for people who can’t conform to expectations.

Women need to embrace their ‘Feminine Genius’

April 19, 2014

TORONTO - God has entrusted humankind to women, said Anita Healy at the fifth annual Dynamic Women of Faith conference, and so women must pray to God for the courage to embody their “Feminine Genius.”

Fascination with sex overtakes discussion on religion, public policy

April 19, 2014

TORONTO - A debate about how much, if at all, religion should be allowed into public policy debates ended up being mostly about sex.

Diocese of Hamilton donates $2 million to St. Peter’s Seminary

April 18, 2014

The Diocese of Hamilton, Ont., has gifted St. Peter’s Seminary with its largest donation to date.

We must serve Christ the liberator

April 18, 2014

TORONTO - As he blessed the oil of Chrism and led more than 400 priests in a recommitment to their ordination, Toronto Archbishop Cardinal Thomas Collins preached the message of Christ the liberator.

Canadian Jesuit provinces are to reunite

April 18, 2014

THORNHILL, ONT. - Canada’s French- and English-speaking Jesuits plan to rejoin into a single Canadian province of the world’s largest Catholic religious order of men.

Flaherty’s Catholic heritage shaped his political thinking

April 16, 2014

OTTAWA - Jim Flaherty was buried out of Toronto’s Anglican St. James Cathedral in a state funeral on April 16 but the political life of the former Finance Minister was shaped by his Catholic upbringing, said former colleagues.

OECTA wrong to join Pride Parade

April 16, 2014

TORONTO - The union representing Ontario’s Catholic teachers is wrong to join in the World Pride Parade and its decision demonstrates an “inadequate and mistaken understanding of their faith,” said Cardinal Thomas Collins.