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Pro-life MP confident abortion-related motion could come to a vote

December 13, 2013

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott says he is confident one of his recently introduced abortion-related motions could come to a vote in the House of Commons.

Countdown to Oblates’ 200th kicks off

December 13, 2013

TORONTO - The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate has begun a three-year preparation for the order’s bi-centennial anniversary.

Sounds of Advent silence

December 13, 2013

TORONTO - Shhh, it’s Advent.

Freedom in education essential to democracy

December 12, 2013

OTTAWA - Parental rights and freedom of education are essential to democracy at a time when the state is trying to exert even more power over the education of children, said the co-founder of an independent school movement in France.

Misericordia Sisters’ founder named venerable

December 12, 2013

Canadian-born Mother Rosalie Cadron- Jette, whose ministry to assist young women is alive today in Toronto’s Rosalie Hall for unwed mothers, is one step closer to sainthood.

Persecuted minorities must band together to fight all oppression says activist

December 11, 2013

OTTAWA - Persecuted minorities must band together to fight all oppression, not only their own, One Free World International founder Majed El Shafe told a human rights event in Ottawa Dec. 9.

Taking the mystery out of sacred mysteries

December 10, 2013

TORONTO - The sacred mysteries aren’t so mysterious to the faithful because the liturgies already reveal them, says Fr. Bill Irwin.

Ending hunger on a Wave of Prayer

December 9, 2013

A Wave of Prayer, a campaign to end global hunger, will wash over Canada on Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day.

Mandela belonged to all Africans, Toronto congregation believes

December 9, 2013

TORONTO - Toronto’s African Catholic Community celebrated Nelson Mandela’s life Dec. 8 and claimed him as their inspiration three days after the man who led South Africa out of apartheid died.

Plenty for Canadians to like in Evangelii Gaudium

December 8, 2013

The Church of Pope Francis’ dreams, a Church that is poor and for the poor, is becoming the dream of Canadians, many of whom, from all across the spectrum, have been left smiling by Pope Francis’ love letter to the Church on the new evangelization.