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Quebec Holy Door marks roots of faith in Canada

December 8, 2013

Quebec Archbishop Gérald Lacroix hopes the Holy Door being installed at la Basilique-cathedrale Notre-Dame de Quebec will draw more than a million North Americans closer to their roots and faith.

Toronto hosts Advent Day of Confession

December 6, 2013

TORONTO - This Advent season, churches across the archdiocese of Toronto will open day and night on Dec. 11 for a special Day of Confessions.

Filipinos’ solidarity inspiring in aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan

December 4, 2013

Touring Tacloban in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, Ryan Worms was aware of horror and grace.

Moving forward on native reconciliation

December 4, 2013

Money can’t buy you love, or justice, or reconciliation. But sometimes money is the necessary first step.

Durocher develops plan for evangelizing Church

December 4, 2013

Just days before Pope Francis laid out his dream for a missionary Church in all parts of the world, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president Archbishop Paul-André Durocher put forward his own hopes for the new evangelization in Canada.

Christianity requires a relationship with Jesus

November 29, 2013

OTTAWA - The West’s crisis of faith has “morphed” into a crisis of hope that requires anchoring people in the great Christian story, said Montreal Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Dowd.

No apartheid in Israel, says South African pastor

November 29, 2013

TORONTO - Since it was launched in Toronto in 2005, Israel Apartheid Weeks have spread across university campuses in North America. In recent years there have been events claiming Israel is “an apartheid state” at New York University, Cambridge University in England, in Johannesburg, South Africa and in Jerusalem.

Program to acclimatize foreign clergy in Toronto graduates its first class

November 28, 2013

TORONTO - Shortly after arriving in Canada this summer from Hungary, Fr. Jeno Rigo pulled into a self-serve gas station to fill up his car. He studied the pump but, perplexed, was soon inside the station asking the attendant for help. When you are new to a country even the most mundane tasks can be challenging.

D&P sticking to tried and true aid plan

November 28, 2013

Twenty-million dollars in matching funds from Ottawa for Philippines typhoon relief have so far gone to a familiar list of United Nations agencies and heavyweight non-governmental organizations with experience in emergency relief and development.

Coalition forms to take on destructive porn industry

November 27, 2013

OTTAWA - A coalition comprising feminists, religious, aboriginals, NGOs and human-trafficking experts are joining forces with Conservative MP Joy Smith to take on the porn industry.