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Catholic schools failing at making disciples

October 17, 2013

OTTAWA - Catholic identity is at stake unless Catholic schools do a better job of making disciples, says Fr. James Mallon.

The kids’ champion

October 17, 2013

TORONTO - Catholic school principal Tony Casole is a champion — at least that’s how Kids Now sees him.

Woman abuse: a conversation the Church must have

October 17, 2013

TORONTO - Degrading, humiliating and violent words and acts between men and women need to be more than acknowledged. They need to be talked about in Catholic parishes and schools, two abuse survivors told The Catholic Register as preparations are underway for the fourth annual Mass to End Woman Abuse.

Quebec nun declared venerable by Pope

October 15, 2013

Pope Francis has declared the short, productive life of Marie Elisabeth Turgeon heroic, bringing her one step closer to joining Canada’s list of saints.

Quebec crucifix not a museum piece, bishops say

October 15, 2013

QUEBEC CITY - Quebec’s Catholic bishops say that the province's legislator's should treat the crucifix hanging in the National Assembly with due respect and not treat it as a museum piece.

St. John's Bible illuminates the Word of God

October 15, 2013

TORONTO - Often it is said that the devil is in the details, but when it comes to the illuminated St. John's Bible it is God's word in the details.

St. Joseph’s turns 150

October 12, 2013

TORONTO - One of Toronto’s oldest Catholic schools, St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School, is celebrating a century and a half of shaping the lives of the children of Leslieville in the city’s east end.

Yonge Street Mission sold

October 11, 2013

TORONTO - After more than a century of serving the poor in the heart of the city, the Yonge Street Mission will be selling its flagship Toronto location in the hope of expanding its outreach and ministry to street- involved youth.

Keep God by our side

October 11, 2013

OTTAWA - Lost in recent debate to make Canada’s national anthem more inclusive of women is a call from a national secular organization to remove any reference to God from “O Canada.”

Groups applaud as B.C. appeals court rejects assisted suicide

October 10, 2013

OTTAWA - The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) and Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) are applauding a B.C. Court of Appeal decision upholding Canada’s prohibition against assisted suicide.