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MP Warawa gets his say in House of Commons

May 17, 2013

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Mark Warawa defied Tory party efforts to muzzle him and spoke on the gendercide of baby girls May 9 in the House of Commons.

Atlantic bishops back EI fight

May 17, 2013

The bishops of Atlantic Canada have declared themselves on the side of fishermen, loggers and other seasonal workers in their fight against new Employment Insurance regulations.

The social justice of adoption combats the injustice of abortion

May 17, 2013

OTTAWA - One of the most powerful forms of social justice is adoption because it unleashes purpose, love and mercy, says Ryan Bomberger, co-founder of the Radiance Foundation.

O’Connor’s Estate House rises up from the ashes

May 17, 2013

TORONTO - One year after a devastating fire destroyed years of work, Senator O’Connor College School’s heritage house restoration project is almost complete.

Dream comes true for Toronto's newest priest

May 13, 2013

TORONTO - Joshua Roldan got his wish May 11. A month ago the archdiocese of Toronto's lone candidate for the priesthood in 2013 told 1,700 well wishers gathered for the annual Serra Club Ordinandi Dinner, "The only thing I want to do is give my life to God."

Sharing a moral responsibility

May 12, 2013

More than 700 bodies have been recovered from the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh. Loblaw Cos. Ltd. has stepped forward to offer compensation to families of dead workers at one of the factories that operated inside Rana Plaza where Loblaw’s Joe Fresh clothing line sourced its products.

Greed should not be the driving force of economy

May 12, 2013

TORONTO - When the economy becomes a game don’t be surprised if people game the system. The financial crisis of 2008 exposed not just structural and regulatory weakness in global capitalism but the cost of an amoral business ethic detached from the real economy, outgoing Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney told a Bay Street audience.

Christian groups join to intervene in prostitution appeal

May 12, 2013

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal of Canada’s prostitution laws June 13 and several Catholic groups are among those prepared to argue against decriminalization on moral grounds.

Immigration fuels growth in Toronto's Catholic Church

May 11, 2013

TORONTO - Immigration hasn't just transformed the Catholic Church in Toronto, it's made the archdiocese of Toronto massively different from Catholic Canada outside the Greater Toronto Area.

100 years on and the ‘PBs’ are still in prayer

May 10, 2013

LONDON, ONT. - The Sisters of the Precious Blood are a contemplative order of nuns that ordinarily goes about its work in as quiet and unobtrusive a way as possible. But on May 1 they were front and centre at a grand public commemoration to mark their 100th anniversary in London.