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COLF calls for end to feticide

May 2, 2013

OTTAWA - The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) is calling for an end to female feticide through sex-selective abortion, the theme of this year’s National March for Life May 9.

Catholic Missions the lifeline to Canada’s mission territory

May 2, 2013

TORONTO - When the Oblates in 1857 found an Innu community in the isolated interior of Labrador, they were shocked to hear the rosary being recited, said Sr. Sheila Fortune, a Sister of St. Joseph.

Cardinal Collins appeals to CRTC to keep Vision TV on basic cable

May 1, 2013

GATINEAU, Que. - Toronto's Cardinal Thomas Collins has urged the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to not to let the faith community get “rolled over.”

Canadian brother murdered in Haiti had worked in trying regions

April 30, 2013

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Marianist Brother Richard E. Joyal, who was murdered in Haiti after withdrawing money at an ATM in late April, was a dedicated missionary who had worked in trying circumstances around the world, according to fellow members of the Society of Mary order.

Donation ensures Cornerstones’ future

April 28, 2013

TORONTO - A half-million dollar donation from an alumnus is allowing the University of St. Michael’s College to continue offering its SMC ONE: Cornerstone program to its first-year students.

Fired sportscaster developing new Internet channel for freedom, faith

April 28, 2013

OAKVILLE, ONT. - Two years after Rogers Sportsnet fired anchor Damian Goddard after he penned a tweet in support of traditional marriage, he says the incident has made him the man he is today, and he’s launching a new online venture to prove it.

Seeing the homeless among us

April 28, 2013

TORONTO - Ever since installing its Homeless Jesus sculpture outside its front door, Regis College has been getting second looks.

Middle class ‘going down the tubes’

April 28, 2013

TORONTO - For 25 years the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition has gathered religious leaders at Queen’s Park to discuss the poor in Ontario. In their 26th year, ISARC dedicated its spring meeting to the middle class.

Pax Christi Toronto struggling

April 27, 2013

TORONTO - As Pax Christi members around the globe celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s epochal encyclical Pacem in Terris, the seven-year-old Pax Christi Toronto still has only a dozen regular members, has made no progress toward becoming a national Catholic peace movement and can’t name its international or national priorities.

St. Clare has big plans for milestone celebrations

April 27, 2013

TORONTO - Come August one of Toronto’s oldest parishes will enter its centenary year and its parishioners are doing what they can to ensure its future for another 100 years.