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Focus Ontario budget on poor

April 4, 2013

TORONTO - The religious leaders who run food banks, shelters and community services want this spring’s Ontario budget to boost incomes for minimum-wage employees and people on Ontario Works.

D&P seeks CIDA move details

April 1, 2013

There’s nothing wrong with dissolving the Canadian International Development Agency to make it part of a new Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, says the Catholic bishops’ development agency. But there’s a host of devils in the details.

Let the bells ring

March 31, 2013

OTTAWA - When they ring out for the first time in two years on Easter weekend, the bells of St. Anne Church will be celebrating both the Resurrection and an important milestone in the history of the 140-year-old church.

Pope resonates with Canadians

March 30, 2013

Pope Francis had a message for Canadians at his inaugural Mass — a message of peace, simplicity, reconciliation and hope — according to several members of the official Canadian delegation in Rome on the Feast of St. Joseph to witness the beginning of a new papacy.

Bishop at odds with Yukon government over school same-sex policy

March 30, 2013

Whitehorse Bishop Gary Gordon is standing firm against the Yukon government over demands that Catholic schools in the diocese stop teaching Church doctrine on homosexuality.

Grandmother shares spontaneity

March 29, 2013

When Bonnie Vadacchino saw the white smoke rise above St. Peter’s Square on television from her home in Welland, Ont., March 13, it signalled two things to her. First, that a new Pope had been elected, and second, it was time to go to Rome.

Social justice is nothing without taking action

March 29, 2013

TORONTO - Students can go to all the social justice conferences they want, but unless the message sinks in and they are prepared to take action, then it is just a waste of everyone’s time, Marc Kielburger told students gathered for the Voices That Challenge conference March 22.

Canadian Oblate recognized for heroic virtue

March 28, 2013

VATICAN CITY - An Oblate who spent the last years of his life in western Canada is among seven people whom Pope Francis has recognized for their "heroic virtues."

Toronto’s Argentines rejoice in Pope Francis

March 23, 2013

TORONTO - Former priest Peter Doherty is happy a fellow Argentine was elevated to the papacy. But he’s even happier knowing the Church is in the good hands of the man who ordained him.

MP Warawa's gendercide motion deemed non-votable

March 22, 2013

OTTAWA - Pro-life and pro-family groups decried the March 21 decision by a parliamentary sub-committee to make Motion-408 condemning sex-selection pregnancy termination non-votable.