Canadian News

News and events from across the country.

Care week next month

September 6, 2007

TORONTO (Catholic Register Staff) — The Ontario Multifaith Council is sponsoring Spiritual and Religious Care Awareness Week Oct. 21 to 27.

Young folks putting faith to work at Salt + Light

September 6, 2007

TORONTO - Some staff members at Canada’s Salt + Light TV find working for a Catholic television network is a way of putting their faith to work.

Online pro-life magazine launched

September 5, 2007

TORONTO - A new Toronto-based monthly online magazine dedicated to the pro-life cause has just launched. Jennifer Ha started www.lifeimmeasurable.com from home on a shoestring budget in August.

ShareLife tops goal by $1.6 million

September 5, 2007

TORONTO - ShareLife raised $13,645,967 in this year’s fund-raising campaign to support charities throughout the archdiocese of Toronto , surpassing the goal of $12 million set when the campaign kicked off earlier this year.

Collection for Needs of the Church set for Sept. 30

September 5, 2007

OTTAWA - The annual Collection for the Needs of the Church to fund the activities of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops will take place Sept. 30, 2007.

Ecumenism centre moves to storefront

August 30, 2007

MONTREAL — The Canadian Centre for Ecumenism is taking it to the street. The Montreal-based centre for dialogue among Canadian churches has left its historic setting inside the Grande Seminaire de Montreal and taken up a storefront address in downtown Montreal.

Called to serve St. Mike’s for 45 years

August 27, 2007

TORONTO - When Chuckie Shevlen graduated after three years of nursing school at St. Michael’s Hospital in 1965, she decided to stay on and work at the hospital for a few years because “it seemed like the logical thing to do.”

50th anniversary for St. Gregory’s

August 27, 2007

TORONTO - St. Gregory’s Church in Etobicoke is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a parish on Sept. 16 with a 3 p.m. Mass

Abortion images hit Calgary streets

August 27, 2007

CALGARY - The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform is sponsoring an 11-metre-long box-bodied truck with billboards showing aborted fetuses that began cruising the streets of Calgary on Aug. 8.

Catholic bishops don't sign on to Afghanistan letter

August 22, 2007

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has declined an invitation to sign a letter from faith leaders to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Afghanistan because it doesn’t go far enough. The letter from a dozen church leaders asks Harper’s government to engage in negotiations with willing representatives of the Taliban and change the focus of Canadian operations in Afghanistan to diplomacy and aid.