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Women’s ordinations not connected to church

June 5, 2007

TORONTO - The Roman Catholic Church in Toronto says an ordination ceremony held May 27 by a group that calls itself “Roman Catholic Womenpriests” has “no connection whatsoever to the Roman Catholic Church.”

Mandatory sentences not an answer

June 5, 2007

TORONTO - As two 17-year-old boys prepare to face a judge over the shooting death of 15-year-old Jordan Manners in a Toronto school hallway, the ecumenical Church Council on Justice and Corrections continues its fight against mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes.

Less whining, more action needed to open government ears to church views

June 5, 2007

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - After more than an hour of mainline Protestant and Catholic consternation and deep thinking over the declining influence of Christians in Canada’s political life, Jeremy Bell had had enough.

‘I think there is a great future for religion’

June 5, 2007

WINDSOR, Ont. - Despite numerous predictions of its demise, religion is very much a part of the world, and perhaps more alive and vital now than it has ever been, speakers told delegates at a conference at Assumption University here May 16-18.

Archdiocese of Toronto Archives develops heritage program

June 5, 2007

TORONTO - The archdiocese of Toronto has approved a new cultural heritage program, one of the first of its kind in North America.

Gervais oversaw demographic change

May 25, 2007

OTTAWA - Since he arrived in 1989, Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais has done a deft job of maintaining unity in the bilingual diocese covering Canada’s capital where national concerns like same-sex marriage become a unique challenge.

Providence Healthcare still caring 150 years later

May 25, 2007

TORONTO - The next 150 years probably won’t be like the last 150, but Providence Healthcare wants some things to remain the same. “We would love to be able to provide compassionate, quality care for the next 150 years,” said Providence Health Care spokeswoman Rosemary MacGilchrist.

Solidarity service will remember Holocaust, honour those who saved Jews

May 25, 2007

TORONTO - At the 26th annual Toronto Christian Service in Memory of the Holocaust, survivor Ada Wynston will light the seventh and last candle.

Prendergast named archbishop of Ottawa

May 22, 2007

One of Canada’s most outspoken Catholic bishops is going to the nation’s capital, where legislators, judges, policy makers and media will be counted among his flock. Pope Benedict XVI appointed Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J., 63, to replace Archbishop Marcel Gervais as head of the archdiocese of Ottawa May 14. Prendergast will take possession of Ottawa’s cathedral in late June or early July. Gervais submitted his resignation when he turned 75 last September, as required by canon law.

7,000 March for Life

May 22, 2007

OTTAWA - Concern for human rights and the growing use of abortion for sex selection dominated the annual March for Life May 10.