Right and wrong are not black and white for Canadians. There’s at least 50 shades of grey in the answers Canadians gave the non-profit Angus Reid Institute to questions about morality and ethics.
The ugly side of the Pan Am Games
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Pan Am Games will be a big deal for Toronto. They will cost $1.4 billion. With less than 100 days to go, more than 350,000 tickets have been sold. With athletes coming from 41 countries, it’s bigger than the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver — the largest multi-sport event ever held on Canadian soil.
Cardinal Turcotte remembered for his 'joie de vivre'
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterHours after his death April 8, Montreal Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte was praised by Quebec City Cardinal Gérald Cyprian Lacroix and the emeritus archbishop of Quebec, Maurice Couture, for his "joie de vivre" and for a communication style that invited open dialogue.
MP quits Conservative caucus to defend views on evolution
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - MP James Lunney quit the Conservative caucus March 31 to sit as an independent so he could better defend the religious freedom of Christians facing mounting attacks and ridicule in Canada.
Board of health snub called anti-Catholic
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Catholic school trustee Angela Kennedy is accusing some Toronto politicians of conducting “a smear campaign against Catholics.”
Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte dead at 78
By Catholic Register StaffMONTREAL - Montreal's cardinal of the people, Archbishop Emeritus Jean-Claude Turcotte, is dead.
The popular cardinal, who served as Montreal's archbishop for 22 years, died April 8 in Montreal’s Marie-Clarac Hospital.
Providence reimagines palliative care
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - If death is a part of life then we shouldn’t die alone any more than we should live in isolation. Our deaths should not be coldly institutionalized any more so than our lives. Our deaths should be as surrounded by family, love and compassion as the lives we lived.
Seder meal takes catechumens to faith’s roots
By Michael Chen, The Catholic RegisterMARKHAM, Ont. - As they prepared for their baptism at Easter, adult catechumens at Chinese Martyrs parish got a taste of the Old Testament by participating in the Jewish ritual of the Passover Seder.
Toronto marks the inaugural John Paul II Day
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - For 24 hours the Vatican flag is flying above Nathan Philips Square as the City of Toronto celebrates the first national John Paul II Day April 2.
Canada marks first John Paul II Day
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Parliamentarians marked the first John Paul II Day a day early April 1, recalling the late pope’s legacy as a defender of human dignity against oppression.
ISARC to hold budget vigil on April 15
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe politics of prayer and the prayers of politics are being marshalled at Queen’s Park in advance of Ontario’s 2015 budget.