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Focolare spreading the love for 70 years
TORONTO - The Canadian wing of the world-wide Focolare movement brought together interfaith leaders from Catholic, Muslim, Jewish and Hindu faiths March 20 to celebrate the memorial of Focolare founder Chiara Lubich at Toronto’s Noor Cultural Centre.
Canada-bound refugees still waiting
There’s little chance Canada will fulfill a pledge to resettle 1,300 Syrian refugees before the end of 2014, said the director of the Office of Refugees, Archdiocese of Toronto.
Next global extinction on its way
There have been five mass extinctions in the last 540 million years. Science tells us a sixth is now underway. But only faith can tell us how we will live through it.
TORONTO - There’s about one million Canadians who know suicide is wrong, assisted suicide turns doctors into murderers, the state has an obligation to protect life until natural death and that not everything in medicine depends on the freely chosen wishes of the patient. These people are not Catholic. They’re Muslim.
Everyone has something to say about this Pope
Making a documentary about Pope Francis is like making a motion picture about a moving target. Things are changing all around this Pope.
Pope Francis brings new hope to Church
Standing in the dim, evening light on St. Peter’s Square a year ago, it never occurred to me a Pope might creep in, switch on the light and rouse us all from our sleep.
Former Toronto executive named to Vatican council
Getting the Vatican’s financial house in order will be no small task for the newly appointed members of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy, the lone Canadian on the 15-member council told The Catholic Register.
Pope Francis is a hit with Canadians
The better they know him the more Canadians like Pope Francis.
Minimum wage debate not going away for Catholics
TORONTO - When hundreds of labour-sponsored protesters showed up at Toronto’s Eaton Centre to chant for a $14-per-hour minimum wage, the Liberal government at Queen’s Park had already decided to increase the lowest legal wage from $10.25 to $11 come June 1. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne also declared that no longer would inflation eat away at the minimum wage because yearly increases would be tied to the consumer price index.
Abuse scandal lingers a quarter century later
Twenty-five years on, the case that began the world-wide Catholic sexual abuse scandal is still crawling through the court system and still on the minds of Newfoundland Catholics.