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Father Jacques Mourad poses for a photo Nov. 11, 2015 at Our Lady of the Annunciation Church in Beirut. The Syriac-Catholic priest, who was held captive by the Islamic State group for nearly five months in 2015, called on Canada to undertake diplomatic steps to end the Syrian civil war.

Priest imprisoned by Islamic State thinks Canada can do more for Syria

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MONTREAL – Canada and Western nations can and must do more to stop the war in Syria, said Father Jacques Mourad, a Syriac Catholic priest who was abducted and held captive for nearly five months by the Islamic State group.

Toronto’s Catholic school board became a bridge into Canadian society for Christine Shekherdmian who arrived as a refugee with two young children and husband, none of whom spoke English, earlier this year. (Photo by Evan Boudreau) For Christine Shekherdmian, a Syrian refugee with two school-aged children, Toronto’s Catholic school board casts a bright light onto her family’s future.

Toronto's Catholic School board opens arms for refugees

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TORONTO – When Christine Shekherdmian, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, registered her two children at Annunciation Catholic School in Toronto, she was given a welcome she never expected.

St. Patrick’s Basilica’s green space and parking lot are being sold to a French-language business school. The funds will be used for an endowment fund for the downtown Montreal church.

Montreal basilica’s green space sold to business school

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With a potentially expensive court decision looming, Montreal's historic Catholic mother church is selling its valuable green space and adjacent parking lot in the city's downtown core.

The director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute and professor at the University of St. Michael’s College, Moria McQueen, pictured, says efforts to silence a University of Toronto professor for refusing to use transgender pronouns are unethical.

Unethical to silence professor for refusing transgender pronouns, says ethicist

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OTTAWA – Efforts to silence a University of Toronto professor for refusing to use transgender pronouns are unethical, said Catholic bioethicist Moira McQueen.

Archbishop Anthony Mancini of Halifax-Yarmouth, left, says the CCCB is still involved in social justice, including staying as a member of the Canadian Council of Churches, which is led by executive director Rev. Karen Hamilton, right.

Bishops endorse social justice after Kairos exit

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A recent decision to withdraw from Kairos doesn’t in any way diminish the commitment of Canada’s bishops to ecumenism or social justice action, according to the bishops.

MP Cathay Wagantall introduced the private member’s Bill C-225 to protect unborn children in the womb, which was defeated by the House of Commons 209-76 on Oct. 19.

Father vows to keep fighting after Molly and Cassie’s law defeated

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OTTAWA – Jeff Durham vows to keep fighting for changes in the law in the wake of the defeat of Cassie and Molly’s Law, a bill named after his murdered unborn daughter and her mother, Cassie Kaake.

Two days after the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Donald Bolen, pictured, was installed as Archbishop of the Regina Archdiocese, Oct. 14.

Archbishop Bolen returns to his Regina roots

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REGINA – Two days after the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Donald Bolen was installed as Archbishop of the Regina Archdiocese.

A private member's bill known as Cassie and Molly's law, named after Cassie Kaake, pictured, was defeated in the House of Commons Oct. 19. The bill would make it a crime to kill or injure an unborn child while committing a crime against the mother.

Cassie and Molly’s Law defeated in Parliament

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OTTAWA —A private member’s bill aimed at protecting pregnant women against violence went down to defeat in the House of Commons Oct. 19 by a 209-76 vote.

The fallen cross is lit up at night with Montreal’s landmark cross atop Mount Royal in the background.

Toppled Montreal cross exhibit resurrected

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MONTREAL – A controversial artwork that a former Montreal mayor ordered destroyed on the eve of the 1976 Olympics because it was disrespectful to the Church has been recast and installed near a historic religious institution in spite of objections from the convent’s superior general.

Halifax-Yarmouth Archbishop Anthony Mancini, pictured, says the reasoning behind CCCB's split with Kairos is prompt by a combination of ideological differences and minor legal changes to the ecumenical coalition.

Bishops split with Kairos over legal, ideological issues

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TORONTO – Canada’s Catholic bishops will no longer be part of Canada’s ecumenical social justice coalition known as Kairos.

CCCB president Bishop Douglas Crosby, pictured here in a file photo, urges federal immigration Minister John McCallum to speed up the processing of refugees.

Act now to process refugees, Bishop Crosby tells minister

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OTTAWA – The president of Canada's bishop conference has written a frank letter to the federal Immigration Minister urging immediate government action to unclog delays in processing refugee applicants in order to preserve "confidence" in the refugee sponsorship program.

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