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MP James Lunney quit the Conservative caucus to defend his views on evolution and religious freedom. He is shown here at the 2014 National March for Life.

MP quits Conservative caucus to defend views on evolution

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OTTAWA - 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.

Toronto Catholic school trustee Angela Kennedy believes her bid for education representative on the Toronto board of health was denied because of her faith.

Board of health snub called anti-Catholic

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TORONTO - Catholic school trustee Angela Kennedy is accusing some Toronto politicians of conducting “a smear campaign against Catholics.”

Cardinal Turcotte

Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte dead at 78

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MONTREAL - 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 Healthcare Foundation board member Andrew Branion symbolically inaugurates the renovation to Providence Healthcare’s palliative care wing April 2.

Providence reimagines palliative care

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TORONTO - 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.

A volunteer lights the candles, as Fr. Dominic Qin watches, to begin the Passover celebrations at Chinese Martyrs parish.

Seder meal takes catechumens to faith’s roots

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MARKHAM, 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.

Cardinal Thomas Collins speaks outside City Hall on the first national Pope John Paul II Day.

Toronto marks the inaugural John Paul II Day

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TORONTO - 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.

Papal nuncio,Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi invokes the intercession of St. John Paul II as he gave a blessing to the Parliament Hill gathering marking the first Pope John Paul II Day.

Canada marks first John Paul II Day

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OTTAWA - 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.

The two-hour mid-day vigil scheduled for April 15 in front of Queen’s Park is a modest gathering that includes rabbis, priests, religious sisters, imams and the poor themselves.

ISARC to hold budget vigil on April 15

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The politics of prayer and the prayers of politics are being marshalled at Queen’s Park in advance of Ontario’s 2015 budget.

Chimal and Wendy exchange jokes as they knead a batch of English muffins at Toronto’s St. John’s Bakery.

St. John’s Bakery revives an Easter tradition

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TORONTO - At St. John’s Bakery, the spiced, sweet scent of freshly baked hot cross buns fills the air. The bakery revives this popular tradition every year in anticipation of the joy of Jesus’ resurrection. But more than preparing an Easter treat, the hands that make the hot cross buns are symbols of hope and community.

Ottawa’s Dr. Agnes Tanguay has vowed to fight the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario for her conscience rights right up to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Catholic doctor taking conscience fight to next level

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Already battle scarred in conflict with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario over the college’s insistence that doctors must actively help patients access abortion, morning-after pills, chemical contraception, hysterectomies and vasectomies, Dr. Agnes Tanguay is not backing away from a fight for her right to practise medicine according to her conscience.

A new Angus Reid poll shows Pope Francis is popular with Canadians, whether they are religious or not.

Canadians are becoming ambivalent on religion

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Canadians are increasingly becoming ambivalent about religion or rejecting it outright, but people across the religion spectrum admire the Pope, according to an Angus Reid Institute study released before Easter.

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