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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne addresses faith leaders at the annual ISARC event at Queen's Park Nov. 2.

Province is promising action on poverty

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has promised to make getting people out of poverty a campaign issue as provincial politicians gear up for the 2018 election.
Toronto's Cardinal Thomas Collins anoints the altar of St. Michael's Cathedral during a rededication ceremony Sept. 29, 2016. Canada's proposed Bill C-51 would remove a section of the Criminal Code that currently makes it an indictable offense to threaten or obstruct clergymen or ministers from celebrating services or going about their work.

Faith leaders push to keep law protecting religious groups

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Canada’s bishops have joined 65 other faith leaders to urge the federal government to rethink legislation that would eliminate laws that make it an offence to disrupt a religious service.
Julie Payette, STS-127 mission specialist, attired in her shuttle launch and entry suit, on the flight deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour during postlaunch activities in July 2009.

Julie Payette faces backlash over faith remarks

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OTTAWA – Governor General Julie Payette should apologize to Canadians for denigrating religious faith during a speech in Ottawa, says the Catholic Civil Rights League.
Fr. Fred dedicated 56 of his 75 years in religious life to promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Fr. Power led Jesuit monthly and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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A half-century spent editing Messenger of the Sacred Heart and a lifetime promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus came to a quiet, peaceful end with the death of Jesuit Fr. Frederick Joseph Power on Nov. 2 in Pickering, Ont. He was 93 years old.
Not many Catholic schools still have clergy and religious on their teaching staff, but Fr. Zinger’s love for young people kept him coming back to the classroom.

Fr. Zinger left trail of inspiration

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Everyone has a Zinger story. 

Fr. Cecil Harold Zinger taught generations of St. Michael’s College School students in Toronto the virtues of faith and discipline. Decades after young men have left his classroom, they still remember the legacy he left behind. 
The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace has partnered with Caritas Bangladesh to meet the immediate needs of the Muslim refugees pushed out of the majority Buddhist country of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

Canadian government to match donations for Rohingya refugees

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As the federal government announced a matching fund to help more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees, Canada’s Catholic humanitarian aid and development agency was already on the ground in Bangladesh delivering aid to desperate people in Cox’s Bazar.
Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, left, speaks with Fr. Raymond Lafontaine during an Oct. 26 day-long conference for Montreal priests.

Ten-step program builds happy priests

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MONTREAL – What do priests usually do when they get together socially?  They complain, of course, says Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, but that doesn’t mean they’re an unhappy bunch. 
Habitat for Humanity's Women of Faith Build drew 44 women to help build a home in Scarborough.

Women building a solid faith foundation

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Gina Valle’s two teenage sons did not believe her when she told them she was going to build houses.
Thirty three per cent of the doctors who participated in the study say assisted suicide should remain off limits for all minors, no matter the circumstance.

Canadian doctors face questions over assisted suicide, euthanasia for minors

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Ottawa – Only one year after assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia became legal for adults in Canada, a new study is showing that some of the country’s pediatricians are being faced with questions about the practices for minors.

Recap: Fighting a lifetime of spiritual warfare

Recap: Fighting a lifetime of spiritual warfare

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A recap of the #SpiritualWarfare conference in Toronto hosted by Serviam Ministries on Oct. 28, 2017. Highlights from ex-satanist Catholic convert Zachary King & exorcist Fr. Gary Thomas.
CCCB President Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil chats with the chair of the House of Commons Justice Committee Liberal MP Anthony Housefather of Mount Royal Quebec Oct. 31.

Failure to protect religious services sends ‘disturbing message’

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OTTAWA – Parliament would be sending a “disturbing message” to Canada’s religious community if it eliminates a law that currently makes it an offence to disrupt a religious service, Cardinal Thomas Collins told a parliamentary committee.
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