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Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto and spokesman Larry Worthen before a parliamentary committee earlier this year. Worthen is a spokesman for the five doctors and three groups that have co-launched legal action against College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario over assisted suicide policy.

Ontario's bishops rally behind doctors fighting assisted suicide policy

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OTTAWA – Ontario's bishops are putting their weight behind doctors who are going to court to defend their religious and conscience rights to refuse to refer patients for assisted suicide.

From left to right, Margaret Couch, Noreen O’Leary, Shirley Nach and Rose Simone pose with a picture of their graduation class of 1946.

Notre Dame sisterhood still going strong after 75 years

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TORONTO – At Notre Dame High School, some things never change.

Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz sits next to his recently unveiled statue, When I Was a Stranger, at Toronto’s St. Paul’s Anglican Church.

Toronto Anglican parish welcomes Schmalz's latest Christ sculpture

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On a busy Bloor Street sidewalk outside a 174-year-old downtown Toronto church sits the likeness of a familiar figure wrapped in a stranger’s cloak.

El Salvador, as a result of lobbying by the country's bishops, banned mining in 2007. A suit by Canadian-Australian mining firlm Pac Rim Cayman for profits loss profit as a result of the ban was rejected Oct. 14.

Canadian-Australian mining firm’s El Salvador claim rejected

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A Canadian-Australian mining company that went to court because the government of El Salvador wouldn’t give it a mining permit has had its $328 million claim rejected and was ordered to pay $10.5 million in legal costs to El Salvador.

The ribbon cutting ceremony as Providence Healthcare opens a new palliative care wing, Oct. 12.

Providence opens new palliative care wing

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Providence Healthcare’s new $4.5 million palliative care wing features no state-of-the-art technology, no breakthrough innovations, no dazzling science. The money went into providing peace, quiet and the human touches that make life worth living.

A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is carried through the crowd at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. Thousands of pilgrims visit the shrine each year. Lucia dos Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, received the first of several visions May 13, 1917.

Our Lady exhibit aims at renewing Marian devotion

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Toronto and Hamilton parishes are celebrating the month of October with a new exhibit on Marian apparitions from around the world.

CCCB president Bishop Doug Crosby in a file photo from 2012. The Canadian Catholic bishops said Oct. 12 that they will no longer be part of Canada’s ecumenical social justice coalition, known as KAIROS.

Canada's Catholic bishops withdraw from social justice coalition Kairos

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

A high school retreat takes place at the Marian Shrine of Gratitude in Toronto. The shrine and nearby Ukrainian Basilian Monastery are under threat of closure.

Community fighting to keep Marian shrine alive

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TORONTO – The community at the Marian Shrine of Gratitude in Toronto is growing in strength and numbers despite a looming closure.

Heads of delegations at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which led to the signing of the Paris Agreement, Nov. 30, 2015.

Paris climate deal can go further, proponents say

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OTTAWA – Groups concerned about man-made climate change are applauding Canada’s ratification of the Paris climate accord Oct. 5.

In the early 1980s, canvassers go door-to-door to raise funds for ShareLife. The charitable fundraising arm of the Toronto archdiocese wants more lay participation for next year’s campaign.

ShareLife's future plan to include more laity involvement

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TORONTO – ShareLife is going back to its roots with a plan that taps into past strategies to encourage more involvement at the parish level.

Toronto’s St. Joseph’s College School unveiled its Residential Schools Memorial Wall for the annual Nuit Blanche art festival overnight Oct. 1. The plan is to continue using the exhibit to raise awareness of past abuses done to Canada’s First Nations, Inuit and Metis in these schools.

Nuit Blanche exhibit brings back memories of residential schools

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TORONTO – To shed light on some of the darkest moments in the history of Catholic education, students from St. Joseph’s College School unveiled their Residential Schools Memorial Wall at the annual Nuit Blanche all-night art festival.

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