Alliance issues Vulnerable Persons' Standard to advise government on physician-assisted death
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - A broad alliance of Catholic and other organizations opposed to assisted suicide is urging that upcoming legislation provide explicit protections for disabled and other vulnerable people including a review by a judge or independent authority prior to the killing of any patient.
Doctors perform English Canada’s first assisted suicide
By Agnieszka Krawczynski, Canadian Catholic NewsVANCOUVER - Vancouver physicians have carried out Canada’s first known case of assisted suicide outside of Quebec.
Travelling Stations of the Cross unites university chaplaincies
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Toronto’s downtown Catholic campus chaplaincies came together to be visible witnesses of their faith on the streets.
‘Unprecedented opportunity’ for Muslims, Catholics to dialogue
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - There can be no question that Muslim-Catholic dialogue matters. More than one billion Catholics and over two billion Muslims combine to cover the globe, penetrate every culture and express their ideas about the world, human life and God in hundreds of languages.
Impact of Shahbaz Bhatti assassination still felt in Canada
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - It’s been five years since the assassination of Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, but his religious freedom legacy lives on in Canada and around the world.
There’s a religious-secular disconnect around food
By Ron Stang, Catholic Register SpecialWINDSOR, ONT. - It’s obvious that fasting during Lent has slid, dramatically, over the last several decades.
A mother has a beautiful mission
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - When the culture seems to be in decline, women are called to be countercultural.
For only the 40th time Hamilton diocese marks its proper birthday
By Tony Gosgnach, Catholic Register SpecialHAMILTON, ONT. - Although the Diocese of Hamilton has reached 160 years of age, only 40 times has it actually been able to celebrate its anniversary.
Realtor gives ShareLife share of his commissions
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Eric Arruda was sitting in the pews of St. Clare Church when a pamphlet for the Family of Faith campaign caught his eye. On the bottom of the pamphlet he read a passage from St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians, “So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.”
Fr. Lacroix was spiritual advisor to former PM Trudeau
By Alan Hustak, Catholic Register SpecialMONTREAL - The priest who gave last rites to Pierre Elliott Trudeau and presided at the funeral of his son Michel has died at age 100.
Catholic hospitals adamant they won’t kill patients
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The parliamentary committee report on how to legalize assisted suicide may want “all publicly funded health care institutions (to) provide medical assistance in dying,” but Ontario Catholic hospitals, nursing homes and health centres aren’t having it.