Cloud removed from Caledonia pastor as computer porn suspicions prove false
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTwo months after the OPP seized a computer from St. Patrick’s parish in Caledonia, Ont., looking for child porn, police have returned the computer and closed the investigation — no child porn, just annoying pop-up advertising the computer’s firewalls were not equipped to block.
Catholic agencies make urgent appeal to help Iraqi Christians
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Canadian Catholic charitable agencies have put out urgent appeals for assistance to help Iraqi Christians fleeing for their lives from Islamist extremists from the Islamic State (ISIS}.
Collins seeks a more open door for Iraqi refugees fleeing Islamists
By Catholic Register StaffThe following is statement from Cardinal Thomas Collins.
Different faiths can all share the same world
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterToronto - Legal scholar Iain Benson rejects New Atheism’s teaching that religion leads to division and violence. Benson, a lawyer and lecturer, spoke to an audience from the legal and Catholic community on how difference, including a difference in religion, can be a social good.
St. Augustine’s prof appointed bishop in India
By Erik CTORONTO - A professor of theology at Toronto’s St. Augustine’s Seminary has been chosen to lead the Syro-Malabarrite Diocese of Chanda, India.
Iraqi Christians rally in Toronto for persecuted brethren at home
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Dressed in shirts that proclaimed “I am Christian, I am Iraqi,” carrying signs pleading for protection of their families still in Iraq, 5,000 Iraqi Christians and their supporters marched on Queen’s Park August 10 to draw attention to the plight of their brethren back home.
Fr. Gravel, who sat in Parliament as a BQ MP, dies at 61
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPriest, politician, Scripture scholar and lightning rod for controversy Fr. Raymond Gravel has died.
Ontario CWL to focus on social justice over the coming year
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterOntario’s Catholic Women’s League plans to bolster its social justice work during the forthcoming year.
St. Ann’s has served Catholics from far, and near
By Erik CTORONTO - A century ago, the faces of Irish immigrants dominated the congregation at St. Ann’s parish.
deVeber award named after palliative care pioneer
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThomas Andrew Echlin will never know what he started in 1955, when he died at home with his mother just days after he was born.
Collins says we need reasoned approach like Thomas More
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterToronto - Cardinal Thomas Collins wants Catholics to follow the example of St. Thomas More and what More can teach us about religion’s role in civil society.