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D&P hopes Canadian mining companies will be held accountable for their records in overseas investments.

D&P hopeful, but wary, of federal corporate responsibility policy

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A relaunched corporate social responsibility policy for Canadian mining companies has Development and Peace hopeful that Canadian companies will be held accountable for their environmental, labour and community investment records in Latin America, Africa and Asia. 

Sr. Teresita McInally receives the Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross from Quebec’s Cardinal Gerald Lacroix as Hamilton Bishop Douglas Crosby looks on.

Pontifical medal an award for whole order

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Sr. Teresita McInally may have received the Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross herself, but the unexpected papal honour is really recognition of the work of her order, said the 87-year-old Sister of St. Joseph.

Development and Peace’s Sow Much Love campaign calls for greater support for small farmers who are up against a production and distribution system that puts large corporations in the drivers’ seat.

Trying to reconcile faith with farming ethics

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Charina Umagat has been an involved, engaged parishioner at St. Emile parish in Winnipeg for 20 years. The last thing she expected to find in her pew on a Sunday was a pamphlet casting moral doubt on her job and her employer.

Luc Belanger of Hillsdale, Ont., working on a raredos for St. Isaac Jogues parish in Pickering, Ont.

Woodworker’s calling is furnishing churches

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HILLSDALE, ONT. - A quick search online is all that’s needed to find a woodworking professional capable of crafting furnishings like tables and chairs. 

Brian O’Sullivan, director of Catholic education for Ontario’s Catholic trustees’ association, encourages all trustees to participate in the new course being offered by the association this January across the province.

Trustee leadership course to focus on Catholic issues

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TORONTO - The Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association has developed a 12-week course focusing on Catholic leadership for its members.

Parent group wary about sex ed survey

Parent group wary about sex ed survey

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TORONTO - Trying to avoid the parental backlash that erupted over its revised health and sex education curriculum in 2010, the Ontario Liberals have established an online consultation process on an updated sex-ed curriculum to be implemented in September. But already, it has run afoul of one parent group.

Fr. James Mallon spoke to about 100 people about the New Evangelization and parish life at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament on Nov. 19.

Catholics must engage in making disciples, Fr. Mallon tells Toronto audience

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TORONTO - Fr. James Mallon believes your parish can be better, that it must be better and that a better parish is your responsibility.

Immigration Minister Chris Alexander

Criminalizing ‘barbaric’ acts law welcomed

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OTTAWA - Canada’s Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act has found support among Catholic pro-family groups. 

Catholic Civil Rights League president Phil Horgan

Prostitution law goes into effect Dec. 6

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OTTAWA - Canada’s prostitution Bill C-36 passed the Senate Nov. 6 and will go into effect Dec. 6, criminalizing the purchase of sex for the first time in Canadian history. 

Former Ontario finance minister Greg Sorbara, in his new book, has called for the abolishment of publicly funded Catholic education.

Prominent Catholic politician calls for end to Catholic school system

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TORONTO - It’s time for Ontario to ditch publicly funded, separate Catholic education, retired Ontario cabinet minister and prominent Italian and Catholic politician Greg Sorbara claims in five bombshell paragraphs toward the end of his new 208-page political memoir. 

Deacon Roman Zaviyskyy, from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, said for Russia, “the very idea of Ukraine is an offense against the idea of east Slavic unity.” He spoke in Toronto Nov. 15 at a conference on Ukraine.

Spirituality alive on the Maidan

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TORONTO - As Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Brisbane, Australia, confronted Vladimir Putin Nov. 15 at G-20 meetings with a stark suggestion that Russia “get out of Ukraine,” Ukrainian scholars and churchmen were in Toronto to discuss the spiritual values of the Ukrainian revolution.

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