The Supreme Court has given Canadians a year to figure out how they want to deal with prostitution and so far the answers have ranged from nothing to police crackdowns and new criminal laws.

Catholics recognize polarized debate on prostitution

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The Supreme Court has given Canadians a year to figure out how they want to deal with prostitution and so far the answers have ranged from nothing to police crackdowns and new criminal laws.

St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church pastor Fr. Roman Pankiw was the first on the stage as nightly protests got underway in front of the Ukrainian consulate in Toronto. He led the crowd in singing the Panachida, the traditional Ukrainian prayer for the dead.

Toronto's Ukrainians weep for their homeland

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TORONTO - When police stormed the Maidan in Kiev their first target was the tent-chapel where since November priests had heard confessions, offered prayers and counselled young Ukrainians who were in the square demanding new elections and democratic reform. The police burned the improvised chapel to the ground.

Fr. Gonsalves

Gonsalves new seminary rector

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TORONTO - Starting this fall the job of forming new parish priests at St. Augustine’s Seminary is going to a parish priest.

Catholics called to respond to prostitution consultation

Catholics called to respond to prostitution consultation

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OTTAWA - Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller has asked the British Columbia government to reconsider its decision not to prosecute Canada’s prostitution laws.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

Flaherty sends signal income-splitting promise may be shaky

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OTTAWA - Negative remarks from Finance Minister Jim Flaherty have social conservative groups concerned the Tories might abandon a key promise in their 2011 election campaign to allow income splitting for families.

Bioethicist Margaret Somerville says a euthanasia advocate’s recent comments to media show the slippery slope the euthanasia argument is on.

Belgian-style euthanasia feared as next step

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OTTAWA - The secretary of Quebec’s College of Physicians has mused Belgian-style euthanasia of Alzheimer’s patients and terminally ill children could follow should Quebec’s euthanasia Bill-52 become law.

Bishop Francois de Laval, immortalized in a statue near Notre Dame Basilica Cathedral in Quebec City, is expected to be canonized later this year.

Laval, Marie de l’Incarnation intertwined with Canada’s history

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The beginnings of the Church in Canada include a series of firsts that go beyond reminding us of who we are. If Blessed Marie de l’Incarnation and Blessed Bishop François de Laval become saints this year, in time for the 350th anniversary of the founding of the diocese of Quebec, these new saints could inspire Canadian Catholics to imagine what their Church will become.

Quebec’s politicians are debating two pieces of controversial legislation right under the crucifix that adorns the legislative chamber in Quebec City.

Quebec’s Catholic paradox

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The seeming uncomfortable paradox of the Catholic Church in Quebec is illuminated by two pieces of legislation making their way through the province’s National Assembly.

Retired Archbishop Kelvin Edward Felix has been plucked from St. Mark’s Church in Soufrière, Dominica, to become a cardinal in February. His brother Val in Toronto is not surprised.

Caribbean cardinal has Canadian connection

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TORONTO - If Pope Francis intends to reshape the college of cardinals so it more roughly approximates the Catholic world, he’s made a start by appointing Val Felix’s big brother.

Pope Francis made the cover of Time as the magazine’s Person of the Year.

‘Genuine’ Francis has opened ‘new narrative’

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WINDSOR, ONT. - Veteran CBC journalist Alison Smith said Pope Francis is a compelling media story because he’s created “a new narrative” about faith and the Church’s role in society.

Archbishop Paul-André Durocher

Canadian input on family consultation sent to Vatican

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OTTAWA - Canada’s bishops have sent the results of a consultation on a host of hot button issues concerning the family to the Holy See, but will not make their report public.

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