TORONTO - People working in the public health field need to think more about the ethical dimensions of what they are doing, a St. Michael’s Hospital scientist argues in a commentary published this month in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.
Everyone needs advance care directives
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Doing the right thing is important. But who gets to do it matters almost as much, medical ethicist Fr. Mark Miller told about 70 people gathered for a Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute lecture.
No need for a Charter of Values: Quebec bishops
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Quebec’s Catholic bishops warn the Charter of Quebec Values could have “heavy consequences” and represents a “crucial” stage in history for the people of the province.
Studies show that an abortion increases risk of mental illness
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Priscilla Coleman strongly believes that having an abortion can lead to developing a mental illness.
Euthanasia discriminates against disabled
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Demand for doctor-assisted suicide isn’t about dying, it’s about disability, the director of a Quebec disability rights organization told a national anti-euthanasia symposium in Toronto Nov. 8.
Canadian bishops plan national collection for Philippines relief
By Catholic Register StaffOTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has joined with the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace to prepare a first response and a plan of continuing aid for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan that has devastated parts of the Philippines Nov. 8.
Typhoon Haiyan Donations
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Canadians join rush to aid devastated Philippines
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterUpdated 11/12/13
TORONTO - As pictures and reports of the devastation in Tacloban City, Philippines, reached the world’s newspapers and computer screens Nov. 9, Toronto Filipinos were attending the Saturday 5 p.m. Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church.
Housing-first strategy for homeless extended until 2019
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Experts on homelessness are giving the federal government credit for settling on the right approach to helping some of the most vulnerable people in Canada.
Chaplains’ service extends beyond frontlines
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterWhen Lt. Col. Sylvain Maurais, a Catholic lay chaplain with the Canadian Armed Forces, was in the Afghanistan war zone he felt no fear because “it is what we are called to do.”
Loyola case a battle over religious freedom
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Loyola High School isn’t going to the Supreme Court of Canada just to get a ruling on whether the private school can teach world religions from a Catholic, Jesuit point of view. The real fight is over whether churches, charities and schools across Canada have a right to religious freedom, said Paul Donovan, the Montreal school’s principal