When Bonnie Vadacchino saw the white smoke rise above St. Peter’s Square on television from her home in Welland, Ont., March 13, it signalled two things to her. First, that a new Pope had been elected, and second, it was time to go to Rome.

TORONTO - Students can go to all the social justice conferences they want, but unless the message sinks in and they are prepared to take action, then it is just a waste of everyone’s time, Marc Kielburger told students gathered for the Voices That Challenge conference March 22.

VATICAN CITY - An Oblate who spent the last years of his life in western Canada is among seven people whom Pope Francis has recognized for their "heroic virtues."

TORONTO - Former priest Peter Doherty is happy a fellow Argentine was elevated to the papacy. But he’s even happier knowing the Church is in the good hands of the man who ordained him.

OTTAWA - Pro-life and pro-family groups decried the March 21 decision by a parliamentary sub-committee to make Motion-408 condemning sex-selection pregnancy termination non-votable.

TORONTO - Fr. Alexander Osei may be a priest, but he sees himself as a missionary first.

VATICAN CITY - Montreal's Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, speaking of newly elected Pope Francis, said he was "always struck by that man, who is a holy man, a man of prayer."

TORONTO - On March 19 pro-lifers from across Ontario will be out en masse at Queen's Park for the Defund Abortion Rally.

A week before Israeli Apartheid Week is set to send Canadian universities into their annual turmoil over the Middle East, a group of young Israelis are storming campuses armed with a capacity for conversation.

BRAMPTON, ONT. - The two men who will be ordained priests in the archdiocese of Toronto this spring were honoured at the annual Ordinandi Dinner March 5 at the Pearson Convention Centre in Brampton, where they shared the stories of how they were called to the priesthood.