TORONTO - Cardinal Thomas Collins has launched a pastoral plan for the archdiocese of Toronto that proposes creation of a “Cathedral Block” to transform St. Michael’s Cathedral and surrounding area into a place of pilgrimage as the centrepiece in a relentless campaign of evangelization to “win the world for Christ.”

OTTAWA - Quebec’s promised bill to bring in “medical aid in dying” is a “dangerous” proposal that confuses medical care with euthanasia, said Quebec’s bishops, joining numerous groups in condemning the plan.

TORONTO - Ontario’s Catholic bishops believe they have something precious to offer Catholic high school students.

OTTAWA - With the First Nations’ Idle No More protests showing no sign of running out of steam, some observers urge a fresh vision for the relationship between Canada and its aboriginal peoples.

TORONTO - Music, the universal language, is coming to the rescue of Macuxi, an endangered, disappearing language.

TORONTO - A decision made five years ago to embrace the contributions of the short-term volunteer helped the St. Felix Centre survive at a time when its future was uncertain.

Internal e-mails, briefing notes and memoranda obtained by The Catholic Register reveal that a government decision to cut funding to Canada’s Catholic development agency went against the advice of almost everyone consulted, including its own bureaucracy.

TORONTO - Peter Aguiar wants to have Toronto’s Catholic students talking about netiquette this year.

OTTAWA - Ottawa Archbishop-emeritus Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, who participated in the Second Vatican Council and helped create Development and Peace, was a leader among bishops, current Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast told those gathered for Plourde's funeral Jan. 11.

TORONTO - A dozen or more parishioners have quit the Newman Centre’s St. Thomas Acquinas parish after the introduction of a Courage apostolate that offers spiritual support for gay Catholics.