NEWS

TORONTO - Pro-life activist Linda Gibbons was given a tongue lashing on top of the maximum six-month sentence for her latest conviction for taking her peaceful protest to a Toronto abortion clinic.

VATICAN CITY - A veteran diplomat, the Vatican's new secretary of state, plans to put the church's vast global diplomatic network into high gear as champions for peace.

OTTAWA - Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine has warned against the Parti Quebecois' plans to enshrine Quebec values in a charter.

KINGSTON, Ont. - The Little World of Fr. Raby was in fact not very small at all and that world is now grieving the loss of the beloved priest whose compassion, humour and storytelling brightened countless lives for half a century.

VATICAN CITY - When Pope Benedict XVI visited ground zero in 2008, he knelt alone and prayed inside the cement-walled crater where the World Trade Center once stood.

For 30 years Carmel Joyce ensured Msgr. Tom Raby had a comfortable place to go home to, first as his housekeeper and then as his prayer companion.

Parishioners at Kingston’s Church of the Good Thief were hit doubly hard with bad news last weekend.

OTTAWA - Canada's foreign affairs minister and religious freedom ambassador issued a joint-statement Sept. 9 condemning the forced conversions of Christians in Syria.

Updated 09/10/13

KINGSTON, ONT. - Beloved former Catholic Register columnist Msgr. Thomas Raby passed away in Kingston Sept. 6. He would have turned 95 on Oct. 1.

ISTANBUL - Tanil Kahiaian, a refugee from the Syrian city of Aleppo, said he is doing what he can for the others fleeing his country. He, his wife and two children escaped the Syrian war almost a year ago, and since he has watched "tens of thousands" pour into neighboring Turkey as he did.