NEWS

The Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in Canada are taking a fresh approach to fundraise to better serve its ministries and donors, says Sr. Janice Soluk.

TORONTO - Going into the final weekend of its 2013 parish campaign, ShareLife is reminding potential first-time donors that if they give they will have both the government and a matching fund on their side.

The big Catholic hospitals, nursing homes and other health services have teamed up with doctors and nurses across the country to demand provincial premiers continue to work with them to make health care cheaper and better. 

TORONTO - The Steubenville Youth Conference will be held in Toronto in 2014 and is expected to attract thousands of youth from across North America. 

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis sent condolences to the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, after a train crash left at least 80 dead and more than 100 injured.

LONDON - The legalization of gay marriage cannot change Christian teaching on sexual morality, and the Catholic Church cannot accept marriages of same-sex couples, the bishops of England and Wales said in a document that was to be distributed in parishes July 27-28.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is the most influential world leader on Twitter, with the highest number of retweets worldwide.

OTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has named Fr. Terrence J. Fournier its new director of the National Liturgy Office.

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Joy Smith has called for Canada to follow Britain’s lead getting Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block pornography in order to protect children.

UNITED NATIONS - The papal nuncio to the United Nations criticized the "persistent refusal" of Syria's warring factions to negotiate an end to the country's 28-month-long civil war.