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VATICAN CITY - Two days after the head of the Vatican office overseeing religious life said he had not been consulted by the Vatican's doctrinal office about a controversial investigation of American nuns, the two bodies affirmed their "common commitment" to reform of the U.S.-based Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

VATICAN CITY - The deadly bombing of a new church in northern Tanzania left at least two people dead and a dozen injured while the Vatican nuncio escaped unharmed after the attack.

TORONTO - At 19,811,345 square kilometres the Byzantine-rite Romanian Eparchy of St. George the Martyr based in Canton, Ohio, has likely become the largest Catholic diocese in the world.

A federal government attempt to kill off the Health Council of Canada has Catholic health care advocates upset and disappointed.

TORONTO - Hoping to win over more young people to mission life, Scarboro Missions is betting that a one-year commitment compared to three will be its lucky number.

Updated 05/03/13

TORONTO - Toronto’s two large, acute-care Catholic hospitals have written off more than $174,000 in treatment costs for more than 800 refugee patients no longer covered by federal health insurance, The Catholic Register has learned.

OTTAWA - Canada’s tax system discriminates against single-income families, but that can be remedied by introducing income-splitting into the system, a new study shows.

OTTAWA  - The highly publicized assisted suicide death of a Winnipeg woman in a Swiss clinic April 25 should not prompt Canada to change its laws, says Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

OTTAWA - The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) is calling for an end to female feticide through sex-selective abortion, the theme of this year’s National March for Life May 9.

TORONTO - When the Oblates in 1857 found an Innu community in the isolated interior of Labrador, they were shocked to hear the rosary being recited, said Sr. Sheila Fortune, a Sister of St. Joseph.