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{mosimage}TORONTO - Ethicist Margaret Somerville challenged Catholic media to become “word warriors” and ethics agents to give people “the words they need to protect human dignity.”
Archdiocese of Toronto clergy appointments
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}The following clergy appointments for the archdiocese of Toronto will take place as of June 25, unless otherwise noted.
Immigration Canada's future
By Eugene Mccarthy, Catholic Register Special{mosimage}WATERLOO, Ont. - Multiculturalism, far from representing a static state, has become an ever-evolving social pattern in Canada.
That was the view expressed in a recent talk at St. Jerome’s University by Gregory Baum, professor emeritus at McGill University’s faculty of religious studies.
Spiritual traditions keep Myanmar's people going
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - The Burmese people have fallen back on their spiritual resources as they struggle to recover from Cyclone Nargis, a source inside the tightly controlled Stalinist state has told The Catholic Register.
Groups join to fight Bill C-484
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News{mosimage}OTTAWA - More than 50 organizations, labour unions and groups have lined up against the Unborn Victims of Crime Act that passed second reading in the House of Commons March 5.
Billion poor threatened by food crisis
By John Thavis, Catholic News Service{mosimage}VATICAN CITY - A Vatican representative said the recent rise in global food prices threatens the lives of the one billion people who spend most of their daily income in search of food.
Toronto mayor takes handgun ban proposal to churches
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - Toronto Mayor David Miller wants churches and other faith communities to stick their necks out on behalf of the urban poor who live in the city's most violent neighbourhoods.
Jantzi Social Index on rise again
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}TORONTO - After a year of sub-par results the Jantzi Social Index is once again leading the band among Canadian stock indexes.
D&P partners with Canada Foodgrains Bank
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - The first Catholic project by the Canada Foodgrains Bank will direct $500,000 to Zambian farmers who lost their crops to flooding in December and January.
Three days of mourning for Chinese quake victims
By Catholic News Service{mosimage}CHENGDU, China - Catholics joined other Chinese in observing three minutes of silence May 19 to pray for and mourn those killed by the earthquake that hit southwestern China a week earlier.
The Chinese government declared an unprecedented three-day period of national mourning May 19-21 for victims of the magnitude 7.9 quake. Entertainment businesses were to be closed and the Beijing Olympics torch relay in Zhejiang and Shanghai was suspended until May 22, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency.
Toronto Imam addresses Interfaith Dinner
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - For 21 years the Annual Neighbourhood Interfaith Dinner sponsored by mostly wealthy congregations of Rosedale, Moore Park and Forest Hill has meant Christians and Jews breaking bread together. For the 22nd annual dinner May 14 it meant more.