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Catholic Civil Rights League president Phil Horgan, left, presents Fr. Tony Van Hee with the Exner Award, accompanied by CCRL executive director Christian Elia.

Rights league honours pro-life Jesuit

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The Catholic Civil Rights League presented its annual Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life to Fr. Tony Van Hee at its annual award dinner in Toronto Nov. 25.

Dr. Christina Lamb, a bioethicist speaking at a conference on conscience rights, says health care is looked at more as a service than “a moral endeavour.”

Conscience rights bill dies in committee

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EDMONTON -- A United Conservative Party MLA has lost his bid to strengthen the rights of health-care providers in Alberta to refuse procedures contrary to their moral beliefs.

Deacon Drake A. McCalister poses with Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton of Steubenville, Ohio, at Holy Family Church following his ordination as a transitional deacon June 29, 2018. Deacon McCalister has been given approval by the Vatican to be ordained to the priesthood for the Steubenville Diocese. Bishop Monforton will ordain his Dec. 19, 2019.

Former Pentecostal minister to be ordained priest

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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- Deacon Drake McCalister, a former Pentecostal minister, has been given approval by the Vatican to be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Steubenville.

McGill University professor and geriatrician Dr. Catherine Ferrier.

Changes put disabled at risk, experts warn

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Canada stands on the brink of legally euthanizing disabled people for no other reason than self-reported suffering because life is difficult, doctors and disability experts are warning.

Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., speaks during a news conference at the chancery Nov. 26, 2019, in Wheeling, W.Va.

Bishop asks predecessor to repay $792,000 to diocese

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WASHINGTON -- Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, has asked the former bishop of the diocese to pay back more than $792,000 to cover the "inappropriate expenditure of diocesan funds to support a luxurious lifestyle."

Activists in Mendoza, Argentina, embrace in a courthouse Nov. 25, 2019, after two priests were sentenced to more than 40 years in prison for abusing children at a school for the deaf.

Argentine priests sentenced for sexually abusing deaf schoolchildren

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MEXICO CITY -- An Argentine court has convicted a pair of priests of sexual abuse on charges of corrupting minors in a case involving crimes committed against 10 children in the care of a Catholic school for the deaf.

The Domus Sanctae Marthae guest house of Vatican City, where bishop Zanchetta had been residing, as seen from the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.

Bishop accused of abuse headed back to Argentina for court appearance

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VATICAN CITY -- Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta was set to leave Vatican City to present himself before judicial authorities in Argentina before a Nov. 28 deadline that, if ignored, could result in an arrest warrant.

London Bishop Ronald Fabbro.

Fabbro launches fund for poor

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LONDON, Ont. -- The Diocese of London has launched a new endowment fund to aid agencies that support the needs of the underprivileged.

Bishop Christian Riesbeck takes over the Saint John diocese Dec. 9.

Bishop ready for Saint John challenge

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OTTAWA -- When Bishop Christian Riesbeck arrives in New Brunswick in December to become the new bishop of the Diocese of Saint John, it won’t be with a set agenda.

The Catholic Charities Men’s Hostel has been operating in Downtown Vancouver for 60 years, first opening during a winter storm Nov. 14, 1959.

Hostel marks 60 years of serving needy

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VANCOUVER -- A Vancouver shelter is celebrating nearly 22,000 nights of offering warm, safe places for homeless men to sleep.

Blaise Alleyne, left, and Lindsay Shepherd.

Is free speech on campus really free?

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Forgive Blaise Alleyne if he doesn’t quite agree with the provincial government that Ontario universities and colleges are paragons of free speech. The pro-life advocate has the scars to prove they aren’t all that tolerant to some speech.

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