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Granic Allen ran as a candidate in the Progressive Conservative Party leadership race on the sex education issue and her supporters helped get Ford elected as party leader in March. Granic Allen agrees the curriculum needs to be updated. 

Ontario sex-ed curriculum back to drawing board

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OTTAWA – The repeal of Ontario’s controversial sex education curriculum by the new government has elicited reactions ranging from jubilation to gloom among Catholic education stakeholders.

Lawyer Alberto Polizogopoulos is representing five businesses challenging the federal government’s Canada Summer Jobs pro-abortion attestation requirement.

Five more businesses join Canada Summer Jobs attestation fight

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OTTAWA – The federal government now faces five federal court legal challenges by private businesses against the Canada Summer Jobs pro-abortion attestation requirement.

Bishop Ronald Fabbro celebrates Mass.

Catholic schools stand by values of family life curriculum

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In the wake of Ontario’s new government repealing its sex education curriculum, students in Catholic school classrooms will continue to be taught in “a manner that that conveys, respects and models Catholic principles to our students, said the head of head of Ontario’s Assembly of Catholic Bishops.

Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo, concelebrates Mass July 6 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa, Ontario. The cardinal visited Ottawa July 5-13 at the invitation of Canada's Congolese community.

Congolese cardinal a strong critic of President Kabila, puts faith ahead of fear

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OTTAWA – There is no room for fear in the life of Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo.

Karen Koester of Edmonton is one of seven members of a bishops’ advisory board that has been working on a new hymnal for Canadian churches that would replace the Catholic Book of Worship.

Canadian bishops approve new hymnal

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A new English-language hymnal is on the way. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has confirmed publishing plans for Music for Catholic Worship, which should be in stock by Lent 2020.

Alessandra Sanropadre from the Archdiocese of Montreal talks about the refugee experience in her city at The Church and Migration conference.

Migration crisis calls for action, outreach by Canadian Church

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The Church, with its long history of serving the poor and the persecuted, must play a key role in dealing with the global migration crisis.

Fr. Tony Van Hee is a fixture on Parliament Hill every day the House of Commons is in session.

Priest keeps anti-abortion vigil on Parliament Hill for nearly 30 years

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OTTAWA -- Fr. Tony Van Hee says nearly three decades spent fasting and praying on Parliament Hill to end abortion have been the best years of his life.

Refugees seeking asylum are seen near the border in Lacolle, Quebec, Aug. 10, 2017.

Safe Third Country pact under increasing attack

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OTTAWA – Storm clouds continue to gather over the controversial Safe Third Country Agreement.

Canada's Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi speaking at a reception he hosted at his Ottawa residence on June 29.

Pope Francis committed to reconciliation, says Canada's nuncio

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OTTAWA - Pope Francis is committed to contributing to the process of reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples, said the Vatican’s representative to Canada.

Albertos Polizogopoulos frequently litigates charter-related cases before the Supreme Court of Canada

Summer jobs attestation faces yet more legal challenges

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OTTAWA — A legal challenge of the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) pro-abortion attestation by an Ontario concrete company is only the beginning, says Ottawa-based litigation lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos. More challenges are coming soon, he said.

Paonessa is being recognized as this year’s recipient of the Kevin Carr Christian Leadership Award. He will receive the award, named after Newman Theological College’s first lay president, in October. 

Veteran educator puts his faith into action

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EDMONTON – Mike Paonessa visits the Edmonton Remand Centre every week to pray the rosary with inmates, and drives around the inner-city Boyle Street neighbourhood to provide coffee and food to the needy.

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