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On a cold and rainy spring day, members of the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition gathered to pray for each and every Member of Provincial Parliament by name near the front steps of Queen’s Park. The faith leaders brought their prayers to the provincial legislature the day before Finance Minister Charles Sousa was to unveil the 2014 provincial budget, May 1. Jesuit Father Jack Costello, pictured, brought a Catholic perspective to the faith-based protest, saying we owe the poor more than food, housing and money. We need also to share our joy with the poor, Costello said. “We stand with the poor, those who are hungry, those who struggle to live on inadequate income,” said long-time Anglican representative to ISARC Murray MacAdam.

Standing with the poor

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On a cold and rainy spring day, members of the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition gathered to pray for each and every Member of Provincial Parliament by name near the front steps of Queen’s Park.

Catholic Register columnist and executive director of the Catholic Civil Rights League Joanne McGarry succumbed to pancreatic cancer April 28. She was 60 years old.

Register columnist Joanne McGarry was a tireless worker for the Church

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TORONTO - A voice committed to faith and fairness has been silenced. Catholic Register columnist and executive director of the Catholic Civil Rights League Joanne McGarry succumbed to pancreatic cancer April 28. She was 60 years old.

Canada’s new apostolic nuncio Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi at the nunciature in Ottawa.

New nuncio getting up to speed on a changed Canada

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OTTAWA - It’s been 15 years since Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi, Canada’s new apostolic nuncio, has served in Canada, and now that he is back, he has to reacquaint himself with a country he barely got to know first time around.

New Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, shortly after being elected, said he will press ahead with euthanasia legislation.

Quebec euthanasia not dead yet

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OTTAWA - Forces opposed to euthanasia in Quebec have expressed disappointment newly elected Premier Philippe Couillard intends to press ahead with euthanasia legislation.

Dr. Balfour Mount, considered the “father of palliative care in North America,” has written an open letter to Quebec’s new premier advising him against re-introducing the euthanasia bill.

'Father of palliative care' warns Couillard against euthanasia legislation

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OTTAWA - Dr. Balfour Mount, considered the “father of palliative care in North America,” has written an open letter to Quebec’s new premier advising him against re-introducing the euthanasia bill.

Archbishop Paul-André Durocher and Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Catholic bishops raise concerns, at home and abroad, with PM

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OTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has raised concerns about “serious challenges” at home and abroad in an open letter to Prime Minister Harper dated April 17.

The latest statement from Ontario’s bishops revives a conversation about farming and faith that the bishops initiated 25 years ago.

Getting back in touch with the land

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Is there anything sacred about the soil? Is there holiness in meals we share? Does our Catholic religious imagination extend to how we nourish ourselves and our families?

Canada is home to 29 L’Arche communities. L’Arche is marking its 50th year in 2014.

L’Arche turning 50 this year

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For 50 years, L’Arche has been a community and a school of life. It has been taking in developmentally disabled adults, but not simply as an alternative to the old asylums where people with Down’s syndrome and similar problems used to disappear. The L’Arche model is an alternative to any society that has no room for people who can’t conform to expectations.

Anita Healy, left, shares the stage with Dorothy Pilarski at the Dynamic Women of Faith conference in Toronto.

Women need to embrace their ‘Feminine Genius’

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TORONTO - God has entrusted humankind to women, said Anita Healy at the fifth annual Dynamic Women of Faith conference, and so women must pray to God for the courage to embody their “Feminine Genius.”

Fr. Raymond de Souza

Fascination with sex overtakes discussion on religion, public policy

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TORONTO - A debate about how much, if at all, religion should be allowed into public policy debates ended up being mostly about sex.

St. Peter's Seminary

Diocese of Hamilton donates $2 million to St. Peter’s Seminary

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The Diocese of Hamilton, Ont., has gifted St. Peter’s Seminary with its largest donation to date.

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