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OTTAWA - Conservative MP Joy Smith hopes to convince her colleagues on both sides of Parliament the so-called Nordic model is the best way to replace Canada’s prostitution laws.

While on the verge of laying down his title as archbishop of Winnipeg, James Weisgerber picked up a new title: Officer of the Order of Canada.

OTTAWA - Canada’s Catholic bishops will maintain their opposition to prostitution despite the Supreme Court of Canada’s Dec. 20 ruling striking down Canada’s prostitution laws.

In Saint John, N.B., restoring the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is as much about preserving the local heritage as it is saving a church.

TORONTO - Luigi Pautasso lived to teach, lived his faith and knew his vocation.

TORONTO - When Saskatoon Bishop Don Bolen suggested St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter one, verse 13 as the starting point for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity not everybody on the Canadian writing team jumped on board.

EDMONTON - When Kristin Kopp read in her Sunday bulletin last Easter about Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith’s Jubilee Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she knew she had to be there.

EDMONTON - Charitable appeals made in parishes across the Edmonton archdiocese will be rolled into one starting in Lent 2014.

Updated 12/23/13

OTTAWA - Everything from sex tourism to prostitutes attending high-school career days is possible unless Parliament writes new legislation in the wake a Supreme Court ruling that struck down Canada’s prostitution laws, warn anti-prostitution advocates.

The permanent diaconate is moving west. Two of the four dioceses in Saskatchewan will begin training men to become permanent deacons in 2014 and the other two are mulling it over.