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OTTAWA - Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott says he is confident one of his recently introduced abortion-related motions could come to a vote in the House of Commons.

TORONTO - The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate has begun a three-year preparation for the order’s bi-centennial anniversary.

OTTAWA - Parental rights and freedom of education are essential to democracy at a time when the state is trying to exert even more power over the education of children, said the co-founder of an independent school movement in France.

Canadian-born Mother Rosalie Cadron- Jette, whose ministry to assist young women is alive today in Toronto’s Rosalie Hall for unwed mothers, is one step closer to sainthood.

OTTAWA - Persecuted minorities must band together to fight all oppression, not only their own, One Free World International founder Majed El Shafe told a human rights event in Ottawa Dec. 9.

A Wave of Prayer, a campaign to end global hunger, will wash over Canada on Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day.

The Church of Pope Francis’ dreams, a Church that is poor and for the poor, is becoming the dream of Canadians, many of whom, from all across the spectrum, have been left smiling by Pope Francis’ love letter to the Church on the new evangelization.

Touring Tacloban in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, Ryan Worms was aware of horror and grace.

Money can’t buy you love, or justice, or reconciliation. But sometimes money is the necessary first step.

Just days before Pope Francis laid out his dream for a missionary Church in all parts of the world, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president Archbishop Paul-André Durocher put forward his own hopes for the new evangelization in Canada.