News/Canada

TORONTO - Experts on homelessness are giving the federal government credit for settling on the right approach to helping some of the most vulnerable people in Canada.

When Lt. Col. Sylvain Maurais, a Catholic lay chaplain with the Canadian Armed Forces, was in the Afghanistan war zone he felt no fear because “it is what we are called to do.”

TORONTO - Loyola High School isn’t going to the Supreme Court of Canada just to get a ruling on whether the private school can teach world religions from a Catholic, Jesuit point of view. The real fight is over whether churches, charities and schools across Canada have a right to religious freedom, said Paul Donovan, the Montreal school’s principal

OTTAWA - The federal government will conduct a constitutional analysis on the Charter of Quebec Values that was introduced in the province's National Assembly Nov. 7, says Jason Kenney.

OTTAWA - The rank-and-file of the Conservative Party has stood up for life, passing several resolutions against gendercide, euthanasia and legalized prostitution.

OTTAWA - Two New Democratic Party MPs have launched initiatives to address the gaps in access to good palliative, long-term and home care to meet the needs of Canadians.

TORONTO - While living and working in El Salvador, Sr. Martha Zechmeister learned that to be truly Christian one must embrace suffering and those who endure it.

OTTAWA - As he prepares to retire, Archbishop James Weisgerber has called on the Canadian Church to be more responsive to the plight of aboriginal peoples.

TORONTO - Calling the situation of Christians in the Middle East “catastrophic,” the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation has issued a document decrying the perils faced daily by Christians from Iraq to Egypt.

OTTAWA - The Quebec National Assembly may have approved euthanasia Bill-52 “in principle,” but euthanasia opponents are seeing positive signs in the vote.