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The bishops of Atlantic Canada released a pastoral letter, read in parishes at May 12 Masses, backing fishermen and other seasonal workers and their fight against new EI regulations.

Atlantic bishops back EI fight

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The bishops of Atlantic Canada have declared themselves on the side of fishermen, loggers and other seasonal workers in their fight against new Employment Insurance regulations.

Ryan Bomberger speaks at the Youth Conference of the national March for Life May 10.

The social justice of adoption combats the injustice of abortion

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OTTAWA - One of the most powerful forms of social justice is adoption because it unleashes purpose, love and mercy, says Ryan Bomberger, co-founder of the Radiance Foundation.

Rescue workers look for trapped garment workers at the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh. More than 700 workers died following the April 24 collapse of a building housing factories that made low-cost garments for Western brands.

Sharing a moral responsibility

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More than 700 bodies have been recovered from the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh. Loblaw Cos. Ltd. has stepped forward to offer compensation to families of dead workers at one of the factories that operated inside Rana Plaza where Loblaw’s Joe Fresh clothing line sourced its products.

Outgoing Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, pictured, was one of three speakers, along with Catholic Register columnist Fr. Raymond de Souza, at a Cardus panel May 3 in Toronto. Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, rounded out the panel which spoke to a lunchtime Bay Street audience about ethics in the marketplace.

Greed should not be the driving force of economy

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TORONTO - When the economy becomes a game don’t be surprised if people game the system. The financial crisis of 2008 exposed not just structural and regulatory weakness in global capitalism but the cost of an amoral business ethic detached from the real economy, outgoing Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney told a Bay Street audience.

Gwen Landolt

Christian groups join to intervene in prostitution appeal

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OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal of Canada’s prostitution laws June 13 and several Catholic groups are among those prepared to argue against decriminalization on moral grounds.

While Catholic congregations are shrinking across Canada, the number of Catholics in Toronto is on the rise due to the number of immigrants that settle in the city.

Immigration fuels growth in Toronto's Catholic Church

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TORONTO - Immigration hasn't just transformed the Catholic Church in Toronto, it's made the archdiocese of Toronto massively different from Catholic Canada outside the Greater Toronto Area.

Sr. Eileen Mary Walsh, general superior of London’s Precious Blood Monastery

100 years on and the ‘PBs’ are still in prayer

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LONDON, ONT. - The Sisters of the Precious Blood are a contemplative order of nuns that ordinarily goes about its work in as quiet and unobtrusive a way as possible. But on May 1 they were front and centre at a grand public commemoration to mark their 100th anniversary in London.

About 20,000 people attended the March for Life in Ottawa May 9.

Largest ever National March for Life attracts 20,000+

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OTTAWA - This year’s National March for Life May 9 framed abortion as a human rights issue, damaging especially to women and girls, and drew the largest crowd ever.

Alex Schadenberg

Quebec euthanasia rally could mark turning point

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OTTAWA - A major demonstration against euthanasia in Quebec City planned for May 18 could mark a turning point in the province’s plans to introduce euthanasia as a form of health care, some pro-life leaders believe.

The Supreme Court of Canada’s May 3 decision on the Ivana Levkovic case says an unborn baby is a child under the law. MP Stephen Woodworth, left, was pleased by the ruling.

Supreme Court rules unborn baby is a child under law

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OTTAWA - An unborn baby is a child under the law if the child is likely to be born alive, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

Hamilton Bishop Douglas Crosby lays his hands on the head of his new auxiliary, Bishop Daniel Miehm. Miehm was ordained a bishop in a ceremony May 7 at Hamilton's Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King.

Miehm ordained as auxiliary bishop for Hamilton

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HAMILTON, ONT. - Surprised, grateful, humbled and excited.

 

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