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With 13,500 knights and dames, and more than 80,000 volunteers, the Knights of Malta maintain observer status at the United Nations and diplomatic relations with 104 countries.

Order of Malta celebrates nine centuries of service

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TORONTO - When you're 900 years old there are no rash, impulsive decisions to change. But the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta know that change is good, said Roman Ciecwierz.

Art Bondy, left, and Deacon Mike Horoky take part in a recent anti-pornography picket in Windsor, Ont.

Deacon leads Windsor anti-pornography protest

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WINDSOR, ONT. - On one of the coldest days so far this winter a small group of men walked back and forth on the sidewalk in front of a central Windsor shopping plaza to protest the proliferation of pornography.

Stephen Harper

Pope will be missed, says Prime Minister

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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Pope Benedict XVI will be missed as a “faithful steward” who “dedicated his life to serving God and his faith.”

Marc Kielburger, who along with brother Craig founded Free the Children, delivers the Jesuits in English Canada’s Provincial’s Lecture at Regis College Feb. 4.

Kielburgers' power of youth nurtured by Jesuits

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Kielburgers took lessons learned at Brebeuf to Free the Children

TORONTO - If you want to make people believe in something they’ve never seen and half the world says is impossible, start young. The Kielburger brothers learned that lesson from the Jesuits at Brebeuf College in Toronto.

Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith thanked Pope Benedict XVI for his "extraordinary leadership"

CCCB president thanks Pope Benedict for “extraordinary leadership”

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OTTAWA - The president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops thanked Pope Benedict XVI for his “extraordinary leadership” on the day the world found the pontiff would be stepping down from the papacy.

Cardinal Thomas Collins asked that people pray for cardinals "in their profound mission they have now as cardinals, that is to elect the successor to Peter."

Papal resignation catches Cardinal Collins by surprise

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TORONTO - Surprise and then prayer was Cardinal Thomas Collins' reaction to Pope Benedict XVI's resignation from the Throne of Peter Feb. 11.

Reid Locklin, Christianity and Culture professor at Toronto's University of St. Michael's College

Catholic-Hindu dialogue opens

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Catholic-Hindu dialogue opens Two traditions begin talks

Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan addresses members of the Canada Holy See Friendship Group on Parliament Hill Feb. 4.

Nigeria’s religious persecution caught Church by surprise

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OTTAWA - Church burnings, attacks on worshippers and suicide bombings in Nigeria are a recent phenomenon that threatens the longstanding harmony between Muslims and Christians, warned Nigeria’s new cardinal.

A large crowd came to hear Nigerian Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, centre, speak in Toronto Feb. 2.

Jesus’ teaching has no bounds

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He speaks to rich and poor, rulers and beggars, says Nigerian cardinal

Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital has set up the first Chair of Homelessness, Housing and Health.

St. Mike’s launches homelessness chair

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TORONTO - Dr. Stephen Hwang has been appointed the first endowed Chair of Homelessness, Housing and Health at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto.

MP Maurice Vellacott

MPs want investigation into possible homicide of babies born after botched abortions

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OTTAWA - Three MPs have created a firestorm by asking the RCMP to investigate as possible homicides the deaths of late-term babies born alive as a result of botched abortions.

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