News/Canada
Faith leaders bring marriage declaration to Parliament Hill
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA - More than 40 religious leaders from all the major faiths have signed an historic Declaration on Marriage, affirming its crucial role as a heterosexual social institution for the procreation and nurturing of children.
Christian values at odds with a secular world
By Innocent Madawo, Catholic Register Special
TORONTO - The Catholic Church and Canada's public institutions seem to be on a collision course, according to the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL).
KAIROS takes a funding hit
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace are cutting their combined contribution to KAIROS by approximately $75,000 next year.
NDP establishes faith caucus
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA - Religion and politics have often been associated with the so-called religious right, but now a group of New Democrat MPs and party members want to revive the religious left. To that end, they have established a Faith and Justice Caucus.
Priest's candidacy 'painful situation' for church
By Catholic Register Staff
Joliette Bishop Gilles Lussier has said that by deciding to run for political office, one of his priests has given up his right to perform any sacramental ministry.
Fr. Raymond Gravel's decision to become a candidate for the Bloc Quebecois in a federal byelection is a "painful situation for the church," Lussier said in a press release issued Oct. 31.
Fr. Raymond Gravel's decision to become a candidate for the Bloc Quebecois in a federal byelection is a "painful situation for the church," Lussier said in a press release issued Oct. 31.
Congress aims to restore memories of Christian roots
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
CORNWALL, Ont. - The primate of the Catholic Church in Canada has released the foundational theological document for the 2008 Eucharistic Congress, saying its “message brings as a main concern the memory of our Christian roots.”
Religious perspective missing from political sphere: Manning
By Ron Stang, Catholic Register Special
WINDSOR, Ont. - Former Reform Party and federal Opposition Leader Preston Manning says people of faith need, as Jesus said, to be as “wise as serpents and harmless as doves” in bringing religious perspectives to the political arena.
Clergy abuse raised at bishops’ plenary
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
CORNWALL, Ont. - Clerical sexual abuse remained a hot topic for Canada’s Catholic bishops as they gathered for their annual plenary in Cornwall Oct. 16-21.
Canada must accept 'responsibility to protect' in Darfur
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Canada can and should use its military to ensure the safety of civilian refugees in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region before a Dec. 31 deadline could see African peacekeepers removed from the area, according to Canada’s largest churches.
N.S. Sunday shopping ban overturned
By Sara Loftson, Catholic Register
TRURO, N.S. - Nova Scotians now have the option to shop on Sundays as of Thanksgiving weekend.
Sr. Moran invested into the Order of Canada
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - At a ceremony at Rideau Hall Oct. 6, Sr. Susan Moran became a Member of the Order of Canada for her work among the homeless and disenfranchised in the Toronto area.
“I’m here because of all the beautiful, suffering people who are now my sisters and brothers,” Moran said in an interview following the ceremony. “It is through them that I’ve learned such love and compassion.”