News/Canada
TORONTO - Everybody who graduated from Grade 9 biology knows governments can’t make babies. But in the wake of 2006 census numbers which show Canadians failing to replace themselves, some people think the government should help the process along.
Catholics honoured with Order of Canada
By Catholic Register Staff
OTTAWA - A pair of Catholics have made the grade as Canada’s governor general has announced 87 new appointments to the Order of Canada.
Violence against women out of control
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Rape as a weapon of war, rape in the form of the globalized sex trade, rape among school children, rape as the means of transmitting HIV, rape inside marriage — former United Nations special ambassador Stephen Lewis urged Catholic teachers to think about how rape is defining the world we live in and the future we face.
Canadian Pax Christi moves a step closer
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
The movement to establish a branch of Pax Christi in Canada takes a step forward in April when the international movement’s secretary general will propose that Catholics For Peace, Toronto and a similar group in Montreal become affiliate members of the Brussels-based network.
Marie Deans chosen to lead Pontifical Missions Societies
By Catholic Register Staff
TORONTO - The Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelization of People has appointed Toronto's Marie Deans as the next national director of the Canadian English sector of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
Opponents appeal Three Parents case to Supreme Court
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA - The Alliance for Marriage and Family filed an application Mar. 5 to appeal the so-called Three Parents Case to the Supreme Court of Canada.
St. Paul’s bishop gives organizations three years to stop raising funds by games of chance
By Glen Argan, Canadian Catholic News
ST. PAUL, Alta. - The choice of Catholic organizations to raise funds from gambling “is scandalous and compromises the religious identity of the institution or organization,” says the bishop of St. Paul.
Catholics honoured with Order of Canada
By Catholic Register Staff
OTTAWA - A pair of Catholics have made the grade as Canada’s governor general has announced 87 new appointments to the Order of Canada.
National Catholic Mission to air in late March
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Vision TV will broadcast this year’s National Catholic Mission, two talks from renowned speaker and best-selling author Matthew Kelly, March 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. (E.T.)
Church at odds with rights revolution as charter turns 25
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
MONTREAL - Catholics played a key role in the development of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, yet increasingly the Catholic Church is seen at odds with the so-called rights revolution that in 2005 brought the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Married priest ordained in NWT
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
Yellowknife, NT - Hundreds of parishioners packed St. Patrick’s Church in Yellowknife, NWT, on Feb. 18 to see Don Flumerfelt ordained as the first Catholic priest married with children in the Mackenzie-Fort Smith diocese.