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Église Sainte-Marie in Church Point, N.S., features a 56-metre (185-foot) steeple that houses three bronze bells. Right, the church under construction in 1904.

Famed wooden Church has uncertain future

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Believed to be the largest wooden church in North America, the historic Église Sainte-Marie in Church Point, N.S., will be sold or demolished in the upcoming weeks.

Emergency personnel evacuate a person Jan. 15 from a building in an apartment block that was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine. Catholic aid agencies in Canada have been working to help settle more than 130,000 Ukrainian nationals that have come to Canada in the last year.

Canadian groups unite to aid Ukrainian refugees

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As war rages in Ukraine, Canadian settlement assistance groups have rallied their forces to help 132,000 Ukrainian nationals fleeing the violence. 

New hope for MAiD opponents

New hope for MAiD opponents

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Opponents of MAiD have a golden “window of opportunity” to change public opinion, but the trade-off is they can’t slam the door shut on those with differing views, warns veteran physician Dr. Peggy Gibson.

Federal Justice Minister David Lametti

MAiD for mentally ill delayed by Parliament

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The expansion of assisted suicide in Canada to those suffering solely from mental illness is being delayed by a year.

Screenshot from The Babylon Bee website showcasing one of their satirical articles about Canada’s euthanasia policy.

'The Babylon Bee' takes aim at Canada's MAiD madness

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The popular humour-satire site The Babylon Bee has been taking jabs at the Trudeau government’s promotion of “Medical Assistance in Dying” and at the moral absurdity of euthanasia itself.

A priest holds the Eucharist in this illustration.

Canadians rank low in Mass attendance

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In Nigeria, 94 per cent of Catholics say they go to Mass at least once a week. In Canada, 14 per cent. In Quebec, two per cent.

A report Jean Vanier’s career as a sexual abuser was released Jan. 30.

Report reveals Vanier’s history as abuser

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Pope Francis greets Cardinal Marc Ouellet during the sign of peace at a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in this Jan. 6, 2020, file photo.

Ouellet’s Rome service comes to an end

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Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s long career in the highest ranks of Church leadership is coming to a close. Pope Francis has accepted his resignation, sending him off into retirement.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet

Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet retires

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Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, one of the highest ranking prefects in the Vatican, is officially retiring.

Filmmaker Kevin Dunn, left, with Canadian pro-lifers Josie Lutke (centre) and Ruth Robert at the March for Life in Washington, D.C.

True north strong and abortion free

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Kevin Dunn is immersed in what he considers “perhaps the most important project of my career as a broadcaster and a filmmaker.”

A supporter holds a sign at a rally in front of the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, Jan. 26, 2023.

Rally challenges 1988 Morgentaler Supreme Court ruling

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No right to abortion was enshrined in law 35 years ago when the Supreme Court of Canada made its R. vs. Morgentaler ruling, and that remains the case today, said a letter delivered to the Prime Minister today, two days short of the anniversary of the court’s 1988 ruling.

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