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Participating or profitng from organ harvesting is now a criminal offense in Canada after a long fight.

Parliament passes organ trafficking bill

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A frenetic Dec. 14 on Parliament Hill before the Christmas adjournment saw the unanimous passage of Bill S-223 in the House of Commons, which now makes it illegal for Canadians to partake in or profit from organ trafficking at home or abroad. 

Retired Toronto priest facing sexual assault charges

Retired Toronto priest facing sexual assault charges

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Peel Regional Police have charged a retired Toronto priest for sexually assaulting a minor in the early 1980s. 

Opposition weighs in against physician college’s MAiD policy

Opposition weighs in against physician college’s MAiD policy

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The Catholic Civil Rights League and some Ontario doctors are advocating for the right to freedom of conscience and religion as the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) opened the floor for consultation on its Medical Assistance in Dying draft policy.

Pepita G. Capriolo, the retired judge who has co-chaired the Montreal Archdiocese's committee to implement abuse procedures, has resigned, saying serious problems remain in the application of "regulations, policies and procedures approved by the archbishop." She is pictured in a Sept. 12, 2022, photo.

Citing pressure on archbishop, Montreal abuse commission co-chair resigns

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The retired judge who has co-chaired the Montreal Archdiocese's committee to implement abuse procedures has resigned, saying serious problems remain in the application of "regulations, policies and procedures approved by the archbishop."

After COVID-19 wreaking havoc on the past two years’ Christmas services, churches will be wide open again this Christmas.

Christmas Mass out from COVID shadow

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Catholics, young and old, filling the pews with anticipatory energy. Choirs warming hearts and minds with joyful melodies. Parishioners joining together to celebrate Jesus’ birthday.

Quebec provincial flags are displayed outside a building across the street from the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Quebec in Quebec City Oct. 5, 2017.

Two more bishops named in class action against Quebec Archdiocese

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Two more bishops, including one still serving, have been named in a new list of offenders filed in the class action against the Quebec Archdiocese.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet

Cardinal Ouellet announces lawsuit against woman who claimed assault

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Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet has launched a $100,000 defamation suit against a woman who accused him in a civil suit of sexually abusing her, the Associated Press is reporting.

A boy fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sleeps at a train station in Zahony, Hungary. A large number of refugees fleeing the war have made their way to Canada, and in Saskatoon, the local school division has seen a sizable increase to school populations because of Ukrainian refugees.

Saskatoon Catholic schools ‘blessed’ by Ukrainian influx

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After growth stagnation during the COVID-19 pandemic years, Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools enrolment has bounced back and surpassed 20,000 students for the first time this school year.

Dr. Kevin Sclater, a Port Coquitlam, B.C. family physician, has left Crossroads Inlet Centre Hospice because he can’t tolerate that it now offers MAiD.

‘Moral distress’ helped spur doctor’s hospice resignation

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After at least five years of signing petitions and writing about his opposition to doctor-assisted suicide, Port Coquitlam, B.C., family physician Dr. Kevin Sclater finally decided to act.

Beams of light shine through the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Sacred in cyberspace

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In a new media age, sacredness can only be a click away. Or can it?

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured, has embraced the recommendations of an expert panel that the government didn’t need to undertake any new legislative protections before opening up assisted suicide to the mentally ill.

‘Hunches’ will determine life or death in MAiD cases with mental illness, critics say

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In mere months, federal law will permit Canadians who are mentally ill to access the country’s already permissive assisted-suicide regime on the sole grounds that they are suffering from a mental disorder.

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