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September 29, 2017

Vatican diplomat also wanted in Canada on child porn charges

People are seen outside the Vatican Embassy, or apostolic nunciature, in Washington in 2014. An arrest warrant has been issued in Canada for Msgr. Carlo Capella, the Vatican diplomat recalled from service in Washington in late August, who already was the subject of a Vatican criminal investigation involving child pornography.

VATICAN CITY - An arrest warrant has been issued in Canada for Msgr. Carlo Capella, the Vatican diplomat recalled from service in Washington in late August, who already was the subject of a Vatican criminal investigation involving child pornography.

Published in Canada
October 1, 2015

Quebec day care more apt to produce criminals, study shows

Andrea Mrozek, Institute of Marriage and Family executive director, is not surprised by a university study showing Quebec’s day care system produces more boys who will become involved in criminal behaviour.

OTTAWA - Boys enrolled in Quebec’s universal child-care program are more likely to partake in criminal behaviour than boys from other provinces, a new study has found.

Published in Canada
March 12, 2015

Death to the death penalty

The late Cardinal Avery Dulles has perhaps one of the most compelling arguments against the death penalty — that the modern state is no longer a worthy instrument for so solemn a task.

I have been staunchly against the death penalty since I started visiting the now-defunct Kingston Penitentiary as an undergraduate, meeting weekly with a group of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment.

Published in Fr. Raymond de Souza
September 24, 2014

Vatican puts former nuncio accused of sex abuse under house arrest

Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, former nuncio to the Dominican Republic, is pictured celebrating Mass in Santo Domingo in 2009. The Vatican has placed a laicized papal ambassador under house arrest as he awaits a criminal trial for sexually abusing young boys.

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has placed a laicized papal ambassador under house arrest as he awaits a criminal trial for sexually abusing young boys.

Published in Vatican