The bishops’ conference of Canada is redoubling its efforts to inform and educate about the issues related to euthanasia and assisted suicide. The conference posted a new section on its website about euthanasia and assisted suicide. The site comes as a bill in Quebec aims to allow physicians to administer “terminal palliative sedation” or “medial Read more
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Autistic boy genius, Jacob Barnett
Friday, September 6th, 2013
By May of this year, Jacob Barnett had wrung everything he could get out of the university he had been attending for four years in his home state of Indiana. He had taken every undergraduate course on mathematics and physics, and a bunch of graduate-level courses too. None of it had even slowed Jacob down. Read more
Canada’s Opposition Leader sees Christian beliefs as unlawful
Friday, February 15th, 2013The Leader of the Opposition in Canada has declared that traditional Christian beliefs on sexuality go “completely against” Canadian values and even Canadian law. Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the New Democrat party, was complaining about a government grant supporting a Christian group’s efforts to improve water access in Uganda. The group, Crossroads Communications Inc., Read more
Canadian media criticized for irresponsible ‘exorcism’ reporting
Thursday, April 26th, 2012Canadian news outlets are sensationalizing an event that was not treated as demonic possession and did not prompt a search for an exorcist, according to the Diocese of Saskatoon’s communications office. Communications coordinator Kiply Yaworski told CNA that the public had been misled by “headlines that were completely false,” suggesting that an exorcism had been Read more
Convicted sex abuser priest found ministering in Canada
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
An 82-year-old sex abuser priest found ministering in Canada no longer has permission to work in the Archdiocese of Ottawa. The Roman Catholic priest who served jail time for sexually molesting two under 16 year old girls in the 1970s has been ministering as a priest at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Ottawa, for at Read more