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Five years ago, Jim Anderson knew little about St. Thérèse of Lisieux when he applied for a post directing a formation program based in her spirituality.
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VANCOUVER – Elderly people could be coerced into "choosing" euthanasia if the practice were legalized, a Vancouver doctor told the Catholic Physicians Guild.
What makes a hospital, nursing home or hospice Catholic isn't the cross in the lobby. It is the decisions made in each and every examination room, operating theatre, boardroom and clinic.
Supporters of Pakistan's religious political party Sunni Tehreek hold a banner and party flags during an anti-U.S. rally in Lahore Oct. 17.
Students at Edmonton's Our Lady of the Prairies Catholic School are generally well behaved. But since the introduction of a behavioural program a year ago, teachers say instances of aggression have been reduced significantly.
As Blessed John Paul II once said, "Catholic education is above all a question of communicating Christ, of helping to form Christ in the lives of others."
Rather than suppress boys' high-spirited physicality, aggression or shy reluctance, Edmonton Catholic Schools has responded by structuring an environment so boys can express these drives in safe, respectful ways.
Every program at St. Francis of Assisi School reverts to academics.
Whether the school implements an online math program, yoga classes or after-school basketball clinics, all are done with the intention of supporting the students academically.
Pope Benedict XVI has declared 2012-2013 to be the Year of Faith.
Father Raymond de Souza in last week's WCR chose to criticize the exuberance of Phil Fontaine, the former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, who saw the canonization of St. Kateri Tekakwitha as a step towards the reconciliation of Canada's aboriginal peoples with the Catholic Church.