Roman Catholic Articles
Limbo appears doomed by Vatican theologians
December 29, 2005
This month, 30 top theologians from around the world met at the Vatican to discuss, among other quandaries, the problem of what happens to babies who die without baptism.
Pope urges Holand to reflect on euthanasia
January 23, 2005
Pope John Paul urged Dutch authorities and medical personnel on Saturday to weigh the gravity of their choices about euthanasia in their country, the first country to legalize euthanasia for adults who no longer want to live with unbearable, incurable pain.
Block gay marriage, Catholics urge Martin
January 19, 2005
Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Toronto, sailed full-steam yesterday into Canada's marriage debate, making public a letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin urging him to maintain marriage as a heterosexual rite and use the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to overrid...
Canadian bishop slams "evil" gay relationships
January 18, 2005
According to a report by gay.com, a senior Catholic bishop in Calgary issued a letter, calling on the government to suppress gay rights. In the letter, which he issued to churches in the Alberta region, Bishop Frederick Henry stated that since homosexuality, adultery, prostitution and pornography...
A window into militant secularism
December 29, 2004
True religious tolerance requires a desire to accommodate and foster religious practice, not to grudgingly quarantine it as a threat, writes Father Raymond J. de Souza, a chaplain at Queen's University in Ontario. He is talking about the incident in Calgary: a stained glass window in one of the c...
Pope offers Christmas Day message
December 25, 2004
Pope John Paul shared his fears about Iraq, Sudan and other hot spots and he expressed hopes in a Christmas message Saturday that peace-building efforts will bring the world a more tranquil future.
Pope slams gay marriage
December 20, 2004
Pope John Paul II delivered his sternest criticisms on the issue of same-sex marriage in his pre-Christmas messages, saying that gay people were plotting an 'agressive attempt to legally undermine the family.'
Marriage a union between one man, one woman
December 20, 2004
To affirm homosexuality is to insult the nature and being of God, writes Calgary pastor Ron Leech. He points out that homosexuality is a sin that violates God's intention for human creation itself. Deliberately choosing to sin is an intentional rebellion, and homosexuality distorts the image of G...
A new station of the Cross
December 12, 2004
The Toronto-based Salt+Light Television channel went national this week with rapping priests and recipes of the saints. It is the reincarnation of the Inner Peace Television Network. The non-profit station, licensed to broadcast in five languages, is now the seventh Canadian religious television ...
Opening session address by Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, Archbishop of Toronto
June 17, 2004
First, two brief introductory remarks. First of all, I should congratulate the organizers and the participants in this particular event. I feel it took a great deal of courage first of all to even think of it, and secondly to launch it, so my sincerest congratulations. My second remark concerns m...
