OTTAWA, Ontario – International campaigners see Quebec as a vulnerable beachhead for legalizing euthanasia in Canada, then the rest of North America, said a prominent Canadian ethicist.Read More

EDMONTON, Alberta – Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton has banned “harmful gambling activities” by Catholic schools to raise funds, but he admitted it is likely to be years for the new policy to take effect.Read More

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Bishop David R. Choby of Nashville has returned home to complete his recovery following successful heart bypass surgery performed Sept. 10 at St. Thomas Hospital.Read More

TOWSON – One by one, 50 pairs of students holding banners processed up a winding road on the campus of Notre Dame Preparatory School Sept. 14.Read More

The St. Thomas More Society of Maryland will honor Antonin Scalia, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, with its “Man for All Seasons Award” at an Oct. 21 banquet at the Westin Hotel, Annapolis.Read More

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican opposes the stoning of an Iranian woman convicted of adultery, but it does not intervene publicly in other nations’ “humanitarian” affairs, said the Vatican’s spokesman.Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa – Thieves electronically stole more than $600,000 from a Diocese of Des Moines bank account on two days in August, the diocese and the bank involved said.Read More

“Iraq: peace is in the balance as U.S. troops leave” (CR, Aug. 26) addresses the question of our responsibilities to the Iraqi people. Bishop Shlemon Warduni states that very clearly: “If foreign troops leave, they have the duty to leave peace and security behind them.” Indeed, wasn’t that our purpose in invading in the first...Read More