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File photo	The Roman Catholic Church should stay out of the government's same-sex marriage debate, says Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew. "I find that the separation of the Church and the state is one of the most beautiful inventions of modern times," he told reporters Jan. 27.
File photo	Ontario Liberal MP Paul Steckle says his party may pay for its support of same-sex marriage in the next election. Steckle, who represents Huron-Bruce, was the only member to speak out against same-sex marriage at a recent meeting of the Liberal caucus.
File photo	The churches are taking their "rightful place with a firm defense of marriage, which is one man and one woman," says Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition. "They are encouraging their flocks to act," he noted Jan. 28. "This is not the time for MPs to concede defeat before the issue is even introduced."
File photo	Catholic bishops across Canada, including Archbishop Marcel Gervais of Ottawa, are calling on church members to make their position against same-sex marriage known to MPs. "The term 'marriage' should be retained only for unions of one man and one woman," said Gervais, in a letter read at masses in the archdiocese Jan. 30.
File photo	Jewish-born Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of France represented the Vatican as world leaders gathered Jan. 27 to mourn the victims of the Holocaust. The event marked the 60th anniversarey of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

	Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Gervais speaks at ecumenical worship service in Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa Jan. 23 marking the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity." Behind him (l to r) are Very Rev. Ghattas Hajal of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, Bishop Peter Coffin of the Diocese of Ottawa (Anglican), Rev. Grant Dillenbeck of the United Church of Canada and Rev. Andrew Johnston of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
	Rev. Andrew Johnston of Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church, delivers the homily at an ecumenical worship service in Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa Jan. 23 marking the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity." Johnston is president of the Christian Council of the Capital Area.
	Anglican Bishop Peter Coffin gives a blessing at an ecumenical worship service in Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa Jan. 23 marking the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity."
	Rev. Grant Dillenbeck, chair of the Ottawa Presbytery of the United Church of Canada, gives a reading at an ecumenical worship service in Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa Jan. 23 marking the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity." Behind him are Anglican Bishop Peter Coffin (left) and Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Gervais.
	Anglican Bishop Peter Coffin (left) and Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Gervais shake hands at the end of an ecumenical worship service in Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa Jan. 23 marking the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity."