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The daughters of Asia Bibi, a Catholic accused of blasphemy, pose in 2010 with an image of their mother while standing outside their residence in Sheikhupura, Pakistan. The Oct. 31 acquittal of Bibi is being challenged in the country's Supreme Court, according to her husband.

Editorial: Canada must step up

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Canadians generally prefer that people wait their turn, but compassion sometimes demands that we unite and jog someone to the front of the line. That time has come in the case of Asia Bibi. We should take her hand and hurry her to save haven in Canada.

Students on St. Michael's College School campus.

Editorial: Probe beyond school

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Following reports of hideous conduct at St. Michael’s College School the administration acted swiftly to expel eight students and establish an independent review to examine how such shame could darken the corridors of the renowned all-boys Catholic school.

A girl washes utensils in late March outside a temporary shelter near Kashmir, India.

Editorial: Listen for the poor

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It is noble to mark the World Day of the Poor with gifts of charity, but Pope Francis has challenged Catholics to go much further than that. He asks us to observe Nov. 18 by making a serious examination of conscience “to see if we are truly capable of hearing the cry of the poor.”

Pack horses taking up ammunition to the guns of the 20th Battery Canadian Field Artillery, Neuville St. Vaast, April 1917. The 20th Battery Canadian Field Artillery taking up ammunition. In the Canadian forward area, roads and tramways were repaired and extended by pioneer and engineering units for the daily hauling of more than 720 tonnes or more of ammunition, rations and stores. Artillery ammunition allotted for the Vimy operation amounted to 38,250 tonnes.

Editorial: Will we ever learn?

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A hundred years on, the numbers remain chilling — more than 15 million dead, including 61,000 Canadians.

A man, part of a caravan of migrants from Central America to the United States, carries a girl Oct. 29 through the Suchiate River into Mexico from Guatemala.

Editorial: Listen to cries

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As a caravan of some 7,000 weary migrants trudged across the poorest region of Mexico, heading for the U.S. border, they found sympathy and received donations of food, water and clothing from ordinary Mexicans who themselves had little. 

Italian synod observer Federica Ancona is pictured with Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, at the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment at the Vatican Oct. 19.

Editorial: A chance to change

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From the Pope on down, sentiment is growing to more fully integrate women into the everyday life of the male-dominated Church. So far, though, it’s been a lot of talk and too little action. Events at this month’s Synod of Bishops on youth illustrate that point.

Pope Francis greets Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl during a Mass in 2015 outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.

Editorial: A confusing message

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Clearly, Cardinal Donald Wuerl was right to resign as Washington archbishop, but his fall has sent mixed signals about the Vatican’s resolve to get tough on clerical sex abuse.

The more than 80 Catholic bishops and eparchs in Canada pledged at their recent annual gathering in Cornwall, Ont. to implement the new CCCB guidelines on preventing sexual abuse.

Editorial: Bishops get it right

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Good riddance to confidentiality clauses. If one outcome captures the spirit of the Canadian bishops’ new document on sex abuse, that might be it. No more confidentially clauses.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo. The former nuncio has accused church officials, including Pope Francis, of failing to act on accusations of abuse by Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick.

Editorial: The truth awaits

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We have grown weary of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Weary of his accusations. Weary of his recklessness. Weary of his insolence. Weary of his betrayals. Weary of his cunning.

Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City assists Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, as they arrive for the closing Mass of the jubilee Year of Mercy celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican 2016. Also pictured are Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy; Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston; and Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles.

Editorial: A first good step

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Miami Bishop Thomas Wenski was achingly correct when he stated in a recent homily that the storm pounding the Church is not a crisis of faith, but one of leadership.

Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with recently appointed bishops from around the world at the Vatican Sept. 13. The pope spoke about updating the processes of selection, accompaniment and evaluation of bishops.

Editorial: Confront the past

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was long, emotional and painful, but necessary as an act of a nation’s contrition after facilitating decades of abuse at residential schools. 

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