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The Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton senior boys’ soccer team runs a camp in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat.

Toronto students team up with suffering youth in Attawapiskat through soccer

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To the boys on the senior high school soccer team, it was only natural to reach out to people their age who were suffering in the northern part of the province. 

Grade 7 and 8 students from St. Norbert and St. Andrew Catholic Schools made 70 pairs of baby moccasins last year while learning about Indigenous culture. 

Moccasin project helps create awareness of Indigenous issues

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A small handmade gift can have a big impact. 

Keanna Tejado, Eunice Doronio, Chanel Ofosu and Patricia Barahona work on a robot. St. Andre's Robo Giants club is headed for Destination Imagination world finals.

Toronto student robotics team headed to world finals

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Michelle Dubre cried with joy when she heard the news. 

A group of students from the Waterloo Catholic board with local residents in the Dominican Republic.

Catholic schools lead students to embrace lessons far from home

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Twenty-four Catholic high school students and five adult supervisors gathered in Consuelo, Dominican Republic, to debrief our day. We had toured a batay (sugar workers’ village) outside the city along a road that by Canadian standards would be considered impassible.

A fifth-grade teacher helps her students organize their supplies on the first day of school Aug. 8 at St. Helen Catholic School in Pearland, Texas.

Are there lessons to be learned from U.S. educators?

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Bigger is better and if we don’t get better we’re going to get beat, is the message one religious education teacher has brought back from a giant American convention for Catholic teachers.

Ontario bishops commit to ‘renewing the promise’ of Catholic education

Ontario bishops commit to ‘renewing the promise’ of Catholic education

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Catholic schools have a “unique opportunity” to guide young people through the social, ethical and economic challenges of today, Ontario’s bishops say in a pastoral letter for education.
Every few years, the call to amalgamate Catholic and public school boards arises, and almost as quickly subsides. But John Kostoff warns Catholic supporters not to be complacent as the anti-Catholic school movement is becoming better funded and more aggressive.

Abolition threats knock on the door of Catholic education

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A sampling of recent media indicates voices are again ramping up their call for one school system in Ontario or, in short, for the abolishment of Catholic schools. 

Stella Johnson works for the Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, which covers the Northwest Territories and parts of Nunavut and Saskatchewan.

The ‘ambassador’ of the northern Church

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Stella Johnson is known in the Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith as a ray of sunshine, which is significant when Yellowknife can get as little as four hours of daylight in the middle of winter. 

For all that they do, parish secretaries are the unsung heroes of a church's life.

Unsung heroes: Secretaries on the parish front lines

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It was an otherwise quiet Wednesday morning when a woman walked into the parish office of St. Joan of Arc in Toronto. 

The Christian Pavilion at Expo 67 was a ground-breaking achievement for ecumenism in Canada. Eight major Christian denominations in Canada joined together to produce exhibits for the pavilion — Roman Catholic, United, Anglican, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist, Greek-Orthodox and Ukrainian Greek-Orthodox.

The Register Archive: Expo 67 brought Canada to world stage

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It was 51 years ago, on April 28, that Expo 67 opened in Montreal, ushering in a summer of celebration for Canada’s 100th birthday. The World’s Fair featured pavilions from 60 nations showcasing “Man and His World.” More than 50 million visitors passed through the grounds over six months, including familiar faces like Queen Elizabeth, Jackie Kennedy and Bing Crosby. In this editorial from April 22, 1967, The Catholic Register put the expectations of Expo into perspective:

It’s estimated the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 people.

The Register Archive: Theologians debate use of atomic bomb after Hiroshima

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April 22 marks the birthday of Robert Oppenheimer, born 104 years ago and famously destined to become known as “the father of the atomic bomb” because of his work on the secret Manhattan Project during the Second World War. When news of the weapon of mass destruction became public with the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, theologians jumped in on the moral debate over its use. Here is a report from the Aug. 18, 1945 issue of The Catholic Register:

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