Cardinal-designate Michael Czerny is pictured during an interview in Rome Sept. 27, 2019. He described becoming a cardinal as an intensification of an "ongoing mission" of assisting Pope Francis. Cardinal-designate Czerny and 12 others will be created cardinals by the pope Oct. 5.

Czerny sees ministry intensifying with new role as cardinal

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ROME -- Cardinal-designate Michael Czerny, a Canadian Jesuit priest who is one of Pope Francis’ point men responsible for the pastoral care and political advocacy for migrants and refugees, calls becoming a cardinal “an intensification” of his ministry.

Neil McNeil Catholic High School in Toronto.

Student stabbed outside Toronto Catholic high school

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A student from Neil McNeil Catholic High School in Toronto was rushed to hospital after being stabbed in an altercation outside the east-end school Sept. 26.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres greets 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg Sept. 21 during the Youth Climate Summit at UN headquarters in New York City.

Catholics put climate on electoral hot seat

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As at least 60,000 people marched on United Nations headquarters Sept. 20 and hundreds of thousands of students around the world demanded climate solutions, Canadian Catholics launched a chapter of the Global Catholic Climate Movement with calls for politicians to confront climate change.

Joshua is a member of one of the 65 Pakistani families looking for a new home in Canada. The families are hiding out in Bangkok after fleeing Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. The Office of Refugees, Archdiocese of Toronto has made a pledge to sponsor 18 of the families and has sent word to other dioceses across Canada appealing for them to offer sponsorships.

Canadians respond to refugees’ plight

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Catholics from coast to coast are rallying to answer a call to help resettle Christian Pakistani refugees stuck in Bangkok.

CCCB President Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil.

Bishops grapple with ‘moral setbacks’ at plenary

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CORNWALL, ONT. -- Religious persecution, the continuing fallout from past sexual abuse, reconciliation with First Nations and an ongoing commitment to “our missionary zeal” were among the grand themes that emerged at the annual plenary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB).

Bishop Lionel Gendron celebrates Mass at the opening of the annual bishops’ plenary in Cornwall, Ont.

Ordaining married men not a ‘focused’ issue

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CORNWALL, Ont. -- Canada’s bishops will monitor next month’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, but the issue of ordaining married men is not a priority for bishops here, said Archbishop Richard Gagnon of Winnipeg.

Fr. Carlos Augusto Sierra Tobon has seen some community backlash to the sign he posted on St. Brigid’s to deal with some unwanted activities on church property.

Priest stands by sign: ‘Not a playground!’

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From teens climbing onto the roof to drug use in the parking lot to amorous couples on church lawns, Fr. Carlos Augusto Sierra Tobon has had enough. 

Media reports said the policy of St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish, N.S., was being changed to offer assisted suicide in the hospital.

Hospital denies assisted suicide reports

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CORNWALL, Ont. -- The Nova Scotia Health Authority has assured a Catholic health facility, St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish, that it will not have to provide assisted suicide within the hospital.

The Antigonish skyline has long featured the towers of St. Ninian’s Cathedral, left, and St. Francis Xavier University. The Nova Scotia diocese is marking its 175th anniversary.

Diocese of Antigonish celebrates 175 years

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HALIFAX -- The town of Antigonish and its majestic St. Ninian’s Cathedral has long cast a significant shadow over much of northeastern Nova Scotia.

The Dominican sisters at Queen of Peace Monastery, from left: Sr. Claire Marie Rolf (prioress), Sr. Elizabeth Tjoelker and Sr. Marie Thomas Lawrie.

Dominican sisters generate their own electricity

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VANCOUVER -- When you spend hours in prayer kneeling on sustainably sourced pews and looking out a floor-to-ceiling view of the Garibaldi Highlands, it’s hard not to care about your environment.

With its new copper roof, Our Lady of Assumption in Windsor, Ont., is on its way down a restoration road. It reopened for Masses on Sept. 8 for the first time since 2014.

Grand re-opening was … well, grand

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When Fr. Maurice Restivo looked out upon a packed congregation — about double Our Lady of Assumption Church’s capacity — he knew the historic parish was back.

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