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Agnes Thomas, the new executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto.

Agnes Thomas driven to make impact

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Dr. Agnes Thomas’ depth of experience, gleaned from years of service to several communities, has led to a new role as executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto.

With the Vatican repudiating the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery,” another step has been taken toward reconciliation. These are good steps, but more is needed, say former Assembly of First Nations Chief Phil Fontaine and Wolastoquey elder Graydon Nicholas. The Vatican statement shows it has set itself an ambitious agenda, said Regina Archbishop Don Bolen.

A step further on pilgrimage of penance

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Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, endorsing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, confessing the sin of a colonizing mentality, promising to stand with Indigenous peoples when they struggle for their land and their rights and committing the Church to reconciliation with Indigenous people world-wide — all this arrived in a two-page statement issued jointly by two Vatican dicasteries as another step in the pilgrimage of penance Pope Francis undertook in Canada last summer.

Members of the Syrian army, talking to a Franciscan priest from the Franciscan convent in the Syrian port city of Lattakia outside collapsed homes after the earthquake.

Quake worsens wide array of Syrian problems

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Already decimated by years of war, poverty and international sanctions, the last thing people in northwestern Syria needed was the catastrophic 7.8 magnitude that wreaked havoc in their country and southeastern Turkey nearly two months ago.

St. Bernard Church in Digby County, N.S., has been deconsecrated and put up for sale. The Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth says there is plenty of interest in the property.

For sale: landmark Nova Scotia churches

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Despite needing repairs topping $1 million, a recently deconsecrated landmark Acadian church has drawn extensive interest from buyers since being put up for sale by the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth late last month.

Fr. Robert Assaly is ordained in 2019 as Montreal’s first and only married Latin-rite priest.

‘Dear Fr. Robert’ Montreal’s only married priest

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The April 1 funeral for Fr. Robert Assaly at  Montreal’s St. Thomas More Catholic Church featured a rare sight: front pews filled by his large family with his wife Nancy, their children and spouses.

Relief projects for Rohingya refugees will be among those cut as Development and Peace-Caritas Canada deals with major aid cuts in Canada’s latest budget.

Development and Peace protests foreign aid cuts

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The federal government plans to spend a lot of money — $496.9 billion in 2023-24 — but the growth in federal spending projected by the latest budget hasn’t done anything for Canadian agencies that deliver humanitarian assistance and development aid in poor countries around the world.

A poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping hangs next to a crucifix on the wall of the house of a Tibetan Catholic on Christmas Eve in Niuren village, in China's Yunnan province, in this Dec. 24, 2018, file photo.

Bishop installed in Shanghai, apparently without Vatican agreement

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In an apparent breach of the Vatican's agreement with China on the appointment of bishops, the bishop of Haimen was installed as the bishop of Shanghai April 4.

The faithful gather in front of the Bishops' Palace in Krakow, Poland, on Franciszkanska Street April 2, 2023. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla lived there as archbishop of Krakow and as Pope John Paul II, he used to have informal meetings there with the faithful at the so called "Papal Window." Huge crowds gathered in Poland to mark the 18th anniversary of the pope's death and to show their support of him in the wake of a recent TV report claiming that as Krakow's archbishop he covered up abuse. Critics of the report say it was based on unreliable sources.

Poland remembers, defends JPII 18 years after his death

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Eighteen years after the death of St. John Paul II April 2, 2005, his native Poland remembered him with vigils and marches.

A Latin-English edition of the Code of Canon Law is pictured on a bookshelf.

Pope Francis adjusts canon law appeal period for members of religious orders

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Saying he wanted to protect the rights of members of religious orders facing expulsion, Pope Francis made small changes to canon law, giving them more time to appeal their dismissals.

A boy is pictured in a file photo standing in front of wind turbines at the Ashegoda Wind Farm, near Mekele in Ethiopia's Tigray region.

Churches must press government on climate, MP says

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As the world’s scientists once again draw attention to the dire state of a warming planet, it’s time for churches to up their game on climate change, said Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

If Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin, above, is to be cancelled, what’s next? St. Vital, the community, with its shopping centre named after the Catholic priest? We need to be careful about cancelling historical figures guilty of having thoughts in their time that differ from our “enlightened” times.

Rewriting history won’t speed up reconciliation

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Winnipeg is close to saying goodbye to Bishop Grandin. Soon, the streets, and anything else that bears his name, will be erased from Manitoba’s history. 

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