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Anne Jamieson, new executive director of the Institute for Catholic Education, leads a professional development session for teachers.

Classroom experience guides Catholic Education leader

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Anne Jamieson’s devotion to her faith and heart for catechesis has taken her on a long, winding road to leadership in the Catholic education community in Ontario.  

Catholic composer David Haas is shown in a concert at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines, in this 2016 photo.

Musical dilemma over abuse claims

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VANCOUVER -- Peter Luongo, a parish music director in Surrey, B.C., is in a quandary.

ShareLife helps agency through COVID crunch

ShareLife helps agency through COVID crunch

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Elizabeth Pierce will celebrate her 25th year with Catholic Family Services of Durham in May 2021. The therapeutic work she and her colleagues do, particularly on behalf of women and children in abusive living situations, remains profoundly affecting.

Deacon Rennie Nahanee ministers in the Archdiocese of Vancouver. Nahanee has recently retired from Vancouver’s First Nations Ministry, though he will continue to lead it on a contract basis.

Walking the path to reconciliation

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VANCOUVER -- For nearly 11 years, Deacon Rennie Nahanee has experienced extreme highs and lows as co-ordinator of First Nations Ministry for the Archdiocese of Vancouver.

Pope Francis.

Season of Creation prompts calls for action

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OTTAWA -- Religious and social justice groups are promising to make environmental justice initiatives the focus of a month-long celebration of creation following a plea by Pope Francis to better protect the environment, respect Indigenous communities around the globe and listen to the concerns of young people.

Engineers have ordered Montreal’s St. Gabriel’s Parish closed due to structural damage to the church’s tower.

Montreal landmark church ordered closed

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MONTREAL -- Structural engineers have ordered one of the oldest churches in Montreal that serves an English-speaking, working-class congregation to close its doors because its central tower could collapse at any time.

Cathedral of St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Catherines, ON

Tabernacle found after theft from St. Catharines cathedral

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom (CNA) -- The tabernacle that was stolen earlier this week from the St. Catherine of Alexandria Cathedral in St. Catharines, Ontario was recovered on Wednesday, September 9.

Alex Schadenberg

Assisted suicide can proceed, appeal court rules

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OTTAWA -- A Nova Scotia appeal court has cleared the way for an elderly Nova Scotia man to kill himself with the help of a doctor.

A memorial outside Msgr. Paul Dwyer Catholic High School in Oshawa, Ont., commemorates the Traynor family, four of whom were killed Sept. 4. Father Chris was a teacher at the school while daughter Adelaide was to enter Grade 10 this month. Other family members also attended the school.

Oshawa Catholics mourn slain family

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The small Catholic community in Oshawa has been left to wonder why it has lost four of its members while another clings to life after a Sept. 4 shooting in the city east of Toronto.

Cathedral of St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Catherines, ON

Tabernacle stolen from St. Catharines cathedral

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom (CNA) -- The Bishop of St. Catharines, Ontario is pleading for thieves to return the consecrated Host after the tabernacle was stolen from the St. Catherine of Alexandria Cathedral on Tuesday.

Lucio Abbruzzese, centre beside the bag, and the Street Patrol team prepare for another Wednesday evening ministering to the homeless. At right, a volunteer gives a food package to a man in need.

Street Patrol hasn’t taken pandemic hiatus

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With the needs of the less fortunate exasperated in so many ways by COVID-19, volunteers with the summer Street Patrol ministry have continued providing meals to those living on the streets of downtown Toronto.

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