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Carolynn Bilton comforts her mother Margie Harper in her final days in palliative care.

Sisters find joy in mom’s final journey

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EDMONTON – Margie Harper entered the hospital last year on the first day of Lent, her forehead still bearing a dark smudge from the Ash Wednesday Mass.
Residential school students at confirmation class at St. John’s Indian Residential School in Wabasca, Alta.

Indigenous people ‘anxious’ for papal apology

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EDMONTON – Reconciliation with Church a struggle, says former AFN chief Fontaine.

After decades of turbulent history with the Catholic Church, Indigenous peoples are now committed to healing the fractured relationship, says the former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

Trinity Western lawyers and interveners pose in front of the bench at the Supreme Court of Canada after the Nov. 30-Dec.1 hearings in this important religious freedom case.

Religious freedom ‘on an abyss of revolutionary change', lawyers warn

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OTTAWA – Religious freedom in Canada is facing a “watershed moment” and may be “on an abyss of a revolutionary change,” argued lawyers in a Supreme Court of Canada case involving a Christian university’s proposed law school.
Father Joveneau was a prominent religious leader among the Innu people and was held in high regard in the community. The revelations of alleged abuse came during five days of hearings that ended Dec. 1 by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls regarding events in the Cote-Nord region in eastern Quebec.

Innu women testify that Oblate missionary inappropriately touched them

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MONTREAL – Oblate Father Alexis Joveneau was said to have inappropriately touched women and girls in the Innu community in Quebec where he ministered from 1953 until his death in 1992.
The Court was simultaneously hearing two appeals Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 regarding the B.C. and Ontario law societies. After the B.C. Law Society said it would not accredit graduates of Trinity Western, B.C.’s minister of education refused to allow Trinity Western to grant law degrees, effectively killing the law school.

Catholic groups make their case in Christian law school hearing

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OTTAWA – Lawyers representing Trinity Western University faced tough questions from Supreme Court Justices Nov. 30 in an important religious freedom case involving communal rights.
Bob Campbell's 16-metre white spruce in the front yard of their Cape Breton home cut down Nov. 15 and prepared for a 1,200 km journey to the Boston Common.

Tree for Boston an annual thank-you for Nova Scotians

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There was one little chore that Bob Campbell had put off for years at his Cape Breton home — entering the Tree for Boston contest.
Fr. Jean-Claude Ndanga is one of the 20-25 priests who enrol in the Enculturation program each year.

Foreign priests schooled in Canadian ways

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EDMONTON – This winter, Fr. Moses Savarimuthu is ready.

It’s been just over a year since Savarimuthu experienced an Alberta winter for the first time. He traded life in the tropical city of Trichy, India — his hometown — for his first assignment in Canada, as co-pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish.
“It is my dream that the Chaldeans in North America become a solid unit,” Bishop Biwai Soro said to cheers and a standing ovation from an overflowing church on Nov. 29. The service was presided over by the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch of Babylon Rafaël Louis Sako.

Bishop Biwai Soro welcomed as head of Canada’s Chaldean Catholics

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Canada’s newest bishop has taken his seat at the Good Shepherd Chaldean Cathedral in Toronto and declared his dream for Canada’s Iraqi Catholics.
The film, Vessel, was scheduled as part of an annual event called “Choice! Birth and Baby Film Festival,” which had been held at the university for six years without controversy. This year’s film, however, chronicled a woman who provides abortions aboard ships anchored off the coast of countries where abortion is illegal.

Catholic university under fire for cancelling abortion film

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OTTAWA – Saint Paul University is being accused of stifling free speech on campus after the Catholic university abruptly cancelled a pro-abortion film and accompanying presentation by Planned Parenthood.
On Nov. 21, students and staff from across the Halton Catholic District School Board gathered for the launch of See the Problem: Be the Solution. A bullying prevention initiative, the campaign is urging students to take action by developing creative public service messages that promote positive school environments.

Anti-bullying strategies take different paths

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If a child commits a crime, should a parent do the time?

The city of North Tonawanda, N.Y., thinks yes. Located 24 km north of Buffalo, North Tonawanda passed a law in October stating parents could be sentenced to 15 days in jail if their child violates a city law, including bullying, twice in a 90-day period. 
Of Ontario’s two million seniors, 76.9 per cent identify as religious. The Ministry provides funding for a wide range of day programs, including physical activity classes, health education, art therapy and educational workshops, but spiritually and culturally relevant programs are less prevalent.

Catholic seniors centre prepares to reap rewards of funding boost

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At the Loyola Arrupe Centre in Toronto, seniors are taught how to protect themselves from fraud and elder abuse.
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