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Vatican economic advisor Charles Clark promotes basic income as part of poverty solution during a keynote address at St. Michael's College in Toronto Oct. 20.

Basic income can't be ignored, says Vatican expert

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A basic income guarantee, such as the pilot project currently running in three Ontario communities, is not an infallible teaching of the Catholic Church, but it can’t be dismissed, one of the Vatican’s top economic advisors told an interfaith conference on basic income.
Speaking to more than 1,700 attendees at the 38th annual Cardinal's Dinner in downtown Toronto Oct. 26, Cardinal Collins urged the largely Catholic audience to evangelize a culture in which life and tolerance for contrary views are increasingly being devalued.

Use your faith to battle ‘coldness’ of the world, Cardinal Collins urges

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Christians need to actively engage modern culture with "the profound wisdom of our faith tradition" to combat the emptiness and loneliness in our modern world, said Cardinal Thomas Collins.
Sr. Gwen Smith leads Toronto's Mustard Seed Outreach Centre to provide basic and social needs to women throughout the year.

Mustard Seed spreads welcoming message for Thanksgiving

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Sr. Gwen Smith is singing about shoo-fly pie and apple pan dowdy.

Presentation Manor retirement residence for Catholics, currently under construction in Scarborough, Ont., appointed an executive director as it sets to open in fall 2018.

Presentation Manor retirement residence appoints executive director

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Presentation Manor, a major new experiment in Catholic senior living, now has an executive director. Gord Perrault takes the reins of the 229-unit eldercare residence on Aug. 1.

Toronto police charged 64-year-old Phuoc Van, a volunteer at St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church with sexual assaults.

Toronto church volunteer faces sexual assault charges

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Toronto Police have charged a St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church volunteer with sexual assaults on four people between the ages of 12 and 21.

From left, Sr. Ann Delaney, Sr. Thérèse Meunier, St. Michael’s Hospital president Dr. Bob Howard, Sr. Mary Anne McCarthy, city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and Sr. Georgette Gregory cut the cake at the hospital’s 125th birthday celebration. Although the Sisters of St. Joseph are no longer in control of St. Michael’s Hospital, their legacy lives on at the downtown Toronto hospital.

Sisters of St. Joseph's mission continues at St. Michael's 125 years later

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It has been 27 years since the Sisters of St. Joseph relinquished control of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, but the mission they began in 1892 hasn’t wavered.

At the Archdiocese of Toronto's 175th anniversary celebration Mass May 30, Cardinal Thomas Collins announced his plan to initiate the cause for canonization of Bishop Michael Power, pictured, Toronto’s first bishop.

Cardinal Collins to make case for Bishop Michael Power’s sainthood

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Cardinal Thomas Collins believes the Archdiocese of Toronto’s founding bishop was a martyr and is a saint. On the occasion of the archdiocese’s 175th anniversary, Collins announced he plans to begin the process that could make it official.

Fr. Frederico Lombardi speaks at Salt + Light TV’s 15th anniversary gathering May 25.

Former papal spokesman helps Salt + Light mark 15th anniversary

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TORONTO – If the news seems to be shouting at you and your Facebook feed is crowded with takedown artists, Fr. Frederico Lombardi has an alternative media diet you might want to consider.

Angela Gauthier has spent her entire life inside the Toronto Catholic education system.

Toronto Catholic's Angela Gauthier retiring after 40 years in education

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After spending 40 years as an employee of Toronto’s Catholic school board, Angela Gauthier is retiring, but that doesn’t mean she won’t be heading to school when classes resume in September.

Jaden Banson, a Grade 11 student at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Secondary in Mississauga, has been invited to Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in California to present his 3-D Molecular Visualizer program.

Apple takes a shine to Ontario teen’s tech project

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What started out as Jaden Banson’s annoying hobby has evolved into a passion which is catching the eye of Apple Inc.

The Jesuit ordinations at Our Lady of Lourdes in Toronto May 20.

Photos: Jesuit ordinations at Toronto's Our Lady of Lourdes

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There’s nothing older or more essential to the Church than the laying on of hands. In the Acts of the Apostles, one of the first things the newly formed Church does is commission seven men who speak different languages and represent different cultures. They were ordered (ordained) to make sure that the widows and orphans of every ethnicity, tribe and clan within the young Church are cared for.

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