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Loretto College School students Fiona Kazazi Cerkozi, Madison Scolieri and Monica Goncalves with the goods students collected for Ukraine.

Loretto College Ukraine donation aims to make a difference

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All labelled and sorted, in bags and boxes, the Loretto College School chapel is crammed with stuff — all of it headed for Ukraine by way of St. Demetrius the Great Martyr Ukrainian Catholic Church in Toronto’s west end.

Ukraine soldiers are fighting — and dying — to preserve the democratic tradition in their nation since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Christian culture best served by democracy

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If the definition of “freedom fighter” is in the eyes of the beholder, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau beholds Ukrainians.

Students at Canadian Martyrs Catholic School in Mississauga, Ont., screen films entered in the regional film festival.

Stars are born: students put talents on film

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The Mississauga East family of Catholic schools is holding its first annual student film festival, celebrating talent and providing a forum to share youth creativity during Catholic Education Week.

Catholic schools have a contribution to make to the Church and society, and must be welcoming to all.

Catholic education plants seeds of faith

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In Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Christus Vivit of March 2019, the Pope boldly states that Catholic schools must “seek to welcome all young people regardless of their religious choices, cultural origin and personal, family or social situation. In this way the Church makes a fundamental contribution to the individual education of the young in various parts of the world.” 

Care packages prepared for Street Haven are put together by the Lead the Convo team at Mary Ward Secondary School.

Students take the lead on social justice

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A group of Scarborough 11th graders have committed to being agents for change when it comes to social justice.

Jama Bin-Edward, left, wraps herself and coach Carly Clarke in the U Sports flag following Ryerson Rams’ national basketball championship earlier this month.

National title, MVP honours cap varsity career

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U Sports women’s basketball tournament MVP Jama Bin-Edward of the Ryerson Rams is still coming down from the high of an undefeated season which culminated in the program’s first national title in early April.

Easter Drawing Contest 2022 winners

Easter Drawing Contest 2022 winners

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The great 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared that beauty will save the world. Some years earlier, Our Lord anticipated — and no doubt inspired — Dostoyevsky by teaching us the necessity for salvation of experiencing the world and expressing our faith through the beauty in children’s eyes.

Canadian Indigenous leaders greet the media after a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican April 1. From left are Chief Gerald Antoine of the Assembly of First Nations; Cassidy Caron, president of the Métis National Council; and Natan Obed, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

Apology begins path to reconciliation

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Never was a single sentence more longed for. In 40 years since survivors began to speak out, 16 years since the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement and seven years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada delivered its final report, nations and peoples have waited for a Pope to speak.

Vancouver Archbishop Michael Miller says Pope Francis’ apology to Canada’s Indigenous people set in motion a “pilgrimage of closeness.”

Miller awaits Pope’s ‘pilgrimage of closeness’

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Vancouver Archbishop Michael Miller says Pope Francis has set in motion a “pilgrimage of closeness” between the Catholic Church and Canada’s First Nation, Metis and Inuit peoples with his historic apology.

Representatives of the Assembly of First nations present Pope Francis with a beaded leather stole during a meeting with members of three Canadian Indigenous groups in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall April 1. At the meeting the Pope apologized for harms done by members of the Church in Canada’s residential schools.

Pope Francis: ‘I ask for God’s forgiveness’

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Read the full text of Pope Francis' April 1 final audience with the Canadian Indigenous delegation that travelled to the Vatican.

Metis historian and educator Mitchell Case.

'Today is the beginning of something'

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Hard truths and deep prayer marked the Metis delegation’s hour with Pope Francis, said bishops who were in the room when nine Metis elders and residential school survivors spoke with the Pope.

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