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Death has increasingly not been given its proper due in our modern, technological age, particularly during the going on two-year pandemic. People have not been able to grieve the loss of loved ones properly as funerals have been placed under limited capacity by health regulations, only just recently loosened but still not up to pre-COVID levels. That makes All Saints Day Nov. 2 and the month of prayer for the dead that follows all the more important this year.

Dealing with grief in changing world

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As restaurants, theatres and stadiums open up again, and as daily COVID case counts dwindle across most of the country, the Canadian Grief Alliance estimates that as many as 4.5 million of us are grieving one or more of nearly half-a-million deaths we have experienced in the last 20 months, nearly 29,000 of them directly from COVID.

Women religious on university front lines

Women religious on university front lines

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Higher education for Catholic women has been a fight, and it was the sisters on the front lines.

Catechetical program a COVID blessing

Catechetical program a COVID blessing

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Dr. Christine Schintgen credits divine providence for the introduction of the new two-year online Catechetical Certificate program for mature students at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College.

King’s Veritas Lecture series challenges paradigms

King’s Veritas Lecture series challenges paradigms

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In a world that is arguably becoming more depleted of humanity and solidarity, King’s University College in London, Ont., is providing a countering antidote via its Veritas Lecture Series for Faith and Culture.

Religion and vaccine hesitancy in COVID world

Religion and vaccine hesitancy in COVID world

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While the vast majority of the public has been compliant with safety measures in dealing with the pandemic, resistance to vaccination mandates, mask rules and other requirements has been high among ultra-conservative Catholic and evangelical groups.

The Thriving at Brescia program offers students the tools to be successful in their university life and beyond.

Brescia program offers tools for student success

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A holistic program at Brescia University College is giving students struggling with academic and social pressures the tools for success in school and in life.

Catholic post-secondary institutions, like Brescia University College at Western University, have maintained their bond to their Catholic heritage.

Educating mind, body and spirit

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The Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education has estimated that the total number of Catholic higher education institutions around the world is over 1,300.

Grade 3 and 4 students from Msgr. Philip Coffey Catholic School in Oshawa, Ont., plant tulip bulbs on school grounds, part of the Durham Catholic board’s commitment to learn, ally and take action towards reconciliation with Indigenous people.

Indigenous learning commitment made in and out of the classroom

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On the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, 6,509 orange ribbons spanned the banisters in the foyer at All Saints Catholic Secondary School in Whitby, Ont., each representing a child from an unmarked grave at a former residential school.

You need not look any further than your backyard to discover God, says Angela Saldanha.

Discovering the Creator in the backyard

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During a recent Daily TV Mass, the homilist mentioned Ignatius Loyola, the saint who used to speak of finding God in all things. Hearing that got me thinking about my garden. As far as I’m concerned, nowhere is the work of His hands more evident than in the birds, blooms and bugs that make the garden a place of delight.

The Season of Creation, which lasts until Oct. 4, is a time to “discover new ways of working together to break down the traditional barriers between peoples, to stop competing for resources and start collaborating,” says Pope Francis.

The Season of Creation ... a time for action

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The Season of Creation, which began Sept. 1 and lasts through the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi Oct. 4, has always been a time for prayer, reflection and thanksgiving, a time to open our eyes and see the beauty of God’s creation. But this year our prayers are meant to spur action — concerted, global, political action.

A statue of St. Jean Brébeuf at Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, Ont., stands a reminder of the link with Indigenous communities that goes back centuries.

Building a future from the past

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Whether or not reconciliation with Indigenous people lies in the future, such a reconciliation is impossible without an unclouded view of our past, from first contact to the present, Indigenous and Jesuit scholars have told The Catholic Register.

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