If you call Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) Chinese Catholic Church in Calgary these days, it’s likely pastor Fr. Joseph Nguyen will be the one picking up the phone.

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Houses of worship were among the many sectors of Alberta society hit with the most stringent COVID-19 capacity guidelines since the first wave of the virus last spring. New regulations are limiting in-person worship services to 15 people in high case areas, down from the 15 per cent of building fire code capacity.

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As much as the current landscape enables, Calgary Bishop William McGrattan is keen on being a vibrant presence this Christmas season by engaging in key charity and goodwill campaigns.

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CALGARY - Year two of the Land of Dreams’ 30-acre urban farm in southeast Calgary has brought twice the bounty of the first.

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Calgary’s first Theology of the Body conference was Bishop William McGrattan’s vision in action. 

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It is fashionable for columnists to devote the first column of the new year to resolutions — those kept and those broken. For the record, I’ve done both.

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A Calgary priest has been charged in connection to alleged sexual assaults dating back to 2012.

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It’s easy to look around and be pessimistic. Public and household debt levels are alarmingly high in Canada. The Church is roiling from one abuse scandal to another. So many parts of the world seem in chaos with rampant corruption, wars and terrorism.

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CALGARY – Amid continuing legal pressure against Catholic institutions in Canada, the Calgary Catholic School District faces a lawsuit from a former principal who has said she was pushed out due to discrimination on religious, marital, and anti-LGBT grounds.
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A priest in the Diocese of Calgary has been placed on administrative leave over allegations of sexual misconduct involving two minors and several adults.

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CALGARY – Maddie Catling is ready to be a Catholic warrior for the Church. 

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Thanks to generous donors, St. Mary’s University in Calgary was recently able to complete the restoration of our nearly 100-year-old water tower. Built by the Sisters of Providence in 1921, the tower has stood over the Midnapore site for nearly a century, its fortunes waxing and waning — mostly waning — over time. 

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VANCOUVER - Vancouver physicians have carried out Canada’s first known case of assisted suicide outside of Quebec.

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Dylan Robertson has gone from Youth Speak News reporter to homegrown terrorism investigator.

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Updated 07/14/14

CALGARY - Calgary Catholics still maintain hope that five-year-old Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents Alvin and Kathryn Liknes, missing since June 29, will be brought home to safety, but it is looking unlikely as Calgary police have laid three murder charges against a man who was a person of interest in the trio's disappearance.

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