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Miners are seen at an artisanal gold mine near Kamituga, Congo. D&P has been fighting against mining injustice.x

Development and Peace rallies young Catholics for change

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Pope Francis’ recent visit to Canada marked a historic moment for the Catholic Church. After delivering an apology for residential schools, the pontiff laid the groundwork for reconciliation with Indigenous communities, stressing the importance of moving forward in peace, unity and love.

Author unites faith, science in new book

Author unites faith, science in new book

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David Goulet’s Halos Rising challenges Catholic youth to envision the future of sainthood.

Mary Beazer and St. Joseph High School chef Nathin Bye.

Serving a dish of passion with a side of initiative

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Alberta teen Mary Beazer is off to a sizzling start in pursuing her passion to become a professional chef.

Youth attend an Ignite Camp in Saskatchewan. Summer camps are in full swing this year, the first time since the pandemic hit.

Catholic summer camp season is upon us

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Catholic summer camp organizers are feeling a sense of renewal as day-to-day activities are set to operate in a manner akin to pre-pandemic times.

Steubenville Atlantic will be welcoming young pilgrims again this year after a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus. The last praise-and-worship event was held in 2019.

Steubenville Atlantic is back on track

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For the first time since 2019, the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth will stage a summer Steubenville conference for high school students. 

Students at St. John Brebeuf Secondary in Abbotsford, B.C., get caffeine, community and class credit at The Daily Grind, a school coffee shop they’re running themselves.

Students look forward to The Daily Grind

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Every good coffee shop needs three key ingredients: good coffee, good ambience and good community. St. John Brebeuf Secondary’s new cafe, The Daily Grind, has all three.

St. Pius X Grade 5 students Maksimas Viskotas and Olivia Wall, winners of the Imagine a Canada peace and reconciliation contest.

Students recognized for reconciliation vision

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Dealing with Canada’s residential school history is challenging enough for the best of us, but two Vancouver Catholic school students are being recognized nationally for their clear vision of a “reconciled Canada.”

It was a challenge to keep the OCSB choirs running during the pandemic, but under director Carla MacGregor the choirs kept the momentum going and have recently begun to perform live again.

OCSB choirs get their rhythm back

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The fateful March of 2020 brought the curtain down on in-person performances and rehearsals for the children and youth voices animating the Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB) choirs.

Members of the St. Benedict’s Bears girls’ football team with a pennant marking the first ever girls tackle football game to be played in Canada.

Sudbury, Ottawa squads make history with nation’s first girls tackle football game

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May 18 marked a historic moment in Canadian sporting history for young women as Sudbury, Ont.’s St. Benedict’s Catholic Secondary School hosted the first ever officially score-kept girls tackle football game.

Students show what can be done with spaghetti and hot glue. North Vancouver’s St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary held a bridge-building contest to welcome elementary students to their future school community.

Contest bridges the gap with elementary students

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In the cutthroat world of competitive spaghetti bridge building, all bridges are tested, but none survive.

The NCLN erected a vigil display in front of Kensington Abortion Clinic in Calgary on May 4 as it takes up its pro-life advocacy after a long two pandemic years.

National Campus Life Network returns to pre-pandemic roots

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National Campus Life Network (NCLN) is getting its face-to-face pro-life activism groove back.

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