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Seana Jae De Los Santos, third from front left, is a former SickKids patient. She and the rest of the St. James Youth Choir are excited to be doing a special performance at the second annual Above and Beyond Concert to raise money for the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

St. James youth rock for SickKids

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Choir practices at St. James parish in Toronto have been especially exciting as the youth choir prepares for its biggest concert yet.

The Pulse Pledge encourages people to include more dry peas, chickpeas, lentils and beans in their diet as a more affordable and sustainable food source.

My Lent with Pulse Pledge

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I took the Pulse Pledge during Lent and found myself reflecting on how something so small could actually make a difference. 

Student representatives at the Catholic Education Lobby Day with Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell.

Catholic education at its best

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TORONTO - The Queen’s Park Dining Room was filled with the sounds of engaging and enriching discussion March 9 as Catholic representatives from across Ontario advocated for their education system.

Fr. Graham Keep from the Diocese of London led eucharistic adoration and Mass at this year’s Lift Jesus Higher youth rally.

Youth celebrate the meaning of mercy at annual rally

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TORONTO - About 1,000 youth and their families gathered together at Metro Toronto Convention Centre’s John Bassett Theatre to learn about a simple five-letter word that most of us struggle to understand: mercy.

Nerissa D’Souza and Sajesha Manoharan want to pursue careers in automotive engineering and break down barriers in the predominantly male industry.

Toronto students take on gender, cultural biases

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TORONTO - Nerissa D’Souza and Sajesha “Sunny” Manoharan are trying to break the double whammy of gender and cultural barriers by forging careers as auto mechanics.

Chris Stefanick spoke to more than one thousand youth on Feb. 16 at St. Francis Xavier Church in Mississauga, Ont. This is the first year Stefanick has brought the Reboot! Live! youth conference tour to Canadian parishes

Canadian youth, parishes ‘Reboot!’ their faith

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It all started with a selfie.

While at the Steubenville Toronto youth conference last July, a few of the youth from St. Francis Xavier parish asked the host, Chris Stefanick, to take a selfie with them.

Violet is the lead character in the movie Viable, which is loosely based on director and co-writer Mary Gyulay and her personal experiences living with multiple sclerosis.

Young filmmaker shares viability of living with MS

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Mary Gyulay was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a year and a half ago, at the age of 22. At the time of her crisis, she turned to God.

Sr. Ephigenia Gachiri with this year’s graduates of the Christian rite of passage. Gachiri developed a rite-of-passage ritual based on the RCIA program as an alternative to a cultural ritual rite that involves female genital mutilation.

Building a safe haven for Kenyan girls at risk

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TORONTO - Life is very different for the girls at the Abundant Life Centre in Kenya when compared to the students at Toronto’s Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School.

Aidan Oliver may only be seven, but already the boy from New Waterford, N.S. understands the importance of being an agent of peace.

Youthful exuberance a sign of hope at New Waterford parish

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NEW WATERFORD, N.S. - He has been called a ray of sunshine, a sign of hope and messenger of peace. But little Aidan Oliver says he just wants to make people happy.

Andrea Scapinello and John O’Brien will discuss how young adults can apply Ignatian practice to their social media habits

An examination of your social media conscience

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Marshall McLuhan, a communications philosopher and former professor at the University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto, once stated that “we make our tools, and then our tools make us.”

Maria Montemayor volunteered at a children’s rehab centre run by the Siervas sisters in Peru.

Encountering Santa Rosa

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I never imagined that meeting two nuns at a Chinese Catholic camp last September would lead me two months later to the home of my parish’s patron saint, Rose of Lima.

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