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Pope Francis greets a group of women religious as he arrives for his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican.

Editorial: The women’s decade

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It seemed fitting that Pope Francis began the new year by pointing a spotlight at women, given that integrating women into the everyday running of the Church will be a major theme of the new decade.

Pope Benedict XVI reads his resignation in Latin during a meeting of cardinals at the Vatican in this Feb. 11, 2013, file photo. In a Feb. 5, 2018, letter to a journalist from an Italian newspaper, the retired pope said he has diminished physical strength and inwardly is on a "pilgrimage to Home."

Editorial: Event of the decade

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From a Catholic perspective, few if any dates were more significant during the soon-to-close decade than  Feb.11, 2013.

The Adoration of the Child is depicted in this 17th-century painting by Dutch artist Gerard van Honthorst.

Editorial: Christmas prayers

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With good reason, Canadians generally take it for granted that Christmas is a season of peace and goodwill. We are blessed to live in a country that slows down to let the joy of the season wash over us.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

Editorial: A necessary delay

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The call went up to have Archbishop Fulton Sheen declared a saint almost from the day he died 40 years ago. So current disappointment at a Vatican directive to touch the brakes on the popular American’s sainthood cause is no surprise, but the decision is appropriate.

An outdoor manger scene at St. Takla Maronite Catholic Church in Beirut.

Editorial: Mangers a must

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If it’s true that the best ideas are often the simplest ones, then give credit to Pope Francis for endorsing an 800-year-old strategy to place Christ at the centre of Christmas.

Pope Francis eats lunch with the poor in the Paul VI hall as he marks World Day of the Poor at the Vatican Nov. 17, 2019.

Editorial: Poor need Minister

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The poor need our hands to lift them up and give them hope, said Pope Francis on the World Day of the Poor. Three days later, Canada’s new government extended a hand in a different direction when it swore in our first-ever Minister of Middle Class Prosperity. 

Editorial: Environmental sin

Editorial: Environmental sin

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Thou shalt not commit ecocide.

The Ontario Provincial Legislature at Queen's Park, Toronto.

Editorial: Take the next step

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An emphatic defence of religious freedom by Ontario politicians was almost enough to set bells ringing at churches — and mosques, synagogues and temples — across the province. 

Taylor Dallin, a 2019-2020 TCDSB student trustee discussed the gender issue debate with Kyle Iannuzzi, a former student trustee.

Editorial: Trustees get it right

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It may seem odd to be extending congratulations to a committee that exists to protect Catholic educational values merely for doing its job. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, wave to supporters at the Palais des Congres in Montreal after claiming victory in the election.

Editorial: Reflect ... then act

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It was a humbled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who indulged the media after his Liberal Party was returned grudgingly to Ottawa with a minority government.

Displaced Kurdish women and children, who fled from violence with their family after a Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria, sit in a classroom Oct. 22, 2019, at a public school used as shelter in Hassakeh, Syria.

Editorial: A cry for justice

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Syrian Christians have been neglected, forgotten and cast aside like “the scum of the world,” charged the patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church.

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