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Features

In a world going increasingly digital, with the ability to compose sonatas and paint with new technologies, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communications is looking at how digital culture is shaping us as individuals and as a society.

Connection must go beyond digital realm

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Are we losing our ability to think deeply, purposefully?

For Africans arriving in Canada, they find the Mass is different. It doesn’t have the colour, the energy they are accustomed to back home, which was on display May 27 at the Africa Day Mass at Toronto’s Our Lady of Lourdes.

Africa’s gift

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Hope and energy brought to Church in Africans’ new homeland.

The value of work, particularly that of migrant workers who have helped build Canada, have been the focus of Vince Pietropaolo’s lens over the years.

The art of work

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Vince Pietropaolo’s lens points us to who built Canada.

Kenzie Stewart with nine-month-old daughter Nova. Stewart is learning the ropes as a new mother. Rose of Sharon is helping Stewart on her path, as it has for countless young mothers and their children over the years.

For the love of a mother

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Rose of Sharon aids in turning young ladies into loving moms.

Among the six York Catholic District School Board Distinguished Alumni for 2023 are sportscaster Andi Petrillo, pictured.

York Catholic board honours distinguished alumni

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Graduates who have made their mark in sportscasting, broadcasting, the National Basketball Association, education, nursing and cartoons are this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award honorees of the York Catholic District School Board.

Academic supports help spread the faith

Academic supports help spread the faith

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As another school year nears its end, education partners are sharing a message of hope to educators and students while continuing to spread the spirit of the faith in Ontario’s Catholic schools.

Anne O’Brien, director of Catholic education with the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association.

The many become one in Christ

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Students from Mississauga, Ont.’s Holy Name of Mary College School take part in a mission journey in March to San Joaquin, Dominican Republic.

Mission trip combines science with service

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Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie’s legacy in promoting awareness for reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples is a hit in Catholic schools.

Rock star’s reconciliation legacy a hit

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The legacies of late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack, an Anishnawbe boy who never came home from residential school, are helping to transform Catholic education for the better.

Catholic curriculum integrates the faith perspective in all academic learning.

A faith filled way of seeing the world

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This month we will celebrate Catholic Education Week, a time for the community to recognize the importance of Catholic education in our province, where more than 500,000 students attend 1,135 elementary schools and 219 secondary schools encompassing 29 Catholic school boards.

Some of the clothing donated for Ukrainian refugees soon to receive First Communion at Toronto’s St. Demetrius School.

School steps up for Ukrainian refugees

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As First Communion approaches for the St. Demetrius Catholic School community, many members who had fled Ukraine and its war found themselves in need of more than sacramental nourishment.

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