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Indigenous input needed in end-of-life care

Indigenous input needed in end-of-life care

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As far as legislation goes, as far as the political parties are concerned, and in the eyes of the medical establishment, the debate over MAiD and euthanasia is over. The Supreme Court of Canada, Parliament and the Canadian Medical Association have pronounced their final words on the subject.

Afghan refugees are processed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany Sept. 8. Canada has already taken in a number of the 20,000 refugees the federal government pledged to resettle.

Immigrant centre aids 200 Afghan refugees

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Resettlement agencies are working to find ways to meet the holistic needs of the growing number of Afghan refugees arriving in Canada.

Migrants from Central America are seen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 9 after being rescued by the police from human smugglers. A key author of an Alberta task force report looking into the issue is a director at Catholic Social Services.

Trafficking report focused on victim voice

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When appraising the landscape through a global lens, a case can be made that 2021 has been a banner year in the fight against the evil, entrenched practice of human trafficking.

Cardinal Thomas Collins participates in the smudging ceremony at the start of the prayer service at St. Michael’s Cathedral for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: A day of hope and repentance, says Cardinal Collins

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For Canada’s Catholics, the first ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is “a day of penance and a day of hope,” Cardinal Thomas Collins said in a prayer service at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Toronto.

One of two women is caught in action as she splashes orange paint on a Vancouver church. Two women are facing charges. Over the summer, 13 Vancouver churches were vanadlized.

Police charge two in vandalism

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VANCOUVER -- Two women have been charged by Vancouver Police following an investigation into vandalism this summer at St. Jude’s Church in East Vancouver.

Bishop William McGrattan, the newly-elected vice-president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Plenary keeps its focus on uncertain future

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OTTAWA -- The future of the Catholic Church in Canada emerged as a main theme as Canada’s bishops gathered online for the second year in a row for a virtual plenary assembly Sept. 21-24.

It was a summer of discontent following the discovery of unmarked graves near former residential schools. There is hope now that the Canadian bishops have apologized for their role in the schools that Pope Francis may come to Canada to apologize on the Church’s behalf.

CCCB remorse sets stage for papal apology

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Graydon Nicholas accepts the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ apology for more than a century of wrongs by Canadian Catholics in residential schools and hopes it will lead to a papal apology on Canadian soil.

Paul Mitchell, right, with his wife Catherine and J.R. Gallarza, whom Mitchell mentored as a youth.

Mitchell founded CYO basketball

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It’s been an emotional time for J.R. Gallarza, an athlete, basketball skills trainer and camp co-ordinator in Brantford, Ont.

Rosalie Hall client Josie, left, with her daughter Cindy, alongside case manager Heather Ramsey.

ShareLife helps Rosalie Hall through pandemic waves

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Reducing service to any significant degree is not an option for Rosalie Hall despite the pandemic threat it has been under with the rest of the world for the past year and a half.

A woman takes a picture of the memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Bishops apologize for residential schools and raise possibility of Pope visit to Canada

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OTTAWA -- Canada’s Catholic bishops have “unequivocally” apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in the residential school system and have raised the possibility of a visit by the Pope to Canada as part of the “healing journey” between Canada’s Indigenous peoples and the Church.

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A health care worker prepares a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Montreal.

Moncton archdiocese won’t require proof of vaccination

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The Archbishop of Moncton has backtracked on his vaccination policy, eliminating the need to for parishioners to provided proof of vaccination for Masses, baptisms and prayer groups.

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