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The Orphan Boys at Mount Cashel, St. Johns, who sowed, reaped and threshed 600 bushels of oats this year at Mount Cashel. - Newfoundland Quarterly, p. 17 (1909)

Mount Cashel opened eyes to world of abuse

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As the Catholic Church comes to grips with an appalling past that saw thousands of children and vulnerable people exposed to abuse at the hands of clergy around the world, Canadians can only turn back the clock to remember when the scourge dominated the headlines at home.

Pvt. Andry Rosales hugs a Colombian soldier after defecting from Venezuela Feb. 27, 2019. Rosales snuck out of an army base and crossed into Colombia in civilian clothes.

Colombian churches help Venezuelan soldiers who have walked away

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CUCUTA, Colombia – Pvt. Andry Rosales hugged a Colombian soldier and broke into tears as he surrendered himself to this country's military.
People ride motorbikes on the outskirts of Amritsar, India, March 1, 2019, before the arrival of an Indian air force pilot, who was captured by Pakistan two days earlier and later released. Catholic groups have joined the protest of military escalation in the region.

'War is not an option': Pakistani Catholic groups join protest against military escalation

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LAHORE, Pakistan – Catholic groups joined a protest against a military escalation in Pakistan and India following the recent suicide bombing in Indian-administered Kashmir, reported ucanews.com.
Armed members of the South Sudanese security forces are seen in Bentiu Jan. 21, 2019. Bishops of South Sudan say the peace process is not working, and they suggest more than a dozen ways to improve the situation.

Peace deal 'fatally flawed', South Sudan bishops say

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JUBA, South Sudan – South Sudan's peace deal is fatally flawed, the country's bishops said as they committed the church to helping forge new negotiations. They also recommended a series of measures to end the conflict.
Pope Pius XII is pictured at the Vatican in a file photo dated March 15, 1949.

Pope opens up WWII, Pope Pius XII documents in Vatican Secret Archives

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VATICAN – Declaring that the Catholic Church is unafraid of history, Pope Francis announced that documents in the Vatican Secret Archives relating to the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII will be open to scholars in 2020.
Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with young Catholic leaders from Latin American at the Vatican March 4, 2019.

Service, not party affiliation makes a politician Catholic, Pope Francis says

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VATICAN – What makes a politician "Catholic" is not party affiliation, but dedication to promoting the common good, particularly through listening to and empowering people who often are overlooked, Pope Francis said.
Students demonstrate the Mini Cheetah, a quadruped robot, during presentations to celebrate the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Feb. 26, 2019. Speakers at a Feb. 25-27, 2019, Vatican meeting said the field of robotics needs ethical guidelines.

Robotics needs ethical guidelines, speakers say at Vatican meeting

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VATICAN – As robotics play an increasingly greater role in today's world, their technological capabilities must not outpace ethical concerns, said a number of speakers at the Pontifical Academy for Life's workshop on "Robo-ethics: Humans, Machines and Health."
The Missouri Statehouse is pictured in Jefferson City, Mo.. The Missouri House has voted in favoru of a bill to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

Missouri House OKs fetal heartbeat bill restricting abortion

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —The Missouri House of Representatives Feb. 27 passed the Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act, an omnibus bill that bans abortion when the heartbeat of an unborn child can be detected, which could be as early as six weeks "depending on the method used."

Clerical sex abuse victims and their supporters rally outside Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome Feb. 21.

Victims shed harsh light on sex abuse at Vatican summit

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The abuse summit began with the voices of the abused … five testimonies gathered from around the world.

Pope Francis Village has been created for hundreds of families left homeless by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

Canadian aid gives new life to villagers hit by typhoon in the Philippines

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Six years after the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), the people of Tacloban, Philippines, are starting a new life thanks to Development and Peace - Caritas Canada. 

Seminarians attend Mass in 2017 in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mundelein Seminary in Illinois, near Chicago.

Priests who father children need speedy process to leave priesthood, Vatican cardinal says

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VATICAN – When the Vatican Congregation for Clergy developed guidelines a decade ago for handling cases of priests who father children, the first objective was to make it easier for those men to leave the priesthood to care for their children and be real dads, said the prefect of the congregation.
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