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Artist Steven Knight looks at a selection of the stations of the cross icon set that he has been working to create.

Easter icon gets Christmas makeover

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While the Church is marking Advent and preparing for Christmas, artist Steven Knight is finding himself immersed in work more evocative of Holy Week and Easter, and struggling with the realization that one of his works needed to be completely remade.

Paul Brown (left), society chair of Providence Health Care, and Peter Bull (right), vice-chair of Providence’s board, unveil the new cornerstone for Vancouver’s St. Pau’s Hospital Dec. 6 with Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller.

Cornerstone blessed for new St. Paul’s Hospital

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The enduring legacy of the Sisters of Providence, who founded the original St. Paul’s Hospital in 1894, was front and centre Dec. 6 as Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller blessed the cornerstone for the new St. Paul’s Hospital being built in False Creek Flats.

People walk at the site of a Russian missile strike near St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec. 20, 2024, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine. According to the church's rector, Father Pavlo Vyshkovsky, cited by the Religious Information Service of Ukraine, the windows in the church's towers were blown out and the stained glass windows were shattered.

Kyiv's St. Nicholas Catholic church suffers damage during Russian morning attack

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During a Dec. 20 Russian missile strike on Kyiv, Catholic St. Nicholas church, a significant architectural monument of the Ukrainian capital, suffered damage.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Government implosion almost certain with NDP vowing to bring down Trudeau

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh declared today in a letter shared to social media that he and his party will join Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives and Yves-François Blanchet’s Bloc Québécois in bringing down the Liberal Government with a non-confidence vote.

Family life is one of the cornerstones of Calgary’s diocesan renewal, which Mary Rose Bacani Valenti, here with her husband Richard and daughters, spoke on.

Discipleship, encounter, family life top Calgary agenda

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Offering spiritual nourishment to Calgary Catholics leading up to Christmas was just one of the key aims of the diocesan Advent retreats hosted early in December.

Pope Francis places his hand on his face during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2023.

Israeli minister asks Pope Francis to clarify remarks about genocide claims in Gaza

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Israel's minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism asked Pope Francis to clarify his remarks about the need to investigate whether the current war in Gaza constitutes a genocide.

Pope Francis, accompanied by Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, blesses the mobile hospital Dec. 18, 2024, at the Vatican. On the same day Cardinal Krajewski left for Ukraine, driving the mobile hospital from Rome to Lviv, Ukraine.

Papal charity point man driving to Ukraine for Christmas

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For Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, driving home for Christmas means taking a different route each year. In 2024, he marks his second Christmas in war-torn Ukraine.

Alexandria Hamelin (right) works with one of the 30 volunteers of the Georgian Bay Food Network on Dec. 13 to prepare bags filled with items and ingredients to make a traditional Christmas turkey dinner. ShareLife food security grants are helping this program this Christmas season.

ShareLife grants ease food insecurity

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Thanks to food security grants totalling $750,000 from ShareLife, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto and a generous anonymous donor, 34 food banks or meal programs received a welcome and timely financial boost.

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary to Pope Benedict XVI, is pictured in a 2019 file photo.

Archbishop Gänswein reflects on his new diplomatic role

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Archbishop Georg Gänswein, appointed in June as apostolic nuncio to the Baltic states, has shared his insights on his new diplomatic and pastoral responsibilities. Previously serving as Pope Benedict XVI’s private secretary and later as prefect of the Papal Household, he was sent home to Germany by Pope Francis in June 2023 -- "a decision that had to be digested," he said.

Online harms change overshadowed by Trudeau drama

Online harms change overshadowed by Trudeau drama

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With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau precariously hanging on to power following the Dec. 16 resignation of his formerly trusted lieutenant Chrystia Freeland as Minister of Finance, a growing revolt within the Liberal ranks and calls from Opposition benches for the PM's resignation and an election, there's been no lack of drama on Parliament Hill.

The Good Friday procession through downtown Montreal survived COVID but is at risk unless Premier Francois Legault’s threat to ban public prayer meets public pushback, says Communion and Liberation’s John Zucchi.

'Prayer is not dangerous': Quebec bishop

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Has Quebec Premier François Legault pushed too far with his assertion that public prayer should be banned in the province?

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