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Canadians join rush to aid devastated Philippines

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Updated 11/12/13

TORONTO - As pictures and reports of the devastation in Tacloban City, Philippines, reached the world’s newspapers and computer screens Nov. 9, Toronto Filipinos were attending the Saturday 5 p.m. Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church.

Cardinal Bartolucci, former Sistine Chapel Choir director, dies at 96

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VATICAN CITY - Italian Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci, who had devoted most of his priestly life to music and served as director of the Sistine Chapel Choir for more than 40 years, died Nov. 11 at the age of 96.

After cease-fire, Congo's bishops say much work remains before peace

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GOMA, Congo - The Catholic Church rejoiced at the end of a yearlong military campaign in North Kivu by the defeated rebels of the M23 movement, but made it clear that much remains to be done to consolidate that peace.

At Manila air base, distraught family members hope for plane to Leyte

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MANILA, Philippines - The back entry to the grandstand at the Villamor Air Base was teeming with people as the noon sun peaked. It was Nov. 11, three days after Super Typhoon Haiyan pounded the central Philippine islands, leaving a path of overwhelming destruction that emergency and relief workers were hard-pressed to penetrate.

Pope leads prayers, calls for aid for Philippines

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis led prayers for people hit by a deadly typhoon in the Philippines and surrounding region, and asked that concrete aid be sent soon.

Housing-first strategy for homeless extended until 2019

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TORONTO - Experts on homelessness are giving the federal government credit for settling on the right approach to helping some of the most vulnerable people in Canada.

Chaplains’ service extends beyond frontlines

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When Lt. Col. Sylvain Maurais, a Catholic lay chaplain with the Canadian Armed Forces, was in the Afghanistan war zone he felt no fear because “it is what we are called to do.”

Loyola case a battle over religious freedom

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TORONTO - Loyola High School isn’t going to the Supreme Court of Canada just to get a ruling on whether the private school can teach world religions from a Catholic, Jesuit point of view. The real fight is over whether churches, charities and schools across Canada have a right to religious freedom, said Paul Donovan, the Montreal school’s principal

Vatican to put St. Peter's relics on display for first time

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VATICAN CITY - For the first time, the bones traditionally believed to be the relics of St. Peter the Apostle will be on public display for veneration.

Quebec Charter of Values could face federal challenge, SAYS Kenney

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OTTAWA - The federal government will conduct a constitutional analysis on the Charter of Quebec Values that was introduced in the province's National Assembly Nov. 7, says Jason Kenney.