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Julia Mozheyko and Sivan Arbel, two Jewish students who designed a Catholic church for their architecture class at Toronto’s Ryerson University.

Young architects explore the sacred, secular

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TORONTO - Those who have come to believe secular universities are phobic about the sacred, allergic to transcendence, divorced from the spiritual, God-free zones have not encountered Ryerson University Associate Professor of Architecture Ed Wojs.

Fr. Alphonse de Valk

Rights league to honour Fr. de Valk

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Updated 05/27/13

TORONTO - The Catholic Civil Rights League has chosen pro-life activist, writer and editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk, CSB, as winner of this year’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is scheduled to open in 2014.

Human rights museum in the wrong, say Ukrainians

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Members of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress are demanding that the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights more fully recognize abuses suffered by Ukrainians in Canada and in the former Soviet Union.

Principal David Hogan and Grade 2 teacher Donna Paterson, along with her student Alex, outside Holy Name Catholic School as they await the school’s May 25 centenary celebration.

100 years of memories at Holy Name

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TORONTO - Ellen McIntrye fell in love with Holy Name Catholic School after she enrolled her daughter for kindergarten there in the 1980s. Today she’s teaching Grade 8 at Holy Name and looking forward to the east-end school’s 100th anniversary.

John Stemberger, an Eagle Scout and founder of OnMyHonor.Net, a coalition opposed to allowing open homosexuality in the Boy Scouts of America, addresses the media May 23 in Grapevine, Texas, after the Scouts voted on allowing openly gay members to join t he Boy Scouts of America May 23 .

U.S. Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay youths to belong to Scout troops

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GRAPEVINE, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America's National Council voted late May 23 to allow openly gay youths admittance as members into the 103-year-old organization, effective Jan. 1, 2014.

The Knights of Malta, a 900- year-old lay Catholic order, is trying to take the heat off Kilis’s municipal hospital by opening up a field hospital in shipping containers nearby.

Knights of Malta open field hospital to aid Syrians

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When bombs fall in the Syrian city of Aleppo, it’s bad news for the municipal hospital in Kilis, Turkey. The Turkish border town of 80,000 has taken in 35,000 Syrian refugees from Syria’s civil war — the majority suffering physical and psychological trauma.

Hayat Shao gives her son Jamil Makhoo, an Iraqi refugee, a hug for the first time in 13 years.

Iraqi family sponsored by Cardinal Collins reunites in Toronto

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TORONTO - Though it took a few hours longer than expected, six members of the Makhoo family — Iraqi refugees sponsored by Toronto's Cardinal Thomas Collins — finally arrived in Canada May 23.

Trustee Garry Tanuan, pictured, moved the motion to ignore the year-old Accepting Schools Act at the May 23 Toronto Catholic District School Board meeting. Trustees with the Toronto Catholic District School Board voted 7-4 against the motion.

Toronto Catholic board rejects ban on GSAs

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TORONTO - An attempt to ban gay-straight alliances in Toronto Catholic schools has failed.

Debris is seen in Im Al-Zinar Church that was damaged during clashes between Syrian rebels and the Syrian regime near Homs.

Arab Knights aid Syrian Christians

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TORONTO - Three years ago, Rami Kaai took his family from Toronto to visit relatives in his Syrian birthplace of Al Hamidiya in the city of Homs.

The first eucharistic prayer is seen on a page from a copy of the new Roman Missal in English published by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In a survey, 59 per cent of responding priests said they disliked the new English translation of the third edition of the Roman Missal.

Majority of U.S. priests dislike new Missal translation, survey finds

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WASHINGTON - A majority of U.S. priests said they dislike the translation of the Roman Missal introduced at Advent 2011, a new survey found.

Destroyed buildings are seen in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria, April 29.

CCC urges Harper to "respond robustly" to Mideast crises

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OTTAWA - Canada's Catholic bishops have joined with leaders from the 23 other members of the Canadian Council of Churches in writing the Prime Minister to express concerns about the "humanitarian tragedy" in Syria and other Mideast issues.

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