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A group of six Grade 8 students from Woodstock, Ont., captured top prize in a video contest to extoll the value of Catholic education.

Canadian bishops denounce anti-Semitic talk by SSPX leader

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OTTAWA - Canada’s Catholic bishops have denounced recent statements made in Canada by the Society of St. Pius X superior that “the Jews” are the “enemies of the Church.”

Faith groups throw support behind U.S. gun control efforts

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WASHINGTON - If Vincent DeMarco is right — and he’s got a whole bunch of faith leaders and their organizations lined up to work with him — ending easy access to the kinds of high-power guns used in mass shootings in the United States can be accomplished with a tried-and-true strategy.

Fr. Stocks was chaplain to Toronto's deaf community

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TORONTO - Holy Cross Father Henry Andrew Stocks spoke loud and clear in a language you can’t hear and touched the hearts of deaf Catholics from Bangalore to Toronto.

Special teachers fill special needs

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TORONTO - The rigours of a regular classroom can be too much for some students. They struggle to cope for a variety of reasons, be they social or emotional, mental health or medical needs.

Aboriginal Caucus chair finds vocation in law-making

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Former RCMP officer now tries his hand at law enforcement at the legislative level

Vincentian program targets education

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Ozanam fund hoping that school will help raise people out of poverty

First Nations’ MP seeks to amend Indian Act

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While Idle No More protests and blockades continue sporadically across Canada, the Conservatives’ Aboriginal Caucus chair is busy tackling the outdated Indian Act.

D&P appeals for aid for Syrian refugees

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The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace is funnelling aid to its Caritas partners to respond to frigid winter temperatures in the Mideast that  have hit an estimated two million Syrians displaced by the country's civil war and hundreds of thousands of refugees outside of Syria's borders.

Social networks need more logic, love and less ranting, rage, pope says

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VATICAN CITY - Social media need to promote more logic, kindness and Christian witness than bluster, star-status and division, Pope Benedict XVI said.