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Video contest gets the word out on the Catholic school experience
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterA 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
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - 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.”
World Interfaith Harmony Week welcomed to Toronto this year
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterWeek promotes tolerance and peace among religions
Faith groups throw support behind U.S. gun control efforts
By Patricia Zapor, Catholic News ServiceWASHINGTON - 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
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - 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
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - 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
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsFormer RCMP officer now tries his hand at law enforcement at the legislative level
Vincentian program targets education
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterOzanam fund hoping that school will help raise people out of poverty
First Nations’ MP seeks to amend Indian Act
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsWhile 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and blockades continue sporadically across Canada, the Conservatives’ Aboriginal Caucus chair is busy tackling the outdated Indian Act.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
By Catholic Register StaffThe 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
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News ServiceVATICAN CITY - Social media need to promote more logic, kindness and Christian witness than bluster, star-status and division, Pope Benedict XVI said.