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Vancouver Police Detective/Constable Marty Cayer before his current assignment with the Youth Investigative Unit. Cayer was ordained a deacon for the Archdiocese of Vancouver in 2021 and currently serves at Christ the Redeemer Parish in West Vancouver. He is combining his two vocations and is now a chaplain with the Vancouver Police Department.

The deacon and his ‘big, blue family’

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Marty Cayer’s business card describes him as Detective/Constable #2023 with the Youth Investigative Unit of the Vancouver Police Department. Since October 2021, however, the 22-year veteran officer has embraced a second vocation he considers even more important: that of a permanent deacon.

Transgender rights supporters protest in favour of Scottish gender reform bill outside Downing Street in London Jan. 17, 2023. A spokesman for Scotland's Catholic Church has welcomed the British government's veto of legislation allowing teenagers to change their sex in legal documentation via a simple self-declaration, and criticized Scottish politicians' "obsession with gender politics."

Scottish church condemns government's 'gender obsession' after rare reform veto

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A spokesman for Scotland's Catholic Church has welcomed the British government's veto of legislation allowing teenagers to change their legally documented sex via a simple self-declaration, and criticized Scottish politicians' "obsession with gender politics."

A woman embraces her daughter during a rally at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia, June 6, 2021.

Saskatoon program lives reconciliation

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Calls to Action 59 and 60 in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada implore Church leaders to collaborate with Indigenous spiritual leaders on curriculum to open the eyes of congregations, theology students and seminarians about the Church role in the legacy of residential schools and the necessity of a Church apology.

The F-35 Lightning II planes arrive at Edwards Air Force Base in California in this May 2010 file photo.

Peace activists decry Canada’s F-35 purchase

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Spending $19 billion now and $70 billion over the next 40 years to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets is not wise, moral or even democratic in the eyes of peace activist and Sister of Service Mary-Ellen Francoeur.

Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick arrives at Dedham District Court in Dedham, Mass., Sept. 3, 2021, after being charged with molesting a 16-year-old boy during a 1974 wedding reception. McCarrick's lawyers argue in a new court filing that the former Catholic archbishop is no longer mentally competent to stand trial.

McCarrick’s lawyers seek to prove disgraced former cardinal not competent to stand tria

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As Theodore McCarrick faces criminal charges for alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy, the disgraced former cardinal's legal defense team is now claiming he is in steep mental and physical decline and therefore not able to stand trial.

Sister André, a French Daughter of Charity who was the world's oldest known person, is pictured in an undated photo. Sister André died Jan. 17, 2023, at age 118 in a nursing home in Toulon, France.

Sister André, oldest known person in world, dies in France at age 118

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Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and the world's oldest known person, died at age 118, a spokesman of the nursing home where she died told AFP agency on Tuesday.

A pro-life sign is displayed during the 2019 annual March for Life rally in Washington Jan. 18, 2019.

Groups unite to breathe life into Montreal campus pro-life

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Post-secondary students from five organizations came together Jan. 14 to give new life to pro-life activity on Montreal university campuses.

Catholic students will continue to be educated using the Fully Alive program online going forward.

Publisher discontinues Fully Alive texts, bishops investigating online options

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Though publisher Pearson Canada Ltd. has stopped printing the textbook and will cease hosting its material online in March, the Fully Alive family life program for Grades 1 through 8 will continue to be taught in Ontario Catholic schools.

Demonstrators march during a protest by the Democratic Republic of Congo's Catholic and Protestant churches, against escalating violence in Kinshasa Dec. 4, 2022. Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, 2023, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as 17 Christians killed in a blast in eastern DRC.

Catholic priest burned to death in Nigeria; other Christians in Congo killed

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Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as 17 Christians killed in a blast in eastern Congo.

Mike Lattanzi and Susan Silveus are leaving this month to work with a Maryknoll mission in Haiti.

Next mission step on life journey — Haiti

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The life journey of Toronto couple Mike Lattanzi and Susan Silveus has been largely defined by 22 years of cross-cultural service experiences in locales such as Cambodia and Jerusalem.

A poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping hangs next to a crucifix on the wall of the house of a Tibetan Catholic on Christmas Eve in Niuren village, in China's Yunnan province, in this Dec. 24, 2018, file photo.

U.S. religious liberty expert 'disappointed' in Vatican-China deal

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The United States' chief advocate for religious freedom expressed his "disappointment" in the Vatican over its provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops in the country.

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