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Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry, speaks during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, in this June 16, 2022, file photo. She told reporters Dec. 15 that the Vatican had apologized for comments Pope Francis made about Russian minorities being responsible for the worst acts of cruelty in the country's war on Ukraine, the Russian news agency Tass reported.

Russia says Vatican apologized for Pope Francis' remarks

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The Vatican has had diplomatic contact with Russia regarding comments Pope Francis made about Russian minorities being responsible for the worst acts of cruelty in the country's war on Ukraine.

Members of World Wide Fund for Nature protest in Montreal Dec. 7 during COP15, the two-week UN Biodiversity Conference.

Activists urge action to protect biodiversity

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With scientists warning that the loss of nature is accelerating at dangerous speeds, Catholic activists are urging nations at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal to act to protect life on Earth at all levels.

President Joe Biden is seen in Phoenix Dec. 6, 2022.

Court strikes down Biden’s transgender mandate

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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis Dec. 9 permanently blocked a transgender mandate the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had implemented as a revision to the Affordable Care Act.

After COVID-19 wreaking havoc on the past two years’ Christmas services, churches will be wide open again this Christmas.

Christmas Mass out from COVID shadow

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Catholics, young and old, filling the pews with anticipatory energy. Choirs warming hearts and minds with joyful melodies. Parishioners joining together to celebrate Jesus’ birthday.

A man holds a candle during a prayer service for Jesuit Father Stan Swamy in Mumbai, India, July 6, 2021, a day after he died at a hospital while in custody. Catholic activists and priests want the Indian government to "take full responsibility" for the priest's death after findings by U.S.-based digital forensic experts that false evidence was planted on the priest's computer by hacking it.

Hackers planted false files implicating Indian Jesuit who died in prison

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Catholic activists and priests want the Indian government to "take full responsibility" for the custodial death of Jesuit Father Stan Swamy after findings by U.S.-based digital forensic experts that false evidence was planted on the priest's computer.

Quebec provincial flags are displayed outside a building across the street from the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Quebec in Quebec City Oct. 5, 2017.

Two more bishops named in class action against Quebec Archdiocese

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Two more bishops, including one still serving, have been named in a new list of offenders filed in the class action against the Quebec Archdiocese.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet

Cardinal Ouellet announces lawsuit against woman who claimed assault

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Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet has launched a $100,000 defamation suit against a woman who accused him in a civil suit of sexually abusing her, the Associated Press is reporting.

The Vatican is often criticized for not condemning the Russian invasion more forthrightly, but former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Ken Hackett says that’s long been the way of the Vatican. The Vatican “does not want to close the door,” he said.

Diplomacy, Vatican-style: relationships key

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Ken Hackett, former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, said he was advised early on that diplomacy with the Vatican was about relationships, not transactions.

A boy fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sleeps at a train station in Zahony, Hungary. A large number of refugees fleeing the war have made their way to Canada, and in Saskatoon, the local school division has seen a sizable increase to school populations because of Ukrainian refugees.

Saskatoon Catholic schools ‘blessed’ by Ukrainian influx

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After growth stagnation during the COVID-19 pandemic years, Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools enrolment has bounced back and surpassed 20,000 students for the first time this school year.

Dr. Kevin Sclater, a Port Coquitlam, B.C. family physician, has left Crossroads Inlet Centre Hospice because he can’t tolerate that it now offers MAiD.

‘Moral distress’ helped spur doctor’s hospice resignation

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After at least five years of signing petitions and writing about his opposition to doctor-assisted suicide, Port Coquitlam, B.C., family physician Dr. Kevin Sclater finally decided to act.

Beams of light shine through the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Sacred in cyberspace

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In a new media age, sacredness can only be a click away. Or can it?

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