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There has been an uptick in candidates running in Ontario municipal elections for school trustee positions to oversee the Catholic education system this year.

Out of pandemic, interest high in Catholic school trustees’ role

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With candidates in full campaign mode for upcoming municipal elections across Ontario next month, there appears to be a re-invigorated interest in Catholic school board trustee positions.

Annie Sanderson comforts her granddaughter Sept. 5, 2022, after a stabbing spree left at least 11 people in the James Smith First Nation and in the nearby town of Weldon, Saskatchewan.

Catholic aid supports grieving community

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Attuned to Saskatchewan Catholics’ desire to offer comfort and friendship to James Smith Cree Nation in the aftermath of the heart-breaking stabbing spree on Sept. 4, religious leaders sought to identify potential pathways of support.

As Parliament resumes this week, Conservatives have vowed to stand up for pregnancy centres threatened with the loss of charitable status.

Pregnancy centres under legislative threat

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A bullet point on page four of the Liberal Party of Canada’s 2021 election platform “Forward. For Everyone.” conveyed the party’s intention to strip pro-life non-profits of their charity status.

Pope Francis is welcomed by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as he arrives at the international airport in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Sept. 13, 2022. The pope is attending the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Nur-Sultan.

Arriving in Kazakhstan, Pope Francis makes case for peace

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Arriving in Kazakhstan, a country that borders Russia, Pope Francis said he came as a "pilgrim of peace" at a time when "our world urgently needs peace; it needs to recover harmony."

Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics and the lay co-president of the Synodal Path, and Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops' conference, attend the fourth synodal assembly in Frankfurt Sept. 8, 2022.

Germany's fourth synodal assembly ends with proposals for reforms

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The fourth plenary assembly of the Synodal Path in Frankfurt ended Sept. 10 with a series of far-reaching reform resolutions.

Catholic school boards hope return to normal school activities will help improve overall wellbeing of students among other supports.

Schools counter COVID mental health impacts

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In mid-August, Lifeworks, a human resources and technology company focused on developing positive wellbeing solutions, revealed in its monthly Mental Health Index that 56 per cent of Canadians notice their children are still being harmed by the COVID-19 epidemic.

Cecil Chabot, left and Danielle Morin are leading efforts to launch a Canadian arm of Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice.

Putting a CAPP on rising polarization

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Canadians are getting in on a 30-year-old Vatican project to recast our thinking, our politics and our way of life. On a Sept. 17 Zoom call, a small group will launch the Canadian chapter of Centesimus Annus-Pro Pontifice, a lay-led organization created by St. Pope John Paul II in the Vatican.

Following the historic papal visit, Canadian bishops hope to collaborate with the federal government’s National Council for Reconciliation to respond to Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.

Canada’s bishops eager to engage Reconciliation Council

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Canada’s bishops want to engage with a new National Council for Reconciliation that Ottawa lawmakers plan to set up this fall.

Joe Ybarra of Indianapolis spent more than a year fighting wildfires in Idaho and Nevada, a time when he relied on his faith in God and the power of the rosary to protect him.

Rosary helps firefighter battle mountainside blaze

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Joe Ybarra reached for his rosary as the wildfire raged across the Idaho mountainside, threatening his life and the lives of seven other U.S. Forest Service firefighters.

Sr. Ellen Leonard

Sr. Ellen Leonard saw new ways of Catholic understanding

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Sr. Ellen Leonard was never satisfied doing the easy stuff. She was one of the first women to do a PhD in systematic theology, one of the first to teach theology to graduate students and she never shied away from controversies over feminist and ecological issues in the Church.

A new statue of St. Francis Xavier welcomes parishioners back to church after three years of pandemic and renovations.

Statue embodies vitality of small town faith

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A striking bronze statue commemorating St. Francis Xavier has been placed on a plinth in front of St. Francis Xavier Church in Tottenham, Ont., signalling post-COVID re-opening to faith.

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