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Pope Francis prepares to sit in one of the eight chairs specially designed for his trip to Canada at his stop in Iqaluit. The chairs were designed and manufactured by Quality and Company from Maple, Ont.

Furniture maker set the table for papal visit

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Though Ontario was not one of the stops on the Pope’s recent visit to Canada, a furniture company from just outside Toronto gave the province a seat at the historic table. 

Flames engulf St. Jean Baptiste Church in Morinville, Alberta, June 30, 2021, in this still image taken form video obtained from social media.

Progress in resurrecting Alberta church

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After over a year of feeling numb from sadness and shock over the fiery destruction of their beloved parish church, parishioners of St. Jean Baptiste in Morinville, Alta., now have their gaze fixed on the future.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet

Pope Francis says not enough evidence to try cardinal for sexual assault

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A preliminary Vatican investigation into allegations against Cardinal Marc Ouellet concluded there was not sufficient evidence to warrant opening up formal proceedings against the cardinal for sexual assault, a Vatican spokesman said.

Derek Jeter, being upended as he turns a double play, above, along with Henry Aaron and Yogi Berra were chosen to the all-time Catholic baseball all-star team in a ballot hosted by Catholic Athletes for Christ.

Batter up: the all-faith all-star team

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Yogi Berra, Gil Hodges, Derek Jeter, Babe Ruth, Whitey Ford and Connie Mack were among the ballplayers Catholic voters chose in online balloting for an all-time Catholic baseball all-star team.

A protester from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, top, is pictured in a file photo outside the British Columbia Supreme Court.

Selling euthanasia as Christian ‘compassion’

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A new pro-euthanasia campaign aimed at persuading Christians that compassion should compel them to support expanded access to “medical assistance in dying (MAiD)” is dangerously misleading, say secular and Catholic experts on the issue.

A scaled-down replica of Our Lady of Lebanon Marian Shrine from Lebanon will be dedicated at Toronto’s Our Lady of Lebanon Church next month.

‘Piece of Lebanon’ graces west end Toronto parish

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A west-end Toronto Maronite parish has a new statue on its property, two years after a previous statue of the Virgin Mary was vandalized.

A demonstrator shouts at police during protests demanding that the government of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry do more to address gang violence, including constant kidnappings, in Port-au-Prince March 29, 2022.

Jesuits wary of religious orders’ call for UN troops in Haiti

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As 20 religious orders resident in Haiti have banded together to beg for international intervention to end chaos and violence rampant in the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti’s Jesuits are standing aside.

Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, centre, and Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Krakow, Poland, attend ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as St. Edith Stein, at the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Aug. 9. Czerny’s grandmother was among those who died at the camp.

Czerny prays for kin killed at Auschwitz

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Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Edith Stein at Auschwitz, Cardinal Michael Czerny also prayed for another victim of the Nazis from the notorious Second World War concentration camp.

Employees start renovation work and picking up debris at Martyr Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox Church in Imbaba, Egypt, Aug. 15, 2022, after a deadly electrical fire broke out during Sunday Mass the previous day.

Catholics express sorrow, offer prayers after Orthodox church fire in Egypt

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Some Catholic leaders have joined the Coptic Orthodox Church in mourning the 41 people -- including 18 children -- who died in a fire in Egypt's capital, Cairo.

Pilgrims hold flags as they participate in a Marian event in the atrium of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, Aug. 13, 2022, after police banned a Catholic procession and pilgrimage in the capital, citing security reasons.

Nicaraguan priest detained, others blocked from Marian celebration

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Three police patrols detained a Nicaraguan priest at his parish Aug. 14, in the latest instance of the government repression of the Catholic Church.

Jesus, played by Frederik Mayet, encounters his mother in a scene in the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany, which is running from May 14 to Oct. 2.

Seeing famous Passion Play brings Gospel to life

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The visitors browse the intricately carved wooden Nativity sets or dive into some mouthwatering creamy Italian ice cream at the Eiscafe Paradiso. Thousands from the world over are descending on this picturesque Alpine village to see the famed Passionsspiele, or Passion Play, held here every decade for nearly 400 years.

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