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ShareLife campaign rolling but support still vital

ShareLife campaign rolling but support still vital

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ShareLife is on pace to at least match last year’s record campaign.

People in Havana shout slogans against the government July 11, 2021, after thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest a lack of food and medicine as the country was undergoing a grave economic crisis. The protests were quickly shut down. Cuban ex-pats in Canada have condemned Pope Francis, right, for not rebuking Cuban authorities for cracking down on the protests.

Ex-pats critical of Pope Francis' silence on Cuba

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Edmonton-based Cuban Catholics Eickerman Campos and Yanet Rodriguez Herrero said the people of their birth country and fellow emigrants residing in a new homeland are feeling largely disregarded by the global community a year after protests raged in Cuba against the communist authorities. 

Indigenous delgation at an audience with Pope Francis in Rome from Salt + Light's 'Walking Together' documentary.

Salt + Light doc captures spirit of Indigenous visit to Rome

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Teeing up the historic Papal Visit to Canada from July 24-29, Salt and Light Media Foundation unveiled a 59-minute documentary entitled Walking Together on July 17, chronicling the landmark meetings hosted at the Vatican between Pope Francis and representatives of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples in March and April.

A woman takes a picture of the memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School June 6, 2021.

Oblates widen access to personnel files

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Ahead of Pope Francis’ journey to Canada, the Oblate Fathers have retired their longstanding practice of keeping personnel files secret until 50 years after the death of an Oblate Father or Brother.

The Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist will remain a place of worship while a number of St. John’s churches will end up in private hands after being sold to compensate abuse victims.

Court approves sale of St. John’s properties

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The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador has ratified the sale of 43 properties owned by the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John’s, including 12 parish churches, with dozens more looming.

A teepee stands in the graveyard in the Cowessess First Nation near Grayson, Sask.

Reconciliation fund approves first project

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Nine months after Canada’s Catholic bishops committed to it, the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund is up and running.

Pope Francis greets crowds from the popemobile at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, 2015.

Donors helping cover papal visit costs

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The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has turned to a wide variety of donors to help it with the $15-million cost for hosting Pope Francis in Canada.

A woman prays during a Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua Nov. 21, 2019. Catholics in Nicaragua are calling for the release of two priests detained over the past two months in as a campaign of arbitrary arrests and church repression continues in the Central American country.

Parishioners protest arrest of second priest in two months in Nicaragua

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Catholics in Nicaragua are calling for the release of two priests detained over the past two months as a campaign of arbitrary arrests and church repression continues in the Central American country.

Rita Means, tribal council representative with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, holds a smoking bowl during a smudge ceremony at the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina in Rome in this Oct. 18, 2019, file photo. A Canadian priest helping prepare for Pope Francis' visit to Canada said gestures such as the smudge ceremony or facing the four directions to pray show sensitivity to Indigenous culture and are not contrary to the Catholic faith.

Indigenous priest shares practices that will be part of Pope Francis' Canada trip

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When Pope Francis travels to Canada to apologize to Indigenous communities for the way the Catholic Church joined efforts to uproot them from their traditional culture and spirituality, their traditions will be on full display.

People watch as the completed Craigyhill bonfire burns on the '11th night' to usher in the 12th of July celebrations in Larne, Northern Ireland, July 11, 2022. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it is investigating a possible crime after an image of Pope Francis was burned in another bonfire in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Police in Northern Ireland investigate burning of Pope Francis image

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The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it is investigating a possible crime after an image of Pope Francis was burned in a bonfire.

Pope Francis greets crowds from the popemobile at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, 2015.

Papal Mass tickets pulled from resale site

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Scalpers have pounced on the potential of Pope Francis’ visit to Canada, but at least one ticket reseller has just said no.

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