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Jaroslav Skira

Dean pitches theology for our times

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The first ever dean of a combined Regis College-University of St. Michael’s graduate faculty of theology is the first Eastern-rite Catholic in charge of theology at either school and the first lay person who does not belong to a religious order to hold the top academic job at the Jesuits’ Regis College.

Development and Peace - Caritas Canada member Emily Briggson, right, joins a protest outside the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention June 13 in Toronto.

Peru’s bishops demand Canadian mining action

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After 14 deaths at one mine with Canadian connections and a pattern of corruption and abuses across the country, Peru’s bishops are asking Canada’s government and its vast mining industry to do something to protect Indigenous people and poor farmers who often suffer when mines move into their neighbourhood.

Deacon Rennie Nahanee holds a traditional Squamish speaking stick with a carved eagle representing a messenger during a presentation at St. Paul's Indian Church in North Vancouver, British Columbia, April 24, 2022. The parish is making a serious effort to integrate the faith with Squamish traditions and symbols.

Elder, deacon works to translate Mass parts for Squamish Nation

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Since language provides the foundation for thoughts and culturally roots people in communities, the death of a language means the death of the unique cultural wisdom that it holds.

Fra’ John T. Dunlap, a Canadian who was named lieutenant of the grand master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, took his solemn oath June 14 in the Church of St. Mary in Rome.

Canadian lawyer sworn in as leader of Knights of Malta

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A Canadian, Fra’ John T. Dunlap, has been sworn in as the new leader of the Knights of Malta.

Migrants from Central and South America exit their raft onto an island in the middle of the Rio Grande near Roma, Texas, June 11.

Americas summit ends with immigration deal

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Twenty countries from the Americas, including Canada, signed a declaration June 10, the last day of the troubled Summit of the Americas, committing to help and protect “all migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons, regardless of their migratory status.”

A vandalized statue of Our Lady of Fatima near the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington is seen Dec. 8, 2021. The statue's nose and hands were cut off and the cross on her crown was broken off. Shrine officials said that around 10:45 p.m. Dec. 5, the perpetrator got to the statue by climbing a locked fence that surrounds a rosary walk and garden that includes the statue.

U.S. bishops decry attacks on pro-life centres

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Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore pleaded for peace in light of recent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centres in the United States.

London Bishop Ronald Fabbro, third from left, presents a $5,000 cheque to restore London’s Fugitive Slave Chapel to steering committee members Christina Lord and Carl Cadogan (to his right) and Tom Peace, chair of the Fanshawe Pioneer Village Board.

Diocese helps preserve London slave chapel

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A fundraising campaign to relocate and restore London’s Fugitive Slave Chapel to Fanshawe Pioneer Village (FPV) has received a boost from the Diocese of London. 

Jada Malott is all smiles as the first free menstrual product dispenser is installed at Windsor, Ont.’s St. Joseph’s Catholic High School.

Student takes menstrual poverty fight national

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Holding her high school’s first free menstrual product dispenser against the washroom wall, period rights activist Jada Malott couldn’t help but get emotional as she watched the facility service person screw in the bolts.

Pope Francis grimaces in pain as he gets up from his chair during the general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this April 20, 2022, file photo. On his doctors' advice because of ongoing problems with his knee, the pope will not travel to Congo and South Sudan in early July, the Vatican announced June 10.

Pope Francis postpones African trip, no word on Canadian journey

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A delay in Pope Francis’ travel plans for South Sudan and Congo because of continuing problems with the Pope’s knee is not slowing down the planning process for his apostolic journey to Canada July 24 to 29.

Indigenous elder John Robinson of Toronto’s Native People’s Mission passed away May 26.

Respected elder passes unexpectedly

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Nobody was expecting Indigenous elder John Robinson to die. “He hadn’t been feeling well for a few days. I finally told him, ‘Enough, you have to go to the hospital,’ ” his grieving daughter Jessica Robinson-Sibbald told The Catholic Register. “He had a massive heart attack at the hospital.”

Pilgrims take to the waters of Lac Ste. Anne west of Edmonton.

Ecological concerns raised on state of Lac Ste. Anne

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Growing up on Lac Ste. Anne in the 1940s and ’50s, Tony Belcourt remembers a rich and wondrous body of water, teeming with life.

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