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Federal PC MP Cathay Wagantall.

Clear overreach, says unvaccinated MP ejected from Parliament

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Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall will not be allowed on the grounds of Canada’s Parliament as she has not provided proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

St. Teresa’s Church in the Mundy Pond area of St. John’s, Nfld.

St. John’s parishes are playing a waiting game

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Catholics in Newfoundland are locked into an unsettling waiting game until the middle of the month, awaiting word on whether bids put in for churches by parish groups will be accepted.

Discarded needles and other drug paraphernalia litter the wheelchair access ramp to St. Michael’s Choir School.

Choir school navigates shelter issues

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Efforts to move the Bond Place emergency shelter located roughly 30 metres from the St. Michael’s Choir School — futile so far — have left concerned parent Jennifer Franssen Keenan demoralized and on the verge of despair.

Relatives of churchgoers who were attacked by gunmen during Pentecost Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church, gather as health workers attend to victims brought in by ambulance after the attack in Owo, Nigeria, June 5, 2022. Reports said at least 50 people were killed in the attack.

Nigeria slaughter hits home for African-Canadians

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With 22 dead and about 50 people injured in a Pentecost Sunday massacre in a Catholic church in northwestern Nigeria, African Catholics in Canada are left shaking their heads and praying for peace.

A nurse attends one of the victims of the attack by gunmen during Pentecost Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church in Owo, at the Federal Medical Centre in Owo, Ondo, Nigeria, June 6, 2022. Reports said at least 50 people were killed in the attack.

Bishops lament that Nigerians are not safe anywhere after church attack

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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Condemning the actions of gunmen who attacked a Catholic Church as parishioners gathered for Mass on the feast of Pentecost, Nigeria's Catholic bishops lamented that nowhere is safe in the country after the incident left dozens of people dead.

Fr. Justin Huang blesses a St. Anthony of Padua parishioner. A new initiative is pairing priests in the Archdiocese of Vancouver with women who will be spiritual mothers for them.

Vancouver priests get new ‘spiritual mothers’

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A Maple Ridge, B.C., woman has launched an initiative whose goal is to pair each of the Vancouver archdiocese’s 200-plus priests with a woman who is committed to praying for him every day.

Tyrell Campbell, a 17-year-old hockey player from London, Ont.’s Catholic Central High School. His Diversity in Hockey Guidebook is turning heads in NHL and Hockey Canada circles.

London teen pushes diverse hockey culture

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What began as a class assignment has landed London, Ont., teen Tyrell Campbell a spot on Hockey Canada’s Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group and caught the eye of National Hockey League officials.

Fr. Mark McGuckin performs the marriage ceremony for Danda Santos and Mark Witecki, which took place shortly after Witecki was confirmed at the Easter Vigil at St. Joseph’s Church in Port Moody, B.C.

Wedding follows on heals of confirmation

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In the happy moments following the end of the Easter Vigil service at St. Joseph’s in Port Moody, nine of the 10 men and women who were baptized or confirmed that evening began to leave the sanctuary with family and friends, most heading to a celebratory gathering in the adjoining church hall.

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

Christ’s compassion creates ‘residential school conqueror’

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A life that very easily could have fallen off the rails after a painful experience in Canada’s residential school system was not to be for Bill Adsit.

Archbishop Brian Dunn

Dunn gets long-awaited pallium

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Long delayed by COVID, Halifax-Yarmouth Archbishop Brian Dunn received his pallium from the papal nuncio to Canada, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, on May 31.

The tiny shelters that have been housing homeless on Halifax parish properties have been refitted with air conditioners as the program has been extended into warmer months.

Halifax extends shelter initiative through summer

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With an ever-growing housing crisis in Nova Scotia, the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth has extended its emergency shelter initiative.

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