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Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, apostolic nuncio to Ukraine, elevates the Eucharist in the kitchen at the apostolic nunciature in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this recent photo. During the war, Kulbokas has been celebrating Mass in the kitchen because it’s a well-protected area.

Ukraine at ‘epicentre of spiritual challenge’

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VATICAN CITY -- The Russian invasion of Ukraine is not just a tragic conflict between two nations, but the centre of a spiritual battle wrought by the forces of evil that have pitted brother against brother, said the apostolic nuncio to Ukraine.

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

Oblates to open more residential school records

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As three separate Indigenous delegations head to Rome for meetings with Pope Francis on March 28, March 31 and April 1, Canada’s Oblate Fathers have announced a deal with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to make more residential school records available, including material that may be archived in Rome and Paris.

Calgary bells ring out for peace in Ukraine

Calgary bells ring out for peace in Ukraine

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Church bells rang out across Calgary at noon March 18 to show solidarity and support for the people of Ukraine who have been suffering through the brutal Russian military invasion of their country.

Brett Powell, Jeff Cavins and God Squad Canada founder Sean Flynn.

God Squad ushering in a new springtime

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Sean Lynn said he did not have a clear idea of how many men would attend God Squad Canada’s 25th anniversary conference in Calgary on March 18-19. But whatever the turnout, the founder of this organization is just happy to return to face-to-face fellowship for the first time since 2019.

Ukrainian students Arthur Shtoiko, left, and Arthur Ivov take in the Crossings Toronto exhibit, all the while bearing their own crosses for their homeland immensed in war.

Young Ukrainians have cross to bear

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The Way of the Cross can be and has been explained in many ways, but before the theorizing, theologizing and prayers there is fear and there is pain.

Elder John Robinson performs a smudging ceremony at Toronto’s Native People’s Mission at St. Ann’s Church.

Reconciliation begins with listening

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Without grassroots Catholics, Indigenous-Church relations won’t move forward

Ukrainian refugees are pictured in a supermarket that was turned into a refugee center in Korczowa, Poland, March 8, 2022. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, visited refugees in the center.

Angel Foundation steps up for war refugees

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To meet the anticipated needs of the expected influx of refugee children fleeing Ukraine, the Toronto Catholic District School Board’s Angel Foundation, Loretto Fund plans to increase its annual budget from $5,000 to $50,000.

A boy in Seattle holds a sign during a “Kids vs. Racism” rally in March 2021.

Guiding the discomfiting racism conversation

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Talking about racism can be uncomfortable for some but a new resource aims to help churches navigate those difficult discussions.

People hold a banner with a picture of French Fr. Jacques Hamel after a July 27, 2016, Mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The banner reads, “Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” On March 9, a French court sentenced four men in connection with the priest’s murder.

Four sentenced in 2016 killing of French priest

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A Paris court sentenced four men in connection with the 2016 killing of Fr. Jacques Hamel, giving them sentences ranging from eight years to life in prison.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk to place flowers at a monument on National Unity Day in Red Square in Moscow in this Nov. 4, 2015, file photo. A group of Orthodox theologians has issued a statement condemning Patriarch Kirill’s support of the war in Ukraine.

Churches find common cause in Ukraine

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Ukraine’s Catholic and Orthodox churches are united in common cause for the most part and standing in solidarity with victims of Russia’s attack on their country, says Canada’s former Ambassador for International Religious Freedom.

Pro-life advocates pray near the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Nov. 1, 2021, during oral arguments in a challenge to a Texas law that bans abortion after six weeks. The high court sent the law back to the Texas Supreme Court, which ruled March 11, 2022, that abortion providers cannot challenge the state over enforcement of a law that allows private citizens to sue providers.

Texas Supreme Court rules against challenge to abortion law

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WASHINGTON -- In a March 11 ruling, the Texas Supreme Court ended a challenge by abortion clinics to a state law that bans most abortions in Texas.

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