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Fr. Vito Marziliano passed away in his parish office Feb. 12. He was 66.

Fr. Vito: big man, bigger smile

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Fr. Vito Marziliano, a big man with a permanent smile who had only friends and no acquaintances, died of a sudden heart attack in his Brampton, Ont., parish office Feb. 12. He was 66 years old.

Vern Stuewe, 90, of Corvallis, Ore., poses for a photo Jan. 21 next to his prototype of a mobile shelter for the homeless. He has spent a year designing the sturdy and inexpensive living quarters.

Oregon inventor, 90, turns his genius to homeless shelters

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- In a sturdy homemade woodshop amid filbert orchards not far from the Willamette River, the gears of 90-year-old Vern Stuewe’s mind crank all day.

A memorial to the 215 children whose bodies were found in Kamloops stands outside the rectory at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica, Toronto.

Dioceses without residential schools step up

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Toronto, Hamilton pledge to pay one-third of healing fund

More potential graves, more Catholic sorrow

More potential graves, more Catholic sorrow

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When ground-penetrating radar revealed 54 possible gravesites near the former St. Phillip’s and Fort Pelly residential schools, the Archdiocese of Regina and the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate had already reached out to the Keeseekoose First Nation to make records available and offer assistance in the search.

A police officer stops Mass at St. Bernadette’s Church in a suburb of Perth, Australia, Feb. 3 to make sure parishioners were wearing protective masks.

Vaccine mandate tensions creep into Church

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A parishioner in Australia captured the moment when police interrupted Mass to demand that five people who were not wearing face masks comply with the law.

Phyllis Googoo is among the 13 Indigenous delegates who will share her story of residential schools with Pope Francis next month.

Survivor has her story to tell Pope Francis

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Phyllis Googoo is ready to share her story with Pope Francis. She’s been wrestling with her memories of Shubenacadie Indian Residential School for more than 60 years.

Victoria Bishop Emeritus Remi De Roo in 2016 at St. Mark’s College, where he spoke about his experiences at the Second Vatican Council.

Bishop De Roo a ‘Council Father’ for a ‘Council Church’

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A tender and fond farewell to Victoria Bishop Emeritus Remi De Roo included “warm greetings of Pope Francis, who joins us in mourning and thanksgiving, and who sends his blessing.”

Dr. Agnes Calliste.

Inequality remains historic reality in Nova Scotia schools

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Though the last segregated schools in Nova Scotia shut their doors in 1983, educational inequalities are still a part of the Black experience in the Maritime province’s schools, says Dr. Barbara Hamilton-Hinch.

Insignificant asteroid still something to ponder, Jesuit says

Insignificant asteroid still something to ponder, Jesuit says

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A rock nearly five billion kilometres from Earth circling the Sun in a long ellipse once every 300 years might not be breaking news, but Jesuit astronomer Fr. Richard Boyle believes it’s worth thinking about.

Felicia Gisondi had a narrow understanding of sexuality when she began university, which, according to Parents As First Educators’ Angela Braun, is not uncommon among youth.

Parents need to discuss sex ‘head on’

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Kids need to be equipped with truth of its sacredness through Catholic lens

Andrew Kaethler, academic dean and and assistant professor of theology at Catholic Pacific College, says it’s important to introduce students “to a tradition in which there is a recognition that there is a good, there is a truth, that there is truth to reality.”

Catholic colleges and cancel culture

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In his annual “state of the world” address to the Vatican diplomatic corps, Pope Francis expressed his deep concern over a phenomenon he believes poses an escalating threat: “cancel culture,” the increasingly prevalent practice of silencing individuals, institutions and even, in the Pope’s estimation, entire cultures that are deemed to hold incorrect or inconvenient views or values.

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