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Cardinal Thomas Collins participates in the smudging ceremony at the start of the prayer service at St. Michael’s Cathedral for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: A day of hope and repentance, says Cardinal Collins

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For Canada’s Catholics, the first ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is “a day of penance and a day of hope,” Cardinal Thomas Collins said in a prayer service at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Toronto.

One of two women is caught in action as she splashes orange paint on a Vancouver church. Two women are facing charges. Over the summer, 13 Vancouver churches were vanadlized.

Police charge two in vandalism

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VANCOUVER -- Two women have been charged by Vancouver Police following an investigation into vandalism this summer at St. Jude’s Church in East Vancouver.

Bishop William McGrattan, the newly-elected vice-president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Plenary keeps its focus on uncertain future

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OTTAWA -- The future of the Catholic Church in Canada emerged as a main theme as Canada’s bishops gathered online for the second year in a row for a virtual plenary assembly Sept. 21-24.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, virtually addresses the 76th session of the UN General Assembly Sept. 25.

World leaders must to do more to help the vulnerable, cardinal tells UN

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VATICAN CITY -- World leaders must rely on hope rather than isolation and withdrawal to confront current and future challenges, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.

It was a summer of discontent following the discovery of unmarked graves near former residential schools. There is hope now that the Canadian bishops have apologized for their role in the schools that Pope Francis may come to Canada to apologize on the Church’s behalf.

CCCB remorse sets stage for papal apology

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Graydon Nicholas accepts the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ apology for more than a century of wrongs by Canadian Catholics in residential schools and hopes it will lead to a papal apology on Canadian soil.

People displaced by interethnic violence in Tombura, South Sudan, are pictured in Yambio, South Sudan, Sept. 11, 2021. They took refuge in the home of relatives, where they received material assistance from the local Catholic diocese.

South Sudan church leaders work for peace, but soldiers won't listen

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YAMBIO, South Sudan -- Pope Francis may have kissed the feet of South Sudan's warring political leaders in a dramatic 2019 appeal for peace, but armed conflict continues to cause death and displacement in the world's newest country, pushing Catholic leaders here to plead for the conflict's victims.

Paul Mitchell, right, with his wife Catherine and J.R. Gallarza, whom Mitchell mentored as a youth.

Mitchell founded CYO basketball

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It’s been an emotional time for J.R. Gallarza, an athlete, basketball skills trainer and camp co-ordinator in Brantford, Ont.

Rosalie Hall client Josie, left, with her daughter Cindy, alongside case manager Heather Ramsey.

ShareLife helps Rosalie Hall through pandemic waves

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Reducing service to any significant degree is not an option for Rosalie Hall despite the pandemic threat it has been under with the rest of the world for the past year and a half.

A woman takes a picture of the memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Bishops apologize for residential schools and raise possibility of Pope visit to Canada

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OTTAWA -- Canada’s Catholic bishops have “unequivocally” apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in the residential school system and have raised the possibility of a visit by the Pope to Canada as part of the “healing journey” between Canada’s Indigenous peoples and the Church.

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A health care worker prepares a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Montreal.

Moncton archdiocese won’t require proof of vaccination

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The Archbishop of Moncton has backtracked on his vaccination policy, eliminating the need to for parishioners to provided proof of vaccination for Masses, baptisms and prayer groups.

Activists, many wearing orange shirts, take to the streets of Toronto in June to mark the discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools.

Orange Shirt Day a bridge to reconciliation

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OTTAWA -- A day set aside to remember how Canada’s Indigenous communities suffered under this country’s residential school system will take on added meaning this year when the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Sept. 30 becomes a federal statutory holiday for the first time.

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