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Natasha Tsevende, left, and Sue Devlin of the Kenora Catholic school board’s mental health team with puppets used in Kids in the Know to help students learn safety strategies to prevent abuse.

Abuse awareness program puts Kids in the Know

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With up to one-quarter of youth experiencing sexual victimization by the time they turn 18, the national Kids in the Know program aims to arm students with knowledge and safety strategies to prevent abuse and exploitation.

Audrey Pineau, left, one of St. Anthony’s Parish CWL Council’s longest serving members, with one of its newest members, Joanie Chislett.

Youngest member sees future in CWL

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As the newest and youngest member of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) at St. Anthony’s Parish in Bloomfield, P.E.I., Joanie Chislett hopes to carry the rich legacy of the organization forward to future generations.

Scholarship honours pair who serve

Scholarship honours pair who serve

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Two social workers with Catholic Family Services of Simcoe County are the latest recipients of the annual Fr. Paul Lennon/Doreen Cullen Social Work Scholarship.

The newly-constructed St. Joseph’s Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School is set to welcome students once pandemic restrictions are lifted.

St. Joseph’s reborn at Morrow Park

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Years of construction are finally complete and St. Joseph’s Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School just awaits the lifting of pandemic restrictions to welcome students to their new home.

The Orphan Boys at Mount Cashel, St. Johns, who sowed, reaped and threshed 600 bushels of oats this year at Mount Cashel. - Newfoundland Quarterly, p. 17 (1909)

Archdiocese liable for Mount Cashel settlement

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The Archdiocese of St. John’s is responsible for paying victims of child abuse at the Newfoundland’s infamous Mount Cashel Orphanage.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden addresses the protests at the U.S. Capitol in Washington as the Congress held a joint session to certify the 2020 election results.

Biden poses issues for U.S. bishops

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With five dead, a move for impeachment and FBI agents fanned out across the U.S. to identify and arrest people who violently stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, theologian Massimo Faggioli finds it mystifying that the U.S. bishops are treating a rosary-praying, Mass-going president-elect as their biggest political problem.

Housing is the key to any poverty-reduction plan, and advocates are not seeing that addressed in the recently released Ontario strategy.

Without housing, poverty plan is ‘window dressing’

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Ontario’s plan to help poor people has left a lot of blanks yet to be filled, said the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto.

The Irene Thomas Hospice in Delta, B.C.

End appears near for B.C. hospice

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VANCOUVER -- The Delta Hospice Society has been forced to issue layoff notices to clinical staff at its 10-bed hospice in Delta, B.C., effective Feb. 25, as the B.C. government moves to take over the hospice due to its opposition to on-site euthanasia.

The tower of the Institute for Works of Religion, often referred to as the Vatican bank, is pictured.

Australian agency admits serious error in reporting Vatican bank transfers

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VATICAN CITY -- Australia's financial crime watchdog agency said it over-estimated by the equivalent of more than US$1.5 billion the amount of money transferred from the Vatican to Australia between 2014 and 2020.

Men stand in line near the burned migrant center "Lipa" waiting for food in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dec. 27, 2020. More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in northwestern Bosnia burned down Dec. 23 amid a dispute among Bosnian politicians over where to house them.

Human rights organizations call for solution to Bosnian migrant crisis

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VATICAN CITY -- Human rights organizations have called on the European Union to intervene in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where over 1,000 migrants have been stranded in sub-zero temperatures awaiting relocation after their camp burned down.

Bernardo and Cecilia Farrol at their store, Bernard’s Pilipino Specialities, in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, top. Below is Mrs. Farrol in her nursing graduation photo.

Cecilia Pascual Farrol, a trailblazer in Canada’s Filipino community

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Black and white photos of their beloved “Cely,” smiling confidently, began to play on the screen for friends and family unable to say their final goodbyes in person. So many people tried to log on that the funeral home website crashed before the memorial service resumed online.

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