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Altar wine’s Quebec comeback awaits approval

Altar wine’s Quebec comeback awaits approval

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A new, eco-friendly Mass wine is awaiting approval from the Archdiocese of Montreal to bring a locally-made wine back to the altars of Quebec churches.

Malik Owolabi-Belewu, a graduate of Woodbridge, Ont.’s Holy Cross Catholic Academy’s high-performance athlete program, is now playing soccer professionally in Italy’s Serie B.

High-performance school learns to cope with COVID

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In a year marked by event cancellations, pandemic restrictions hindered competition plans for many high school athletes looking to obtain their diploma while also pursuing athletic ambitions in 2020. 

A sign reads "closed section" at St.-Benoît-Abbé's church in Quebec City Oct. 17, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Quebec government announced Jan. 6 that places of worship will be completely closed from Jan. 9 to Feb. 8, 2021, during the pandemic.

Some provinces close churches to contain pandemic

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Canadian churches faced new restrictions as public health officials tried to contain a post-holiday surge of COVID-19.

The Journey Home Hospice went from four to 10 beds in a renovated and expanded space in Toronto. St. Elizabeth Foundation director Nancy Lefebre cuts the ribbon.

Expanded care on the Journey Home

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The journey home has gotten a little easier for some of Toronto’s 8,500 homeless people in shelters and out on the street any given night.

Contemplative approach recalls early Christian unity

Contemplative approach recalls early Christian unity

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For anyone who has ever thought they might have been happier as a monk or a nun, living the contemplative life, this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is your chance to try it out.

Supporters of President Donald Trump gather in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2021.

Assault on U.S. Capitol shocks the world

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ROME -- The breach of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 sent shock waves around the world.

Rights league defends church rights to manage own affairs

Rights league defends church rights to manage own affairs

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A little legal ecumenism played out on Zoom before the Supreme Court of Canada as the Catholic Civil Rights League, along with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, came to the defence of Canada’s Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop Abune Dimetros.

Churches stand on the hill in Jordan behind the Franciscan Chapel of St. John The Baptist at Qasr al-Yahud, on the West Bank of the Jordan River. The bullet-marked chapel was returned to the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land after being closed by the Israelis in 1967 because of land mines.

Mass is back on the banks of Jordan

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QASR AL-YAHUD, West Bank -- For the first time in 54 years, a Mass will be celebrated Jan. 10, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, at St. John the Baptist Chapel on the banks of the Jordan River.

The view from inside “Fr. Gerard’s COVID Shack” where Fr. Gerard Monaghan presides over Sunday drive-in Masses at St. Faustina Church in Cumberland, Ont.

Drive-in Mass a hit at Ottawa-area parish

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OTTAWA -- In a small parish on the outskirts of the nation’s capital, the new year is starting like 2020 ended — with a close eye on the weather forecast.

People maintain social distancing while attending Mass in the Church of Our Lady of Grace & St. Edward in London Dec. 13, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Early in January, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster welcomed a decision by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to keep churches in England open during the third national lockdown, while Scottish bishops protested having to close theirs again.

In British lockdown, English churches open, Scottish churches closed

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MANCHESTER, England -- An English cardinal spoke of his relief that churches in England will not close during a third national lockdown.

Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, Alberta, meets with parishioners after a Dec. 20, 2020, Mass at Santa Maria Goretti Parish in Edmonton.

Alberta man charged with hate crime for disrupting Mass

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EDMONTON, Alberta -- A 25-year-old Edmonton man was charged with a hate crime after he allegedly disrupted Mass at a church and briefly posted an obscenity-laden video online.

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