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Pope Francis meets with Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, wife of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, during a private audience at the Vatican Oct. 10, 2020. The president's wife delivered a letter from the president asking Pope Francis to apologize for the church's role in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Mexican president again asks Pope for apology for 1521 conquest

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MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has asked Pope Francis to apologize for the church's role in the conquest of the Americas. It's the second time he has made such a request of the Pope in less than two years.

People sit outside the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi as they attend the beatification Mass of Carlo Acutis in Assisi, Italy, Oct. 10, 2020. The Mass was held inside the basilica but measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 meant that most of the attendees sat outside.

Beatified teen showed that heaven is ‘attainable goal,’ cardinal says

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ASSISI, Italy - Thousands sang and applauded as Italian teen Carlo Acutis was beatified in a town dear to him and to many Christians around the world: Assisi.

The people of Saskatchewan are going to the polls later this month and Catholics will have a tool to help them choose.

Catholic voters given tools for discernment

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Saskatoon - A Catholic Action campaign examining issues and party platforms from a Catholic social teaching perspective is underway for the Saskatchewan election to be held Oct. 26.

Angie Carboni leads the rosary at the Marian Shrine of Gratitude in Toronto.

Marian shrine draws faithful following

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Every Saturday a group of people gather at the Marian Shrine of Gratitude in northwest Toronto to pray the rosary.

Children tend to the garden at Calgary’s Land of Dreams urban farm.

Urban farm reaps bountiful harvest

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CALGARY - Year two of the Land of Dreams’ 30-acre urban farm in southeast Calgary has brought twice the bounty of the first.

Journalists attend a press conference for the release of Pope Francis’ new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship,” in the synod hall at the Vatican Oct. 4.

Fratelli Tutti: A vision of unity and dignity for all

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In an encyclical that might be characterized as ripped from the headlines, Pope Francis speaks some hard truths to Canadians, to Catholics and to the world.

Peter Jon MItchell, family program director for Cardus.

Child-care policy can’t be one-size-fits-all

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OTTAWA - The federal government’s commitment “to make a significant, long-term, sustained investment to create a Canada-wide early learning and child-care system” sounds good on the surface to a national religion-based think tank, but only if it doesn’t create a onesize- fits-all government-mandated system.

With a second wave of COVID-19 being declared by epidemiologists, churches are being vigilant so as not to bring further restrictions.

Churches grapple with second wave

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Constant vigilance will be the unofficial motto for Catholic Church leadership in Quebec and Ontario for the foreseeable future as epidemiologists have declared the second wave of COVID-19 is underway in Canada’s two most populous provinces.

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director, Alex Schadenberg,

Wife loses her battle to stop husband’s death

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OTTAWA - A Nova Scotia man got what he wanted — a medically assisted death — just one day after his estranged wife lost her bid to block him from using Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) system.

Alex Schadenberg, left, and Winnipeg Archbishop Richard Gagnon.

Assisted-suicide bill re-introduced

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OTTAWA - A bill to make it easier for Canadians to legally kill themselves with a doctor’s aid goes far beyond what a court decision prompting the legislation calls for, say euthanasia opponents.
Journalists attend a press conference for the release of Pope Francis' new encyclical, "Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship," in the synod hall at the Vatican Oct. 4.

Pope’s new encyclical stresses brotherhood and dignity for all

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VATICAN CITY -- Professing faith in God as the creator of all human beings, or even simply recognizing that all people possess an inherent dignity, has concrete consequences for how people should treat one another and make decisions in politics, economics and social life, Pope Francis wrote.

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