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St. Michael’s College president David Sylvester says a Catholic education goes beyond the classroom.

‘Community is our bread and butter’

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St. Michael’s College president and vice-chancellor David Sylvester lives and dies by the credo of Catholic education — education of the whole person in the context of a faithful learning community.

Salvadoran Col. Inocente Orlando Montano is pictured during a 2000 news conference denying involvement in the 1989 deaths of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter.

Ex-Salvadoran officer says witnesses lied in his trial for Jesuits' murders

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MEXICO CITY -- Inocente Orlando Montano, the former Salvadoran army colonel accused of participating in "the decision, design or execution of the killings" of six Jesuits in 1989, testified in his Spanish trial that no order was ever given to eliminate the priests.

Charities need a lifeline to survive crisis

Charities need a lifeline to survive crisis

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OTTAWA -- With the federal government facing an increasing deficit piled up by spending on COVID-19 relief measures, a Christian think tank says Ottawa must do more to help charities survive the effects of the pandemic.

Australian Cardinal George Pell leaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court in 2017.

Cardinal Pell on prison experience: "I knew the Lord was with me"

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Australian Cardinal George Pell, 79, a former senior adviser to Pope Francis, has broken his silence two months after the country's High Court overturned his conviction for sexual abuse of two teens.

A statue of Mary lifting Jesus off the cross was one of two statues vandalized at St. Patrick’s Parish.

Statues vandalized at Markham parish

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York Regional Police are investigating an act of vandalism to statues outside of St. Patrick’s Parish in Markham, Ont.

Internally displaced Syrian children walk together at a camp near the Turkish border in Atmeh, Syria. Syrian refugees have been the greatest recipient of Canada’s refugee program in the last five years, with two-thirds ending up in the privately-sponsored refugee program.

Crisis could bring spike in refugee backlog

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COVID-19 has almost completely choked off the flow of refugees to Canada, which has refugee sponsors worried about the backlog building up as they wait for travel restrictions to ease so they can start again helping new arrivals ease into jobs, apartments and communities.

Salvadoran Gen. Rene Emilio Ponce, right, and his colleagues, Colonels Francisco Elena Fuentes, left, and Inocente Orlando Montano, center, are pictured in a 2000 photo during a news conference denying involvement in the 1989 deaths of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter.

Campaigns to discredit church preceded '89 Jesuit murders, witness says

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MEXICO CITY -- An expert witness has testified that the slayings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989 was "premeditated" and preceded by campaigns to discredit the Catholic Church and the Society of Jesus.

Workers remove scaffolding from the remains of the roof of the damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris July 14, 2020, after the historic cathedral was partially destroyed in a 2019 fire. A new study has found that the amount of lead that settled to the ground and likely seeped into houses downwind of the fire was far greater than officials indicated at the time.

Lead poisoning from Notre Dame fire worse than first thought

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LIMA, Peru -- When the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris went up in flames in April 2019, images were made even more dramatic by thick smoke tinged with yellow as the 460 tons of lead on the roof and spire melted.

A statue of Mary defaced July 10, 2020, is seen on the grounds of Cathedral Prep School and Seminary in the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y. In the Los Angeles Archdiocese, Catholics said they are worried a July 11 fire that ravaged a historic mission church there and is still under investigation could be part of attacks on the Catholic Church, like the vandalization of statues.

Statues of Mary vandalized in weekend of Catholic church attacks

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Boston police are investigating an arson attack on a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary Saturday night, the second attack in the U.S. on a statue of the Virgin Mary in two days, and during the same weekend in which two Catholic church fires are being investigated for arson.

The Atomic Bomb Dome is seen in Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 2019.

Bishops renew nuclear disarmament call as 1945 bombing anniversary nears

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WASHINGTON -- Members of a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committee renewed a long-standing call for nuclear disarmament as the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of two Japanese cities neared.

Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel, Calif., caught fire before sunrise July 11, 2020.

Fire ravages historic California mission, but community vows to rebuild

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LOS ANGELES -- The fire that ravaged Mission San Gabriel Arcangel church in the predawn hours of July 11 left behind a haunting scene.

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