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Giving Tuesday lives up to name

Giving Tuesday lives up to name

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It’s hard to tell how Giving Tuesday affected donations to Catholic charities in Canada, but ShareLife did see an uptick in donations from an e-mail blast sent to coincide with the annual charitable fundraising day May 5.

Michael Madden, a parishioner at St. Mary Immaculate Church in Elora, Ont., made sure the Easter season was celebrated at church despite the pandemic. He constructed a cross that was erected on the fifth Sunday of Lent and painted purple, then red for Palm Sunday, and finally decorated with flowers for Easter Sunday.

The signs of the cross keep church a welcoming presence

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The doors may be locked at St. Mary Immaculate Church in Elora, Ont., but Christ is still open and welcoming parishioners.

Kathleen and Jesse Leblanc hosted the candlelight vigil from St. Augustine Parish in Dundas, Ont.

Cardinal Collins blesses pro-life movement at virtual candlelight vigil ahead National March for Life

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OTTAWA -- In a country where thousands of babies are aborted each year before they can draw their first breath and euthanasia towards the end of life is now a legally protected aspect of the public health care system, Toronto Archbishop Cardinal Thomas Collins blessed Canadians on the frontline of the pro-life movement during a virtual candlelight vigil on May 13.

Fr. John Mullins maintains a visible presence at Pearson International Airport.

Virus brings troubled times to airport

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It’s not been difficult for Fr. John Mullins to practise social distancing in his ministry at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

Canada’s Indigenous population is especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 crisis, says a statement from the Guadalupe Circle, co-chaired by Archbishop Murray Chatlain, above.

Guadalupe Circle warns of violence risk

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Canada’s bishops and their Indigenous partners in the Guadalupe Circle are calling for “a decarceration plan” — sending inmates home to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 in heavily Indigenous prison populations.

Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm

Sweden’s approach to virus draws criticism from cardinal

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ROME -- Sweden’s high death rate among the elderly raises questions about the government’s effectiveness in combating COVID-19, said the nation’s cardinal.

A person prays at the closed doors of London's Westminster Cathedral on Easter, April 12, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Churches in England and Wales must wait until July before they may reopen under a coronavirus recovery strategy published by the government.

Britain says churches can't open until July; bishops not happy

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MANCHESTER, England -- Churches in England and Wales must wait until July before they may reopen, under a coronavirus recovery strategy published by the government.

St. Leonard's Catholic School in Brampton, ON.

Suspects sought after fire at Catholic school in Brampton

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A weekend fire suspected to have been deliberately set and an accompanying vandalism spree has caused about $8 million in damage to a Brampton Catholic school.

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former apostolic nuncio to the United States, is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo. German bishops have rejected COVID-19 "conspiracy theories" by Archbishop Vigano and Cardinal Gerhard Muller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

German bishops reject COVID-19 'conspiracy theories' by prominent clergy

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BONN, Germany -- Catholic bishops have distanced themselves from a letter in which several prominent Catholic clergy warned there were attempts to use the COVID-19 pandemic to create a "world government beyond all control."

The Israeli settlement Har Homa is seen on the hillside overlooking houses in Bethlehem in the valley in the West Bank, in this Dec. 3, 2019, photo. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Church leaders oppose Israeli plans to annex West Bank

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JERUSALEM -- Moving forward with an Israeli plan to unilaterally annex West Bank land could mean the end to the already languishing Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, said the heads of the Holy Land churches.

Benedict Claridad participated at the Rosary Coast to Coast procession in 2019 when he carried the statue of Our Lady of the Cape.

Teen helps build spiritual bouquet against pandemic

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If there’s strength in numbers, 14-year-old Benedict Joseph Claridad has been building spiritual muscle around the world.

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