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Shelters step up efforts for vulnerable

Shelters step up efforts for vulnerable

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Society’s most vulnerable are often lost in the shuffle at the best of times, but with the world being blindsided by COVID-19 those operating programs for the homeless and marginalized are working to ensure these people are not forgotten.

Cardinal Collins celebrates Mass for Daily TV Mass at the Loretto Abbey chapel in Toronto.

Mass continues online and on TV

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Church doors may be closed and the opportunity for a communal celebration of the Eucharist have ceased for the time being, but the Mass will go on, said Cardinal Thomas Collins.

Daily TV Mass is filmed at Loretto Abbey in Toronto and is available through various channels, including its website.

People turning to Mass in digital world

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A health crisis is not how Deacon Mike Walsh envisioned attracting more eyeballs to the Daily TV Mass, but that’s what is happening to a ministry that serves people who are unable to attend Mass at a church.

Philip Horgan, an Ontario-based lawyer.

Everyone must do their part, says civil rights league

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OTTAWA -- As communities rally to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the president of the Catholic Civil Rights League said any concerns that government-mandated church closures infringe on religious freedom rights are unwarranted.

All public celebrations have been cancelled across the Archdiocese of Toronto on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Archdiocese of Toronto cancels all public Masses

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Canada's largest diocese has implemented sweeping new cancellations and suspensions after a state of emergency was declared in Ontario due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Churches remain open for prayer, but Sunday Masses have been put on hold across much of Canada.

Faith communities join the fight against COVID-19

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Faith communities across Canada are answering a call to make sacrifices to their faith practices in the national battle to control the spread of the COVID-19.

Former French priest Bernard Preynat is seen in a Lyon, France, courthouse Jan. 13, 2020. On March 16 he was sentenced to jail for five years for the sexual assaults of Scouts.

Former French priest sentenced for sexual assaults

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LYON, France -- A former French priest was sentenced to jail for five years for sexual assaults against Scouts.

A priest distributes communion at the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame of Quebec in Quebec City. Masses in the province are being cancelled because of the COVID-19 virus.

Quebec bishops' ban now includes funerals and weddings

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MONTREAL -- The bishops of Quebec have taken the unprecedented step of suspending all celebrations and events in churches across the province.

The Pontifical North American College on the Janiculum Hill overlooking St. Peter's Square is seen Aug. 28, 2019.

Amid COVID-19, half of U.S. seminarians in Rome returned home

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ROME -- About half of the U.S. seminarians and priests living at the Pontifical North American College and the Casa Santa Maria in Rome have left the locked-down city, the rector said.

A nun walks next to an empty St. Peter's Square in Rome during the outbreak of coronavirus March 12, 2020.

Italian priests, religious women are among victims of COVID-19

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ROME -- A number of priests and religious women have been among the nearly 2,000 people who have died in Italy because of illness connected with COVID-19.

Kevin Dunn has made several films about euthanasia.

‘Press the pause button,’ filmmaker urges

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Instead of going all in on expanding assisted suicide, Canada should have the full discussion that was promised when legislation was forced upon the country by the Supreme Court five years ago, said filmmaker Kevin Dunn.

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