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Mark Kartusch, executive director of the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, in the society’s new offices in Scarborough.

The changing world of child welfare

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Mark Kartusch is a 53-year-old suburban dad, overseer of a real estate windfall and the guy entrusted to make sure a Catholic agency serving more than 6,000 vulnerable families has a future despite declining government funding.

Activists claim assisted suicide lacks safeguards

Activists claim assisted suicide lacks safeguards

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As most Canadians support fewer restrictions on assisted suicide, disability activists are worried the current system lacks safeguards.

Coronavirus

Church and school officials keeping close eye on coronavirus

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As the deadly Wuhan coronavirus spread around the world, including two known cases reported in Toronto, Church officials continued to monitor the situation before making any decisions about implementing the types of safety protocols that followed similar outbreaks in the past.

Father Kene Onwukwe, assistant pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Mosman, Australia, poses as he and other men prepare to cut down a tree damaged by a bushfire in Wonboyn Jan. 13, 2020. Father Onwukwe is a chaplain with the army reserve currently working full time alongside soldiers supporting exhausted firefighters in the bushfire relief efforts.

Swapping collars for camo: Priests help fight fires in Australia

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SYDNEY -- Three Sydney priests have swapped clericals for camouflage to join the 3,000 Australian Defence Force reservists providing support to firefighters and communities in the grip of the bushfire crisis.

A medical official takes the body temperature of a man Jan. 27, 2020, at the departure hall of the airport in Changsha, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus. The virus has spread to almost every province in mainland China during Lunar New Year.

Churches outside China take preventative measures as coronavirus spreads

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HONG KONG -- The Chinese respiratory coronavirus has spread to almost every province in mainland China, which extended its Spring Festival holiday by three days to delay travel by up to 500 million people.

Cardinal Thomas Collins preaches at the concluding liturgy for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Toronto.

Christians united in ‘midst of the storm’

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“Simple trust in the provident hand of God,” will be the key to Christian unity, Cardinal Thomas Collins told more than 300 people who gathered for the final liturgy of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Toronto Jan. 26.

Retired NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, 13, were among nine people killed Jan. 26, 2020, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif. The two Catholics are pictured during the WNBA all-star game in Las Vegas July 27, 2019.

Bryant relied on Catholic faith in difficult times

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CALABASAS, Calif. -- As the world mourned the loss of basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others killed in a tragic helicopter crash Jan. 26, many recalled how Bryant gave much credit to his Catholic faith for seeing him through the bad times and strengthening his marriage and family.

Winnipeg Archbishop Richard Gagnon, president of the CCCB.

Lack of Share Lent letter a ‘non-story,’ says CCCB president

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For the first time in a half-century, Development and Peace will appeal for funds during Lent without an explicit letter of support from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

Retired Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha marked 60 years of priesthood with a celebation on Jan. 16. The former archbishop of Lahore became a Canadian citizen in 2016.

After 60 years, zeal for justice remains

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Celebrating 60 years of priesthood, Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, who migrated to Toronto after his retirement in Pakistan, has taken up the cause of supporting persecuted Pakistani Christians who seek asylum in Canada.

The “low ropes” facility at CYO’s Camp Brebéuf in Rockwood, Ont., was one of the projects funded by the Ex Corde Foundation.

Ex Corde Foundation helps fill in funding gap

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The Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) in Hamilton can’t always account at budget time for all its needs, but when some urgent need arises it’s happy there is an organization like the Ex Corde Foundation that can lend a hand.

Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith.

Bishops call for resistance to expanded assisted suicide

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EDMONTON -- The bishops of Alberta and the Northwest Territories are calling on Catholics to mobilize and oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide even as the federal government looks to make it easier to qualify for a medically-induced death.

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