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Dr. Pierre-Thomas Gagne, centre, medical director of a medical imaging clinic in Quebec City, helps Philippe Roy-Lysencourt, left, prepare a mortuary mask believed to be that of St. Marie of the Incarnation, a 17th-century Canadian religious leader, for a CT scan.

Quebec City historian works to reconstruct the face of a Canadian saint

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QUEBEC CITY -- Philippe Roy-Lysencourt entered the clinic lab carrying a retro-looking cardboard box under his arm as if it were a football.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster is seen in a screen grab talking to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse Nov. 7, 2019. He said the English and Welsh bishops would reject any attempts to compel priests to report Catholics who confess to committing sexual abuse.

Priests would die rather than break seal of confession, says English Cardinal

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MANCHESTER -- Catholic priests would die rather than break the seal of confession to report child abusers to the police, said an English cardinal.

Teresa Lubinski addresses her fellow trustees at the Toronto Catholic District School Board meeting while Ida Li Preti, left, and chair Maria Rizzo look on.

Toronto Catholic board votes to include gender terms

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The controversial gender debate at the Toronto Catholic District School Board came to end in the early morning hours of Nov. 8 with the board voting to include gender terms in its code of conduct.

Dominique Holley is onto her next phase of shining a light on human trafficking.

Bike journey puts a focus on trafficking

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OTTAWA -- To take on the scourge of human trafficking you have to first recognize that it is happening here.

DACA recipients demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Oct. 2, 2019. On Nov. 12, the court will hear arguments in a challenge to the Trump administration's termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The case will affect the lives of more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. as minors without documentation.

Catholic groups align to defend DACA Dreamers

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WASHINGTON -- Catholic leaders joined more than 35 other groups that have filed  briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, known as DACA.

A Yanomami Indian stands near an illegal gold mine during a Brazilian government operation against illegal gold mining on Indigenous land in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

‘Hear the cry of the Earth’

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Canadian Josianne Gauthier is General Secretary of CIDSE, an international network  of Catholic social justice organizations, and was one of the delegates to last month’s Synod on Pan-Amazon Region. Here is what she told the Synod in an address:

People stand atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in this Nov. 10, 1989, file photo. Catholic bishops from the European Union marked 30 years since the breaching of the Berlin Wall with tributes to those who worked for peaceful change, as well as warnings against resurgent "ideologies behind the building of walls."

European bishops mark 30th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall

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BRUSSELS -- Catholic bishops from the European Union marked 30 years since the breaching of the Berlin Wall with tributes to those who worked for peaceful change, as well as warnings against resurgent "ideologies behind the building of walls."

Debbie Frey’s son Dallas uses headphones to help deal with his sensory processing disorder.

Mass … the sensory-friendly way

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It was when she and her husband were leaving a movie theatre that Debbie Frey first came across the concept of a sensory-friendly zone.

A decision will soon need to be made on whether to repair or tear down St. Francis Xavier Church in Attawapiskat in northern Ontario.

Community mourns beloved priest, church

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It has been a tough couple of weeks for the community of Attawapiskat.

Archbishop Murray Chatlain of Keewatin-Le Pas is encouraged by the message the Amazon synod sent to the world and to Indigenous communities in Canada.

Synod gives hope to Canada’s north

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The recent Amazon synod gave voice to Indigenous worldwide and that can only bode well for northern Canadian dioceses with parallel realities, agreed Archbishop Murray Chatlain and Bishop Gary Gordon.

A woman shouts during an anti-government protest in Beirut Nov. 5, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are hitting the streets across the country to demand an end to rampant corruption and poor public services.

Lebanese, protesting in streets, want a changing of the guard

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BEIRUT -- Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are hitting the streets across the country to demand an end to rampant corruption and poor public services. Cutting across sectarian lines, they also want the current government of entrenched politicians dating back to Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war era to step down.

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