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A boy and his younger brother eat their free meals during a feeding program in late May at a slum area in Manila, Philippines. Pope Francis denounced widespread hunger due to wasted food as a symptom of a "throwaway culture" and called for greater effort to build a worldwide "culture of encounter and solidarity" instead.

Caritas aiming to end global hunger, poverty by 2025

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WASHINGTON - Caritas Internationalis is going big-picture with its first global campaign, aiming to end hunger worldwide by 2025.

Pope Francis is pictured with Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Nov. 19.

Cardinal Muller says Curia reform should stimulate reform of Church

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VATICAN CITY - Throughout history, the Catholic Church has reviewed and reformed its structures to free them from "a worldly mentality and earthly models of the exercise of power," leading to a necessary spiritual renewal, said the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley and president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors warns bishops who do not follow the Vatican-approved child protection norms will face “real consequences.”

Bishops' accountability is key concern for Pope's child protection commission

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VATICAN CITY - Bishops who do not comply with the child protection norms adopted by their bishops' conferences and approved by the Vatican must face real consequences, said Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Pope Francis would like to see free annulments, but marriage tribunals say they actually lose money on annulments.

Marriage tribunals say their work already done at a loss

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Pope Francis is hardly the first Catholic to express dismay over long, expensive, bureaucratic processes laid out for people seeking annulment of a mistaken, failed marriage. But in most of Canada, annulments are available at no cost and canon lawyers from coast to coast have been working on making the process faster and less bureaucratic.

Vlad Mamaradlo, is lay youth minister at St. Joseph the Worker parish in Thornhill, Ont. He’s one of a growing breed of youth ministers throughout the archdiocese.

An evolving youth ministry

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TORONTO - Young people aren’t the future of the Church, says Andrew Santos, they are the present. 

Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe, named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2014 for her work with girls in Uganda, will speak in Toronto Feb. 9.

Sewing hope for Ugandan girls ravaged by war experience

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TORONTO - Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe is determined to teach women how to stitch their lives, torn by war and slavery, back together again.

The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down the Criminal Code provisions against physician assisted suicide.

Government in no rush to act in wake of historic Supreme Court decision

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Despite calls for quick and decisive action from opponents of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized physician-assisted suicide, Justice Minister Peter MacKay said the government has no intention of acting hastily.

Demonstrators shout slogans as they hold placards during a protest outside Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi Feb. 5. Hundreds of Christian protesters clashed with police in India's capital as they tried to press demands for better government protection amid concern about rising intolerance after a series of attacks on churches.

Indian Christians arrested during protest outside New Delhi cathedral

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BANGALORE, India - Church leaders criticized police manhandling of Christians who gathered Feb. 5 at the gate of Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi to protest recent attacks on churches.

Ukrainians walk past symbolic crosses set up by protesters in front of the Russian embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, Feb. 1.

Catholic, Orthodox leaders urge 'unity against aggression' in Ukraine

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WARSAW, Poland - Catholic and Orthodox archbishops in Ukraine appealed for national unity against pro-Russia separatists as calls mounted for the United States to help arm Ukrainian forces.

Br. David Lynch, executive director of the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd. His order has joined the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God to create one order.

Dwindling St. John of God welcomes Good Shepherd to help order stay afloat

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Br. Marcellus Corkery was just getting ready to close up shop in Montreal. The few remaining Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God were elderly and their ministries in health care had all run their course or passed on to lay control.

Fr. Joe Gorman

Popular priest told to "take time away" from duties at Aurora parish

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A popular pastor has been asked to step aside for a "period of reflection" after financial and ecclesiastical "irregularities" were uncovered in a large Archdiocese of Toronto parish.

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