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Parents demand Waterloo Catholic trustee’s resignation

Parents demand Waterloo Catholic trustee’s resignation

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A parent group is calling for the resignation of a first-term Waterloo Catholic school board trustee because of a Twitter post calling “the white Christian male” the world’s biggest threat.

Spirituality, education and justice have been at the heart of the Loretto Sisters, and can be seen in the schools they founded in Toronto, among them Loretto College where, above, students take part in the Special Olympics.

For 175 years, Loretto Sisters are women of their time

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“Women in time to come will do much,” Mary Ward said 400 years ago, and for 175 years in Toronto, the Loretto Sisters have proved their founder a prophet.

Poetess Jadyn Hardie-Bardy, Olympic champion sprinter Donovan Bailey, YAIJ co-founder Carolyn Tinglin and Halton Catholic trustee Kirsten Kelly at a recent neurodiversity conference for Autism Awareness Month.

Neurodiversity conference grows autism awareness

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For many, April represents a time when plants and flowers start to bud and bloom, but for Carolyn Tinglin and her family, it’s also about growing awareness and support for people with varied abilities.

Rosella Kinoshameg at the Jesuits of Canada 15th annual Jesuit Provincial's Dinner, April 12, 2023, where she received the 2023 Magis Award.

Elder’s sense of ‘greater’ good honoured by Jesuits

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Rosella Kinoshameg means more to the Jesuits of Canada than the Jesuit Fathers can really say. But they said it anyway by giving her the 2023 Magis Award at the 15th annual Jesuit Provincial’s Dinner held April 12, just north of Toronto.

Funds raised at Catholic Missions In Canada’s Tastes of Heaven gala go to fund mission communities like Black Lake, Sask., and Our Lady of the Cape Parish.

Tastes of Heaven fundraiser travels back in time

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Catholic Missions In Canada’s (CMIC) annual Tastes of Heaven Gala on April 27 is set to have a time machine effect in more way than one.

Program allows kids to view international issues through faith lens

Program allows kids to view international issues through faith lens

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A student program by Development and Peace-Caritas Canada is giving young people the opportunity to put their faith into action through the completion of social justice activities in their school community. 

The Catholic Church and its parishes, like much of the world, has long avoided questions surrounding mental health, says Fr. Stephan Kappler president and chief psychologist at Southdown Institute. The Archdiocese of Toronto is opening up the conversation with its inaugural Mental Health Sunday May 7.

Tackling the stigma around mental health

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For the parish that seeks to know, understand and draw a little closer to suffering — the suffering of Christ on the Cross or the suffering of their brothers and sisters — there is a resource hidden in the pews, quietly praying. People who struggle with depression, addiction, anxiety, compulsions and social phobias have suffered, will suffer and know suffering. The mentally ill and those struggling with mental health can teach a parish about suffering.

A woman and her family are taken into custody by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer after walking across the U.S.-Canada border at Roxham Road in Quebec.

Archdiocese of Montreal protests Roxham Road shutdown

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The Archdiocese of Montreal has issued a strong rebuke to the federal government for the March 25 closure of Roxham Road, the most heavily trafficked “irregular” entry point for asylum seekers located on the Quebec-New York border.

A photo that went viral shows Pope Francis in a designer bomber jacket. It was later exposed as fake.

Ethical concerns for an AI world

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A recent photo created by an app showing Pope Francis wearing a designer bomber jacket went viral on social media, fooling millions around the world. 

Israeli medics and police officers check a damaged car at the scene of a shooting attack, in the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 7, 2023. A British-Israeli mother and her two daughters were killed in a drive-by-shooting terrorist attack.

Holy Land spirals into violence amid celebrations of Passover, Easter and Ramadan

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A British-Israeli mother and her two daughters were killed in a drive-by-shooting terrorist attack in the Jordan valley on April 7, during a week that, instead of seeing the holidays of Passover, Easter and Ramadan celebrated in parallel peacefully, spiraled the region into violence.

Members of the Amhara Special Force are pictured in a file photo near the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Two Catholic Relief Service staff members, Chuol Tongyik, a security manager, and Amare Kindeya, a driver, were shot and killed in a CRS vehicle April 9, 2023, in the Amhara region as they were returning to Addis Ababa from an assignment.

Two Catholic Relief Services' workers slain in Ethiopia amid Easter Sunday unrest

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Two Catholic Relief Services staff members were shot and killed Easter Sunday in Ethiopia's Amhara region, according to the U.S. Catholic Church's international aid agency. Details of the murders are still unknown, CRS said April 10, but the incident comes amid several days of unrest and protests in the region after Ethiopia's federal government moved to dissolve paramilitary forces.

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