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Kait Tappenden conducts St. Mary’s College music students, including the “Boomwhackers.”

Boomwhackers help keep the music alive amid pandemic restrictions

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St. Mary’s College in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., is keeping the melodies and harmonies alive, despite pandemic restrictions, with percussion music makers called Boomwhackers. 

Matching Catholic values with investments

Matching Catholic values with investments

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The Global Catholic Climate Movement in Canada has a plan to make Catholic money stand up and speak for the environment, against the climate crisis and in favour of reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples.

At annual Hiroshima Day events in Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square people float lanterns in the reflecting pool and pray for a nuclear-free world. A new survey shows that the vast majority of Canadians want Canada to sign the UN nuclear weapons ban treaty. Many, including Pope Francis, fear that the clock could run out on humanity if there is an accident or weapons are at the disposal of “one person’s madness.” (Photos by Michael Swan) At annual Hiroshima Day events in Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square people float lanterns in the reflecting pool and pray for a nuclear-free world. A new survey shows that the vast majority of Canadians want Canada to sign the UN nuclear weapons ban treaty. Many, including Pope Francis, fear that the clock could run out on humanity if there is an accident or weapons are at the disposal of “one person’s madness.”

Canadians affirm support for UN nuclear weapons ban treaty

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Three-quarters of Canadians say their country should sign the UN nuclear weapons ban treaty even if the United States and NATO oppose it.

Sign sends a message at rally against assisted suicide in 2016 on Parliament Hill.

Canadian bishops decry perilous assisted suicide law

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Canada’s Catholic bishops have issued a forceful condemnation of the country’s new assisted suicide law, saying the possible pressures it will place on Canadians with mental illness or disabilities are “all too real, perilous and potentially destructive.”

Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Bill C-233 against sex-selective abortion before House April 14

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OTTAWA -- Saskatchewan Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall’s private member’s bill to make abortions done on the basis of a baby’s sex illegal in Canada will be up for debate and second reading in the House of Commons April 14.

The Jesuits have been affiliated with the University of Sudbury since 1913.

Laurentian punts its founding federation partners

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As it fights off bankruptcy, Laurentian University has terminated its relationship with its federated universities, including the Jesuit-run Catholic college that helped found the Northern Ontario university.

A new Angus Reid Institute survey shows that Catholics have been missing the Eucharist and parish community as churches have been in lockdown to deal with COVID-19.

Most people of faith in Canada find government worship restrictions harsh

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OTTAWA -- Most Catholics and religious Canadians are trying to maintain a connection to their faith during the ongoing COVID pandemic.

Current Toronto worship restrictions unchanged by Ontario stay-at-home order

Current Toronto worship restrictions unchanged by Ontario stay-at-home order

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Ontario’s stay-at-home order put into effect at 12:01 a.m. today won’t change current restrictions currently in place for worship services in Toronto.

Protesters outside the B.C. Supreme Court with signs demanding church services be allowed.

B.C. government flip-flop on worship restrictions over Easter weekend frustrates faithful

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VANCOUVER -- The 96-hour rollercoaster of emotions for Catholics gearing up for Easter this year ended on a low note.

Flames shoot through the roof of the Catholic Church on St. Theresa Point First Nation on Easter Sunday.

Arson suspected in Manitoba church fire on Easter

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Just hours after Easter Sunday Mass, residents of St. Theresa Point First Nation in Manitoba could only watch and cry as their Catholic church burned to the ground.

Sculptor Timothy Schmalz is working on the clay model that will eventually replace the statues that were vandalized at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Sudbury, Ont.

Schmalz to replace decapitated Stations of the Cross statues in Sudbury

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Renowned Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz has been tasked with recreating the clay statues decapitated last May at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Sudbury, Ont.

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