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The Archdiocese of Vancouver has established an external office to handle clergy abuse cases.

Counselling offered to Vancouver clergy abuse victims

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VANCOUVER -- The Archdiocese of Vancouver is following through on the first recommendation in last year’s clergy sexual abuse report by establishing an external office to handle clergy sexual abuse complaints.

Left, the cathedral tabernacle from the Cathedral of St. Catharines of Alexandria in St. Catharines, Ont., was found in a canal in Centennial Gardens. The tabernacle was stolen from the cathedral Sept. 8. Parts of the ciborium were recovered the next day, though police are still looking for the thieves.

Empathy arises from tabernacle theft in St. Catharines

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Parishioners of the Cathedral of St. Catharines of Alexandria were given a punch to the gut during morning Mass Sept. 8. 

Canadian bishops attend their 2019 annual plenary meeting in Cornwall, Ontario. This year's assembly will get underway virtually Sept. 21.

COVID-19 hangs over bishops’ plenary

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OTTAWA -- The impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on the Catholic Church in Canada will be a key theme of the first-ever online plenary assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops when the annual meeting gets underway Sept. 21.

Vanessa Lobo and her husband Ray are homeschooling parents and have felt the effects of the pandemic just like parents who send their children to school.

Homeschoolers feeling pandemic pinch

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With schools returning to semi-normal following the pandemic lockdown, traditional homeschooling families say they too are happy to resume teaching their children under some sense of normalcy.

Keith Baybayon.

TCDSB student trustee puts focus on mental health

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Student mental health will be the top priority for 15-year-old Keith Baybayon in his new role as Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) student trustee this fall.

Anne Jamieson, new executive director of the Institute for Catholic Education, leads a professional development session for teachers.

Classroom experience guides Catholic Education leader

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Anne Jamieson’s devotion to her faith and heart for catechesis has taken her on a long, winding road to leadership in the Catholic education community in Ontario.  

Catholic composer David Haas is shown in a concert at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines, in this 2016 photo.

Musical dilemma over abuse claims

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VANCOUVER -- Peter Luongo, a parish music director in Surrey, B.C., is in a quandary.

ShareLife helps agency through COVID crunch

ShareLife helps agency through COVID crunch

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Elizabeth Pierce will celebrate her 25th year with Catholic Family Services of Durham in May 2021. The therapeutic work she and her colleagues do, particularly on behalf of women and children in abusive living situations, remains profoundly affecting.

Deacon Rennie Nahanee ministers in the Archdiocese of Vancouver. Nahanee has recently retired from Vancouver’s First Nations Ministry, though he will continue to lead it on a contract basis.

Walking the path to reconciliation

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VANCOUVER -- For nearly 11 years, Deacon Rennie Nahanee has experienced extreme highs and lows as co-ordinator of First Nations Ministry for the Archdiocese of Vancouver.

Pope Francis.

Season of Creation prompts calls for action

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OTTAWA -- Religious and social justice groups are promising to make environmental justice initiatives the focus of a month-long celebration of creation following a plea by Pope Francis to better protect the environment, respect Indigenous communities around the globe and listen to the concerns of young people.

Engineers have ordered Montreal’s St. Gabriel’s Parish closed due to structural damage to the church’s tower.

Montreal landmark church ordered closed

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MONTREAL -- Structural engineers have ordered one of the oldest churches in Montreal that serves an English-speaking, working-class congregation to close its doors because its central tower could collapse at any time.

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