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Alberta Catholic trustee appeals dismissal

Alberta Catholic trustee appeals dismissal

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An Alberta school trustee who lost her position for an Aug. 27 social media post comparing the LGBT community to Nazi Germany is appealing her dismissal.

Support for pro-life efforts excludes groups from receiving Canada Summer Jobs grants, yet abortion support does not.

Summer job grants flow to abortion groups

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Canada Summer Jobs applicants who fail to toe the federal government’s ideological line on abortion and related issues remain out of the running for grants under the hire-a-student program.

Discipleship Formation Program students in St. Malo, Man., construct a Nativity scene.

Reborn discipleship program aims to grow

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The Catholic School of Evangelization’s (CSE) Discipleship Formation Program (DFP) is experiencing a rebirth in St. Malo, Man.

Sr. Monique Bourget has since her teen years always wished to help the poor. She is doing that now as a doctor in the African nation of Benin, running community health programs.

‘I really wanted to touch poverty’

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A chance meeting with young Guatamalan boy fueled Sr. Bourget’s desire to serve the poor.

Teenage model Annika Van Vliet with father Troy and mother Lisa.

Model more than a smile and pretty face

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Watching Annika Van Vliet sit between her parents in their South Surrey, B.C., home, it’s hard to believe the 15-year-old has walked a fashion runway in Paris and had her photo featured on the billboards of Times Square. 

For 85 years, OAPCE fights for Catholic education rights

For 85 years, OAPCE fights for Catholic education rights

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This year marks the 85th anniversary of the Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE), which will be hosting a conference to mark the occasion.

The exterior of Sacred Heart Parish under construction in Strathmore, Alta. The parish is moving into a refurbished IGA supermarket.

Parish aims to be Strathmore’s ‘beating heart’

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Fr. Cristino Bouvette knew the first guided tour of the future Sacred Heart Parish would be a profoundly stirring experience for his congregation. 

University of Economics and Law students at Viet Nam National University in Ho Chi Minh City. The school has partnered with King’s College University in London, Ont.

King’s finds ‘soulmate’ in Vietnamese school

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King’s University College is hoping the new five-year strategic partnership struck with a prominent Vietnamese university will create a stream of enriching academic opportunities for students and faculty.

Archbishop J. Michael Miller brings prayers to the Catholic Charities Men’s Hostel just before Christmas. “It’s really a beautify ministry that you are carrying out,” he told shelter workers. The 108 beds at the shelter are filled every night of the year.

Homeless find no room at the inn

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For many of the downtrodden who find themselves filling the 108 beds each night at Vancouver’s Catholic Charities Men’s Shelter, it’s a devastating cycle that an ever-worsening economy just won’t let them exit.

Members of the Mission St. Irenaeus parish youth group offer warm beverages to the homeless on Boxing Day, Dec 26, 2023.

Youth group outreach offers warmth and hope to homeless

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A group of Montreal millennials spent Boxing Day skipping post-Christmas binge buying and instead taking water, food and hot coffee to homeless “children of God” in the city’s downtown core. 

Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller offers a blessing at Holy Rosary Cathedral. On Monday, the Vatican released the declaration Fiducia Supplicans on the pastoral meaning of blessings.

Same-sex blessings are about welcoming, not changing Church teaching, Canadian bishops say

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The Archdiocese of Vancouver is considering how the Pope’s declaration on the blessing of irregular unions can contribute to making the Church in Vancouver “an ever more welcoming community,” says Archbishop J. Michael Miller.

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