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Fr. Nilo Macapinlac (left) and other devotees of the Black Nazarene statue currently at Sacred Heart parish in Wetaskiwin, Alta.

Black Nazarene a ‘gold mine of spiritual treasures’

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WETASKIWIN, ALTA. - Eddie Año’s eyes brim with tears as he recounts taking part in the annual procession of Señor Nazareno in the heart of Manila.

This refugee family from Aleppo, Syria, which did not wish to have its name published, is among the 25,000 refugees welcomed to Canada. As Catholics, we welcome the stranger, says Bishop Douglas Crosby.

‘Why do you look for the living among the dead?’

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Editor’s note: the following is the Easter message released by Bishop Douglas Crosby, O.M.I., president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

As Syrian refugees begin to settle into their new reality of life in Canada, stories of their journeys to this new land all have similar themes. Feeling under siege and faced with an uncertain future in the midst of war, many people were compelled to flee their land, their homes, their work, their education and all that seemed familiar in order to find new life.

Pope Francis blesses a smaller sculpture of Homeless Jesus created by Timothy Schmalz in 2013. The life-sized sculpture has found another home on the steps of the papal charities.

Homeless Jesus finds a new home at the Vatican

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Homeless Jesus has found another home, this time in the Vatican.

Cardinal Peter Turkson was in Toronto March 21 to deliver the 2016 John M. Kelly Lecture at the University of St. Michael’s College.

Progress is not always a good thing, says cardinal

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TORONTO - We have the technology to extend life beyond its natural limits, so why not apply our technological resources to end a life when natural death eludes us? Why not take full responsibility for the control humans already exercise over life?

The mandate of Andrew Bennett and the Office of Religious Freedom will come to an end at the end of the month. The Liberal government has refused to extend its mandate.

Canada's Office of Religious Freedom mandate comes to an end

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OTTAWA - The Liberal government kicked off Holy Week on March 21 by giving the boot to the Office of Religious Freedom.

Catholic thought mixed on political wisdom of deficit spending

Catholic thought mixed on political wisdom of deficit spending

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OTTAWA - As Canada enters a new round of large budget deficits and rising federal debt, Catholic social teaching provides no straightforward answers on the wisdom of deficit economics.

The tabernacle at Toronto’s St. Joan of Arc Church is a classic example of modernist architecture that was a staple of churches built from around 1955-77. It’s not a style that we see in new churches any more.

Modernist churches a thing of the past

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TORONTO - There are a lot of very traditional Catholics who would have trouble explaining what a baldaccino is. Even the select few who know might have trouble identifying the hexagonal baldaccino above the altar in St. Joan of Arc on Bloor Street West.

Fr. Thomas Rosica preaches the National Catholic Broadcasting Council’s Lenten mission to students at Toronto’s Loretto Abbey.

Pope Francis exemplifies to Catholics mercy in action

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TORONTO - As Catholics worldwide prepare to celebrate Easter, Fr. Thomas Rosica is challenging them to extend mercy to the marginalized.

Syriac Catholic Bishop Paulos Antoine Nassif poses for a photograph Jan. 26 at the Syriac Catholic Archbishopric in Beirut. Nassif, ordained Jan. 23, will lead the first apostolic exarchate for Syriac Catholics living in Canada, with the jurisdiction based in Montreal and Laval, Que.

New Syriac bishop wants to make Canada home for faithful

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MONTREAL - Canada’s first Syriac Catholic bishop says his immediate challenge is to minister to refugees from the Middle East and at the same time move forward with plans for evangelization in his vast new Canadian diocese as he prepares for the demands of the Easter season.

Justice Murray Sinclair

TRC chair Justice Murray Sinclair named to the Senate

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OTTAWA - Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), is among seven people Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recommended be appointed to the Senate March 18.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks urged religious people not to allow the debate about religion and violence to be dominated by people who don’t understand religion March 15.

More protection needed for religious freedom, says Rabbi Sacks

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The Jewish argument for freedom of religion is embedded in the Old Testament, the former chief rabbi of Britain told an enthralled audience at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio March 15.

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