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Archbishop Francis Leo smiles at his installation Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral in March 2023, 18 months before being called to become a cardinal.

Leo's red hat call came out of the blue

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Archbishop of Toronto Francis Leo woke up at 6:20 a.m. on Oct.6 to a text-tone chorus.

Archbishop-elect Francis Leo at his episcopal ordination in Montreal in 2022. Leo has been named the new Archbishop of Toronto.

Toronto’s Archbishop Leo elevated to College of Cardinals

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Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo is among 21 new Cardinals elevated to the College of Cardinals. 

Official Echoes: Palliative Care Stories of Canada graphic as seen on the project's website.

Project 'Echoes' the positive on palliative care

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A new project from the deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research is shining a much-needed light on uplifting palliative care stories across the country.

The official logo of Jubilee Year 2025: 'Pilgrims of Hope'

Jubilee prep well underway, marking year of hope

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Preparations are well underway for Canadian Catholics to join faithful worldwide as "Pilgrims of Hope" for jubilee year 2025.

The Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas hosted a four day workshop “Returning to Spirit – Advancing Reconciliation” in The Pas, Man., last November thanks to funding from the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund.

Reconciliation fund already making a difference

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With over $17.5 million raised in the two-and-a-half years since the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund (IRF) became a registered charity in March 2022, the 73 Canadian Catholic dioceses are poised to exceed the five-year $30-million commitment Canada's Catholic bishops made to the nation's Indigenous peoples.

Students find healing in Listening Circle

Students find healing in Listening Circle

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St. Michael’s College School (SMCS) in Toronto has brought back the Listening Circle initiative, a program implemented last year by a former student looking to ease the burden of grief for himself and his school community. 

Attendees gather for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops plenary meeting, September, 2024.

CCCB renewal plan approved behind closed doors

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Canada’s Catholic bishops spent two full sessions at their recent plenary signing off on a major overhaul of how the national conference of prelates should operate.

Then-Father Brian Boucher is pictured at a court proceeding in this undated photo. A Quebec judge stated that for more than three decades, leaders of the Archdiocese of Montreal failed to properly treat complaints against Boucher. In 2019 Boucher was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault of two boys; he was laicized in 2020.

Exclusive: Sex offender ex-priest in hospital with sick kids

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Former priest and convicted sex offender Brian Boucher has been on a hospital ward with minors present for at least a month, The Catholic Register has learned.

King’s student Braedan Lovie takes in the “photovoice” at the London, Ont., university that gives a voice and face to Yazidi victims of ISIS.

Ten years after ISIS, Yazidis seek healing

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A unique research project out of King’s University College in London, Ont., has given a a face and a voice to Yazidis who settled in Canada, a decade after Islamists attempted to eradicate them from this world.

Parishioners of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse, YK, gather for a special Mass inaugurating the Syro-Malabar rite within Whitehorse, July 22, 2024.

Syro-Malabar rite enriches Yukon

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Sacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse has long stood out in Yukon for being the only traditional, fully-fledged Catholic parish in a territory populated with missionary churches.

Cardinal Thomas Collins

Call it what it is: lethal injection

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“Saddened, but not surprised” is how Cardinal Thomas Collins characterized his reaction to Canada’s now infamous reputation as the world’s fastest-growing euthanasia regime.

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