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Alberta Catholics urged to take part in election

Alberta Catholics urged to take part in election

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Catholics have a moral obligation to get involved in the democratic process, Alberta’s bishops said in a May 16 pastoral letter.

North Shore Pro-Life offers $500 a month for a year to mothers and families who choose life.

Pro-life program helps with challenges of choosing life

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A financial aid program that helps mothers and families make difficult life-affirming decisions is approaching its first anniversary, with organizers saying they want to make it available to more people in need.

Fr. Gerald Mendoza, third from left, with a crew of firefighters outside the Dene Thà Community School in Chateh, Alta. Mendoza is among the more than 3,000 firefighters battling wildfires in Alberta.

Priest on frontlines of Alberta wildfires

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Heavy rainfall throughout the province of Alberta over the May long weekend potentially signaled a hopeful turning point in the effort to quell the 2023 wildfire state of emergency.

A child weeps during a police raid on an embroidery workshop in Bombay, India. While Canada has passed a new law requiring Canadian companies to report on possible forced labour in supply chains, Carl Hetu of Development and Peace-Caritas Canada hesitates to call it a victory “because we don’t go to the root cause.”

Forced labour law doesn’t go far enough

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A new law requiring Canadian companies to report on possible forced labour in their supply chains is not good enough for Development and Peace-Caritas Canada, despite promises from federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan to follow up with a second law banning imports made with child and forced labour.

Catholics lag behind other Christians in owning, reading the Bible, a new study has found.

Catholics not as vested in Bible as other Christians

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Barely half of Canadian Roman Catholics have a Bible at home, and only about a third self-report engaging with Scripture monthly, says a study by Angus Reid and two predominantly non-Catholic institutions.

Liberals should stick to MAiD promise, MP says

Liberals should stick to MAiD promise, MP says

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Conservative MP Ed Fast is looking to stop the intended expansion of Canada’s assisted-suicide regime in its tracks with Bill C-314 and harnessed his argument to Liberal promises when MAiD was first introduced. 

Left, Fr. Kappler. Right, Fr. Machacek.

Hope motivates Southdown

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In the name of mental health and the healing ministry of the Church, the Southdown Institute gathered a bushel or two of its best friends at the Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery in Toronto’s Columbus Centre for its annual fundraising dinner on May 11.

The Pride flag is set to fly over a number of Ontario Catholic school board properties in June and that has raised the ire of numerous parents.

Catholic school boards mull flying the Pride flag

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Will they or won’t they? The York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) is among Ontario Catholic school boards that will decide if the rainbow Pride flag will be hung at its central office and at its schools throughout the month of June in support of the LGBT community.

Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet speaks to reporters at the Vatican Feb. 20, 2023. The cardinal, retired prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery of Bishops, delivered the keynote address at a May 16 symposium on the theology of the priesthood at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

Cardinal Ouellet address examines theology of the priesthood

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The Church needs to find ways to move beyond infighting and drama from the synod on synodality, said Cardinal Marc Ouellet, as he called for a reduction in the "conflicts and power struggles that occupy so much space."

Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo, the new president of Caritas Internationalis, speaks at the Caritas general assembly in Rome May 13, 2023.

Concerns still surround Caritas upon relaunch

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With a new president in place, Caritas Internationalis is out of the Vatican’s penalty box and back on the ice. And for Development and Peace-Caritas Canada executive director Carl Hétu, the relaunch of the world’s second largest humanitarian aid network’s central co-ordinating office in Rome is good news.

Wildfires continue to rage in Alberta.

Wildfires put Alberta parishes on high alert

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So far Catholic parishes in the path of devastating wildfires that have swept across Alberta have only been evacuated as a precaution, with no parishes reporting any damage by mid-month.

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