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Staring down the barrel of a $5 million deficit, Development and Peace is laying off its 70 employees for eight weeks over the summer while management takes unpaid leaves of absence or reduces their working hours to two or three days a week.
Jesuits open doors to homeless in quarantine
Homeless people waiting to learn whether they might have contracted COVID-19 are living in the Jesuit retreat house in Guelph.
Planet’s ‘urgent’ cry rings loud and clear
It is not wrong to say that Laudato Si’ is an encyclical about ecology or climate change. But nobody gets full marks for that answer.
Will a COVID-19 vaccine be linked to aborted fetus?
A coalition of Catholic bioethical groups is urging the Canadian government to invest in COVID-19 vaccine research that doesn’t use cells derived from electively aborted fetuses.
Fr. Larisey mixed love of art with faith
When Jesuit Fr. Peter Larisey was 63 years old, a full professor at Regis College and on the edge of publishing a major book in 1993 that would be considered for the Governor General’s Award, he moved into a beat-up semi-detached house in east Toronto with a bunch of people in their 20s.
Guadalupe Circle warns of violence risk
Canada’s bishops and their Indigenous partners in the Guadalupe Circle are calling for “a decarceration plan” — sending inmates home to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 in heavily Indigenous prison populations.
Teen helps build spiritual bouquet against pandemic
If there’s strength in numbers, 14-year-old Benedict Joseph Claridad has been building spiritual muscle around the world.
Silent Voice a hub for deaf community
A modest Catholic agency that serves the deaf and their families has landed at the centre of efforts to keep deaf people across Canada informed and connected during the COVID-19 crisis.
CNEWA tackling new enemy
If the Church isn’t there for displaced and refugee Christians in the Middle East, nobody else is going to protect these impoverished and persecuted minorities from COVID-19.
Don’t judge Pius XII yet, expert warns
One document uncovered during one week of research isn’t enough to draw new or final conclusions about Pope Pius XII’s guilt or innocence regarding the Holocaust, warns Canada’s leading expert on the wartime pope.