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TORONTO - When establishing or editing a personal profile online, consulting your inner Catholic can keep you out of trouble.

A community bands together to support one another and a grieving family

SPRUCEGROVE, ALTA. - For the third straight year, Alexandria Blunt, a Grade 9 student, made the trip from Sherwood Park to the youth rally at Holy Trinity Church in Spruce Grove/Stony Plain.

App takes cues from Facebook and Twitter

The “Pope App,” released on Jan. 23 for iPhone and iPad, turned my skepticism into genuine surprise. The app’s features are intriguing and work seamlessly. My iPhone’s memory space is almost at full capacity, but here’s why the Pope App is staying on my smartphone for the long run.

The safety of free speech on campus has been challenged yet again. The latest confrontation at Carleton University in Ottawa, in which self-described anti-homophobia campaigner Arun Smith vandalized a “free speech wall” in defense of the gay community, has reignited the debate over the morality in censorship.

Vaz, 15, is the second place winner in annual contest for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity sponsored by The Catholic Register and the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement- Graymoor. Vaz is a student at St. Francis Xavier Secondary School in Mississauga, Ont.

Corrie ten Boom once said, “A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.” In the same way, as Christians we need to be cemented together in God’s ever-binding love because without unity, God’s plan for us is like the loose bricks. God’s plan involves the whole community. The big question is, “How do we achieve Christian unity?” The answer to this question can be found when examining the passage in Micah 6:6-8.

TORONTO - Joel George of Francis Libermann Catholic High School in Toronto is the first prize winner in the 12th annual Student Writing Contest for Christian Unity.

Updated 02/14/13

OTTAWA - An end of January deep freeze saw hundreds of people caught out in the cold in Ottawa as temperatures dropped as low as -30C. The downtown Ottawa Mission braced itself for a surge in occupancy as men came in off the streets looking for a hot meal, a warm bed or a few extra layers of clothing.

Think of the most beautiful experiences in life. Holding a newborn baby. Feeling the waves of the ocean crash at your feet. Sunsets. Christmas morning. Cheeks that hurt from smiling. A first kiss.

Editor’s note: This is the winning essay in the annual essay contest for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity sponsored by The Catholic Register and The Franciscan Friars of the Atonement- Graymor. Joel George, a 16-year-old student from Scarborough’s Francis Libermann High School, is this year’s winner.