The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:05:51 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Good Shepherd pivot allows it to continue feeding the poor during pandemic restrictions /item/32977-good-shepherd-pivot-allows-it-to-continue-feeding-the-poor-during-pandemic-restrictions /item/32977-good-shepherd-pivot-allows-it-to-continue-feeding-the-poor-during-pandemic-restrictions

Two sandwiches, a fruit bar, three granola bars, one chocolate bar, maybe a muffin or some other baked treat and a fruit cup all in a brown, paper bag — times 200,000.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:00:00 -0400
A look inside the little-known 'spoon trail' of soup kitchens in Santiago de Chile /home/international/item/24009-a-look-inside-the-little-known-spoon-trail-of-santiago-de-chile /home/international/item/24009-a-look-inside-the-little-known-spoon-trail-of-santiago-de-chile

SANTIAGO, Chile – Dawn breaks in the city of Santiago de Chile. Amid the hustle and bustle of the waking city, a narrow wooden door welcomes in the “dear brothers of the street,” as they are affectionately called.

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International Sat, 07 Jan 2017 05:57:00 -0500
Church mourns loss of ‘a simple priest’ /item/20081-church-mourns-loss-of-a-simple-priest /item/20081-church-mourns-loss-of-a-simple-priest

MONTREAL - He was a cardinal with a common touch, a street-smart Montrealer who used the media effectively, peppered sermons with references to his beloved Montreal Canadiens, returned his Order of Canada on principle and humbly served his community at soup kitchens and blood donor clinics.

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Canada Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:30:00 -0400
Food bank use continues to rise /item/19272-food-bank-use-continues-to-rise /item/19272-food-bank-use-continues-to-rise

More than 840,000 Canadians got food from a food bank in March this year. That isn’t the number who needed food they couldn’t afford. ItƵapp just the number who swallowed their pride and figured out when and where they could collect a box of groceries consisting for the most part of stuff grocery shoppers didn’t want for themselves.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:00:00 -0500