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Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

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A nearly three-year process of investigation and review at the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace has resulted in a slimmed-down national council with four bishops appointed to the development agencyöÏÓãÊÓƵapp governing body.

While the WE Charity scandal marches on, Catholic charities that had hoped to put young volunteers to work through the Canada Student Service Grant have been left wondering when and if they will ever see federal funding to support volunteer programs.

Refugee advocates are applauding a Federal Court ruling that CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by sending refugees who arrive at Canadian land borders back to detention in the United States.

The VaticanöÏÓãÊÓƵapp suggestion that investors dump fossil fuel stocks may be one way to protect the planet, but the strategy is not as easy as it appears.

CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Federal Court has ruled the countryöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by sending refugees who arrive at CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp land borders back to detention in the United States. 

Putting an astrophysicist in the company of medievalists, literature scholars and historians may not seem like a natural fit, but itöÏÓãÊÓƵapp a perfect match as far as David Sylvester is concerned.

St. MichaelöÏÓãÊÓƵapp College president and vice-chancellor David Sylvester lives and dies by the credo of Catholic education — education of the whole person in the context of a faithful learning community.

COVID-19 has almost completely choked off the flow of refugees to Canada, which has refugee sponsors worried about the backlog building up as they wait for travel restrictions to ease so they can start again helping new arrivals ease into jobs, apartments and communities.

BURFORD, ONT. -- The Diocese of Hamilton wants a chance to speak up for migrant workers in an upcoming court case.

BURFORD, ONT. -- With many of Scotlynn Group Inc.öÏÓãÊÓƵapp migrant farm workers either still in or just out of quarantine, few were able to attend a memorial Mass on June 28 for Juan Lopez Chaparro at Blessed Sacrament Church in Burford, Ont.