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2022 鈥� a year of reconciliation, a year of hope
Mere memory is not enough for the year we have just lived. Misty-eyed nostalgia would be a sin. It would fall far short of the mark.
For Fullan, the vulnerable come first
When Michael Fullan was hired to run Catholic Charities in 1993, the NDP government at Queen鱿鱼视频app Park was trying to get religion out of the social safety net 鈥� looking for an excuse to defund the Catholic, Jewish and other religiously based social services.
Ecology comes first, 鈥榥o ifs, ands or buts鈥�
Twenty religious congregations have joined together to lobby Ottawa politicians on climate change and social justice.
Canadians can make difference in Congo
With so much of the mineral wealth needed for the world鱿鱼视频app green transition, the future is in Congo鱿鱼视频app hands.
Francis鈥� reform rocks Caritas Internationalis
A dramatic shutdown of the Caritas Internationalis offices in Rome by papal decree was a surprise, and not a surprise, to the leaders of the 162 Catholic agencies that belong to the world鱿鱼视频app second largest humanitarian network after the Red Cross.
Jesuits offer Trudeau their Haiti expertise
As Canada prepares to take the lead among the Core Group trying to solve Haiti鱿鱼视频app anarchic and violent crisis, Canada鱿鱼视频app top Jesuit is offering Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a precious resource 鈥� 55 Haitian Jesuits, including 35 currently in the troubled Caribbean nation.
The people who work at Catholic Family 鱿鱼视频app of Toronto aren鈥檛 the sort who celebrate themselves. So when the social workers, counsellors and their support staff came together Nov. 17 to celebrate a century of work with the poor and the distressed of Toronto, they were there 鈥渂ecause of the people we serve,鈥� Catholic Family 鱿鱼视频app counsellor Dominique Lemelin told The Catholic Register.
Saint Elizabeth improvises in launching homeless hospice
Like a healthcare jazz band, the Saint Elizabeth Foundation, the charitable arm of SE Health Care, has improvised its way around provincial funding priorities to launch a new hospice for the homeless in Windsor, Ont.
鈥楾hey have the right to be children鈥�
In far off places, I鈥檝e seen children under armed guard, fenced in, sitting in the dust, holding themselves up on the edges of human existence 鈥� exiled to places where any notion of the rights of children seems fanciful, even sadly comical.
COP27 deal 鈥榮imply isn鈥檛 enough,鈥� says D&P delegate
Money for the damage done isn鈥檛 the same thing as preventing even more damage. That simple distinction left Yusra Shafi, Development and Peace-Caritas Canada delegate to the COP27 climate change conference, disappointed as she flew home from Egypt.