Youth Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:18:14 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb The Bible is among 10 ‘most challenged’ books of 2015 /features/arts/item/22136-the-bible-is-among-10-most-challenged-books-of-2015 /features/arts/item/22136-the-bible-is-among-10-most-challenged-books-of-2015

What does the Bible have in common with Fifty Shades of Grey or one of John GreenöÏÓãÊÓƵapp best-selling young adult novels?

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Book News Sun, 17 Apr 2016 10:00:00 -0400
2015: the year of the refugee /home/international/item/21523-2015-the-year-of-the-refugee /home/international/item/21523-2015-the-year-of-the-refugee

The easy way to look back on 2015, or any year of news, is to list off all the bombings, shootings, riots, droughts, hurricanes, floods and famines. We can always find a parade of disaster.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) International Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:30:36 -0500
News 'VatiLeaks' 2015: Books claim strong resistance to pope's finance reform /home/international/item/21197-news-vatileaks-2015-books-claim-strong-resistance-to-pope-s-finance-reform /home/international/item/21197-news-vatileaks-2015-books-claim-strong-resistance-to-pope-s-finance-reform

VATICAN CITY - Financial wrongdoing at the Vatican, leaked documents and arrests by the Vatican police may make it seem like 2012 all over again, but the situation -- while serious -- is not the breach of papal privacy that the earlier "VatiLeaks" scandal was.

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International Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:03:04 -0500
A call to unity [2015 winning entry for the Friars' Essay Contest] /ysn/item/19624-a-call-to-unity-2015-winning-friars-essay-contest /ysn/item/19624-a-call-to-unity-2015-winning-friars-essay-contest

EditoröÏÓãÊÓƵapp note: this is the winning essay in the annual contest for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity sponsored by The Catholic Register and the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement-Graymoor. Angela Grace Tabucan is in Grade 12 at St. Brother André Catholic High School in Markham, Ont.

Often in our world Catholics tend to have a great discomfort when talking about or communicating with those of other Christian denominations. John 4:1-42 tells of Jesus and the woman of Samaria, and shows Jesus reaching out of His own Jewish community to speak with this woman. Christ is always found seeking community with others and when we embrace Christian unity we further grow in communion, strength and in love with Him.

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YSN - Student Writing Contest Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:30:00 -0500
Division hurts the Christian body [2015 Friars' Essay 2nd place] /ysn/item/19625-division-hurts-the-christian-body-2015-friar-s-essay-2nd-place /ysn/item/19625-division-hurts-the-christian-body-2015-friar-s-essay-2nd-place

EditoröÏÓãÊÓƵapp note: this is the second-place essay in the annual contest for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity sponsored by The Catholic Register and the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement-Graymoor. Veronica Marie Carswell is a student at Toronto's Don Bosco Secondary School.

In a good world, everyone would be accepted and respected despite their differences. In a perfect world, everyone would be accepted and respected because of their differences.

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YSN - Student Writing Contest Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:00:00 -0500
Teach all peoples, of all nationalities, the word of God [2015 Friars' Essay 3rd place] /ysn/item/19626-teach-all-peoples-of-all-nationalities-the-word-of-god-2015-friar-s-essay-3rd-place /ysn/item/19626-teach-all-peoples-of-all-nationalities-the-word-of-god-2015-friar-s-essay-3rd-place

EditoröÏÓãÊÓƵapp note: this is the third place essay in the annual contest for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity sponsored by The Catholic Register and the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement-Graymoor. Michael Bellucci is a student at Toronto's Bishop Allen Academy.

The passage of John 4: 1-42 tells us how Jesus travelled to Samaria and did an almost unspeakable thing for that time. He associated himself with a Samaritan. Jews and Samaritans had a long-standing prejudice towards each other and they never got along. When Jesus went to a well to get water, He spoke with a woman who was not only a Samaritan, but had five husbands and was looked down upon in her community. When Jesus spoke to the woman, even she was astonished He was talking to her.

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YSN - Student Writing Contest Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:00:00 -0500