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A man sits on a snowy street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In January, the city of Toronto began collecting data for the first time on deaths among its homeless population. (Photo via iStock)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dean Dettloff
Every month a group gathers at Holy Trinity Church to hold a vigil for those who have died homeless in Toronto.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis encouraged Cardinal Lacroix and the bishops from Quebec to be a missionary church, “a church that goes out, reaches out to people.”
Students from Fort Albany Residential School reading in class overseen by a nun, circa 1945. From the Edmund Metatawabin collection at the University of Algoma. (Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Rennie Nahanee
As an indigenous person who works for the Catholic Church, I have pondered the value of an apology to the former students of the residential schools.
A mother cradles her baby May 30 at the Bidi Bidi refugee camp in Arua, Uganda, where thousands from war-ravaged South Sudan have fled in search of shelter and safety. (CNS photo/Helen Manson, U.S. Embassy in Uganda)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
United Nations sources report that as many as 30 million are threatened by hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen—and 20 million “are at immediate risk.”
Pax Christi Toronto members gather in 2015 at the "Soldiers' Tower on campus at the University of Toronto, during its annual Peace Walk to mark The International Day of Peace. (Photo courtesy of Pamela Carriere)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dean Dettloff
In neighboring Canada, a dedicated network of Catholic peacemakers has been hard at work building a movement for nonviolence.
A floral tribute is seen during a vigil outside City Hall in London on June 5. (CNS photo/Andy Rain, EPA)
Politics & SocietyNews
Jean Ko Din - Catholic News Service
The death of a young Canadian Catholic woman during the London Bridge attack has inspired people to help save lives in their own community.