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Building a culture on campus and critiquing the culture at large are what makes a Catholic college Catholic in the eyes of the new University of St. Michael’s College principal and vice president Irene Morra.

When it comes to caring, for people experiencing cancer, death in the family or other trauma, their church is often where they can turn for support. But when it comes to sexual abuse and trafficking, many feel that’s the last place they can seek comfort.

Like father, like daughter.

Dr. Lauretta Frederking credits listening to her father David Conklin’s lectures as a professor at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) — he specialized in business, economics and public policy — for sparking her interest in becoming an educator. And she credits her mother, Marilyn, for instilling within her an unquenchable thirst to always be learning. 

Second Sunday of Lent. (Year A) March 5 (Genesis 12:1-4; Psalm 33; 2 Timothy 1:8b-10; Matthew 17:1-9)

Since the beginning of time, many people have been forced to flee and abandon their homes and land for a new life elsewhere. Sometimes the hope is very basic: survival. Marauding armies, plagues, social chaos and famine can make survival difficult or impossible. At other times, hopes for a better life for children and descendants can impel people outward. Our own times have witnessed the mass migrations of peoples and the arrival of many immigrants and refugees from all over the globe. 

Transcript of the presentation by Ilora Finlay, Barroness Finlay of Llandhoff, a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, professor of palliative medicine, and a Welsh medical doctor, to the Canadian Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.

After uniting two offices in June to form the Dicastery for Culture and Education, Pope Francis named a full slate of 34 members and 40 consultants for the office which promotes human values in culture and education and works with Catholic schools and universities around the world.

In a recent discussion analyzing a Vatican document on the identity of Catholic schools, Matt Hoven highlighted the common yet “problematic” viewpoints circulating within current-day Catholic education.

Churches must lead the way toward peace and healing in Ukraine and challenge dominant narratives that subjugate Ukraine to an existential battle between good and evil, said a panel of theologians and experts on the eve of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Catherine Clifford doesn’t want to just recover the spirit of Vatican II. She wants to be more thorough.

A humble Nazarene summarizes this papacy: ‘love, love, love, forgive’