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Catholic schools’ scores have pretty much bounced back to the levels they had achieved prior to the coronavirus pandemic’s onset in March 2020.

Pope Francis urged the young people not to be frustrated or put off by the fact that in their parishes “the community dimension is a bit weak,” something “which has been aggravated by the pandemic.”

As one of a handful of organizations that serves asylum-seekers in Toronto, Rico is seeing a significant slice of 61,890 asylum claims processed in Canada the first eight months of this year — already more than twice the 24,930 asylum claims processed in 2021.

Through the creation of the INAI gallery, from a Japanese word meaning “within,” Adrian Dominican Sisters put together a memorial project as a way to process the grief of losing friends.

“We’ve adapted, and that’s become our new normal. And in that adaptation, in that figuring out what to do to manage the chaos and survive in the mess, we’ve discovered that grace abounds all the more.”

“As we inaugurate the 50-year celebrations, we are reminded that the biblical perspective of a jubilee mandates a comprehensive change and robust renewal.”

The public-health order, known as Title 42, allows the United States to bar entry of persons who have recently been in a country where a communicable disease was present.

In 2010, half a million people attended the 102 performances of the play, which is staged every 10 years.