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Various news organizations in early November reported that the long-awaited "McCarrick Report" would be released days before U.S. bishops gather virtually Nov. 16 and 17 for their annual meeting. http://ow.ly/FV5150CdAxc

Surging numbers of #COVID19 cases in Ontario is resulting in stricter control measures for Catholic churches in Toronto and the surrounding regions of York and Peel. http://ow.ly/EJah50CneoY

With the treaty banning nuclear weapons about to become international law, Global Affairs Canada has softened its opposition, but it’s still on the wrong side of history. http://ow.ly/bGJS50CcmcH

Ozias Leduc (1864-1955) earned so much acclaim for his religious and secular paintings that he was heralded in his time as the Michelangelo of Canada." https://www.catholicregister.org/item/32376

Religious and human rights groups have applauded a parliamentary committee’s condemnation of the Chinese government for its genocide on religious minorities. http://ow.ly/vUfY50CbDIt

Fifth storm in three weeks leaves people trapped in houses in Philippines http://ow.ly/UrVW50CjUls

Church leaders expressed dismay and sorrow after terrorists attack that left at least five dead in central Vienna. http://ow.ly/RllI50CakMZ

A private members’ bill before the Ontario Legislature hopes to rebalance the information given to expecting mothers and give them a little space to breathe before making any decision about the future of their unborn child with Down Syndrome. https://www.catholicregister.org//32365-bill-aims-to-prote

Catholic leaders in England are appealing to the government to reverse its decision to ban public Mass during a second national lockdown. http://ow.ly/2J2850C99pR

Moral distress is something everybody who works in health care knows about stress caused by conflict between what a health-care provider knows is right and what the health-care system can or will deliver. COVID-19 has made it worse. http://ow.ly/Ws7a50C77yA

Canada’s tiny Byzantine-rite Slovak diocese based in Toronto was shocked to learn it no longer had a bishop as of Oct. 20. https://www.catholicregister.org/item/32314

France raises its alert level to maximum after 3 people are killed in a terror attack at the cathedral in Nice. http://ow.ly/KByo50C69vY

A new public opinion poll indicates Canadians are not as supportive of major changes to the federal MAiD (medical assistance in dying) system as the federal government claims. http://ow.ly/QCYm50ChXY9

Anti-poverty groups say Canadians most vulnerable to living in poverty will fall further behind because of COVID-19 unless post-pandemic recovery efforts focus on eliminating systemic issues keeping them in a perpetual state of poverty. http://ow.ly/Ypg050C51vP

A criminal trial involving sexual abuse allegations has led the Vatican City State criminal court to charge a seminary and the religious institution that runs it with failing to protect the young students. http://ow.ly/PBn750C4jox

"The church cannot stop defending life or give up proclaiming the need to protect every human being from conception to natural death. On this question, we can accept no compromise." http://ow.ly/Wr3C50C2XsZ

Tents are being used to expand classroom space in the outdoors at a number of Toronto Catholic schools as they work to ensure staff and student safety while preventing the spread of COVID-19. http://ow.ly/kPeo50C18kL