Three of those are very specific to church affairs, including the religious teaching called catechesis.

The other priority is homelessness. "It was a real awareness of recognizing that there are lots of people who are homeless here in the area," says Dunn, sitting with John Stevens, a project coordinator for the church, at a table in a room deep in the offices of the archdiocese on Brunswick Street in Halifax.

"And so we worked on that, we asked parishes to give a report on that priority and discovered that lots of parishes are involved with feeding the homeless or food banks."

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