Teacher competing in pageant sends beautiful message to students
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register
Stephanie Photopoulos always taught her students at school and at the dance studio that their bodies should be loved and cherished. Now, the young Catholic hopes to prove it to them on stage.
Canada is fortunate to have sociologists like Reginald Bibby working in the field of religious attitudes. His most recent book, Canada’s Catholics, should be on the desk of all administrators, trustees, teachers and priests.
Memories find a place in board’s #MyCatholicEducation Twitter campaign
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register
Sharing school memories — 140 characters at a time — has proven to be great way to celebrate Catholic Education Week for the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.
Every parent knows the importance of having conversations with their kids.
In my first year off the farm as an undergraduate at the University of Regina, I took a part-time job driving a school bus for a local company.
Pax Christi's 2017 Teacher of Peace offers lesson in reconciliation
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register
While Sr. Priscilla Solomon doesn’t mind the pat on the back, the real bonus of being named the 2017 Pax Christi Teacher of Peace is the chance to talk about reconciliation.
Canadian Coptic Christians ponder the future of their faith back in Egypt
By Shenaz Kermalli, Religion News Service
TORONTO – A 13-year-old girl with long, flowing black hair and dark eyes stands poised at the head of a massive church hall, flanked by a bishop and several priests. More than a hundred community members sit before her.
Living in multi-faith Canada is a real-life challenge for Muslims
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
The worst of it was the day Sumaiya Desai went grocery shopping with her then eight-year-old son.
One of the most memorable front pages in the history of The Catholic Register was from Sept. 22, 1984.
OTTAWA – Vera Shroff has been fascinated by Catholicism since she was a little girl in India, despite being raised in one of the world’s most ancient religions.
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Historic images of Good Friday procession portray a community of faith
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
When St. Francis of Assisi pastor Fr. Jimmy Zammit looks at Vincenzo Pietropaolo’s photographs he sees the faith of his community.
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In a moment of truth and clarity, Archbishop Anthony Mancini once summed up the shock he has shared with most Catholics over the last 30 years as a feeling of “shame and frustration, fear and disappointment, along with a sense of vulnerability and a tremendous poverty of spirit.”
Churches that once shunned one another open their hearts to Syrian refugees
By Bobby Ross Jr., Religion News Service
DAUPHIN, Manitoba – Ken Yakielashek, a Catholic and semiretired farmer in the Canadian Prairies, says he remembers when Christians of varying denominations “wouldn’t talk to one another.”