Expansion plans to Providence Healthcare include quality of life
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAdding 180 new long-term care beds and a whole new building to Unity Health’s Providence Healthcare site is just the beginning of the Catholic hospital’s plans for seniors in Toronto’s east end.
Into the Lenten desert
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterForty days in the desert — that’s our usual starting point for Lent. But we would prefer to choose our desert, and most years we do. We decide what we will give up for Lent. We choose spiritual reading, take on volunteering and charitable acts, memorize a new prayer, set aside time for meditation. Diligent Catholics like to plan our desert experience.
A different look to Ash Wednesday
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterCOVID has not cancelled Lent, nor Ash Wednesday, though a few things will feel a little different.