Missionaries of Charity Fathers find forgotten corners of Tijuana
By Brooke Binkowski, Catholic News ServiceTIJUANA, Mexico – The men trudged down the dusty road of an impoverished Tijuana neighborhood. The Sunday morning air was already arid and hot, but the small group was on a mission: They were heading to a tiny neighborhood community center, bearing lemonade, food and prayers for the local families.
At back-to-school time, a new effort to protect kids bullied for their faith
By Kelsey Dallas, Religion News ServiceDapinder Ahluwalia’s 14-year-old son starts high school next month. Like many parents, she’ll spend the last days of summer ensuring he has the right school supplies and a copy of his class schedule.
Outside Paris, a clinic aims to tackle an age-old practice
By Elizabeth Bryant, Religion News ServiceST.-DENIS, France – Miriam clearly remembers the day she was cut, bundled by two village women into a bathroom at the age of 7, where a third performed the procedure. “It was very, very painful,” the young Malian woman says softly, as her two tiny children pinch her cheeks, crying for attention.
CATHOLIC EDUCATION SPECIAL
By Catholic Register StaffThe fall school year is just around the corner and The Catholic Register has put together a Catholic education special feature.
Order of Malta Lebanon Camp: seeing the face of God in the disabled
By Doreen Abi Raad, Catholic News ServiceCHABROUH, Lebanon – In a pristine mountain setting in Lebanon, a female volunteer gently takes hold of the hands of Mohammed, a disabled adult who has trouble communicating. She gazes into his eyes – still shaded in heart-shaped sunglasses from the dress-up activity a few hours earlier – as she engages him in a dance to the rhythm of the music playing in the background.
In praise of school administrators
By John B. Kostoff, Catholic Register SpecialAs students and teachers prepare to start a new school year, it is appropriate to acknowledge the vital role of a group that is often maligned in education — those holding positions in administration.
Pat Daly takes on familiar post with Ontario trustees
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterFor the first time since forming in 1930 the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association (OCSTA) has elected a president to serve a second term.
Toronto school sees jump in math grades through unique strategy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO – Strategies to improve reading skills are helping students at a Toronto French Catholic school improve their math skills.
Dufferin-Peel offers first primary years IB program
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterMISSISSAUGA, ONT. – Some of Mississauga’s youngest Catholic students will make history this year as the first students in Ontario to attend a Catholic school authorized for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program.
Teens program plants seeds of healthy relationships
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO – High school is a formative time in a person’s life. For most people, it is when teens begin to make new friends and start dating.
Maximilian Kolbe accepted Our Lady's call to purity, martyrdom
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register“Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 16:13). This is the Gospel that St. Maximilian Kolbe preached with his life and death. On the 75th anniversary of his death (Aug. 14), the Church celebrated his heroic sacrifice in 1941 when he volunteered his life in place of a fellow Auschwitz inmate.