News/Toronto-GTA
{mosimage}TORONTO - Students and staff at St. Marcellus Catholic Elementary School celebrated the book launch of Becoming a Child.... while thinking about God! on Sept. 27 in their school auditorium.
Toronto pilgrims sought for Eucharistic Congress
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO - The archdiocese of Toronto is reaching beyond its parishes to invite all area Catholics to join its pilgrimage to the International Eucharistic Congress in June 2008 in Quebec City.
John XXIII lecture
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO — Before he called the Second Vatican Council and opened the windows of the church on the world, Pope John XXIII spent the Second World War in Istanbul rescuing Jews from the Holocaust. The director of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna, Italy, is coming to Toronto to talk about the link between these two events in the late pope’s life.
Bureaucratic creativity
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO — Civil servants are not just bureaucrats, and they’ve got a conference to prove it.
Collins reaches out to Jewish community
By Catholic Register StaffTORONTO - Archbishop Thomas Collins reached out to Toronto’s Jewish community Sept. 29, addressing an audience at the Beth Tzedec synagogue in midtown Toronto.
Ground broken for St. Padre Pio Church
By Emalyn Franco-Romano, Catholic Register Special
{mosimage}KLEINBURG, Ont. - As author, W.P. Kinsella, once wrote, “If you build it, they will come.” And these words so far have held true to the parishioners of St. Padre Pio Church.
Faith groups seek quiet room at City Hall
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
{mosimage}TORONTO - Toronto City Hall bustles with big city business and big city egos clashing over big money decisions. The Toronto Area Interfaith Council believes all that sound and fury should be leavened with a little silence.
Needing the needy
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage} TORONTO — We all need the needy and can’t do without the disabled, bioethicist Amy Laura Hall will argue when she comes to Toronto on behalf of the L’Arche communities Oct. 11.
St. Mary Immaculate, 150 years a church of the world
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}RICHMOND HILL, Ont. - It is easy to measure milestones of an individual, a political party, sports team and any such human institution. One could focus on what change a person made for humanity, the impact a political movement made to the wellbeing of a nation or what a sport did to unite people.
Toronto Catholic youth gone missing
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}TORONTO - It’s almost been two months now since Christina Calayca went missing at Rainbow Falls Park near Thunder Bay, Ont.
St. Joseph’s Sisters endow theology chair
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - Theology in Toronto just got a $2.5-million shot in the arm. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto have put up the money to endow a chair in systematic theology at the University of St. Michael’s College, and chosen Catholic Theological Society of America president Margaret O’Gara as the first professor to hold the chair.