Renew draws 750 youth in search of purpose
Hundreds of young Catholic adults flocked to Whitby’s Canada Event Centre to celebrate their faith as one during this year's Renew Toronto conference.
Possibilities aplenty for Resurrection jubilee
For Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO) President Jeff Lockert, the significance of the year 2033 cannot be overstated.
Students leading students at Newman Centre
The Newman Centre is launching its fall 2024 faith studies program at the end of September with a new focus on student-led delivery and participation.
New director named for Hamilton CYO
Brett Martin has been named executive director of the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) of the Diocese of Hamilton.
Plotting Steubenville return to Toronto
With the Steubenville Toronto youth conference seemingly burned out and faded away, the symposium that provides teens the chance to encounter Christ looks to be slowly finding new life after a four-year hiatus.
Clad with festive aprons and red bandanas, a group of enthusiastic Italo-Canadians rolled up their sleeves to partake in a traditional Italian bread-making workshop on in honour of the culturally significant feast of Santa Maria Salome (St. Mary Salome).
Teachers help build student resilience
In an increasingly fraught educational environment where teachers feel overwhelmed and isolated amid increased parental and government expectations on their time, hundreds of Catholic teachers gathered for this year’s Catholic Educators Conference for some much-needed fellowship and support.
Stories are a tool for evangelization
Spiritus York’s kick-off event of 2024 connected the dots between Narnia and Anime in modern-day evangelization.
Nightfever invites guests into Christ’s presence
The Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth hosted the youth-driven initiative Nightfever Jan. 21 at Halifax’s St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, offering passersby an invitation to join in prayer.
‘Something’s happening’ as young seek truth
When it comes to supporting Catholic education, the audience that came to hear Father Deacon Andrew Bennett’s fundraising talk for Catholic Pacific College was as committed as it gets.
Youth group outreach offers warmth and hope to homeless
A group of Montreal millennials spent Boxing Day skipping post-Christmas binge buying and instead taking water, food and hot coffee to homeless “children of God” in the city’s downtown core.
Newman chaplain answers ‘call within a call’
It is a long way from his native Igboland in Nigeria to the Newman Centre at McGill University, but Fr. Anthony Atansi finds himself as “at home” in one as the other.
Renew Toronto aims to enrich young adult faith
Over 500 Catholic young adults aged 19 to 39 will strive to enrich their faith at the annual Renew Toronto conference, which is being staged at the Canada Event Centre in Whitby, Ont., on Nov. 4.
Finding Jesus in the rock of community
We are last to push off from the shore into Oxbow Lake. I am in a canoe with Steph and Ava, two high school students from the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Ahead of us are 30 other TCDSB students ranging from Grades 10-12. For many of them it is their first time paddling a canoe. We are bringing up the rear to ensure no one goes astray. Leading the pack at the front is Greg Rogers, founder of this week-long Catholic Leadership program at Camp Olympia near Huntsville, Ont. He is taking us all to see Jesus.
Young adults share Catholic perspective over pints
The Toronto archdiocese’s Office of Catholic Youth and St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica Young Adults are spicing up the typical Catholic young adult fellowship evening.