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Catholic Education

Mark Shelvock founded a thanatology club at King’s University College in London, Ont., with the hope of teaching fellow students that the keys to happiness can be found by exploring death.

Studying death to appreciate life

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At King’s University College in London, Ont., second-year student Mark Shelvock is hoping to teach others what he’s learned already: that the key to happiness can be found in the exploration of death.

Student campus ministers promoting the Newman Centre by giving away hot beverages and talking to passer-bys.

Newman Centre takes ministry to the streets

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TORONTO - On a large campus like the University of Toronto’s St. George campus, it can be hard for students to feel a sense of community. So the Newman Centre’s Student Campus Ministry (SCM) team is going out to let Catholic students on campus know it is there for them.

Starting in April, Richard Corneil will become Windsor-based Assumption University's chief administrator and principal.

Richard Corneil to succeed Fr. Rosica as Assumption principal

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Richard Corneil will be taking over as new chief administrator and principal of Windsor, Ont.’s Assumption University beginning in April.

Catholic universities and colleges need to help students embrace their faith, a conference in Washington heard.

Catholic colleges urged to tap into students’ faith

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WASHINGTON - Catholic college presidents gathered in Washington earlier this month not only got ideas about ways to improve faculty development and fundraising efforts, they were also challenged to keep helping students embrace their faith or come to understand what it means.

Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, alongside Catholic Pacific College president Christine Jones and Trinity Western University president Bob Kuhn.

Name now reflects college’s Catholicity

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LANGLEY, B.C. - The Catholic college affiliated with Trinity Western University has rebranded itself.

Redeemer Pacific College, which teaches TWU-accredited courses from a Catholic perspective, has changed its name to Catholic Pacific College.

Students at universities are turning away from arts and humanities programs as education becomes more aligned with corporate priorities.

Preserving liberal arts in a tech crazy world

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Prof. David Seljak has been standing up in front of classrooms and teaching young men and women how to think about their society for approximately a generation. There’s always been an ebb and flow of students, but lately the ebb has the upper hand.

John Garvey, right, president of The Catholic University of America, toasts Greg Craven, vice chancellor of Australian Catholic University, in Washington Jan. 29 after they signed a memorandum of understanding for their universities' new Rome Center.

'Three-continent endeavour' results in universities' joint Rome Center

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WASHINGTON - What the president of The Catholic University of America called a "three-continent endeavour" has resulted in an agreement by the university in Washington and the Australian Catholic University to share a campus in Rome.

Strategies like asking open-ended questions promotes discussion and new vocabulary in children, according to Andrea Coke, the school board's chief language pathologist. A parent is shown discussing the book with her child in this screenshot of a board resource video.

TCDSB program helping parents improve children’s communication skills

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TORONTO - Parents of Toronto Catholic kindergarten pupils are becoming better equipped to support, enhance and enrich the development of their child’s communication skills.

UBC assistant professor Samuel Rocha performing at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Vancouver. His new album reflects the impact Saint Augustine has had on his life.

Professor sets St. Augustine to music

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RICHMOND, B.C. - An assistant professor at UBC has fused his interest in blues, jazz and Mexican folk music to create a harmonious discussion on one of his favourite saints.

Fr. Michael Busch (left), rector of St. Michael’s Cathedral, and Oriana Bertucci, director of chaplaincy at Ryerson University, stand in front of the newly renovated Hogan House, a new home for Catholic students.

A new Catholic hub for commuter students

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TORONTO - Until he entered the priesthood, the house next to St. Michael’s Cathedral was home for Fr. Seamus Hogan. Today the building is being transformed into a home for Catholic university students, and Hogan couldn’t be happier.

Moral theologian Moira McQueen, to her surprise, has been appointed by Pope Francis to join the International Theological Commission.

McQueen: Campus voice to Vatican advisor

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Surviving cancer won’t bring an appointment to the International Theological Commission. Neither will it matter that you’ve been married forever and surrounded yourself with seven children and nine grandchildren. Volunteering at your parish for everything from the Catholic Women’s League to marriage preparation courses is nice, but it won’t make you part of an elite body of 30 Catholic theologians who advise the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the pope himself. 

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