The Catholic presence on university campuses across Canada has often been reported as a tale of woe. Many Catholics have gotten used to the idea of their colleges as second-class citizens of the academy — intellectually suspect and financially under capitalized.

TORONTO - The saying "out with the old, in with the new"  did not seem to apply to Catholic school board trustee elections on Nov. 13, since almost all "the old" were re-elected, while "the new" were reluctantly given a chance.

The Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic School Board received the Marsha Forest Centre Rose Quartz Warrior Award on Oct. 30 for being the first school board in the world to include special needs students in its regular classrooms. The last program which separated special needs students closed down in 1969.

Dialogue interruptus may be the norm in a world crammed with distractions, but this interruption was 40 years.

TORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board is asking a judge to solve half its $34- million deficit problem.

TORONTO - Noel Martin thinks 42 years in Catholic education is not enough of a good thing. So he’s come back for more.