BRAMPTON, ONT. - More than 20 years ago, Mark Creedon walked into a tough situation. The new executive director of Catholic Family Services Peel-Dufferin was looking at year-long waiting lists for services and a tiny $750,000 budget.
The Catholic Register is proud to celebrate 100 years of helping with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto.
Over the weekend, we will be releasing stories online to help celebrate this achievement.
Lending a helping hand for 100 years
Catholic Charities' fingers all over medicare
New scholarships honour the past, look to the future
Planning for the future, remembering our past
Where the stranger is made welcome
Program gives at-risk kids the tools to succeed
Volunteers are charities' backbone
Young parents get second chance
Social service demands are consistently growing
Students open the 'Doors of Hope'
London Catholic board developing a new communication strategy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register
The London Catholic school board is proposing to spend up to $100,000 to revamp the board’s communication strategy.
Developing the entire person is what keeps Catholic education so successful in Ontario, Marino Gazzola believes.
MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - At St. Marcellinus Catholic Secondary School being part of the improvisational theatre team takes more than just being funny.
Aboriginal adults in northern Ontario are getting a second shot at completing their high school diploma through their local Catholic school board. The Northeastern Catholic District School Board’s ACCESS Program is offered in four centres in the board’s vast area from Moosonee on the shore of James Bay down to Cobalt in the south.
TORONTO - Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) is bringing social justice teachings to high school students as part of its new Youth for Others program.
MISSISSAUGA, ONT. Singing is faith in action, says Nancy Bodsworth, writer and performer of “Together in Faith,” the theme song for Catholic Education Week 2013.
TORONTO - In a variety of ways the past year has been a strange one in publicly funded Catholic education. This should not surprise us. We will always be a “sign that will be contradicted” (Luke 2:34). Nothing daunted, we carry on in our mission, confident in our abilities and with a profound reliance on the guiding power of the Holy Spirit. We are a successful, efficient, co-operative school system with an unbroken history going back more than 175 years.
Education minister says she will always defend Ontario's Catholic schools
By Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - If the Ontario Liberal government falls over its provincial budget, Education Minister Liz Sandals "will be back on the street knocking on doors and defending the Catholic education system again," she told an audience of about 200 Catholic school trustees.
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TORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board has joined forces with the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) to combat student mental health ailments.
In the award-winning film Lincoln, the American president and his wife are seen riding in a carriage discussing their relationship and dreams for the future. At one point Lincoln looks off into the distance and muses about visiting the Holy Land and walking in the footsteps of David and Solomon.
TORONTO - Ontario’s Catholic teachers are asking provincial Finance Minister Charles Sousa for freedom — freedom from bureaucrats, freedom from standardized tests, freedom to teach all kinds of students from four-year-olds to special needs kids to adult learners.
A discount flight, a tour bus and guide will put you in the middle of biblical history in a matter of hours. Particularly at Easter, pilgrims by the thousands arrive in the Holy Land.