This week is Ontario's Catholic Education Week. Read all of the The Catholic Register's coverage here.
TCDSB student filmmakers received red carpet treatment for their films
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register
TORONTO – Student filmmakers from across the Toronto Catholic District School Board received the red carpet treatment April 21 as they celebrated the big-screen premiere of their short films.
TORONTO – An award-winning program at Blessed Cardinal Newman High School is providing students with special needs the opportunity to learn valuable life skills while serving others.
A partnership bridging borders and outer space is expected to expose students at St. John Paul II School in Bolton, Ont. to never-before-seen images of the Earth from hundreds of kilometres above the planet.
TORONTO – In many ways, Loretto College School hasn’t changed at all in the past 100 years.
Pope Francis, speaking to Italian school teachers and parents, said, “Education cannot be neutral. It is either positive or negative; either it enriches or it impoverishes; either it enables a person to grow or it lessens, even corrupts him. The mission of the school is to develop a sense of truth of what is good and beautiful.”
The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board is celebrating Catholic Education Week in 140 characters or less.
York Catholic board urges students to keep tabs on their own mental health
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register
In York Region there’s an effort being made to teach elementary students in the Catholic school system about the importance of monitoring their own mental health.
Pope Francis released its apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia" (The Joy of Love) on Friday, April 8, 2016. Here are all the stories and reactions by The Catholic Register on the Pope's landmark document.
TORONTO - As refugees come streaming down the ramp at Pearson International Airport, there are screams, sighs, tears and laughter. Mothers, aunts, fathers, brothers extend their arms to touch, to encircle their daughters, nieces, sons and friends. It’s a mad, mysterious, inspiring breakdown of order and decorum.
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Ignoring spiritual dimension education’s ‘biggest crisis’
By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY - To be truly formative, Catholic higher education has to continue to entrench students with human values, particularly the value of transcendence, said Pope Francis.
When Brescia University College contacted Susan Mumm, they made her an offer she couldn’t refuse.
Going crazy isn’t what it used to be on campus. Mental illness is no longer a problem of weak or immature students to be sniggered at or ignored.
When it comes to theology, Newman bookstore is the place to get it all
By Lasha Morningstar, Canadian Catholic News
EDMONTON - The hectic times at Newman Theological Bookstore, as at any college or university bookstore, are the start of each semester.