Order of Malta Lebanon Camp: seeing the face of God in the disabled
By Doreen Abi Raad, Catholic News Service
CHABROUH, Lebanon – In a pristine mountain setting in Lebanon, a female volunteer gently takes hold of the hands of Mohammed, a disabled adult who has trouble communicating. She gazes into his eyes – still shaded in heart-shaped sunglasses from the dress-up activity a few hours earlier – as she engages him in a dance to the rhythm of the music playing in the background.
As students and teachers prepare to start a new school year, it is appropriate to acknowledge the vital role of a group that is often maligned in education — those holding positions in administration.
For the first time since forming in 1930 the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association (OCSTA) has elected a president to serve a second term.
Toronto school sees jump in math grades through unique strategy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register
TORONTO – Strategies to improve reading skills are helping students at a Toronto French Catholic school improve their math skills.
MISSISSAUGA, ONT. – Some of Mississauga’s youngest Catholic students will make history this year as the first students in Ontario to attend a Catholic school authorized for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program.
TORONTO – High school is a formative time in a person’s life. For most people, it is when teens begin to make new friends and start dating.
Maximilian Kolbe accepted Our Lady's call to purity, martyrdom
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register
“Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 16:13). This is the Gospel that St. Maximilian Kolbe preached with his life and death. On the 75th anniversary of his death (Aug. 14), the Church celebrated his heroic sacrifice in 1941 when he volunteered his life in place of a fellow Auschwitz inmate.
The XXXI Olympic Games, the 16-day athletic love-fest to a samba beat in Rio de Janeiro, are a secular endeavour featuring more fanfare than faith, more spectacle than spirit.
Panama's bishops see World Youth Day 2019 as bridge, 'fiesta Latina’
By Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service
KRAKOW, Poland – Panama, which will host World Youth Day in 2019, is a small country, but the head of its bishops' conference has no doubts the church will be able to organize the event.
From marshy to manicured: Gardens' gruesome past grows into green haven
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Today's lush and immaculately manicured Vatican Gardens were once just a sprawl of mosquito-infested swamps, clay hillsides and hardy grape vines.
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TORONTO – It’s not the oldest profession. It’s age-old oppression.
On the longest day of the year, I stood on a mountain trail in the middle of the French Alps a mile above sea level. I had every reason to count my blessings.
GREEN BAY, Wis. – Tom Mayhew spins the rear tire of a bicycle secured firmly on a repair rack.
TORONTO – Ontario's largest Catholic school board expects a huge increase in funding for renewal projects over the next two years following an injection of capital from the provincial government.