The story is told that Albert Einstein met with his graduate students in Physics at Princeton University to provide them with their final examination. After distributing the exam, he walked out. His teaching assistant walked out with him.
Marina Calo has been trying to manage the online education of her five-year-old son and says it has not been easy.
Portrait of St. Kateri survives devastating church fire on Easter Sunday
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register
Amidst the rubble left by the fire that consumed St. Theresa Point Catholic Church on Easter Sunday laid a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha almost completely intact.
Presentation Manor retirement home endures pandemic with strong community
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
The day Presentation Manor went into lockdown for COVID-19 was Charles Hendrick’s birthday, but he wasn’t there to celebrate. He had died the previous October of pancreatic cancer.
Confronting death: Jesus’ last words open us up to our vulnerability, frailty
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
Thinking about a horrible death doesn’t come naturally to 21st-century humans, even on Good Friday.
After decades hanging in Connie Leon’s dining room, a compelling depiction of The Last Supper has found a new home at St. Joseph Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School.
The annual Good Friday procession that brings the Stations of the Cross to life in the streets of Toronto’s Little Italy has been cancelled for the second straight year due to COVID-19.
With a year of COVID there will be plenty of reasons to seek healing in liturgy
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
A year into COVID and Martyrs’ Shrine director Fr. Michael Knox is looking ahead, imagining how we might pray after the pandemic comes to an end.
Fr. Wilson Andrade’s smile is as broad, his laugh as ready and his intense interest in people as alive as it ever was. But he confesses that a year of lockdowns, online Masses and separation from his St. Ann’s parishioners in Toronto’s East Chinatown neighbourhood hasn’t been easy.
‘Coach K’ puts faith to work on court for St. Francis Xavier University
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register
It has not been the final season long time St. Francis Xavier University head basketball coach Steve Konchalski imagined.
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With Gen-Zs touted as a morally conscious generation bent on addressing the many ills in today’s society, King’s University College Capital Management Club fund manager Serge Muhirwa sees social justice defining the future of investment.
A couple years ago, Prof. Robert Ventresca at King’s University College in London, Ont., was marking papers submitted to him by a precocious, intense, serious and curious undergraduate enrolled in his seminar on the role of religion in the Holocaust.
Mere months removed her June 2020 convocation at Calgary’s St. Mary’s University, Kate Gillis’ days are full of Zoom call collaboration and deep-dive independent research.
New faith centre at St. Thomas More College just right for its time
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register
Roughly a decade in development, the new Centre for Faith, Reason, Peace and Justice at St. Thomas More College couldn’t be more timely.