SAN DIEGO – It may sound like an oxymoron, but Father Michael A. Mikstay says some of the most peaceful moments of his military chaplaincy have been spent in a war zone.
HAMILTON, ONT. – A Hamilton parent’s battle to affirm a parents’ supreme rights over their children in matters of education was the central question argued in a day-long hearing in a downtown Hamilton courtroom June 23.
St. Mike's new principal aims to bring innovation, maintain traditions
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO – A Catholic college owes just one thing to the families of young men and women entrusted to its care.
TORONTO – Two of the province’s youngest computer programmers have completed a game they hope will make Christianity cool in the eyes of their peers.
Child missionary group uses baseball to connect Cubans, Americans
By Colleen Dulle, Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – It was the end of a long day of baseball under the late May sun in Santa Clara, Cuba, and Marilyn Santos found an unpainted, dented, wooden baseball bat among the shiny blue and black ones she had brought from the United States.
Ontario bishops: sex-ed instruction must remain true to Church teaching
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register
Seven months after Ontario’s new sex-ed curriculum arrived in Catholic schools, Ontario’s bishops are reminding teachers to stay true to Church teaching when addressing marriage, sexuality and gender.
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.
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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.