Features
New education director to build on past to make better future
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board’s new director of education is “totally revved up for it to be September again” so she can continue to build on work already done.
Angela Gauthier chosen as TCDSB's new director of education
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Angela Gauthier has been appointed the new director of education for the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
Board helps revitalize Windsor’s core
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterThe City of Windsor has donated land to the Windsor-Essex Catholic School Board for the rebuild of Catholic Central High School in the heart of the border city’s downtown.
A career spent acting out his Catholic values
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterBRAMPTON, 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.
Pro-lifers urged to tap into their inner video director
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterThe Right to Life Associations in Hanover and Walkerton, Ont., are calling on pro-lifers to be music video directors.
Finding strength in a loved one’s time of dying
By Dorothy PilarskiMy sister was going on a journey and needed me at her side. I told myself I didn’t have the time, the resources or energy to go with her, but she was persistent and loving and had a look in her eyes that pulled me in.
Where faith meets family
By Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - In Toronto, it’s easy to find classes for first-time parents aimed at raising happy and healthy children.
Counsellors highlight communication in marriage
By Ramon Gonzalez, Canadian Catholic NewsEDMONTON - “Marriage is a way to show us how God loves us and how we can love God in return through our spouse.”
Campaigning for life for 35 years
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - For 35 years Campaign Life Coalition has fought on the political front of the pro-life movement — and to its dismay the end is nowhere in sight.
Treatment gives hope to childless couples
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Jenny Celly had almost given up hope of having a child. After two years of expensive fertility treatments without success, she was skeptical in 2010 when she and her husband Martin Castillo went to FertilityCare Toronto. But three months later Celly was pregnant and today the couple has a 19-month old daughter named Leilah.
Students open up the ‘Doors of Hope’
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Artistic students are using discarded doors as a canvass to illustrate the social justice work of Catholic Charities and the agencies it supports.