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One hundred years of helping.
This simple theme, coined to highlight the centenary celebrations for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto, neatly summarizes what Catholic Charities has been doing since 1913: Delivering a variety of practical, life-affirming services to the poor and the marginalized in response to the Gospel call to love one’s neighbour.
London Catholic board developing a new communication strategy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterThe London Catholic school board is proposing to spend up to $100,000 to revamp the board’s communication strategy.
Cathedral of St. Teresa of Avila is the splendour of Amos
By Lorraine O’Donnell Williams, Catholic Register SpecialAMOS, QUE. - For Fr. Joseph Dudemaine, the pastor in Amos in 1914, the challenge of building a church must have seemed overwhelming. The remote settlement in the Abitibi-Temiskaming region of northwestern Quebec had a population of just 2,500. Although the area had potential for agriculture, forestry and mining, a hundred years ago it was nothing but trees.
Developing entire person key to success
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterDeveloping the entire person is what keeps Catholic education so successful in Ontario, Marino Gazzola believes.
Improv tickles this team’s fancy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterMISSISSAUGA, ONT. - At St. Marcellinus Catholic Secondary School being part of the improvisational theatre team takes more than just being funny.
Program gives aboriginals another chance to graduate
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterAboriginal adults in northern Ontario are getting a second shot at completing their high school diploma through their local Catholic school board. The Northeastern Catholic District School Board’s ACCESS Program is offered in four centres in the board’s vast area from Moosonee on the shore of James Bay down to Cobalt in the south.
Jesuit program connects students with Global South
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) is bringing social justice teachings to high school students as part of its new Youth for Others program.
Celebrating Catholic education in song
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterMISSISSAUGA, ONT. Singing is faith in action, says Nancy Bodsworth, writer and performer of “Together in Faith,” the theme song for Catholic Education Week 2013.
Our system is rooted in Gospel values
By Noel P. Martin, Catholic Register SpecialTORONTO - In a variety of ways the past year has been a strange one in publicly funded Catholic education. This should not surprise us. We will always be a “sign that will be contradicted” (Luke 2:34). Nothing daunted, we carry on in our mission, confident in our abilities and with a profound reliance on the guiding power of the Holy Spirit. We are a successful, efficient, co-operative school system with an unbroken history going back more than 175 years.
Education minister says she will always defend Ontario's Catholic schools
By Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - If the Ontario Liberal government falls over its provincial budget, Education Minister Liz Sandals "will be back on the street knocking on doors and defending the Catholic education system again," she told an audience of about 200 Catholic school trustees.
TCDSB takes aim at mental health
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board has joined forces with the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) to combat student mental health ailments.