Growing up in Middlesex County in southwestern Ontario, Peggy O’Neil said she and her family would encounter Brescia College — now Brescia University College — on their route to pick up pizza for dinner.
King’s course shows economics should seek meaning
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPope Francis challenged young Catholics to “transform an economy that kills into an economy of life” at a three day “Economy of Francesco” meeting in Assisi Sept. 22-24.
Encounter, heal and purify: St. Jerome’s plan for reconciliation
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAll histories are contested. If they weren’t, there would be no reason to study history. For an historian running a Catholic university in Canada right now, this nation’s history of colonialism and residential schools has created a special responsibility — not to the past but to our future understanding of ourselves.
Irish unity: will dream come true?
By PETER STOCKLAND AND SUSAN KORAH, The Catholic RegisterThe historic emergence of a Catholic majority in Northern Ireland will be a significant, though not the decisive, factor in achieving a reunited country, says a Belfast MP visiting Canada.
Catholic artist gives audience a complex experience
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTrying to explain the effect of Denyse Thomasos’ immense, complex, abstract paintings, Fr. Dan Donovan reaches for St. Thomas Aquinas.
Gregorian chant renewal in the works
By Susan Korah, Catholic Register SpecialLawrence Harris has a renewed vision of service forged and refined in the fire of COVID-19 that raged across the world for nearly three years.
Encountering the anchor of Eucharistic adoration
By Janelle Ryan, Catholic Register SpecialI have experienced the healing and transformation that encountering the person of Jesus Christ brings and Eucharistic adoration has played a large role in this. Adoration is one of the best ways to experience the peace, love and strength that only Jesus can provide. It’s something we desperately need these days.
Life of service continues for former teacher
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic RegisterAfter years of serving his community as a teacher, Peter Mamer has found another rewarding way of giving back.
Priest in Canada via a road less travelled
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterWhen Tai Le arrived at Vancouver International Airport seven years ago at the tender age of 21, the future associate pastor of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Prince Albert, Sask., admitted that his first experience being surrounded by Canadians “was overwhelming.”
Permanent diaconate in Toronto marks 50 years
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterDeacon Steve Pitre is determined not to celebrate 50 years of the permanent diaconate in the Archdiocese of Toronto. Instead, he wants to celebrate the Church that embraced, encouraged and prayed with deacons over the past 50 years.
A pilgrim Church looks to Mary
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterFor Catholics who have for years heard Mary’s first words in the Gospel of Luke as the defining moment of her life, it may seem the Pope is flipping the script on the Lord’s mother.