Mickey Conlon, The Catholic Register
Pilgrimage sites fall victim to virus
The uncertainty surrounding lifting restrictions to stem the spread of the coronavirus is beginning to take a toll on Canada’s shrines and religious pilgrimages.
Virtual classrooms a lesson in patience
Gabriella Swan is coping well with her online classes. She finds online math classes harder, but the classes are shorter — 45 minutes as opposed to 75 in school.
Knights donate $150,000 to food banks during crisis
In an average year, the Knights Table in Brampton, Ont., serves 79,000 meals to individuals and families in need in its community.
‘Walk-in’ clinic launched to aid priests, religious
Priests and religious overwhelmed by the new realities of their ministry due to the COVID-19 pandemic are being offered help to cope with issues brought on by the crisis.
St. Faustina film sends a timely message
It’s a cliché heard all the time: “This is a movie that is so right for its time.”
Seminarians’ big plans hit unexpected wall
Deacon Michael Corpus had family coming to Toronto from California and the Philippines to attend his May ordination to the priesthood. Other members of his St. Augustine’s Seminary graduating class were expecting family from as far away as Poland, South Korea and South America.
Humboldt honours victims of Broncos’ bus crash
The church bells of St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in Humboldt, Sask., are to chime 29 times at 4:50 p.m. (CST) April 6 to remember the 16 who died and 13 others injured two years ago when the Humboldt Broncos’ team bus collided with a semi-trailer near Tisdale in northern Saskatchewan.
Bishop set a powerful example
Priests have not been spared from being infected — and dying — as COVID-19 sweeps the world.
Daily TV Mass seeing spike in viewers
Viewership has skyrocketed, appreciative comments are flowing in from around the world and the phone is ringing constantly in the Markham, Ont., offices of the National Catholic Broadcasting Council. It certainly isn’t business as usual.
Subsidy saves jobs in Toronto archdiocese
Relief programs implemented by the federal government to counter the economic fallout from COVID-19 have staved off significant pay cuts for priests and saved staff at the Archdiocese of Toronto offices and parishes from layoffs.