TORONTO - Jean Vanier High School kickstarted March Break this year with Luke Boyd, a Canadian rapper known onstage as Classified, performing and preaching the importance of music at school.
Steubenville Toronto already sold out
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Toronto’s inaugural Steubenville conference has already sold out, months in advance.
Muslims share same sentiments with Catholics on assisted suicide
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - There’s about one million Canadians who know suicide is wrong, assisted suicide turns doctors into murderers, the state has an obligation to protect life until natural death and that not everything in medicine depends on the freely chosen wishes of the patient. These people are not Catholic. They’re Muslim.
‘Political trickery’ has PQ eyeing majority
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - The Quebec election call may have killed euthanasia Bill-52, for the time being, but the Parti Quebecois’ (PQ) divisive Charter of Quebec Values has put the separatist party in line for a majority government better able to push a more secular society.
Former Toronto executive named to Vatican council
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterGetting the Vatican’s financial house in order will be no small task for the newly appointed members of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy, the lone Canadian on the 15-member council told The Catholic Register.
Pope Francis is a hit with Canadians
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe better they know him the more Canadians like Pope Francis.
Vincent DeMarco lived life by four Fs
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - A philanthropist who never flaunted what he had and lived by four F words is how Fr. Bill Scanlon describes Vincent DeMarco.
Minimum wage debate not going away for Catholics
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - When hundreds of labour-sponsored protesters showed up at Toronto’s Eaton Centre to chant for a $14-per-hour minimum wage, the Liberal government at Queen’s Park had already decided to increase the lowest legal wage from $10.25 to $11 come June 1. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne also declared that no longer would inflation eat away at the minimum wage because yearly increases would be tied to the consumer price index.
Pro Lifers get their marching orders
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterLooking to build excitement leading into the annual National March for Life, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) has announced this year’s itinerary and list of speakers three months in advance.
Abuse scandal lingers a quarter century later
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTwenty-five years on, the case that began the world-wide Catholic sexual abuse scandal is still crawling through the court system and still on the minds of Newfoundland Catholics.
Quebec wants own foreign aid agency
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterA campaign in Quebec to establish its own international development agency is being welcomed by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace as a possible new source of funding.