There’s little chance Canada will fulfill a pledge to resettle 1,300 Syrian refugees before the end of 2014, said the director of the Office of Refugees, Archdiocese of Toronto.
Focolare spreading the love for 70 years
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Canadian wing of the world-wide Focolare movement brought together interfaith leaders from Catholic, Muslim, Jewish and Hindu faiths March 20 to celebrate the memorial of Focolare founder Chiara Lubich at Toronto’s Noor Cultural Centre.
Black Madonna in Canada
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Hundreds of people lined up to venerate, pray and touch an icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, the so-called Black Madonna, that was on display Mar. 18 at St. Patrick’s Basilica.
Next global extinction on its way
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThere have been five mass extinctions in the last 540 million years. Science tells us a sixth is now underway. But only faith can tell us how we will live through it.
Ontario declares April 2 John Paul II Day
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterToronto - Ontario will make celebration of the life of Pope John Paul II on annual event following passage of legislation naming a day in his honour.
Supreme Court told Loyola is "not asking for the moon"
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - A Catholic school cannot be neutral when teaching Catholicism "otherwise it is not a Catholic school," said a lawyer representing Montreal's Loyola High School in arguments before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Board opening up the trades to girls
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Sharlyn Barahona always liked working with her hands but never thought of grasping a hammer, wrench or screwdriver professionally, until now.
Pro-lifers key on Harper’s maternal health summit
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Pro-life groups say they will keep a hopeful but watchful eye on an upcoming Toronto summit called by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address maternal, newborn and child health.
St. Michael’s looking to close health-wealth gap
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - A team at St. Michael’s Hospital is working to curb the financial ailments of its low-income patients and help people realize that health is relative to wealth.
‘Wishful thinking’ fuels speculation on marriage changes
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) will continue to focus on the Church’s teaching on marriage in the face of “wishful thinking” it will change.
Companions of the Cross make history
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - The March 19 episcopal ordination of Ottawa Auxiliary Bishop Christian Riesbeck marks a “coming of age” of the Companions of the Cross, an order that is not yet three decades old, says the order’s general superior.