{mosimage}TORONTO - St. Matthew Catholic School teacher Kateri Vrakking won a silver medal in archery this past summer at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
St. Francis Table offers dignity for 20 years
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - Parkdale isn’t what it used to be. There are condos going up, gourmet restaurants offering Food Channel cuisine, artists and entrepreneurs sharing the sidewalk with the homeless, ex-psychiatric patients and the chronically unemployed.
New religious order opens Toronto chapter
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}TORONTO - A new religious order has joined the archdiocese of Toronto.
Three Sisters of Life arrived Aug. 27 to open the order’s first Canadian chapter.
Struggling with the trust factor
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterBishop Clune fondly remembered
By Catholic Register Staff100 years of praying for Christian unity
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - Anyone who thought a look back at 20th-century history through the eyes of prayer would be comforting, uplifting or anodyne might want to begin with the 1919 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Families challenged to create future saints
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News{mosimage}OTTAWA - “Families, where are the saints of the third millennium?”
That question forms the title of the Catholic Organization for Life and Family’s (COLF) annual message to families for 2007, challenging families to pass the faith on to the next generation.
Notre Dame Sisters mark 150 years in P.E.I.
By Doreen Beagan, Catholic Register Special{mosimage}CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - A century-and-a-half ago, a small spark was ignited in this tiniest of Canadian provinces on Canada’s east coast.
CAMH visitor course offered
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}TORONTO — Visiting the sick in hospital, or the imprisoned in jails, is more than just a question of being there. Learn how to be a visitor in an eight-week course in “Spiritual and Religious Care Visitor Training” at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 1001 Queen St. W. in Toronto, Wednesday evenings starting Sept. 5. For more information about the $70 course, call (416) 535-8501 ext. 2189/2188 or e-mail biruta_pearcy@camh.net or pearly_daniel@camh.net.
Care week next month
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}TORONTO (Catholic Register Staff) — The Ontario Multifaith Council is sponsoring Spiritual and Religious Care Awareness Week Oct. 21 to 27.
Ecumenism centre moves to storefront
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}MONTREAL — The Canadian Centre for Ecumenism is taking it to the street. The Montreal-based centre for dialogue among Canadian churches has left its historic setting inside the Grande Seminaire de Montreal and taken up a storefront address in downtown Montreal.