NEWS
'Pray for God's hand' over Mississippi: destructive tornado kills, injures dozens
By Maria-Pia Negro Chin, Gina Christian, Megan Marley OSV NewsPowerful tornadoes tore through rural Mississippi the night of Friday, March 24, killing or injuring dozens and causing widespread destruction.
Francis Leo installed as Archbishop of Toronto
By Peter StocklandHis Grace Francis Leo offered up gratitude to Christ as he was made Archbishop of Toronto at a Mass in a packed St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica that was equally filled with the spirit of the Annunciation.
Mama Maggie’s vision shared by Canadians
By Susan KorahIt’s a long way from Canada to Cairo.But a recently opened hospital in the city in the Egyptian capital’s trash-filled slums, and Stephen’s Children, the non-profit organization that started it, have special links with Canadians who share the vision of its founder, Maggie Gobran.
Putting the ‘Catholic’ into teachers college
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThere are 40,000 Catholic teachers in Ontario and thousands more in the four provinces that provide some level of public funding to Catholic schools, to say nothing of even more who work in private Catholic schools. But there’s no Catholic teachers’ college in Canada, with the lone exception of the Faculty of Education at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S. — not a province with publicly funded Catholic schools.
Holy Land Franciscans advance Jerusalem museum
By Tom Tracy, OSV NewsThe priest-director of the Cultural Heritage Office for the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, or Custody of the Holy Land, in Jerusalem opened a drawer of vestments and casually dropped an unexpected historical tidbit about a clerical chasuble he was showing a group of foreign guests. The chasuble was part of a collection of vestments the archbishop of Paris wore for the marriage of Emperor Napoleon III of France with the Empress Eugenie, and which the empress later donated to the Church in the Holy Land.
Religious Sisters labour to comfort those displaced by war in Ukraine
By Susan KorahAngelica Blyzniuk ended up in the railway station in Lviv, on Feb. 26, 2022, two days after the outbreak of a brutal war. Fleeing the relentless shelling that pounded Nikopol, her home town in south-central Ukraine, she reached Lviv, numb with terror.
Good Friday procession in Toronto makes its return
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterThe annual Good Friday procession which for seven decades has taken over the streets of Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood is set for a grand return this year after three years of pandemic-induced dormancy.
Dealing with abuse a work in progress
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPublishing the names of credibly accused child sex abusers, as Canada’s Jesuit Fathers did March 12, is one small step toward creating a better Church, but it’s not enough for abuse survivor John Swales.
St. Joseph embodies the mission God gave us
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterJoe Grogan is proud of his working class origins in Toronto’s tough Parkdale neighbourhood. He’s proud of a lifetime of labour activism, following in the tradition of his father who was active in the Textile Workers Union of America throughout the 1940s and ’50s.
Two-parent family numbers stabilize in Canada
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterSixty per cent of Canadian children are being raised in homes with married parents, a new study has found, a number that has stayed steady since 2016 after years of decline.
