NEWS
HAMILTON, Ont. - It was after dark when the Canadian medical team pulled up outside the rural Ugandan clinic. Just outside of Kampala, St. Stevens was, as is often the case, shrouded in darkness due to a power outage. Inside, they found that many of the 20 patients were suffering the effects of malaria. A nurse was triaging a patient by the light of a kerosene lamp.
"Called by Name" creates vocation culture
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - It’s hard to find a seat at the 7 p.m. Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas chapel next door to the University of Toronto’s Newman Centre. That makes the students and young professionals who make up the bulk of the congregation ideal candidates for the annual Toronto archdiocesan-run vocations awareness program.
National Catholic Mission to air in late March
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Vision TV will broadcast this year’s National Catholic Mission, two talks from renowned speaker and best-selling author Matthew Kelly, March 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. (E.T.)
No sugar coating of Anglican-Catholic tensions
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
ROME - A Catholic archbishop and an Anglican bishop who lead work on a document about witnessing to commonly held points of faith said the document will be “very honest” about current tensions within the Anglican Communion and the problems that poses for ecumenical dialogue.
Book of Revelation offers hope, says Collins
By Joseph SinasacWATERLOO, Ont. - The Book of Revelation is not meant to be used “like an Ouija board” to predict the end of the world, says Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins. Rather this last book of the Bible is meant to offer hope and courage for Christians living in difficult times.
Church at odds with rights revolution as charter turns 25
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
MONTREAL - Catholics played a key role in the development of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, yet increasingly the Catholic Church is seen at odds with the so-called rights revolution that in 2005 brought the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Married priest ordained in NWT
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
Yellowknife, NT - Hundreds of parishioners packed St. Patrick’s Church in Yellowknife, NWT, on Feb. 18 to see Don Flumerfelt ordained as the first Catholic priest married with children in the Mackenzie-Fort Smith diocese.Movie review: A prisoner of his own mind
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
The worst thing you can say about a religion is that it is a self-imposed prison of the mind — an identity of limits that deforms the human soul.Safe Third Country Agreement under fire
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - A man known to the courts only as John Doe is sitting in a jail in Nebraska waiting for a decision from a Canadian judge. He’s a Colombian in the United States because the rebel FARC army has shot at his family and threatened his life, but he is barred from applying for asylum because he has been in the United States for more than a year.
Jesuits host dinner
By Catholic Register Staff
TORONTO — Toronto-area Catholics will have a chance to dine for the future of the Jesuit order, and honour Jesuits’ living history, on April 11.
World Social Forum reviewed
By Catholic Register Staff
TORONTO — Just which other world is possible will be the subject when Prof. Janet Conway reviews the World Social Forum at the Scarboro Foreign Missions headquarters, 2685 Kingston Rd., March 10, beginning at 10 a.m.