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Fr. Mike McCaffery died Jan. 12 at age 85 due to possible COVID-19 complications.

Fr. McCaffery officiated Gretzky wedding

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EDMONTON -- Pastor. Mentor. Teacher. Community Leader. Friend.

Assumption University principal John Cappucci has launched a research project to pin down the extent and virulence of contemporary anti-Semitism in Windsor, Ont.

Windsor scholar studies rise in local anti-Semitism

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Persistent prejudice is inspiring one Catholic scholar to respond with persistent and faithful research.

Catholic student reporter says he was fired for beliefs

Catholic student reporter says he was fired for beliefs

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A student journalist at Toronto’s Ryerson University is claiming damages from the school’s volunteer student newspaper, saying he was kicked off the paper’s roster of writers for his Catholic beliefs.

Alex Schadenberg

Ontario’s assisted suicide numbers on the rise

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OTTAWA -- The number of people legally put to death in Canada’s largest province continues to go up year after year, new statistics from the Office of Ontario’s Chief Coroner indicate.

Seattle Seahawks’ tight end Luke Willson, at right and in action above, will be receiving Assumption University’s Christian Culture Gold Medal later this year.

Seahawks’ Willson guided by God’s will

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Resilience and acceptance defined Seattle Seahawks’ tight end Luke Willson’s 2020 NFL campaign.

Natasha Tsevende, left, and Sue Devlin of the Kenora Catholic school board’s mental health team with puppets used in Kids in the Know to help students learn safety strategies to prevent abuse.

Abuse awareness program puts Kids in the Know

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With up to one-quarter of youth experiencing sexual victimization by the time they turn 18, the national Kids in the Know program aims to arm students with knowledge and safety strategies to prevent abuse and exploitation.

Audrey Pineau, left, one of St. Anthony’s Parish CWL Council’s longest serving members, with one of its newest members, Joanie Chislett.

Youngest member sees future in CWL

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As the newest and youngest member of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) at St. Anthony’s Parish in Bloomfield, P.E.I., Joanie Chislett hopes to carry the rich legacy of the organization forward to future generations.

Scholarship honours pair who serve

Scholarship honours pair who serve

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Two social workers with Catholic Family Services of Simcoe County are the latest recipients of the annual Fr. Paul Lennon/Doreen Cullen Social Work Scholarship.

The newly-constructed St. Joseph’s Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School is set to welcome students once pandemic restrictions are lifted.

St. Joseph’s reborn at Morrow Park

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Years of construction are finally complete and St. Joseph’s Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School just awaits the lifting of pandemic restrictions to welcome students to their new home.

The Orphan Boys at Mount Cashel, St. Johns, who sowed, reaped and threshed 600 bushels of oats this year at Mount Cashel. - Newfoundland Quarterly, p. 17 (1909)

Archdiocese liable for Mount Cashel settlement

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The Archdiocese of St. John’s is responsible for paying victims of child abuse at the Newfoundland’s infamous Mount Cashel Orphanage.

Housing is the key to any poverty-reduction plan, and advocates are not seeing that addressed in the recently released Ontario strategy.

Without housing, poverty plan is ‘window dressing’

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Ontario’s plan to help poor people has left a lot of blanks yet to be filled, said the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto.

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