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TORONTO - More than 12,000 times, people in Toronto slept on a vinyl-covered foam mattress on the floor of a church, synagogue or mosque this past winter.
CFS-CCAS collaboration against woman abuse could face the axe
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - A simple idea that has helped hundreds of women who face domestic violence and abuse is down to its last few weeks unless Ontario’s provincial government comes up with $70,000 per year to keep it going.
OCY to launch urban missionary program
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - When discussing missionary work, it is easy to picture evangelization in small rural communities in remote corners of the world. However, there is missionary work to be done in big cities as well.
Fr. Gorman chooses to leave the priesthood
By Catholic Register StaffTORONTO - A popular parish priest who was asked to step aside for a “period of reflection” has declined the opportunity and has decided he will leave the priesthood.
ISIS committing ‘cultural genocide’ by damaging ancient relics
By Vanessa Santilli, Catholic Register SpecialTORONTO - Not only is the Islamic State causing catastrophic human tragedy throughout Syria and Iraq, it is engaged in a “cultural genocide” as it destroys anything in its way that is not part of its idea of Islam, said Sascha Priewe.
Board of health snub called anti-Catholic
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Catholic school trustee Angela Kennedy is accusing some Toronto politicians of conducting “a smear campaign against Catholics.”
ISARC to hold budget vigil on April 15
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe politics of prayer and the prayers of politics are being marshalled at Queen’s Park in advance of Ontario’s 2015 budget.
Providence reimagines palliative care
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - If death is a part of life then we shouldn’t die alone any more than we should live in isolation. Our deaths should not be coldly institutionalized any more so than our lives. Our deaths should be as surrounded by family, love and compassion as the lives we lived.
Seder meal takes catechumens to faith’s roots
By Michael Chen, The Catholic RegisterMARKHAM, Ont. - As they prepared for their baptism at Easter, adult catechumens at Chinese Martyrs parish got a taste of the Old Testament by participating in the Jewish ritual of the Passover Seder.
Toronto marks the inaugural John Paul II Day
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - For 24 hours the Vatican flag is flying above Nathan Philips Square as the City of Toronto celebrates the first national John Paul II Day April 2.
St. John’s Bakery revives an Easter tradition
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - At St. John’s Bakery, the spiced, sweet scent of freshly baked hot cross buns fills the air. The bakery revives this popular tradition every year in anticipation of the joy of Jesus’ resurrection. But more than preparing an Easter treat, the hands that make the hot cross buns are symbols of hope and community.