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A new program at Ottawa’s Saint Paul University will teach people on the margins of society methods to start and sustain businesses

Saint Paul program takes business to the margins

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Last year Pope Francis told writers Andrea Tornielli and Giacomo Galeazzi, “This economy kills.” This year Ottawa’s Saint Paul University is launching a practical program in techniques for building a different kind of economy.

University of St. Michael’s College chaplain Angelo Minardi is hoping to enhance the relationship between the school and St. Basil’s parish that is located on campus.

University, parish set to embrace

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TORONTO - Angelo Minardi aims to help students at the University of St. Michael’s College find a sense of community within St. Basil’s parish.

Katherine Papadopoulos left the comfortable climate of her home in Brazil to endure a Canadian winter to study at King’s University College in London, Ont.

King’s University College finds richness through diversity

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King’s University College is bringing some international flavour to its southwestern Ontario campus.

St. Jerome’s president Katherine Bergman presents the John R. Sweeney Award to Isabel Latorre and Victor Rojas, founders of Café Feminino and PROASSA, to honour their work on the Beyond Borders program.

St. Jerome’s expands on 150-year legacy

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With 150 years of Catholic education under its belt, St. Jerome’s University is celebrating the school year with a new vision.

More than 100 concern citizens gathered outside Kathleen Wynne's office on Sept. 2 to once again protest the pending implantation of the controversial revisions to the sexual education curriculum. Photo by Evan Boudreau.

Sex-ed opponents take protests to Liberal MPPs' offices

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Updated 03/09/15
TORONTO - The constituency offices of Ontario Liberal MPPs came under siege Sept. 2 as protesters opposed to the province's new sex-ed curriculum united to voice their displeasure with the program set to be taught in schools this year.

Incorporating Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, into the curriculum this school year will be one of the challenges educators face.

Laudato Si’ a challenge for Catholic schools

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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - John Kostoff sees Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’: on Care for Our Common Home as a calling for Catholic educators to foster a sense of environmental responsibility rooted in religion.

“This is really a challenge that Pope Francis is presenting,” said Kostoff, director of education for the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.

Neil McNeil high school teacher Joe Ferro hopes exposing his students to renewable energy technology today will lead to a brighter future tomorrow. Ferro created and installed the wind turbine and the students added the school logo to the tail fin.

Students introduced to hands-on renewables

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TORONTO - To encourage his students to start thinking about the environment of tomorrow today, technology teacher Joe Ferro has brought renewable energy into the classroom at Neil McNeil High School.

One of the kindergarten students picks snowpeas from the garden at James Culnan School’s Climate Change Village.

An early start to learning about the environment

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TORONTO - The youngest students at James Culnan Catholic School are getting the opportunity to connect with nature as part of their daily life at school.

The new elementary program for religious education, Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ, presents the Catholic faith as a distinct discipline with a unique set of beliefs. It understands that Catholic education must have the effect of causing students to live their faith in the community, like these girls helping feed the poor at Toronto’s St. Francis Table.

Unique program connects Canadian Church, schools

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Pre-Vatican II babies remember it as if it were yesterday: Who made you? God made me? Why did God make you? To love Him in this world and to serve Him and be with Him in the next world.

Famous PEOPLE Players’ blacklight show has made its way into Toronto Catholic classrooms to spread its message of acceptance and inclusion.

Helping students see the light

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TORONTO - Since its inception four decades ago the Famous PEOPLE Players blacklight show has toured the world several times and been featured in films and documentaries. Now the show’s inspirational message of acceptance and inclusion is being taken into classrooms.

James Ginther

St. Mike’s dean a 21st-century thinker

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TORONTO - James Ginther wants the truth. He finds it by getting help from people all around the world.

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