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{mosimage}DARIEN LAKE, N.Y. - Kingdom Bound is a full-time, year-long Protestant ministry with a strong Catholic presence that puts on concerts in Ontario and upstate New York as well as the annual summer festival here at Six Flags amusement park. This summer’s festival ran from Aug. 5 to 8.
Student’s program teaches autistic kids
By Natalie Guadagnoli, The Catholic Register{mosimage}BURLINGTON, Ont. - What started off as a simple attempt to help her autistic cousin learn to read and write turned into a computer program fully equipped with music, animations, bright colours and love.
Catholic School of Evangelization passes on Catholic heritage
By Sophie Freynet, Youth Speak News
{mosimage}ST. MALO, Man. - Talitha Lemoine was an average 12-year-old Catholic, becoming disinterested in Mass, when she first heard about the Catholic School of Evangelization (CSE) in St. Malo. She attended several summer and winter camps there, before eventually becoming a counsellor.
Keeping faith alive through studying the dead
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage} TORONTO - Intrigued by a candlelit basement chapel filled with Gregorian chant and burning incense, 11 teens gathered at St. Francis de Sales Church in Newark, Ohio, for what would become the first Dead Theologians Society meeting.
Exploring the calling
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO - A new booklet has been published to reach out to youth and teach them about the various vocations within the Catholic Church. It’s Your Call features stories from people living out their vocations who wish to enlighten people on what they love so much about their calling.
Award-winning paper ‘Off the Wall’
By Catholic Register StaffTORONTO – Off the Wall, the Pope John Paul II Catholic Secondary School student newspaper, has won the general excellence award in the first Catholic Register Student Newspaper Awards.
Canadian immigrant starts Catholic lay movement
By Catholic Register Staff
TORONTO - More than 100 children, teens and young adults gather for a prayer meeting every Friday at St. Basil the Great High School in North York. Members drive in from as far away as Waterloo and Hamilton on a weekly basis.
North meets south on a student exchange
By Catholic Register Staff
TORONTO - Students from a Toronto Catholic high school and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, exchanged homes for a week this spring.
Ottawa gets youth-friendly archbishop
By Catholic Register Staff
OTTAWA - The newly appointed archbishop of Ottawa has a heart for youth.
All kids up to bat
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO - No one sat out on the side lines during a baseball mini-camp for 125 special needs students.
The Toronto Blue Jays and the Halton Catholic District School Board sponsored the half-day event at the Rogers Centre May 16.
The Toronto Blue Jays and the Halton Catholic District School Board sponsored the half-day event at the Rogers Centre May 16.
Few changes accompany bittersweet sixteen
By Danica Kindrachuk, Youth Speak News
I just turned 16 years old. Wow! I seem so old! If you’d asked me even five years ago what I thought I would be like, I don’t know what I would have answered, but it was probably not this. I imagined my birthday would be something huge, something life changing, something so big that I couldn’t even imagine it. Yet I woke up that morning and, surprisingly, nothing really seemed different. I didn’t physically change in any way and I didn’t feel that different emotionally either.