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Without housing, poverty plan is ‘window dressing’
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.
St. Joseph the model in a world in need of fathers
For 65 years, Sr. Sue Mosteller has been a Sister of St. Joseph, but her relationship with St. Joseph himself reaches back even further. As a 17-year-old boarding student at the congregation’s Toronto girls’ school (up from the United States, and an Anglican to boot), Mosteller and her sister were called into the office and given a piece of devastating news — far away in Ohio, their father had died.
Expanded care on the Journey Home
The journey home has gotten a little easier for some of Toronto’s 8,500 homeless people in shelters and out on the street any given night.
Contemplative approach recalls early Christian unity
For anyone who has ever thought they might have been happier as a monk or a nun, living the contemplative life, this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is your chance to try it out.
Rights league defends church rights to manage own affairs
A little legal ecumenism played out on Zoom before the Supreme Court of Canada as the Catholic Civil Rights League, along with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, came to the defence of Canada’s Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop Abune Dimetros.
2020: Looking for hope amid the grief
This unforgettable year, this annus horribilis, is mercifully drawing to the end, but the virus that has so consumed our lives is not.
Ontario’s lockdown: ‘It does require sacrifices’
There’s no question the strain of the pandemic is hitting every area of Canadians’ lives as the year draws to a close.
Poorest at back of COVID vaccine line
Canada, with 37.6 million people, has agreements to purchase 194 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with options to buy another 220 million. If all these vaccines pan out, we could vaccinate Canada’s entire population almost six times over.
Bill devalues the disabled, say advocates
Blind, traumatized and unable to work, Amy Hasbrouck is still fighting a law she believes values disabled lives as less than the lives of the able-bodied.
Nuns gave lives in testimony to Gospel
A Canadian missionary who, just an hour before the soldiers committed their crime, came face-to-face with men who raped and murdered four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980, is urging Canadians to remember the martyrdom of both the American missionaries and the Salvadoran people.