TORONTO - He’s taught students about the dangers of bullying and domestic violence, played side-by-side with the boys’ soccer team, even baked muffins for a school awareness campaign.
He is Constable John-Paul DiCecca of the Toronto Police Service, one of 30 School Resource Officer&rs...
Canada's Christian numbers projected to fall over next two decades
In the next 20 years Canada is expected to be less Christian, and a little less religious.
According to Statistics Canada, the most dramatic change in Canada’s religious landscape will be an increase in the number of Muslims. Muslims currently make up 35 per cent of all non-Christians. By 2...
TORONTO - When Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2 entered her teenage son’s vocabulary this year, Mary hit the panic button. First, she didn’t like that “all his friends” were playing this game with a mature rating, and second, she worried about the impact a controversial terro...
MONTREAL - Just two days after the announcement of Brother André’s canonization, St. Joseph’s Oratory had no lack of pilgrims filing past his tomb.
One young woman, who would not reveal her name, stopped and prayed at the various stations depicting St. Joseph’s life, lea...
The ugly truth of Canada's First Nations teen suicide
Stretched thinner and thinner across Canada’s North, the church is losing touch with First Nations communities as First Nations communities lose touch with hope. Another wave of teen suicides in the James Bay region has left church leaders wondering how they can offer hope to young aboriginals...
Editor's note: This is the third place entry for the Friars Student Writing Award contest sponsored by the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement and The Catholic Register. Thien-An Nguyen, 17, is a Grade...
Everyone has had one of those horrible days. You wake up late, burn your toast, forget to call that person, get screamed at by a grumpy pedestrian, pull into the gas station the wrong way, spill toma...
TORONTO - The Canadian committee of the World Youth Alliance marked its recent inception by hosting speakers Feb. 27 on the topic of refugees, immigrants and multiculturalism in Canada.
The World Y...
Editor's note: This is the second place entry for the Friars Student Writing Award contest sponsored by the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement and The Catholic Register. Katie Gillis, 18, is a Grade 1...
As an impatient child who wasn't very fond of standing out in the hot weather, I absolutely loathed waiting in line for amusement park rides. Not only would the most obnoxious kids be the first ones i...
Editor's note: This is the winning entry for the Friars essay contest.
After Jesus rose from the dead and made Himself known to His disciples in Jerusalem, He gave them a mission that He invites us...
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