After a quarter million dead, six million driven from their homes and 50 years of violence, what Colombia needed was a pastor, not a politician, said Colombian-born Toronto pastor Fr. Carlos Augusto Sierra Tobon.
Summer camp offers quality family time
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterIt’s a family tradition.
Ignatius’ Exercises a spiritual workout
By Fr. Dominic Barber, Catholic Register Special“Take O take me as I am. Summon out what I shall be. Set your seal upon my heart and live in me.”
IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic RegisterCatholic Register reporter Mickey Conlon is among many thousands Florida residents and visitors who have been evacuated and are riding out Hurricane Irma in shelters across the state. Read his first-hand accounts throughout the weekend.
Student trustee ready for his rookie year
By Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic RegisterImagine being 16 years old and having to represent 92,000 of your peers.
Toronto Catholic schools part of new pedestrian safety initiative for students
By Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO – Parents have a lot of things to worry about on the first day of school. Whether or not their child arrives safely should not be one of them.
Building leaders is top priority for new director
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterAlong his journey as a student, teacher and now director of education at Canada’s largest Catholic school board, Rory McGuckin leaned on Catholic leaders for guidance.
Canada, refugee family earn high marks
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPeace, order, good government — that’s all Jomanah Chahrour’s family needed to succeed when they arrived in Edmonton almost six years ago, fleeing Syria’s chaotic, brutalizing civil war.
Film protects schools’ Catholic legacy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterAlthough religious communities no longer have a daily presence in most Ontario schools, a soon-to-be completed film hopes to ensure their efforts in establishing Catholic education are not forgotten.
Students get a big charge from physics
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterA group of Catholic students from Cambridge, Ont., hope a once-ina- lifetime opportunity to conduct an experiment at the world-famous CERN laboratory in Switzerland will help change the way scientists view the world.
Experts weigh in on future of the Church in Canada
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterYounger, smarter, rooted in Scripture, based on tradition, more feminine, better connected with other Christians, more aware of other faiths.