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Students for Life at Ryerson was founded by three Ryerson students (from left to right): Carter Grant, vice-president, Nicole Bryck, president, and Teresa Mervar, treasurer.

Ryerson pro-lifers lose appeal for club status

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TORONTO - The Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) board of directors unanimously voted to reject a campus pro-life club’s application to become an official student campus group.

Eric Mason, soon to be Fr. Eric Mason, speaks with some of the 500 students who attended the Ordinandi Youth Day in Brampton, Ont., March 3. Mason shared the story of his call with the youth.

Seeds of vocation planted in 500 students

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BRAMPTON, ONT. - Students who have an interest in a higher calling came together March 3 to explore their religious and priestly vocation curiosity. 

Before opening the doors to its first patrons of the day Br. John Frampton gathers the volunteer serving staff together to pray the Peace Prayer of St. Francis. For more than a generation, student and teacher volunteers have been learning the joy of working together for the sake of others by volunteering at St. Francis' Table in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood. But as Br. Frampton says, less volunteers are coming to meet the demands of Toronto's hungry.

St. Francis Table is in dire need of volunteers

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TORONTO - St. Francis Table is hungrier than ever for volunteers to feed those being starved by poverty.

Fr. Henry McErlean organized thousands of retreats around Mary. In the 60s, McErlean travelled to Uganda where he served several church communities. He died peacefully in Newmarket, Ont., at the age of 82.

Fr. McErlean touched all he met

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Those who knew Fr. Henry McErlean remember the man for his strong will, his wit, wisdom and calming smile.

Over 600 laypeople and faith leaders gathered at the Virgin Mary and St. Athanasius Church in Mississauga, Ont., Feb. 22 to mourn the 21 Egyptians Copts killed by the Islamic State allies in Libya. The church displayed a new icon representing the martyrs.

Hundreds gather to mourn Christians slain by Islamic State

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MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - The Coptic Christians of Toronto and their friends gathered in Mississauga Feb. 22 to answer the murder of 21 Egyptian Copts by Islamic State allies in Libya. They answered the Feb. 15 beheadings with Bible readings, prayers, songs, hope and forgiveness.

Community relations staff member Everton Lewis says that schools need to change the way Canadian history is presented to curb the "almost subconscious racism" that is embedded in the curriculum.

Schools need to teach Canada’s black past

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TORONTO - Everton Lewis is trying to raise awareness that black history is as much a part of Canada’s past as the stories of European explorers like Samuel Champlain.

Sr. Mechtilde O’Mara is the ministry director for Faith Connections.

Regis’ Lenten retreat takes aim at busy youth

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TORONTO - Everyone needs spiritual direction at some point in their life, said Sr. Mechtilde O’Mara.

Vlad Mamaradlo, is lay youth minister at St. Joseph the Worker parish in Thornhill, Ont. He’s one of a growing breed of youth ministers throughout the archdiocese.

An evolving youth ministry

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TORONTO - Young people aren’t the future of the Church, says Andrew Santos, they are the present. 

Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe, named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2014 for her work with girls in Uganda, will speak in Toronto Feb. 9.

Sewing hope for Ugandan girls ravaged by war experience

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TORONTO - Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe is determined to teach women how to stitch their lives, torn by war and slavery, back together again.

Fr. Joe Gorman

Popular priest told to "take time away" from duties at Aurora parish

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A popular pastor has been asked to step aside for a "period of reflection" after financial and ecclesiastical "irregularities" were uncovered in a large Archdiocese of Toronto parish.

The St. Agnes Tsao Kouying parish community exceeded its original goal threefold. It raised more than $1.5 million as part of the Family of Faith campaign.

Family of Faith is bringing pastor closer to his flock

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MARKHAM, ONT. - Fr. Francis Chong admits he was nervous about asking his parishioners for $490,000. Today he is delighted at how his prayers were answered to the tune of $1.5 million — and counting.

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