Teachers help build student resilience
In an increasingly fraught educational environment where teachers feel overwhelmed and isolated amid increased parental and government expectations on their time, hundreds of Catholic teachers gathered for this year’s Catholic Educators Conference for some much-needed fellowship and support.
Stories are a tool for evangelization
Spiritus York’s kick-off event of 2024 connected the dots between Narnia and Anime in modern-day evangelization.
Nightfever invites guests into Christ’s presence
The Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth hosted the youth-driven initiative Nightfever Jan. 21 at Halifax’s St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, offering passersby an invitation to join in prayer.
‘Something’s happening’ as young seek truth
When it comes to supporting Catholic education, the audience that came to hear Father Deacon Andrew Bennett’s fundraising talk for Catholic Pacific College was as committed as it gets.
Youth group outreach offers warmth and hope to homeless
A group of Montreal millennials spent Boxing Day skipping post-Christmas binge buying and instead taking water, food and hot coffee to homeless “children of God” in the city’s downtown core.
Newman chaplain answers ‘call within a call’
It is a long way from his native Igboland in Nigeria to the Newman Centre at McGill University, but Fr. Anthony Atansi finds himself as “at home” in one as the other.
Renew Toronto aims to enrich young adult faith
Over 500 Catholic young adults aged 19 to 39 will strive to enrich their faith at the annual Renew Toronto conference, which is being staged at the Canada Event Centre in Whitby, Ont., on Nov. 4.
Finding Jesus in the rock of community
We are last to push off from the shore into Oxbow Lake. I am in a canoe with Steph and Ava, two high school students from the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Ahead of us are 30 other TCDSB students ranging from Grades 10-12. For many of them it is their first time paddling a canoe. We are bringing up the rear to ensure no one goes astray. Leading the pack at the front is Greg Rogers, founder of this week-long Catholic Leadership program at Camp Olympia near Huntsville, Ont. He is taking us all to see Jesus.
Young adults share Catholic perspective over pints
The Toronto archdiocese’s Office of Catholic Youth and St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica Young Adults are spicing up the typical Catholic young adult fellowship evening.
Steubenville Atlantic opens to new generation
This year’s Steubenville Atlantic Youth Conference is forecast to resonate with the daily struggles of teen life.
Guess who was gunning back to Saskatoon?
Steadfast Worship aiming for a ‘Louder’ new year
The up-and-coming Catholic youth band Steadfast Worship’s new song “Louder” is rippling soundbites within Toronto’s Catholic community, following its official release last month.
Coming home to ‘Renew’
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the annual Renew conference hosted by the Archdiocese of Toronto and the Office of Catholic Youth got back into the in-person groove on Nov. 5.
Canadian bishops address youth concerns
Fr. Joshua Roldan commends the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops for meeting today’s young Catholics where they are at in a new normal shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘The Challenge of Peace’ 40 years later
Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. bishops’ landmark pastoral letter “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response.”