Michael Swan

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The Good Shepherd turns 60

September 14, 2023

The times may have changed, but brothers’ mission remains the same.

‘I have only done the work of a servant’

June 29, 2023

The Register's globe-trotting journalist's career ends after 25 years.

Winners and losers: how Catholics drop the ball

June 22, 2023

On LGBT issues, abortion and euthanasia, theologian David Deane of the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax does not disagree with Church teaching. But, he decries what he calls the unChristian and non-traditional ways Catholics have tried to win these arguments.

Ontario hospices get $147 million shot in the arm

June 20, 2023

Ontario hospices are getting more money to fund their day-to-day operations guaranteed over the next three years.

Unravelling the mysteries of dark matter

June 15, 2023

A Jesuit at the University of Toronto is helping to map the unknown.

Celebrating our elders

June 9, 2023

If St. Clare’s Parish in Toronto’s Corso Italia neighbourhood didn’t put on coffee and bingo for seniors every other Thursday morning, Vicenza Divizio would miss it.

Connection must go beyond digital realm

June 8, 2023

Are we losing our ability to think deeply, purposefully?

Priest’s pics show world on verge of change

June 2, 2023

Freelance journalist Dan O’Reilly loves history — particularly the ways history persists in his own parish, family and community.

Campaign Life demands school boards remove Pride flag

June 1, 2023

In the first harsh blast of summer heat, just over a dozen protesters gathered in the shade of the Archdiocese of Toronto offices on Yonge Street June 1, prayed the rosary and demanded that Archbishop Francis Leo remove from Catholic school boards and Catholic health care institutions their right to call themselves Catholic if they continue flying Pride flags.

Africa’s gift

June 1, 2023

Hope and energy brought to Church in Africans’ new homeland.

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