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April 2007

April 16

Wake up to the Risen Son

April 16, 2007

I am not a morning person. I automatically hit the snooze button a couple of times before I finally drag myself out of bed. But during Lent I got a wake up call that I couldn’t ignore.

April 17

Shalom Catholic Community is recognized by Vatican

April 17, 2007

TORONTO - Three years ago Larissa Olinda moved to Toronto to open the first Canadian chapter of the Shalom Catholic Community. Within the year two other missionaries, Reimar Barata and Emanuela Gomes, followed.

Social justice commitment marked Kennedy’s stay at OECTA

April 17, 2007

TORONTO - Special education, religion and history teacher Donna Marie Kennedy is leaving her current job as president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association with the conviction that social justice is the cornerstone of her union’s existence.

Teachers feeling pressures of Ontario’s work-driven society

April 17, 2007

TORONTO - The average full-time elementary school teacher in Ontario’s Catholic system is putting in a 55.7-hour work week, and what counts as a part-time teaching job averages 36.8 hours per week, according to a new study commissioned by the teachers’ union.

Catalyst rewarded for environmental sensibility

April 17, 2007

TORONTO - The guys who control the mill jobs in several small towns on Vancouver Island, who cut down swaths of rainforest to make paper for phone books and catalogues and who deal in pulp for paper mills up and down the west coast of North America are now officially good guys of Canada’s forest products industry.

Jantzi index keeps up with the big boys

April 17, 2007

TORONTO - The social responsibility and environmental sustainability driven Jantzi Social Index continues to run neck-and-neck with conventional stock market indexes despite its underexposure in the energy sector.

Caritas telethon airs on April 29

April 17, 2007

TORONTO - Caritas is hosting its 13th annual telethon on April 29. The telethon will be aired on the TLN Telelatino Television Network.

Jesus’ message never wears out

April 17, 2007

Easter Sunday (Year C) April 8 (Acts 10:34, 36-43; Psalm 118; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-18) Peace — power — forgiveness — the words are simple enough, but what do they mean? They can mean many different things, depending on the one using the word and the context. Here they are used in an extraordinary way, for they relate to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Archbishop Ncube is Zimbabwe’s only answer to oppose Mugabe

April 17, 2007

As Zimbabwe suffers another round of brutal repression at the hands of President Robert Mugabe and his henchmen, everybody is offering solutions.

Truly risen

April 17, 2007

The documentary Lost Tomb of Jesus, for all its trumpery, posed a question that is as relevant this Easter as it was two millennia ago: Did Jesus rise from the dead? Even if the answer is self-evident to Christians, it does no harm to be able to explain it to the rest of the world in which we live.

Bear witness to the resurrection

April 17, 2007

The belief in the resurrection of Jesus is central to Christianity, as demonstrated by the recent heated debate over the “tomb of Jesus” allegedly found by a Toronto filmmaker. It is a belief that comes to the forefront each year at this time.

Easter promises us that we are being renewed in Jesus

April 17, 2007

With the coming of Easter, the calls for conversion we Christians heard so often during Lent are naturally heard less. The mind of the church turns to other things: the victory of Jesus over death, the coming of His Spirit, the inauguration of the Kingdom of God as a radical new reality in the life of humankind.

John Paul’s ministry showed love for Christ

April 17, 2007

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II’s intense pastoral ministry, “but even more, the Calvary of agony and the serene death of our beloved pope let all people of our age know that Jesus Christ really was his everything,” Pope Benedict XVI said.

Catholic public servant loses court battle over union dues

April 17, 2007

OTTAWA - A Catholic public servant has lost her court battle to have her union dues diverted to charity.

Trying to make sense of the Holocaust’s senseless

April 17, 2007

For Vanessa Harris her Grade 8 class trip to the Holocaust Museum in Toronto was all about trying to understand the incomprehensible.

Doing your part for the environment

April 17, 2007

TORONTO — Learn to keep your parish’s books in the black through the winter and do the Earth a favour at a one-day forum presented by Faith and the Common Good’s Greening Sacred Spaces program.

On Christian women mystics

April 17, 2007

TORONTO — From Julian of Norwich, Clare of Assisi, Teresa of Avila and hundreds of others, Christian women draw on a rich heritage of mysticism. Rev. Glenda Meakin of the Christian Meditation Community of Canada will outline that heritage at the regular monthly teaching meeting of the Christian Meditation Community of Toronto on April 26.

Ordination season is upon us

April 17, 2007

TORONTO - Like the tulips defying the last gasps of winter, preparations for ordinations are another sure sign of spring in Toronto.

Ain’t no Pussycat Doll

April 17, 2007

I was flipping through channels the other night when a new TV show caught my eye. The show was about a group of girls auditioning to be the next Pussycat Doll by singing, dancing and showing off their personalities... whilst being half naked in heels. Whoa!

Taizé time in Quebec

April 17, 2007

MONTREAL, Que. - Laura Hughes walked into a Taizé prayer session by accident and has been hooked ever since.