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May 2007

May 24

The Spirit makes us aware of the truth

May 24, 2007

Trinity Sunday (Year C) June 3, (Proverbs 8:22-31/Romans 5:1-5/John 16:12-15) Explaining the Trinity is a delicate undertaking. Utmost care and precision in wording must be taken to stay on the right track. The slightest fuzziness or carelessness can result in a statement that is not completely orthodox.

May 25

Miracles really do happen every day

May 25, 2007

Nobody likes to wait. Especially for a medical diagnosis and treatment. That’s what my husband and I were doing this past month.

Gaza violence leaves many scared, trapped

May 25, 2007

JERUSALEM - Exploding violence in the Gaza Strip has left the people weeping and trapped in a war zone, said a local parish priest.

All kids up to bat

May 25, 2007

TORONTO - No one sat out on the side lines during a baseball mini-camp for 125 special needs students. The Toronto Blue Jays and the Halton Catholic District School Board sponsored the half-day event at the Rogers Centre May 16.

Ottawa gets youth-friendly archbishop

May 25, 2007

OTTAWA - The newly appointed archbishop of Ottawa has a heart for youth.

Phony satisfaction

May 25, 2007

I can remember many times where a cell phone has gone off at the wrong time, but there was this one time I’ll never forget. I was at Palm Sunday Mass and a cell phone rang right in the middle of it. I couldn’t believe it. The person didn’t even turn the phone off because he didn’t want anyone to know it was him. He had not only disrespected the people around him, the priest and the altar servers, but most importantly, God.

Solidarity service will remember Holocaust, honour those who saved Jews

May 25, 2007

TORONTO - At the 26th annual Toronto Christian Service in Memory of the Holocaust, survivor Ada Wynston will light the seventh and last candle.

St. Brigid’s students’ environmental commitment ‘a spiritual imperative’

May 25, 2007

TORONTO - As Mass ended under bright sunshine outdoors and teacher-librarian Kathryn Zaleski-Cox announced St. Brigid’s Elementary School had made the grade as an Ontario EcoSchool, a cheer went up. For the 580 students of east-end Toronto’s St. Brigid’s Elementary, their teachers and two dozen parents participating in the May 17 Mass, they weren’t just cheering for something students had accomplished with a year’s worth of litterless lunches, reduced energy consumption and heightened ecological awareness. The cheer also recognized prayers answered.

Providence Healthcare still caring 150 years later

May 25, 2007

TORONTO - The next 150 years probably won’t be like the last 150, but Providence Healthcare wants some things to remain the same. “We would love to be able to provide compassionate, quality care for the next 150 years,” said Providence Health Care spokeswoman Rosemary MacGilchrist.

Gervais oversaw demographic change

May 25, 2007

OTTAWA - Since he arrived in 1989, Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais has done a deft job of maintaining unity in the bilingual diocese covering Canada’s capital where national concerns like same-sex marriage become a unique challenge.

Cardinal Zen’s quest for normal relations

May 25, 2007

MARKHAM, Ont. - Cardinal Joseph Zen isn’t asking for much from Beijing. “Our hope is normalization of the situation. That’s our purpose,” the 75-year-old archbishop of Hong Kong told The Catholic Register May 21 while visiting St. Agnes Kouying Church in Markham, north of Toronto. Zen has been Rome’s point man in an effort to establish diplomatic relations between Beijing and the Vatican.