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December 21, 2012
Once thought unfilmable, the musical classic of Les Misérables has transcended the stage onto the silver screen.
December 22, 2012
In Keening for the Dawn: Christmastide, Steve Bell combines the Christmas theme with his folksy sound and a soft country touch.
December 23, 2012
TORONTO - Since the early 1970s parishioners at downtown Toronto’s St. Francis of Assisi parish have honoured their namesake and Jesus Christ with a life-sized Nativity scene.
December 24, 2012
Christmas dinner comes a day late for Zenzie Rees, who forgoes cooking the traditional holiday meal at home and instead volunteers and eats at The Good Shepherd Refuge on Boxing Day. Rees volunteers her time to serve Christmas dinner with about 80 others from noon until 2:30 p.m. at the downtown mission.
Salt+Light TV has the Christmas season covered this year.
We’re told in song that this is “the season to be jolly.” Yet, it’s ironic that, like many occasions when we should be most happy — planning a wedding, moving to a new home, bringing a new baby home for the first time, the first day of a dream job — Christmas brings plenty of stress.
December 25, 2012
TORONTO - As a priest-chaplain at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, people often want to know what it’s like to spend Christmas in a hospital community.
Just like traditions of putting up the tree and hanging lights, there are Christmas movies we will watch year after year, almost without fail. They evoke feelings of nostalgia and bring back childhood memories.
The peace and joy of Christmas emanates from the remarkable narrative of a birth in a Bethlehem manger more than 2,000 years ago. Children have always been enchanted by the birthday of the Baby Jesus, which is probably why The Register's annual Christmas drawing contest has become so popular.
December 26, 2012
TORONTO - Being married matters to the health of mothers and possibly to the health of their children, a new study by Marcelo Urquia has found.
December 27, 2012
TORONTO - It’s highly unlikely Ontario will meet its own poverty-reduction targets in 2013, food bank use has hit record levels and Ontario’s bishops are worried that decent housing has become a distant dream for too many people.
December 28, 2012
OTTAWA (CCN) - William Kokesch, a Montreal permanent deacon who served nearly10 years as a communications director for Canada's Catholic bishops, faceschild pornography charges.
December 30, 2012
Below is the text of the annual Christmas message issued by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
TORONTO - Education is for girls, or at least that’s how the majority of young boys see it, says Jim Brown. Brown, a former director of education for the Huron-Perth Catholic District School Board, has published his findings in Rescuing Our Underachieving Sons.
One of the best-selling Canadian authors alive over the last four months has been a 96-year-old nun who lives in Chofu City, Tokyo, and teaches women’s Bible study classes.
December 31, 2012
OTTAWA - The year 2012 brought troubling news concerning religious freedom, social justice and euthanasia in Canada, but on abortion there are signs the public is increasingly engaged in debate.
Updated 01/02/13 TORONTO - Twelve years of fighting to provide those in need access to free dental care has finally yielded a busload of help for Sr. Georgette Gregory and the Toronto Oral Health Coalition.
Every year is a collection of beginnings. In 2012 we began to pray a new English translation of the Mass. We began to call Toronto’s Archbishop Thomas Collins Cardinal Collins.