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May 2013

May 3

Income-splitting the way to tax fairness for families

May 3, 2013

OTTAWA - Canada’s tax system discriminates against single-income families, but that can be remedied by introducing income-splitting into the system, a new study shows.

Sport meets spirituality on the court

May 3, 2013

TORONTO - Former Ryerson University head volleyball coach Dion Rugosi is inviting young adults to combine sport and spirituality.

Catholic hospitals footing the bill for refugee treatments

May 3, 2013

Updated 05/03/13 TORONTO - Toronto’s two large, acute-care Catholic hospitals have written off more than $174,000 in treatment costs for more than 800 refugee patients no longer covered by federal health insurance, The Catholic Register has learned.

TCDSB takes aim at mental health

May 3, 2013

TORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board has joined forces with the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) to combat student mental health ailments.

Singer funds his way to world stage

May 3, 2013

TORONTO - Roy Tugbang, a classically trained singer and Grade 12 student at the Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts, is fundraising his way to the World Championships of Performing Arts.

Vatican official says July trip to Brazil being tailored to new Pope

May 3, 2013

VATICAN - Visiting Rio de Janeiro, the chief organizer of papal trips confirmed Pope Francis will participate in the key events of World Youth Day July 23-28 and he said other parts of the papal trip are being tailor-made for the new Pope.

Scarboro Missions adapts program to modern reality

May 3, 2013

TORONTO - Hoping to win over more young people to mission life, Scarboro Missions is betting that a one-year commitment compared to three will be its lucky number.

May 4

Vision series explores religious persecution

May 4, 2013

TORONTO - Religious persecution, whether by mob violence, popular prejudice or state-imposed restrictions on religious practice, is significant in 163 countries, according to the Pew Research Centre’s Forum on Religion and Public Life, with Christianity being the number one target. The world’s 2.2 billion Christians face significant state or popular persecution in 130 countries, says the Pew Forum, while Aid to the Church in Need estimates 150,000 Christians are killed annually because of their faith.

Still life in old bones

May 4, 2013

After more than six decades of marriage, love looks like Craig Morrison caring for his ailing wife Irene in Michael McGowan’s Still Mine. But this isn’t your typical sob story about aging.

Opera tackles brutality inflicted upon Carmelites

May 4, 2013

TORONTO - The Canadian Opera Company is delving into the turmoil of the French Revolution to tell the story of a group of Carmelite nuns who face death, and how they must rely on their faith in order to accept the horror of their situation to find peace.

May 5

Education minister says she will always defend Ontario's Catholic schools

May 5, 2013

TORONTO - If the Ontario Liberal government falls over its provincial budget, Education Minister Liz Sandals "will be back on the street knocking on doors and defending the Catholic education system again," she told an audience of about 200 Catholic school trustees.

Our system is rooted in Gospel values

May 5, 2013

TORONTO - In a variety of ways the past year has been a strange one in publicly funded Catholic education. This should not surprise us. We will always be a “sign that will be contradicted” (Luke 2:34). Nothing daunted, we carry on in our mission, confident in our abilities and with a profound reliance on the guiding power of the Holy Spirit. We are a successful, efficient, co-operative school system with an unbroken history going back more than 175 years.

Federal government abdicating leadership in health care, critics say

May 5, 2013

A federal government attempt to kill off the Health Council of Canada has Catholic health care advocates upset and disappointed.

Celebrating Catholic education in song

May 5, 2013

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. Singing is faith in action, says Nancy Bodsworth, writer and performer of “Together in Faith,” the theme song for Catholic Education Week 2013.

Jesuit program connects students with Global South

May 5, 2013

TORONTO - Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) is bringing social justice teachings to high school students as part of its new Youth for Others program.

Program gives aboriginals another chance to graduate

May 5, 2013

Aboriginal adults in northern Ontario are getting a second shot at completing their high school diploma through their local Catholic school board. The Northeastern Catholic District School Board’s ACCESS Program is offered in four centres in the board’s vast area from Moosonee on the shore of James Bay down to Cobalt in the south.

Canada joins U.S. Romanian eparchy

May 5, 2013

TORONTO - At 19,811,345 square kilometres the Byzantine-rite Romanian Eparchy of St. George the Martyr based in Canton, Ohio, has likely become the largest Catholic diocese in the world.

Improv tickles this team’s fancy

May 5, 2013

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - At St. Marcellinus Catholic Secondary School being part of the improvisational theatre team takes more than just being funny.

Developing entire person key to success

May 5, 2013

Developing the entire person is what keeps Catholic education so successful in Ontario, Marino Gazzola believes.

Cathedral of St. Teresa of Avila is the splendour of Amos

May 5, 2013

AMOS, QUE. - For Fr. Joseph Dudemaine, the pastor in Amos in 1914, the challenge of building a church must have seemed overwhelming. The remote settlement in the Abitibi-Temiskaming region of northwestern Quebec had a population of just 2,500. Although the area had potential for agriculture, forestry and mining, a hundred years ago it was nothing but trees.