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October 2021

October 28

Apology ‘most pressing issue’: Fontaine

October 28, 2021

When Chief Phil Fontaine arrives in Rome to meet with Vatican officials and Pope Francis he will be laser focused on having the Holy Father apologize on Canadian soil, in an Indigenous context, for the damage done to children and communities by Catholic participation in the residential school system.

October 29

Regis College, St. Mike’s join forces

October 29, 2021

The intellectual muscle of the Canadian Catholic Church has been recalibrated by combining Regis College and the University of St. Michael’s College into a federation just one year after negotiations between the two Toronto graduate schools began.

French court convicts Canadian priest of sexual assault

October 29, 2021

A Canadian priest who served in three different Canadian dioceses from 2010 to 2013 has been convicted by a French court in the 2019 sexual assault of four teenage girls in France and Italy.

U.S. President Biden visits Pope Francis at the Vatican

October 29, 2021

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis and U.S. President Joe Biden had an unusually long meeting at the Vatican Oct. 29, talking about the climate crisis and poverty, among other issues.

Dioceses navigate vaccine volunteer protocols

October 29, 2021

Over 19 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, all 225 parishes of the Archdiocese of Toronto have deftly avoided being an outbreak zone for the virus.

Gerry Turcotte: Celebrating the good born from a crisis

October 29, 2021

Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. Actually, it was Plato who argued that “our need will be the real creator,” a comment that eventually morphed into our more familiar adage.

Peter Stockland: Individual conscience a COVID casualty

October 29, 2021

At the end of a recent long run during which the state of the world is a staple of the conversational smorgasbord, my running partner asked a pressing perspicacious question: When, exactly, was conscience transferred from individual to collective ownership?

October 30

Human trafficking education centre launched

October 30, 2021

The Joy Smith Foundation’s new National Human Trafficking Education Centre (NHTEC) is aiming to increase awareness of the scourge while providing greater support for survivors and their families.

Money root of pandemic mental health issues

October 30, 2021

You don’t have to tell the counsellors and therapists working at Catholic Family Services, Archdiocese of Toronto that money — or the lack of it — can have a severe effect on one’s mental health.

October 31

Out of the Cold under COVID restrictions

October 31, 2021

Out of the Cold still isn’t out of the woods as the global pandemic meanders through its fourth wave in Ontario.

God's Word on Sunday: Put fear aside, focus on aiding others

October 31, 2021

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Nov. 7 (Year B) 1 Kings 17:10-16; Psalm 146; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44 Elijah’s request might have seemed a bit presumptuous and insensitive to the poor widow at Zarephath.

Assumption principal aims to put school ‘back on the map’

October 31, 2021

One of the cherished possessions in Dr. John Cappucci’s office at Assumption University is a plaque bearing Jeremiah 29:11: