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Lockdown takes toll on kids’ mental health

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COVID-19 combined with the on-again, off-again lockdowns are having a detrimental effect on the mental health of kids.

Marina Calo has been trying to manage the online education of her five-year-old son and says it has not been easy.

Portrait of St. Kateri survives devastating church fire on Easter Sunday

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The Easter Sunday fire quickly consumed the coummunity church. In the charred remains, a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha somehow survived, as well as a Mary statue.

Amidst the rubble left by the fire that consumed St. Theresa Point Catholic Church on Easter Sunday laid a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha almost completely intact.

Presentation Manor retirement home endures pandemic with strong community

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Some of the staff at Presentation Manor pose in front of a sign that says it all about the people that worked at keeping residents safe. About 100 people work at Presentation Manor.

The day Presentation Manor went into lockdown for COVID-19 was Charles Hendrick’s birthday, but he wasn’t there to celebrate. He had died the previous October of pancreatic cancer.

Confronting death: Jesus’ last words open us up to our vulnerability, frailty

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This massive painting of the crucifixion, along with more than a dozen scenes from Jesus’ life, is at the Isenheim monastery near Colmar, Germany, where those near death came to make a full confession in preparing for a good death in pre-Reformation Europe.

Thinking about a horrible death doesn’t come naturally to 21st-century humans, even on Good Friday.

The Last Supper artwork finds familiar home

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Connie Leon looks over The Last Supper wood relief carving she donated to St. Joseph’s Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School.

After decades hanging in Connie Leon’s dining room, a compelling depiction of The Last Supper has found a new home at St. Joseph Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School.

Good Friday procession on hiatus for second year

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The annual Good Friday procession through Toronto’s Little Italy has been cancelled for the second straight year due to COVID-19.

The annual Good Friday procession that brings the Stations of the Cross to life in the streets of Toronto’s Little Italy has been cancelled for the second straight year due to COVID-19.

With a year of COVID there will be plenty of reasons to seek healing in liturgy

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The Church has an example of how to respond to COVID publicly and liturgically in Pope Francis who, in the depths of Italy’s COVID crisis last April, stood alone in a rain-soaked St. Peter’s Square, crosier in hand, praying for mercy urbi et orbi — for the city and the world.

A year into COVID and Martyrs’ Shrine director Fr. Michael Knox is looking ahead, imagining how we might pray after the pandemic comes to an end.

A year of COVID — a time of learning and caring

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It’s been a year since life as we knew it came to a screeching halt. Our churches closed, then reopened with strict capacity limits, only to close again in much of Canada.

Fr. Wilson Andrade’s smile is as broad, his laugh as ready and his intense interest in people as alive as it ever was. But he confesses that a year of lockdowns, online Masses and separation from his St. Ann’s parishioners in Toronto’s East Chinatown neighbourhood hasn’t been easy.

‘Coach K’ puts faith to work on court for St. Francis Xavier University

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Steve Konchalski huddles with one of his many X-Men teams.

It has not been the final season long time St. Francis Xavier University head basketball coach Steve Konchalski imagined.

Social justice is investing’s future at Kings College

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Social justice is investing’s future at Kings College

With Gen-Zs touted as a morally conscious generation bent on addressing the many ills in today’s society, King’s University College Capital Management Club fund manager Serge Muhirwa sees social justice defining the future of investment.

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