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Students in Toronto’s Thorncliffe area were challenged to bring solutions to problems at the Overlea Bridge. Their advocacy brought change — for the good.

The convergence of learning, citizenship

By Josh Fullan and Michael Fullan, Catholic Register Special

Historically, schools have treated citizenship both poorly and as a separate category. In Ontario high schools, students are required to take a half credit in Civics and Citizenship. In recent years, between 15,000 and 20,000 students are choosing to complete this credit online, many asynchronously and in the summer. Their motivation? To simply get it over with.

Long way to go on path of reconciliation

By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

One year after the historic papal visit to Canada, positive signs abound.

St. Agnes Church in Lac-Mégantic, Que., was at the heart of the commemoration for the victims of one of Canada’s worst rail disasters.

St. Agnes the beating heart of Lac-Mégantic

By Anna Farrow

Parish stood, and stands, at centre of remembering the 47 taken too soon.

‘I have only done the work of a servant’

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

The Register's globe-trotting journalist's career ends after 25 years.

With the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown, top left, who was among the more conservative justices on the high court, will the scales of justice lean too far one way? Catholic lawyers like Phil Horgan, general counsel for the Catholic Civil Rights League, believe it will.

Judicial balancing act

By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in a Chilean desert, recently decommissioned and to be replaced with a stronger telescope, has measured the oldest light in the universe.

Unravelling the mysteries of dark matter

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

A Jesuit at the University of Toronto is helping to map the unknown.

In a world going increasingly digital, with the ability to compose sonatas and paint with new technologies, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communications is looking at how digital culture is shaping us as individuals and as a society.

Connection must go beyond digital realm

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Are we losing our ability to think deeply, purposefully?

For Africans arriving in Canada, they find the Mass is different. It doesn’t have the colour, the energy they are accustomed to back home, which was on display May 27 at the Africa Day Mass at Toronto’s Our Lady of Lourdes.

Africa’s gift

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Hope and energy brought to Church in Africans’ new homeland.

The value of work, particularly that of migrant workers who have helped build Canada, have been the focus of Vince Pietropaolo’s lens over the years.

The art of work

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Vince Pietropaolo’s lens points us to who built Canada.

Winning drawing by Sophia Della Rossa, Grade 8, for the 2023 Easter Drawing Contest.

Easter Drawing Contest 2023 winners

By Catholic Register Staff

Here at The Catholic Register, we make it a key part of our journalistic mission to find and communicate beauty even in a fallen world, which is why at the joyous Christian seasons of Christmas and Easter we save some of our pages for art created by elementary school students as part of our twice-yearly drawing contest.