When you consider the gifts St. Augustine’s Seminary has given the local Church, there is plenty to celebrate, says Fr. John-Mark Missio, co-ordinator of the seminary’s 100th anniversary liturgical celebrations. In fact, it’s something the entire Church should celebrate.
Saintly Augustine shaped Christianity through the ages
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterToronto’s patron is St. Michael. Canada’s patron is St. Joseph. So why name the seminary established to train priests for Toronto and Western Canada after a fourth-century North African bishop?
Sr. Cronin bids farewell to ICE
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - After two decades as the Institute for Catholic Education’s executive director, Sr. Joan Cronin is moving on.
Jewel connects spiritually with surrounding city
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterFew of us associate Scarborough with Florence. But next door to the Scarborough Bluffs architect Arthur W. Holmes deposited a little taste of Italy from Florence’s greatest architect.
Age is catching up to seminary
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterFor its 100th birthday one of Toronto’s architectural masterpieces will be hiding behind a massive fretwork of scaffolding.
ShareLife hits record heights in 2013
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The final numbers are in and ShareLife has done it again.
St. Augustine’s told the city, ‘We’re here’
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterA Presbyterian prayer around the turn of the 20th century rather summed up the position of Toronto’s Irish Catholics before the First World War.
Syriac parish rallies around slain teen Sammy Yatim’s family
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Syriac Orthodox parish of St. Barsaumo has rallied around Sammy Yatim’s mother and sister in the aftermath of the youth’s July 27 shooting at the hands of Toronto police.
Construction begins on holy door for Quebec cathedral
By Catholic News ServiceQUEBEC CITY - The archdiocese of Quebec has begun construction on a holy door for its Basilica-Cathedral Notre Dame de Quebec, the first Catholic parish in French-speaking North America.
PQ ‘idealogues’ behind Charter of Quebec Values
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Religious freedom experts say the proposed Charter of Quebec Values that would ban religious dress and symbols from public institutions is unlikely to survive a Supreme Court challenge.
Canadian doctors vote against changing anti-euthanasia policy
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Even though the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has reaffirmed its opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide it’s only a matter of time before pro-euthanasia doctors force the issue back on the table, predicted ethics professor Margaret Somerville.