The $30 million Indigenous Reconciliation Fund has achieved its first-year goal of raising $9.4 million and the fund’s board has greenlit 17 projects.
Hospice care shut out of Ontario budget
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAfter Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy finished outlining how his government intended to spend $204 billion in 2023-2024, hospice director Julie Aubé and her team at Maison McColloch Hospice in Sudbury were still dependent on the Sudbury Food Bank to feed patients at the largest hospice in the province.
Agnes Thomas new executive director at Catholic Charities
By Catholic Register StaffDr. Agnes Thomas’ depth of experience, gleaned from years of service to several communities, has led to a new role as executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto .
Francis Leo installed as Archbishop of Toronto
By Peter StocklandHis Grace Francis Leo offered up gratitude to Christ as he was made Archbishop of Toronto at a Mass in a packed St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica that was equally filled with the spirit of the Annunciation.
Mama Maggie’s vision shared by Canadians
By Susan KorahIt’s a long way from Canada to Cairo.But a recently opened hospital in the city in the Egyptian capital’s trash-filled slums, and Stephen’s Children, the non-profit organization that started it, have special links with Canadians who share the vision of its founder, Maggie Gobran.
Putting the ‘Catholic’ into teachers college
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThere are 40,000 Catholic teachers in Ontario and thousands more in the four provinces that provide some level of public funding to Catholic schools, to say nothing of even more who work in private Catholic schools. But there’s no Catholic teachers’ college in Canada, with the lone exception of the Faculty of Education at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S. — not a province with publicly funded Catholic schools.
Religious Sisters labour to comfort those displaced by war in Ukraine
By Susan KorahAngelica Blyzniuk ended up in the railway station in Lviv, on Feb. 26, 2022, two days after the outbreak of a brutal war. Fleeing the relentless shelling that pounded Nikopol, her home town in south-central Ukraine, she reached Lviv, numb with terror.
Good Friday procession in Toronto makes its return
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterThe annual Good Friday procession which for seven decades has taken over the streets of Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood is set for a grand return this year after three years of pandemic-induced dormancy.
Dealing with abuse a work in progress
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPublishing the names of credibly accused child sex abusers, as Canada’s Jesuit Fathers did March 12, is one small step toward creating a better Church, but it’s not enough for abuse survivor John Swales.
St. Joseph embodies the mission God gave us
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterJoe Grogan is proud of his working class origins in Toronto’s tough Parkdale neighbourhood. He’s proud of a lifetime of labour activism, following in the tradition of his father who was active in the Textile Workers Union of America throughout the 1940s and ’50s.
Two-parent family numbers stabilize in Canada
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterSixty per cent of Canadian children are being raised in homes with married parents, a new study has found, a number that has stayed steady since 2016 after years of decline.