Is there anything sacred about the soil? Is there holiness in meals we share? Does our Catholic religious imagination extend to how we nourish ourselves and our families?
L’Arche turning 50 this year
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterFor 50 years, L’Arche has been a community and a school of life. It has been taking in developmentally disabled adults, but not simply as an alternative to the old asylums where people with Down’s syndrome and similar problems used to disappear. The L’Arche model is an alternative to any society that has no room for people who can’t conform to expectations.
Women need to embrace their ‘Feminine Genius’
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - God has entrusted humankind to women, said Anita Healy at the fifth annual Dynamic Women of Faith conference, and so women must pray to God for the courage to embody their “Feminine Genius.”
Fascination with sex overtakes discussion on religion, public policy
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - A debate about how much, if at all, religion should be allowed into public policy debates ended up being mostly about sex.
Diocese of Hamilton donates $2 million to St. Peter’s Seminary
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterThe Diocese of Hamilton, Ont., has gifted St. Peter’s Seminary with its largest donation to date.
We must serve Christ the liberator
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - As he blessed the oil of Chrism and led more than 400 priests in a recommitment to their ordination, Toronto Archbishop Cardinal Thomas Collins preached the message of Christ the liberator.
Canadian Jesuit provinces are to reunite
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTHORNHILL, ONT. - Canada’s French- and English-speaking Jesuits plan to rejoin into a single Canadian province of the world’s largest Catholic religious order of men.
OECTA wrong to join Pride Parade
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The union representing Ontario’s Catholic teachers is wrong to join in the World Pride Parade and its decision demonstrates an “inadequate and mistaken understanding of their faith,” said Cardinal Thomas Collins.
Flaherty’s Catholic heritage shaped his political thinking
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Jim Flaherty was buried out of Toronto’s Anglican St. James Cathedral in a state funeral on April 16 but the political life of the former Finance Minister was shaped by his Catholic upbringing, said former colleagues.
Three pastors, united for four decades
By Micah Bond, Catholic Register SpecialBELLEVILLE, ONT. - The pastors at Belleville’s three Catholic churches come in three different flavours — traditional, spiritual and goofy. All three flavours come courtesy of St. Augustine’s Seminary, class of 1974.
Finding comfort in Our Lady of Guadalupe
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterToronto - The same year Deacon Gerard Almeida returned to his ministry at Toronto’s Nativity of Our Lord parish, he set eyes on the Marian icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe. This April, he will realize his dream of installing a sister replica of the icon as a permanent fixture of his home church.