Toronto’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?

TORONTO - After two decades as the Institute for Catholic Education’s executive director, Sr. Joan Cronin is moving on.

Few 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.

For its 100th birthday one of Toronto’s architectural masterpieces will be hiding behind a massive fretwork of scaffolding.

TORONTO - The final numbers are in and ShareLife has done it again.

A Presbyterian prayer around the turn of the 20th century rather summed up the position of Toronto’s Irish Catholics before the First World War.

TORONTO - 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.

QUEBEC 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.

OTTAWA - 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.

OTTAWA - 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.