TORONTO - Dr. Stephen Hwang has been appointed the first endowed Chair of Homelessness, Housing and Health at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto.

TORONTO - Students at St. Luigi Catholic School got a taste of Olympic gold on Jan. 30 when Kids Now used the school to announce Rosannagh (Rosie) MacLennan as its newest honorary mentor.

TORONTO - A new partnership between the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the Toronto Catholic District School Board will open doors to enhanced knowledge for more than 12,000 students.

OTTAWA - Three MPs have created a firestorm by asking the RCMP to investigate as possible homicides the deaths of late-term babies born alive as a result of botched abortions.

VANCOUVER - Pornography has become an epidemic that is tearing many Catholic couples apart and, in the process, wounding authentic masculinity and femininity.

Updated 02/04/13

TORONTO - When Cardinal Joseph Zen comes to Toronto to speak Feb. 7 about “The Church in China: Hope For The 21st Century,” many in Toronto’s Chinese Catholic community will recall the hope he raised in Hong Kong during the 20th century.

OTTAWA - Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast has ordained Carl Reid, a former Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC) bishop, to the priesthood.

St. Stephen’s parish in Consul, Sask., serves 10 families and on a good Sunday has about 10 people in the pews. Prince of Peace in Toronto serves a Catholic population of more than 6,000 and every Sunday packs them in to five separate Masses. St. Stephen’s is surrounded by vast open fields while Prince of Peace is surrounded by 20-storey buildings.

VANCOUVER - Msgr. Stephen Jensen grew up serving the Church, and he’s never stopped. The newly named bishop of Prince George has always kept service and obedience to the Lord close to his heart. His friends and colleagues know he will bring that attitude to the people of northern British Columbia.

Ottawa parents stunned by ‘scandals’ in Catholic schools