Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register
Remembering town’s Irish, Catholic past
The hamlet of Downeyville in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region is a very different town from when author and community historian Dan Sullivan grew up there in the 1950s and ’60s.
Pieta returned to Red Deer church home after 30 years
A life-sized pieta of Mary holding Jesus’ body that has spent more than 30 years at the city’s museum has been returned to Sacred Heart Church in Red Deer, Alta
Students hopeful semblance of ‘normal’ will return
AnnaMaria Amato is hopeful that a normal graduation ceremony might be possible at the end of the 2021-22 school year.
Hamilton anti-racism report seeks change
Almost two-thirds of Black students in the Hamilton, Ont., Catholic school board said they feel unsafe in their school, according to a new report.
Passion, purpose, the poet and principal
Walking through the halls of Scarborough’s Mother Teresa Catholic Academy, Ontario’s first Poet Laureate, Randell Adjei, and principal Jose Alberto Flores feel a special connection to the diverse and dynamic school community.
Prayers for Ethiopia grow louder
For the Ethiopian Orthodox Church of Canada congregation at St. Mary Cathedral in Toronto, prayer vigils for peace in their homeland have been ongoing for the past 30 years.
Catholic school Canada’s first to go carbon-neutral
John Paul II Secondary School in London, Ont., is Canada’s first self-sufficient, carbon-neutral school, drawing on solar and geothermal energy for its power needs.
Authors make the case for basic income strategy
In November 2017 people lined up for hours in Lindsay, Ont., in hopes of registering for Ontario’s basic income pilot program.
St. Mike’s recommits to protecting students
With the book being closed on the court cases involving seven students involved in a highly-publicized hazing and sexual assault at Toronto’s St. Michael’s College School, the prestigious Catholic private school says it remains “deeply committed” to measures put in place to make sure such an incident doesn’t occur again.
For 25 years, Shepherds’ Trust a ‘blessing’
It was hard for even Fr. Alphonsus Bernard’s close associates to believe he had reached the age of retirement.