NEWS
Pope Francis hospitalized for respiratory infection, Vatican says
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News ServiceAfter having difficulty breathing, Pope Francis went to Rome's Gemelli hospital March 29 where he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection that will be treated in the hospital for several days, the Vatican press office said.
Indigenous reconciliation fund hits first target
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe $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 .
'Pray for God's hand' over Mississippi: destructive tornado kills, injures dozens
By Maria-Pia Negro Chin, Gina Christian, Megan Marley OSV NewsPowerful tornadoes tore through rural Mississippi the night of Friday, March 24, killing or injuring dozens and causing widespread destruction.
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.
Holy Land Franciscans advance Jerusalem museum
By Tom Tracy, OSV NewsThe priest-director of the Cultural Heritage Office for the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, or Custody of the Holy Land, in Jerusalem opened a drawer of vestments and casually dropped an unexpected historical tidbit about a clerical chasuble he was showing a group of foreign guests. The chasuble was part of a collection of vestments the archbishop of Paris wore for the marriage of Emperor Napoleon III of France with the Empress Eugenie, and which the empress later donated to the Church in the Holy Land.
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.