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Celebrating our elders

If St. Clare’s Parish in Toronto’s Corso Italia neighbourhood didn’t put on coffee and bingo for seniors every other Thursday morning, Vicenza Divizio would miss it.

Participants in the first Loretto Sisters’ walking tour gather in front of St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica.

Tour connects dots between early Toronto, Loretto Sisters

By Angelica Vecchiato, Register Correspondent

The Loretto Sisters’ pioneering legacy in Toronto’s early beginnings has come alive in a new citywide walking tour.

Chart gets to ‘meat’ of the settlement in abuse cases

By Anna Farrow

What is the price of an abusive kiss by a predatory priest? How much should an unwanted fondle fetch to serve justice to the victim? Ask the class-action lawyers.

Smoke from a wildfire near Barrington Lake in Nova Scotia fills the skies. Halifax-Yarmouth Archbishop Brian Dunn said the archdiocese will continue to support those affected and a special litany prayer was composed for those affected by the fires.

Prayers continue as Nova Scotia fires contained

By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

As Nova Scotians received a welcome dose of good news on June 5 that the overall wildfire situation across the province has been contained and many of the evacuees were authorized to return to their homes, the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth continued to call for prayer for those affected.

The now closed and demolished Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John’s, Nfld.

St. John’s settlement appears near

By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

Survivors of abuse at the Mount Cashel orphanage in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, and by clergy from the Archdiocese of St. John’s through the years, are poised to receive a financial settlement from the archdiocese by the end of the year.

Saskatoon school board vandalized in Pride protest

By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

The Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools’ (GSCS) downtown office was vandalized May 29 following the leaking of an internal email asking principals to avoid the “Rainbow Tent” at a children’s festival.

Suspect seen at the scene of a suspected arson at St. Mary's Cathedral, Calgary, May 19, 2023.

Suspect sought in Calgary cathedral fire

By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

The Calgary Police Service (CPS) is on the hunt for a man who deliberately started a fire and assaulted two men at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Calgary.

Suspended Catholic school student fights for standing

By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

It appears that James Kitchen will have to wait until nearly the end of the summer to substantively challenge the suspension of St. Joseph’s High School student Josh Alexander in provincial court.

Sculptor Timothy Shmalz unveiled his latest creation, The Dante Gardens, at Toronto’s University of St. Michael’s College May 25. It’s an ode to Dante Aligheri’s 'The Divine Comedy'.

Sculptor, cardinal tout Dante’s power

By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

If you ask Toronto’s retired archbishop Cardinal Thomas Collins or celebrated Canadian Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz to discuss the legacy of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), they will likely wax poetic about the famous Catholic Italian poet, writer and philosopher.