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Funding for Catholic Family Services’ Seniors Outreach Program comes from money collected during ShareLife’s annual campaign, which this year has a goal of $14.925 million this year.

ShareLife funds help support outreach to elderly

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For many seniors, day-to-day living is a lonely and often isolating experience.

Toronto Raptors' all-star point guard Kyle Lowry and his wife Ayahna Cornish-Lowry has been awarded a TCDSB Friends of Catholic Education Award.

Kyle and Ayahna Lowry honoured by Toronto Catholic school board

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Kyle Lowry, the Toronto Raptors’ all-star point guard, has his hands full with the NBA playoffs these days, but he took time out recently to accept an award from the Toronto Catholic District School Board.

Delegates on the stage at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah. Toronto will be hosting the next gathering between Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 2018.

Toronto to host Parliament of World Religions in 2018

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More than 10,000 delegates from 80 countries representing some 200 religious, spiritual and indigenous traditions are expected in Toronto for the seventh Parliament of World Religions Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 2018.

According to a report form Dixon Hall Neighbourhood Services April 24, Toronto’s Out of the Cold system is dangerously close to turning people away as it saw a nine per cent jump in overnight guests.

Toronto's Out of the Cold system faces ‘breaking point’: report

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A nine per cent jump in overnight guests has pushed Toronto’s Out of the Cold system dangerously close to turning people away, according to a new report from Dixon Hall Neighbourhood Services.

Br. Tom Liss, OH, Director of Hospitality and Shelter Services, left, and Aklilu Wendaferew, assistant executive director of Toronto's Good Shepherd

Good Shepherd tackles gambling addiction among homeless

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The Good Shepherd Ministries is finding yet one more way it can help the homeless and vulnerable.

Marc Porlier, 43, was caught on video cameras and has been charged in connection with a fire at Toronto's St. John the Evangelist Church on Easter Sunday.

Man arrested in wake of Toronto church fire on Easter Sunday

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A man has been arrested after a fire was set at a Toronto Roman Catholic church on Easter Sunday morning.

The chrism oil to be used for the next year in baptisms, confirmations and ordinations is brought to the altar during the annual Chrism Mass April 11 at St. Michael’s Cathedral.

Archdiocese celebrates Chrism Mass at St. Michael's Cathedral

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With about 300 priests concelebrating, dozens of deacons in attendance and an overflow assembly standing in the aisles of St. Michael’s Cathedral, the Archdiocese of Toronto re-equipped itself for another year of baptisms, confirmations and ordinations by welcoming the new supply of chrism oil.

Mother Superior Maria del sol Del Castillo (middle), and the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word at St. Augustine of Canterbury Parish, are stepping in to serve as family to children who might otherwise be forgotten.

ShareLife funds help sisters aid struggling refugee families

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At St. Augustine of Canterbury Parish, religious sisters are serving as surrogate mothers to disadvantaged youth in one of Toronto’s poorest west-end neighbourhoods.

Three dozen Christians, Catholics and Protestants attended the First Narayever’s fifth annual interfaith seder, the traditional meal that opens the eight-day celebration of Pesach or Passover March 217.

Interfaith Passover seder serves a feast full of history

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A simple seder is synonymous with community, said Sr. Lucy Thorson of the Notre Dame de Sion Sisters over a bowl of matzo soup in the basement of Toronto’s downtown First Narayever Synagogue.

At a Queen's Park committee's hearings into Bill 84, oncologist Dr. Ellen Warner said that physicians at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital are “being bullied” and are experiencing a “horrendous stress level” due to assisted suicide.

Doctors being ’bullied’ over assisted suicide, legislators told at Bill 84 hearings

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Doctors are being bullied, silenced and coerced in a pro-euthanasia environment which is forcing those who object to medically assisted suicide to provide an effective referral for patients who wish to die, provincial legislators were told during hearings into Bill 84.

Cardinal Thomas Collins spoke at the March 23 Bill-84 hearings regarding conscience rights.

Cardinal Collins' Bill-84 deposition: 'Protect the healers from punishment'

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On March 23, public depositions were heard by a standing committee that is reviewing Bill-84, an act to amend Ontario laws related to medically assisted death. Two of the speakers, Cardinal Thomas Collins and Dr. Christine Cserti‐Gazdewich, appealed for the recognition of conscience rights to protect doctors who reject this now-legal practice. Here is the edited statement from Cardinal Collins.

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