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Responsiveness is not the most stirring word to explain why ShareLife remains as vibrant and vital today as it was during its formative years. Nevertheless, it’s an essential part of the answer.
ShareLife came into existence in response to a moral problem. When Planned Parenthood was added as a recipient of United Way funding in 1975, Pocock made the momentous decision to remove the Council of Catholic Charities from the integrated fundraising entity.
As ShareLife marks its 50th anniversary, one of its enduring commitments remains upholding the dignity and inclusion of people with special needs.
The homily delivered by Cardinal Frank Leo at the Aug. 22 ShareLife Anniversary Mass.
Luke Mandato · September 25, 2026
While ShareLife has sustained the essential work of Catholic agencies that work to strengthen families across the Archdiocese of Toronto for the last half century, few of those partnerships reach as far back, or continue to run as deep, as the one with Catholic Family Services of Toronto, an agency whose own roots stretch back more than a century to 1922.
Anna Farrow · September 25, 2026
While a few of the organizations supported by ShareLife have histories stretching back into the early years of the Toronto archdiocese, others have arisen in response to current needs.
Golfers make a real difference at annual ShareLife tourney
Peter Stockland · September 25, 2026
Given golf’s rising popularity over the past five years, even its harshest critics can’t make stick the sarcasm falsely attributed to Mark Twain that the sport is a good walk spoiled.
ShareLife has no borders
Michael Swan · September 25, 2026
Life has no borders. Love has no borders. The Church Universal knows only life and love. ShareLife has these truths embedded in its DNA.
Where there is a need, it is always on the front lines
Mickey Conlon · September 24, 2026
ShareLife and the more than 40 agencies it supports throughout the Archdiocese of Toronto has always shared a helping hand with those in need.
Quinton Amundson · September 24, 2026
Pat Colucci is in awe of how perceptive her staff at Cardinal Ambrozic Houses of Providence is about the residents of this long-term care facility on the Providence Healthcare campus in Toronto’s east end.
