ShareLife

Today, and always, ShareLife matters

Agencies respond to the issues of our times

Quinton Amundson · September 26, 2026

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.

Original agencies’ legacy carries on today

ShareLife in harmony with Catholic faith

Anna Farrow · September 26, 2026

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.

Dignity, inclusion, hope: everyone is special

Luke Mandato · September 26, 2026

As ShareLife marks its 50th anniversary, one of its enduring commitments remains upholding the dignity and inclusion of people with special needs.

ShareLife is more than a collection

For 50 years it has spread the kingdom of God among us

Catholic Register Staff · September 26, 2026

The homily delivered by Cardinal Frank Leo at the Aug. 22 ShareLife Anniversary Mass.

Catholic values at core of agencies’ work with families

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.

As need grows, so does ShareLife’s reach

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.

A good walk to support a great cause

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.

In solidarity with the world beyond Toronto

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.

ShareLife has always been there

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.

Dignity for all, to the end

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.