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Lockdown takes toll on kids’ mental health

April 22, 2021

Marina Calo has been trying to manage the online education of her five-year-old son and says it has not been easy.

Portrait of St. Kateri survives devastating church fire on Easter Sunday

April 16, 2021

Amidst the rubble left by the fire that consumed St. Theresa Point Catholic Church on Easter Sunday laid a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha almost completely intact.

Presentation Manor retirement home endures pandemic with strong community

April 9, 2021

The day Presentation Manor went into lockdown for COVID-19 was Charles Hendrick’s birthday, but he wasn’t there to celebrate. He had died the previous October of pancreatic cancer.

Confronting death: Jesus’ last words open us up to our vulnerability, frailty

March 27, 2021

Thinking about a horrible death doesn’t come naturally to 21st-century humans, even on Good Friday.

The Last Supper artwork finds familiar home

March 26, 2021

After decades hanging in Connie Leon’s dining room, a compelling depiction of The Last Supper has found a new home at St. Joseph Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School.

Good Friday procession on hiatus for second year

March 25, 2021

The annual Good Friday procession that brings the Stations of the Cross to life in the streets of Toronto’s Little Italy has been cancelled for the second straight year due to COVID-19.

With a year of COVID there will be plenty of reasons to seek healing in liturgy

March 14, 2021

A year into COVID and Martyrs’ Shrine director Fr. Michael Knox is looking ahead, imagining how we might pray after the pandemic comes to an end.

A year of COVID — a time of learning and caring

March 12, 2021

Fr. Wilson Andrade’s smile is as broad, his laugh as ready and his intense interest in people as alive as it ever was. But he confesses that a year of lockdowns, online Masses and separation from his St. Ann’s parishioners in Toronto’s East Chinatown neighbourhood hasn’t been easy.

‘Coach K’ puts faith to work on court for St. Francis Xavier University

March 5, 2021

It has not been the final season long time St. Francis Xavier University head basketball coach Steve Konchalski imagined.

Animal welfare and the Church

February 19, 2021

Since watching a Netflix documentary on veganism five years ago, Fr. Donatello Iocco has never been the same.