Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo fondly recalled his childhood encounters with missionaries.

Catholic Missions In Canada’s (CMIC) annual Tastes of Heaven Gala on April 27 is set to have a time machine effect in more way than one.

It all began with a Sunday sermon by their soon-to-be good friend Fr. Jim Bleakney.

Rewind the clocks to late July 2020. Five months into the COVID-19 pandemic and Catholic Missions In Canada had already paid a heavy toll.

The annual Tastes of Heaven gala fundraiser for Catholic Missions In Canada was not staged in 2020, one of the long list of victims of the COVID-19 virus, but the keystone event returns April 29 in a virtual realm.

Fr. David Reilander spent the early days of the COVD-19 shutdown alongside Catholic Missions In Canada’s financial and administration director Lina Kim diagnosing the potential impacts the pandemic would have on its operations.

Not all missions are foreign missions.

Bishop Douglas Crosby has some travel advice for newly-ordained priests: Go north, young man.

TORONTO – “Keep the missions safe,” Fr. Philip J. Kennedy told the staff of Catholic Missions In Canada as he ended his 10-year mission as president.

TORONTO – Fr. David Reilander has seen the importance of Catholic Missions In Canada first-hand.

VAUGHAN, ONT. – Bishop Mark Hagemoen’s plea for $300,000 to help rebuild a demolished church in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., was answered by about 500 donors who attended the annual Taste of Heaven gala fundraiser and banquet.

VAUGHAN, ONT. - Sr. Andrea Dumont, a missionary Sister of St. Joseph, was honoured this year with Catholic Missions In Canada's St. Joseph Award.

Radicals and deviants have to fight their way into the history books. Ninety years after her death, Katherine Hughes is finally winning that battle.

TORONTO - Steubenville Toronto has chosen Catholic Missions In Canada as the beneficiary of its Share the Glory campaign.