Luke Mandato

Even before Ontario’s Bill 33, the Supporting Children and Students Act, was officially passed Nov. 20, the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association had voiced concerns about the problems it could cause and the lack of input from its members.

Dr. David Deane offers a reminder that Advent is not a mere warm-up act before Christmas, but rather the Church’s annual rebellion against a world that has forgotten how to wait for Christ.

Tyler lives with severe cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder he was diagnosed with shortly after his birth. Now 40 years old, there has never been a moment in his life when his father was not there to look after him.

The Irish-Canadian story received what might be its definitive bookmark with a new book showcasing 50 Irish-born lives, both the ordinary and extraordinary, across the last 356 years.

It’s been about a month since Cardinal Giorgio Marengo was in Canada, where he visited and celebrated the Eucharist at Toronto's St. Andrew’s Parish, in thanks of a longstanding relationship between the west end parish and Marengo's home base of Mongolia.

Monsignor Percy Johnson Catholic Secondary School is getting a head start on Christmas compassion, with its annual Winter Wonderland Christmas Market set to return to give back to those in need while welcoming in the holiday spirit for the entire school community.

Those who have found themselves on Highway 400 travelling through West Gwillimbury on their way north of Toronto are likely familiar with Bradford’s Holland Marsh wetlands — an agricultural patch of roughly 7,200 acres, situated just 50 kilometres outside of downtown Toronto.

Billed as an event to help connect the dots for those facing life-limiting illness and death in an effort to better navigate health care and community services, Compassionate Hamilton leaned into its triple-threat mission of raising awareness, educating and connecting existing resources to fill gaps in Hamilton’s support network for those in need.

With more than two decades of service supporting a mixture of human rights and environmental justice in her native Brazil, Sister Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso has become the voice of the Canadian Jesuits International’s Women at the Heart of Justice campaign

Hope is slowly building in a project that looks to bring forth a solution to homelessness in Halifax through the renewed rubble of a former Catholic church.