Entering their 170th year of caring for the people of Toronto, the Sisters of St. Joseph want to celebrate their history, of course. But celebrating that ministry has to be about much more than history, said the Sisters of St. Joseph communications director Lisa Tabachnick.

The four nuns who arrived in Toronto (population 30,000) on Oct. 7, 1851 had a single task — to care for children orphaned by the typhus epidemic that had ravaged the Irish Catholic immigrant community.

Entering their 170th year of caring for the people of Toronto, the Sisters of St. Joseph want to celebrate their history, of course. But celebrating that ministry has to be about much more than history, said the Sisters of St. Joseph communications director Lisa Tabachnick.

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but for some it can be the loneliest. 

TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp diverse faith community will do what ever it takes to catch Mayor John ToryöÏÓãÊÓƵapp attention and address poverty in the city — even dressing up like characters from The Hunger Games.

Blue is the new green. At least that is the case for the Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada.

It has been 27 years since the Sisters of St. Joseph relinquished control of TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp St. MichaelöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Hospital, but the mission they began in 1892 hasn’t wavered.

TORONTO – Young adults learned some of the rich history of the Sisters of St. Joseph and their contributions to Toronto in a dash around the cityöÏÓãÊÓƵapp core Sept. 24.

TORONTO - Having survived five years of investigation, interrogation and suspicion as past president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the United States, Sr. Carol Zinn of the Sisters of St. Joseph is calling for more open, honest and heartfelt dialogue across the divides within the Church.

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