Alberta town innovates by re-purposing IGA as its new spiritual home

Now that Archbishop Francis Leo has assumed the lead for the Archdiocese of Toronto, what can he expect from a typical day? 

When a new bishop is appointed, people naturally ask, “Who is he? Where does he come from? What������Ƶapp his story? What makes him tick?” said Toronto������Ƶapp new archbishop at his installation Mass March 25. 

For his own episcopal motto Archbishop Francis Leo adopted the Latin phrase Quodcumque Dixerit Facite (in English: Do whatever He tells you) — words taken from the Gospel according to St. John, by which the Evangelist illustrates the episode known as “the wedding at Cana,” an account steeped in exquisite and profound symbolism, and rich in spiritual and pastoral teachings. 

Installing a new bishop is a very big deal. And every big deal in a Catholic diocese calls for a big liturgy.

An interview with Francis Leo, Canada's youngest bishop heading its largest English-speaking diocese.

Roxham Road migrants turn to Canada as a safer option than U.S.

Quebec������Ƶapp Catholic elder statesman of the common good

For 25 years, NCBC has brought the liturgy home

Like father, like daughter.

Dr. Lauretta Frederking credits listening to her father David Conklin������Ƶapp lectures as a professor at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) — he specialized in business, economics and public policy — for sparking her interest in becoming an educator. And she credits her mother, Marilyn, for instilling within her an unquenchable thirst to always be learning.