{mosimage}THORNHILL, Ont. — Students and staff from St. Elizabeth Catholic Secondary School will host a festival dedicated to productions by youth featuring spirit and religious faith.
{mosimage}TORONTO — The Toronto Catholic District School Board will once again offer Focus on Youth summer programs for children and youth this summer.
{mosimage}TORONTO - If you want to meet the standard for Grade 4 religion in Toronto’s Catholic schools you had better know the other name for Candlemas.
TORONTO - Amid vocal community opposition, a controversial $2.7-million community centre at Etobicoke’s Father John Redmond Catholic High School is set to begin construction this fall.
Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Ann Andrachuk said the agreement between the City of Toronto and the board to complete the Ken Cox Community Centre is “moving forward.”
TORONTO - The first concurrent program to prepare religion teachers for Ontario Catholic high schools will be launched this fall.
The program is in response to the lack of qualified high school religion teachers currently working in Catholic schools.
New text relates Catholicism to the other world religions
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - A new world religions textbook being prepared for Ontario high schools will offer a distinctly Canadian and Roman Catholic perspective on different faiths, according to one of its authors.
The textbook, with the working title World Religions: A Canadian Catholic Perspective, will be the first of its kind specifically geared towards Grade 11 world religion students in Catholic schools.
Catholic school partners to join in 鈥榥ational conversation鈥�
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - It’s touted as the first “national conversation” on Catholic education in Canada.
conference is expected to draw 400 parents, students, teachers, school administrators, clergy and trustees to Ottawa Sept. 26-27 for the inaugural conference.
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{mosimage}Among Pope Benedict鱿鱼视频app many thought-provoking speeches during his spring visit to the United States was a particularly important one . Though it received some coverage, the Pope鱿鱼视频app insights into the role of Catholic schools were too often lost among the attention given to the most visual and spectacular aspects of his visit.
{mosimage}TORONTO - In separate research, two economists with ties to the have found Catholic schools are outperforming public schools in Ontario on standardized tests.
The economists believe competition between the two publicly funded systems may, in part, explain higher success rates for Grade 3 and 6 pupils in Catholic schools when compared with their public school counterparts.
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{mosimage}A Catholic high school in which every student has lost at least one parent to AIDS has turned the sod on a new permanent home on the edge of Africa’s second largest slum.
{mosimage}Editor’s note: The following is the complete text of Pope Benedict XVI’s speech to American Catholic educators in Washington, DC, on April 17.
“How beautiful are the footsteps of those who bring good news” (Rom 10:15-17). With these words of Isaiah quoted by St. Paul, I warmly greet each of you — bearers of wisdom — and through you the staff, students and families of the many and varied institutions of learning that you represent. It is my great pleasure to meet you and to share with you some thoughts regarding the nature and identity of Catholic education today.
鈥淚f we want to save our Catholic schools, what we have to save is the place of religion in Canadian society,鈥� the bishop of said Sept. 28.
The August paper by the OCCB鱿鱼视频app Education Commission led by Alexandria-Cornwall Bishop Paul Andre Durocher, entitled Character Development and the Virtuous Life, said a focus on virtues 鈥渉elps us re-acquire a valuable concept in our tradition, compels us to recognize God鱿鱼视频app role in the character development of our students and helps us focus on specific habits that foster and protect the freedoms to which we are called.鈥�