Features Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:34:59 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Brescia professorƵapp dream comes true /item/34876-brescia-professor-s-dream-comes-true /item/34876-brescia-professor-s-dream-comes-true

Growing up in Middlesex County in southwestern Ontario, Peggy O’Neil said she and her family would encounter Brescia College — now Brescia University College — on their route to pick up pizza for dinner.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Higher Education Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:23:27 -0400
KingƵapp course shows economics should seek meaning /item/34875-king-s-course-shows-economics-should-seek-meaning /item/34875-king-s-course-shows-economics-should-seek-meaning

Pope Francis challenged young Catholics to “transform an economy that kills into an economy of life” at a three day “Economy of Francesco” meeting in Assisi Sept. 22-24.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Higher Education Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:17:41 -0400
Encounter, heal and purify: St. JeromeƵapp plan for reconciliation /item/34874-encounter-heal-and-purify-st-jerome-s-plan-for-reconciliation /item/34874-encounter-heal-and-purify-st-jerome-s-plan-for-reconciliation

All histories are contested. If they weren’t, there would be no reason to study history. For an historian running a Catholic university in Canada right now, this nationƵapp history of colonialism and residential schools has created a special responsibility — not to the past but to our future understanding of ourselves.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Higher Education Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:14:05 -0400
Irish unity: will dream come true? /item/34872-irish-unity-will-dream-come-true /item/34872-irish-unity-will-dream-come-true

The historic emergence of a Catholic majority in Northern Ireland will be a significant, though not the decisive, factor in achieving a reunited country, says a Belfast MP visiting Canada.

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Features Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:57:56 -0400
Catholic artist gives audience a complex experience /item/34859-catholic-artist-gives-audience-a-complex-experience /item/34859-catholic-artist-gives-audience-a-complex-experience

Trying to explain the effect of Denyse Thomasos’ immense, complex, abstract paintings, Fr. Dan Donovan reaches for St. Thomas Aquinas.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:04:12 -0400
Gregorian chant renewal in the works /features/call-to-service/item/34842-gregorian-chant-renewal-in-the-works /features/call-to-service/item/34842-gregorian-chant-renewal-in-the-works

Lawrence Harris has a renewed vision of service forged and refined in the fire of COVID-19 that raged across the world for nearly three years.

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Call to Service Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:58:22 -0400
Encountering the anchor of Eucharistic adoration /features/call-to-service/item/34838-encountering-the-anchor-of-eucharistic-adoration /features/call-to-service/item/34838-encountering-the-anchor-of-eucharistic-adoration

I have experienced the healing and transformation that encountering the person of Jesus Christ brings and Eucharistic adoration has played a large role in this. Adoration is one of the best ways to experience the peace, love and strength that only Jesus can provide. ItƵapp something we desperately need these days.

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Call to Service Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:14:29 -0400
Life of service continues for former teacher /features/call-to-service/item/34835-life-of-service-continues-for-former-teacher /features/call-to-service/item/34835-life-of-service-continues-for-former-teacher

After years of serving his community as a teacher, Peter Mamer has found another rewarding way of giving back.

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waclarke@catholicregister.private (Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register) Call to Service Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:47:20 -0400
Priest in Canada via a road less travelled /features/call-to-service/item/34834-priest-in-canada-via-a-road-less-travelled /features/call-to-service/item/34834-priest-in-canada-via-a-road-less-travelled

When Tai Le arrived at Vancouver International Airport seven years ago at the tender age of 21, the future associate pastor of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Prince Albert, Sask., admitted that his first experience being surrounded by Canadians “was overwhelming.”

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Call to Service Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:43:46 -0400
Permanent diaconate in Toronto marks 50 years /item/34817-permanent-diaconate-in-toronto-marks-50-years /item/34817-permanent-diaconate-in-toronto-marks-50-years

Deacon Steve Pitre is determined not to celebrate 50 years of the permanent diaconate in the Archdiocese of Toronto. Instead, he wants to celebrate the Church that embraced, encouraged and prayed with deacons over the past 50 years.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:00:00 -0400