For nearly 100 years, popes have set aside time for an annual retreat and meditation on spiritual exercises. ItöÏÓãÊÓƵapp more than a custom — itöÏÓãÊÓƵapp become an essential part of papal life.

If you think a retreat is just a day or two in the countryside spent praying and reading Scripture, the Star of the North Retreat House in St. Albert, Alta., wants you to think again. Beginning with an introductory session the Oct. 3 weekend, Star of the North wants to take a diverse range of people through a three-year process divided into nine modules called Aurora Living.

Saturdays and weekday nights have taken on a special dimension in Angie CarboniöÏÓãÊÓƵapp life in recent months.

Given the mental and emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on society over the past year-and-a-half, for many, spiritual retreat may be more essential than ever.

Whether or not reconciliation with Indigenous people lies in the future, such a reconciliation is impossible without an unclouded view of our past, from first contact to the present, Indigenous and Jesuit scholars have told The Catholic Register.

It has been nearly five years since Come From Away debuted and enraptured big-city theatre audiences with its musical depiction of how the people of Gander created a ray of light within the darkness of 9/11 for nearly 7,000 Americans forced to make an emergency landing in the remote Newfoundland town.

With the passing of Bill Davis on Aug. 8, education and Ontario lost one of the last voices of reasonableness and optimism in an otherwise adversarial and tribal approach to problem solving. 

The Government of Ontario has not tipped its hand yet if it will institute mandatory vaccinations for teachers and staff, but education unions are trying to persuade Premier Doug Ford to make that choice.

Vince Romeo, the London Catholic District School BoardöÏÓãÊÓƵapp new director of education, has a connection to the southwestern Ontario city — and the board — that runs deep.

Educator and environmental advocate Anne Corkery believes thereöÏÓãÊÓƵapp no greater learning environment for children than in the great outdoors.