Features Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:20:51 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Poverty, chastity, obedience give meaning /features/call-to-service/item/32851-poverty-chastity-obedience-give-meaning /features/call-to-service/item/32851-poverty-chastity-obedience-give-meaning

At 93 Sr. Norah Burns struggles to understand the lives of people who haven’t lived the last 75 years under the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. In her life the vows have been “Everything, really.”

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Call to Service Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:13:23 -0400
With a year of COVID there will be plenty of reasons to seek healing in liturgy /item/32837-with-a-year-of-covid-there-will-be-plenty-of-reasons-to-seek-healing-in-liturgy /item/32837-with-a-year-of-covid-there-will-be-plenty-of-reasons-to-seek-healing-in-liturgy

A year into COVID and Martyrs’ Shrine director Fr. Michael Knox is looking ahead, imagining how we might pray after the pandemic comes to an end.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Sun, 14 Mar 2021 12:00:00 -0400
A year of COVID — a time of learning and caring /item/32824-a-year-of-covid-a-time-of-learning-and-caring /item/32824-a-year-of-covid-a-time-of-learning-and-caring

Fr. Wilson AndradeƵapp smile is as broad, his laugh as ready and his intense interest in people as alive as it ever was. But he confesses that a year of lockdowns, online Masses and separation from his St. AnnƵapp parishioners in TorontoƵapp East Chinatown neighbourhood hasn’t been easy.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Fri, 12 Mar 2021 08:17:25 -0500
‘Coach K’ puts faith to work on court for St. Francis Xavier University /item/32798-coach-k-puts-faith-to-work-on-court-for-st-francis-xavier-university /item/32798-coach-k-puts-faith-to-work-on-court-for-st-francis-xavier-university

It has not been the final season long time St. Francis Xavier University head basketball coach Steve Konchalski imagined.

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waclarke@catholicregister.private (Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register) Features Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:08:47 -0500
Social justice is investingƵapp future at Kings College /item/32778-social-justice-is-investing-s-future-at-kings-college /item/32778-social-justice-is-investing-s-future-at-kings-college

With Gen-Zs touted as a morally conscious generation bent on addressing the many ills in todayƵapp society, KingƵapp University College Capital Management Club fund manager Serge Muhirwa sees social justice defining the future of investment.

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waclarke@catholicregister.private (Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register) Higher Education Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:00:00 -0500
Dissertation will explore Christianity and Holocaust /item/32777-dissertation-will-explore-christianity-and-holocaust /item/32777-dissertation-will-explore-christianity-and-holocaust

A couple years ago, Prof. Robert Ventresca at KingƵapp University College in London, Ont., was marking papers submitted to him by a precocious, intense, serious and curious undergraduate enrolled in his seminar on the role of religion in the Holocaust.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Higher Education Sun, 28 Feb 2021 07:00:00 -0500
St. MaryƵapp grad earns Indigenous award /item/32773-st-mary-s-grad-earns-indigenous-award /item/32773-st-mary-s-grad-earns-indigenous-award

Mere months removed her June 2020 convocation at CalgaryƵapp St. MaryƵapp University, Kate Gillis’ days are full of Zoom call collaboration and deep-dive independent research.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Higher Education Sat, 27 Feb 2021 13:00:00 -0500
New faith centre at St. Thomas More College just right for its time /item/32766-new-faith-centre-at-st-thomas-more-college-just-right-for-its-time /item/32766-new-faith-centre-at-st-thomas-more-college-just-right-for-its-time

Roughly a decade in development, the new Centre for Faith, Reason, Peace and Justice at St. Thomas More College couldn’t be more timely.

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waclarke@catholicregister.private (Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register) Higher Education Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:00:00 -0500
St. Michael's College works to move investments to sustainable options /item/32758-st-michael-s-college-works-to-move-investments-to-sustainable-options /item/32758-st-michael-s-college-works-to-move-investments-to-sustainable-options

$178 million might be a lot of money or it might not be anywhere near enough. It all depends what you want to do with it.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Higher Education Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:00:00 -0500
The higher calling of Catholic Education /item/32753-the-higher-calling-of-catholic-education /item/32753-the-higher-calling-of-catholic-education

In The Idea of a University, John Henry Newman (now Saint) outlined his vision of a liberal education that spoke of the virtues and purpose of a university. Originally an Oxford man, his famed conflict at Oriel College — where he argued with the Provost that a tutor needed more engagement with undergraduates — resulted in Newman being cast out of his beloved institution and turning instead to a life of research.

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jturcotte@catholicregister.org (Gerry Turcotte ) Higher Education Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:05:36 -0500