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{mosimage}TORONTO - The Dalai Lama, whose name is Tenzin Gyatso, has a hard enough time convincing people he is a simple, 72-year-old monk and a refugee. That the spiritual leader who embodies both Tibetan culture and Tibetan Buddhism could convince 16,000 who came to see him at the Rogers Centre Halloween evening that he is a man of science and a champion of the secular borders on miraculous.
Million-dollar facelift at Toronto Chinese parish
By Catholic Register Staff
TORONTO - just got a $1-million facelift. In just under one year art restorer Carlos Nunes and his team has restored the downtown Toronto parish to look as it did in 1908, except for a few new additions reflecting the culture of its Chinese congregation. 聽 聽
Globalization more than economic progress
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
{mosimage}TORONTO - When Jesuit Father Peter Henriot arrived in Zambia 19 years ago life expectancy in the landlocked, southern African country was a rather dismal 52 years. Today Zambians can expect to be dead by 37.
St. Luke's celebrates 160 years
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
{mosimage}THORNHILL, Ont. - There hasn鈥檛 always been a St. Luke鱿鱼视频app, but just about. The parish has been there in one form or another ever since Bishop Michael Power decided Upper Canada needed another Catholic church between Toronto and Newmarket in 1844. It cost $1,000 to buy land for the church, rectory and cemetery that began St. Luke鱿鱼视频app long history in 1847.
Students important for who they are: Vanier
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - In a world driven to distraction by hyper-competition, the challenge of the Catholic teacher is to help children discover that they are important for who they are, not what they鈥檝e done. That was the message of Jean Vanier to a group of more than 1,900 educators who gathered here Oct. 26.
City honours Providence legacy
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO - Heritage Toronto presented the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto with a French and English plaque commemorating 150 years since founding the former House of Providence, now Providence Healthcare.
Catholics need to show visible faith
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO - In his debut Cardinal鱿鱼视频app Dinner speech, Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins called on Catholics to 鈥渇ollow in the footsteps of St. Paul鈥� to discover how to be witnesses of the Gospel in contemporary society.
Spanish martyrs 鈥榟eroic witnesses鈥� to faith
By Catholic News Service
{mosimage}VATICAN CITY - Just minutes before Pope Benedict XVI prayed that the example of newly beatified Spanish martyrs would spur Catholics to work for reconciliation and peaceful co-existence, a small fight broke out across town in front of a church run by Opus Dei.
Overcrowded jail system courting crisis
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
{mosimage}Things are so bad at the provincial jail in Saskatoon that three bishops 鈥� Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran 鈥� have gone public with their concerns, describing how men are forced to urinate into bottles because there isn鈥檛 enough staff to accompany them from dormitory-style cell blocks to the washroom.
Dalai Lama spreads message of peace
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
{mosimage}OTTAWA - The Dalai Lama brought a message of peace and reconciliation to Ottawa Oct. 28-30, urging China to grant the Tibetan people the rights to preserve their language, culture and spirituality.
Beatified Austrian refused to fight for Hitler
By Catholic News Service
{mosimage}VATICAN CITY - A Vatican cardinal beatified Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer who was beheaded in 1943 after he refused to fight in Hitler's army.