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TORONTO - Wafi Shara lived through the attack on Baghdad鱿鱼视频app Syriac Catholic cathedral Oct. 31, 2010, but the bullet Italian doctors removed from her leg still holds her captive.

Shara spends all day in a tiny, two-room apartment in midtown Toronto praying, crying and wishing to be reunited with her brother Wafi Youssif. The damage to her leg has left her with limited mobility. She鱿鱼视频app in a strange city with few friends, working hard to improve her English.

While her brother would prefer to come to Canada, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees staff are recommending him for the United States. Youssif is now trying to decide whether to remain in Jordan and hope someone in Canada can sponsor him, going back to Baghdad where he fears for his family鱿鱼视频app safety or going to the United States where he knows no one.

In Toronto living on about $600 a month, Shara carries with her the fears that became part of life in Baghdad as the city descended into rounds of violence and sectarian cleansing of neighbourhoods. She asked us not to photograph her face  for this article.

As she lay wounded underneath a pew in Our Lady of Salvation Cathedral, Shara saw her niece Raghda escape into the vestry. Shara thought perhaps her niece had been smart to get out of the main part of the church. In the end, Raghda was the only one of about 50 people crammed into the vestry who was killed.

Shara now finds herself in the country her niece dreamed about in Baghdad. The 61-year-old single Shara finds it a bit cruel that she is now in Canada in her niece鱿鱼视频app place.

鈥淪he is the bridge for me to come to Canada. She wished to come to Canada,鈥� said Shara.

The former school teacher lived with her brother in Baghdad and helped raise Raghda. Separated from the city she once loved and from almost all of her family, Shara wants nothing more than to be reunited with her brother.

鈥淚 am alone here. I live alone. I want him here with me.鈥�

With her wound still fresh, Shara was evacuated from Baghdad to Italy for surgery and physiotherapy. There she met with Pope Benedict XVI before Canada stepped in to sponsor her as a refugee. Until and unless she has her brother back at her side, safely here in Canada,  Shara remains in limbo 鈥� the journey still not completed and so many left behind.

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TORONTO - In a matter of seconds, with the hands of Archbishop Thomas Collins placed on their heads, three men saw more than five years of preparation and discernment finally come to fruition as they were ordained to the priesthood.

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This year鱿鱼视频app new priests were welcomed to the archdiocese of Toronto on May 14 at St. Michael鱿鱼视频app Cathedral, in front of a congregation of about 1,000.

鈥淭he purpose of a priestly witness is to serve,鈥� said Collins, who celebrated the ordination Mass.

The newly ordained priests are Eric Mah, a former lawyer, who was assigned to Blessed Trinity parish in North York; Russell Asch, born in Montreal and raised in England, who will serve at St. Patrick鱿鱼视频app parish in Markham; and Allyn Rose, a former accountant, who will be associate pastor at St. Isaac Jogues in Pickering.

鈥淚f you ever sense you鈥檙e not worthy of the priesthood, you鈥檙e correct. None of us are,鈥� said Collins to the ordinandi and a group of young men gathered before the Mass. 鈥淛esus Christ is the only priest.鈥�

The archbishop, as he has done for the past eight years, hosted a group of young men for breakfast before the ordination, where he explained the ceremony鱿鱼视频app procedures and the nature of the priesthood.

鈥淧riests, bishops, popes, all of us are interchangeable,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he priesthood is forever.鈥�

Once at the cathedral, the three men processed to the altar as deacons for the last time. Following the Gospel, the men were ordained and received their garments as well as a Kiss of Peace from each of the clergy members in attendance. The new priests then participated in their first eucharistic preparation.

In his homily, the archbishop emphasized the role of the priest as a witness to Jesus Christ who is called to serve others in their own witnesses to the Lord.

鈥淲e may be the only Bible our neighbour reads,鈥� said Collins, who was also celebrating the 14th anniversary of his ordination as a bishop.

Collins also used Pope Benedict XVI as an example of the obedience priests must have and of the sacrifices they must make. Before the death of Pope John Paul II, Benedict had planned on retiring to a quiet home where he could write books. He, however, obeyed the papal call, calling himself 鈥渁 humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord,鈥� said Collins.

The archbishop asked for the friends, family and the rest of the congregation to pray for the new priests as they began a new stage of their lives.

鈥淭his is not a job,鈥� said Collins. 鈥淭his is a consecration forever.鈥�

Read the Catholic Register's profiles of the three new priests:

Eric Mah:A decade of ignoring his call was wiped out in one Confession
Russell Asch:With patience, Asch finds his calling
Allyn Rose:Misery came in accounting, leading to his joyful call

TORONTO - Practical steps toward establishing an Anglican Ordinariate for Canada were taken at the University of Toronto鱿鱼视频app Newman Centre May 1.

鱿鱼视频app 25 Anglicans and ex-Anglicans met to discuss their personal decision to seek union with the Catholic Church and how they would fulfill the conditions of Anglicanorum Coetibus, the apostolic constitution which governs how groups of Anglicans will be able to retain Anglican liturgical and pastoral traditions even as they become Catholics.

Ex-Anglican Canadians have been asked to send individual letters to Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins by May 31 seeking inclusion in the Anglican Ordinariate. This will indicate to Collins how many people would eventually make up the ordinariate. The ordinariate is analogous to a diocese without the usual territorial borders.

TORONTO - Grouard-McLennan Archbishop G茅rard Pettipas, C.Ss.R., headlines Catholic Missions In Canada's 10th anniversary Tastes of Heaven Gala May 5.

Pettipas will be  the event's keynote speaker at the dinner to be held at the Paramount Event Centre in Woodbridge, Ont. The annual dinner helps to raise funds for the Catholic Church in Canada's missionary territories.

Pettipas will recount the faith journeys of the First Nations peoples living in Northern Alberta missions. He said in Canada's northern dioceses, 鈥渢he needs of doing ministry are greater than the revenue that we take in to be able to serve those places.鈥�

Many are isolated by distance and other missionary bishops have spoken of the challenge priests face in celebrating Mass in these communities.

TORONTO - A hero to many in Canada's pro-life movement, Spiritan Father Edward (Ted) Colleton leaves behind a legacy of life, said Fr. Bob Cobourne, provincial superior of the Spiritans.

At 97 years old, Fr. Colleton passed away peacefully April 26 at La Salle Manor in Scarborough, Ont., where he had lived since 2007.

鈥淗e worked tirelessly for the unborn, for the pro-life movement and worked to ensure that the unborn would be protected and that life from the moment of conception to death would be sacred,鈥� Cobourne told The Catholic Register.

Although Fr. Colleton spent the first 30 years of his priesthood as a missionary in Kenya, the most important work he did was in Canada for the rights of the unborn, said Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition.

TORONTO - A Toronto Right to Life campaign has taken to the subway system to promote adoption as a life-affirming alternative to abortion.

The ads began running April 18 and will continue til May 15.

鈥淚 wanted my baby to have a Dad and Mom,鈥� reads the ad from a birth mother. The ad features the silhouette of a family.

鈥淭he purpose of the ad is to raise awareness and understanding about infant adoption,鈥� said Toronto Right to Life in a statement. 鈥淎ll of this can help women make an informed, pressure-free decision about adoption as a life-affirming choice.鈥�

The ad also features the web site that contains information about open adoption, testimonials from women who chose to place their children for adoption and pregnancy assistance organizations.

TORONTO - All the money that Rose of Sharon sees through the generosity of donors to ShareLife goes a long way in supporting young mothers and their children in York Region, said executive director Anna Pavan.

鈥淲e provide services to pre-natal and parenting teens,鈥� Pavan, the executive director of the not-for-profit charitable organization, told The Catholic Register. 鈥淪o it鱿鱼视频app allowing us to have five counsellors, to be able to provide parenting programs to our young mothers and a child development centre where babies are cared for while the mothers are attending school or parenting programs.鈥�

Rose of Sharon is one of the more than 30 agencies supported by ShareLife, the charitable fundraising arm of the archdiocese of Toronto.

As part of its parish campaign 鈥� with a goal of $12.3 million this year 鈥� the first ShareLife Sunday took place on April 3. The reported results added up to $4.16 million, an increase of about 10 per cent over the same reporting time last year, according to Bill Steinburg, communications manager at ShareLife.

TORONTO - For Canada鱿鱼视频app Ethiopian Orthodox community there can be no better symbol of faith in the Risen Christ this Eastertide than watching the rise of its new cathedral in west-end Toronto.

Decades in the making, the magnificent structure has begun to soar majestically聽above an industrial-commercial neighbourhood northwest of Eglinton Avenue West and Dufferin Street. The completion of each new stage of the cathedral is cause for many hundreds of faithful hearts to聽beat with growing pride and anticipation.

Since 1984, the congregation of St. Mary鱿鱼视频app Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has dreamed of building a cathedral to house its growing numbers. They have been worshipping in a converted factory. All that prevents a visitor from driving right past it is a small sign in front of the building and a modest cross above it.

Fr. Harry J. Gensler is a Golden Rule junkie.

In fact, the Jesuit priest and professor of philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland wrote both an MA thesis and PhD dissertation on the Golden Rule. He鱿鱼视频app also published 12 books on ethics and logic 鈥斅� most involving the Golden Rule.

And on May 11, he鈥檒l be sharing his knowledge on the Golden Rule in a lecture at Scarboro Missions. He鈥檒l be discussing how to use it wisely and avoid fallacies.

For more information, call (416) 261-7135 ext. 296 or e-mail interfaith@scarboromissions.ca.

Church leaders from Canada, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America will gather in Toronto for an ecumenical conference on mining from May 1-3.

Hosted by KAIROS and several of its member institutions in partnership with Norwegian Church Aid, they will be joined by indigenous partners, social partners from the Global South, Church members and agency staff.

The gathering is meant to develop alliances between leaders from the North and South in an effort to achieve mining justice around the world.