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{mosimage}TORONTO - Every year during the world鱿鱼视频app largest Holocaust education event the links between Christians and Jews 鈥� both now and during the Second World War 鈥� are visible.
Of the 160 events that make up Toronto鱿鱼视频app Holocaust Education Week starting Nov. 2, a dozen will be held in Catholic schools. Most of the presentations at Catholic schools involve Holocaust survivors telling their stories.
Of the 160 events that make up Toronto鱿鱼视频app Holocaust Education Week starting Nov. 2, a dozen will be held in Catholic schools. Most of the presentations at Catholic schools involve Holocaust survivors telling their stories.
Pro-life protest lands Linda Gibbons in jail
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Just two days after being released from a prison in Milton, Ont., at the end of September, longtime pro-life activist Linda Gibbons was ready to return to jail.
And she did, a week later, on Oct. 8. She was to appear before a judge in October.
Giving thanks to Good Shepherd Centre
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
{mosimage}TORONTO - James Douglas calls himself one of the Good Shepherd Centre鱿鱼视频app success stories, and it鱿鱼视频app hard to argue with the man.
More than three years ago he arrived in Toronto with too much money in his wallet and a thirst much deeper than his pockets. The money was from an insurance settlement. He had left Los Angeles looking for a connection with his family, hoping for a new start. What he found was the downtown bars and soon realized just trading Toronto for Los Angeles wasn鈥檛 going to change his life. He had been drinking long enough to know it was the one constant.
More than three years ago he arrived in Toronto with too much money in his wallet and a thirst much deeper than his pockets. The money was from an insurance settlement. He had left Los Angeles looking for a connection with his family, hoping for a new start. What he found was the downtown bars and soon realized just trading Toronto for Los Angeles wasn鈥檛 going to change his life. He had been drinking long enough to know it was the one constant.
Faith communities have role to play in making peace
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
{mosimage}TORONTO - If people of faith are serious about peace, they ought to be serious enough to read, understand and promote the United Nations鈥� doctrine for promoting peace in the post-9/11 world, retired senator and former United Church moderator Lois Wilson told an interfaith gathering at the University of Toronto Oct. 7.
鈥淲e have social and political responsibilities,鈥� Wilson insisted to a small group that included imams, rabbis, priests, ministers and scholars of world religions gathered for a conference on 鈥淩eligions鈥� Role in Keeping Peace: Responses to A Common Word Between Us and You.鈥�
鈥淲e have social and political responsibilities,鈥� Wilson insisted to a small group that included imams, rabbis, priests, ministers and scholars of world religions gathered for a conference on 鈥淩eligions鈥� Role in Keeping Peace: Responses to A Common Word Between Us and You.鈥�
ShareLife ready for tough year
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO - When times get tough, the tough get going. That isn鈥檛 the theme for this year鱿鱼视频app ShareLife corporate campaign, but it could well be.
ShareLife launched its annual campaign to raise funds from the Catholic business community in Toronto Oct. 9 as headlines in newspapers around the world continued to trumpet the gloomy news about economic crisis, bank bailouts and plummeting stock prices.
ShareLife launched its annual campaign to raise funds from the Catholic business community in Toronto Oct. 9 as headlines in newspapers around the world continued to trumpet the gloomy news about economic crisis, bank bailouts and plummeting stock prices.
Social justice and the new evangelization
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO 鈥� Since Pope John Paul II launched the term 鈥渘ew evangelization鈥� on a visit to Latin America 25 years ago theologians, pastors and catechists have been trying to more fully understand what a new evangelization entails.
Pastor and theologian Bishop Claude Champagne believes the new evangelization has a lot to do with social justice. The auxiliary bishop of Halifax will outline just how justice and evangelizing are connected in the 2008-2009 Scarboro Missions Lecture. The lecture will be delivered twice 鈥� Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Jerome鱿鱼视频app University in Waterloo, and the next day at 10 a.m. at Scarboro Missions, 2685 Kingston Rd., Scarborough.
The Oblate bishop taught missiology, the branch of theology which researches missionary work, at Saint Paul University in Ottawa until he was called to the episcopacy in 2003.
Pastor and theologian Bishop Claude Champagne believes the new evangelization has a lot to do with social justice. The auxiliary bishop of Halifax will outline just how justice and evangelizing are connected in the 2008-2009 Scarboro Missions Lecture. The lecture will be delivered twice 鈥� Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Jerome鱿鱼视频app University in Waterloo, and the next day at 10 a.m. at Scarboro Missions, 2685 Kingston Rd., Scarborough.
The Oblate bishop taught missiology, the branch of theology which researches missionary work, at Saint Paul University in Ottawa until he was called to the episcopacy in 2003.
Vatican astronomer to speak in Toronto
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO 鈥� For those who get science, and for those who don鈥檛, Vatican Observatory astronomer Fr. George V. Coyne has a message about the relationship between the sacred and science.
The Jesuit scientist will be at the Newman Centre chapel on the campus of the University of Toronto Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. to deliver a free public lecture. 鈥淭he Dance of the Fertile Universe: Searching for God in a Scientific Culture鈥� will be the second lecture in this year鱿鱼视频app Jesuit-sponsored 鈥淣aming the Holy鈥� series.
Not only is there tea and cookies at the end, but the audience is invited to engage the 鈥淣aming the Holy鈥� speakers in conversation.
The Jesuit scientist will be at the Newman Centre chapel on the campus of the University of Toronto Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. to deliver a free public lecture. 鈥淭he Dance of the Fertile Universe: Searching for God in a Scientific Culture鈥� will be the second lecture in this year鱿鱼视频app Jesuit-sponsored 鈥淣aming the Holy鈥� series.
Not only is there tea and cookies at the end, but the audience is invited to engage the 鈥淣aming the Holy鈥� speakers in conversation.
Sister of Sion to give interfaith talk
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO 鈥� Jewish-Christian dialogue is what the Sisters of Sion do, so it should be no surprise that Sr. Lucy Thorson has been doing it for 30 years in Jerusalem, Rome and North America.
Still, every journey is different. So, at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Scarboro Missions headquarters at 2685 Kingston Rd., Thorson will talk about her own journey of faith following the great opening of Christian-Jewish Dialogue at the end of the Second Vatican Council.
The talk will be one of Thorson鱿鱼视频app first contributions since joining the Interfaith desk at the Scarboro Mission Society.
Still, every journey is different. So, at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Scarboro Missions headquarters at 2685 Kingston Rd., Thorson will talk about her own journey of faith following the great opening of Christian-Jewish Dialogue at the end of the Second Vatican Council.
The talk will be one of Thorson鱿鱼视频app first contributions since joining the Interfaith desk at the Scarboro Mission Society.
Remembering St. Francis
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
{mosimage}TORONTO - Franciscans have been remembering the death of St. Francis for nearly 900 years, and it鱿鱼视频app still a family affair, said Franciscans of all kinds who gathered at St. Bonaventure Church in Toronto for the Transitus Oct. 3.
Celebrated by Franciscans around the world on the eve of the Feast of St. Francis, the Transitus liturgy re-enacts and remembers St. Francis鈥� passing from this world.
Celebrated by Franciscans around the world on the eve of the Feast of St. Francis, the Transitus liturgy re-enacts and remembers St. Francis鈥� passing from this world.
Ignatius Loyola's model needed in financial crisis
By Catholic Register Staff
{mosimage}TORONTO - Who should Wall Street look to as a model for corporate leadership in this time of economic crisis? Warren Buffet? Bill Gates? Steve Job? Or what about St. Ignatius of Loyola?
For Chris Lowney, a one-time managing director of American financial giant J.P. Morgan, the 16th-century saint and founder of the Jesuits offers an example of what it takes to lead a modern business enterprise.
For Chris Lowney, a one-time managing director of American financial giant J.P. Morgan, the 16th-century saint and founder of the Jesuits offers an example of what it takes to lead a modern business enterprise.
Free reign to market forces causes collapse
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register
{mosimage}TORONTO - The Wall Street crisis is a story of how the privileged few took advantage of the middle class and the poor, and how the U.S. government failed its citizens, said anti-globalization activist Naomi Klein on the day the Bush administration鱿鱼视频app $700-billion bailout plan failed to pass in Congress.
The U.S. House of Representatives could not agree on the plan, resulting in the bill鱿鱼视频app failure on Sept. 29.
The U.S. House of Representatives could not agree on the plan, resulting in the bill鱿鱼视频app failure on Sept. 29.