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{mosimage}TORONTO - has reached its 25th birthday and continues to welcome young men who are in the “pre-seminary” stage of their life.

Here, men can discern a vocation to the diocesan priesthood while studying or continuing in the work force, all the while supported by a community of peers striving for personal and spiritual growth.

{mosimage}TORONTO - In setting out to protect a Toronto heritage home, Mary Fay discovered the story of a man so fascinating she spent years researching his life and deeds.

Four years ago, while walking by Senator O’Connor College School, Fay fell in love with a stately old home that sat boarded up on the school������Ƶapp property, surrounded by a wire fence. Moved by its Colonial Revival-style architecture, she thought it deserved a second chance at life and began to research its history and its pending fate.

{mosimage}MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - All eight of Helen Steffler������Ƶapp children celebrated their First Communion and Confirmation at St. Joseph������Ƶapp Church in Mississauga, Ont., just a few of the thousands who have done the same over the parish������Ƶapp 150-year history.

The parish was to mark its 150th anniversary with an Oct. 5 Mass celebrated by Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins.

{mosimage}TORONTO - Mary White-Reel remembers when St. Theresa������Ƶapp Shrine of the Little Flower parish was the only parish in her area. In fact, she had to be baptized at St. Augustine������Ƶapp Seminary because the church was not yet built.

“I remember when we first came here, there were only three or four families (in the parish),” she said.

{mosimage}TORONTO  - Close to 500 people are expected at an upcoming international pro-life conference in Toronto.

The conference, entitled “Creating a Culture of Life Around the Globe,” will run from Oct. 2 to 4 and is sponsored by .

{mosimage}TORONTO - Living without fear is the theme of Toronto������Ƶapp first , to be held Oct. 18

Workshops for both youth and adults will provide a chance to reflect and learn about woman abuse and the Catholic Church������Ƶapp response.

Conference organizer Virginia Koehler told The Catholic Register the event is a day of information for everyone in the community.

TORONTO - Frank McKenna, the former premier of New Brunswick and ambassador to the United States, will be chairman for this year������Ƶapp Cardinal������Ƶapp Dinner, to be held Oct. 30 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

{mosimage}TORONTO - One year after implementing the papal decree paving the way for celebration of the traditional Latin Mass, the archdiocese of Toronto has invited the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter to help pave the way for the first mission parish for the Tridentine Mass in the archdiocese.

Fr. Howard Venette, a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, is the new chaplain for the Tridentine Mass community at St. Theresa������Ƶapp parish and Holy Cross parish. Venette said he hopes the Mass will be accessible to all those interested in the old rite.

{mosimage}TORONTO - It������Ƶapp a neighbourhood known to outsiders for its gang and gun violence, prostitution and poverty. Yet the ethnically diverse community surrounding the infamous Jane and Finch intersection in northwest Toronto has a ray of hope in the form of St. Augustine of Canterbury parish.

After 10 years of developing outreach programs for youth, adults, seniors and family — and not just limited to Catholics — the church, which sits a few blocks north of Finch Ave, is preparing to build a family centre to provide even more.

{mosimage}TORONTO - Fr. Daniel Callahan is best known as the “Iron Friar” — running, swimming and cycling in the Ford Ironman USA triathlon, while evangelizing and raising money for a good cause.

For him, triathlons provide a great analogy for life itself: in a race “you’re going in for a medal,” he said, but in life “you’re going in for eternal life.”