Just like a cardinal, ordinary Catholics too are called to “be fearless witnesses to the Lord,” a humble Cardinal Francis Leo told those gathered for a Mass of Thanksgiving to celebrate the Toronto Archbishop������Ƶapp recent elevation to the College of Cardinals.

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In the newsletter of Catholic Charities of the Toronto Archdiocese, Executive Director Agnes Thomas pinpoints the divine-human connection at the heart of the consistory where Archbishop Francis Leo was made a cardinal.

Based on the personal recollections of Toronto's Cardinal Francis Leo, the only period of his life when he didn’t feel a call to religious life was when he was a young child growing up in the Villeray neighbourhood near Montreal������Ƶapp Little Italy.

Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, has the same advice for Toronto's new Cardinal Francis Leo that he would share with parishes seeking to carve its synodal path: do.

Longtime Montreal married Catholics John and Cecilia Zucchi������Ƶapp road in life has more than 20 times led to Rome.

Describing the Papal Consistory that welcomed him and 20 other leaders of the Catholic Church into the College of Cardinals as “very profound” and “beautiful,” Cardinal Francis Leo of the Archdiocese of Toronto has deeply contemplated the prayers recited during the Dec. 7 ceremony in the Vatican.

Even as a student attending John F. Kennedy High School in Montreal, now Cardinal Francis Leo was called “Fr. Frank.”

Fr. Robert Gendreau said it does not take long for people to realize that there is something special about Cardinal Francis Leo.

A spirit of gratitude radiated out of Toronto's new Cardinal Francis Leo — as vivid as the red cassock adorning him — as he entered a Dec. 7 reception at the Spazio Vittoria event space several hours after being elevated to the College of Cardinals.