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October 29, 2020

Being a donor matters

Mary Thicket is not rich. But that doesn’t stop her from being a donor.

With an Oct. 26 ruling that keeps the status quo at the U.S.-Canada border, asylum seekers will continue to be sent back into indefinite detention in American jails before eventually being deported back to the countries they are fleeing.

Most charitable gifts are spent. The money is spent responsibly and carefully and thereƵapp never enough of it, but the money gets spent. ThatƵapp why thereƵapp always another letter, another appeal, another campaign.

After 61 years Gideon Travel has reached the end of the road. 

For one city to have two Catholic, PhD-granting, graduate faculties of theology might seem an embarrassment of riches. But Regis College and the University of St. MichaelƵapp College have decided what Toronto really needs is one bigger and better centre for advanced studies in Catholic theology.

CanadaƵapp Jesuits are asking Canadians to examine their collective conscience in the wake of Joyce EchaquanƵapp death in a hospital in Joliette, Que.

You could be forgiven for cursing COVID-19 because it is robbing Toronto Catholics of yet another opportunity to gather and celebrate. But John Ecker doesn’t think that the pandemic forcing the annual CardinalƵapp Dinner online Nov. 5 is so bad.

At a dinner honouring student leaders at the University of Manitoba, St. PaulƵapp College rector Chris Adams had a very Ignatian and Jesuit moment. Adams thought to himself, “What more should we be doing?”

Entering their 170th year of caring for the people of Toronto, the Sisters of St. Joseph want to celebrate their history, of course. But celebrating that ministry has to be about much more than history, said the Sisters of St. Joseph communications director Lisa Tabachnick.

When COVID-19 forced frontline workers to shift their support for homeless youth online, the result was more loneliness, more depression, more drug use, more overdoses and more thoughts of suicide, according to new research from Covenant House, CanadaƵapp largest shelter serving young people.