It’s not cheap to go to university. A full-time Master of Divinity student spends $6,020 on tuition to take five courses per semester over the fall and winter semesters, plus over $1,000 in mandatory fees collected by the University of Toronto. But that $6,020 tuition...
The journey from the Nuba Mountains to Khartoum to Toronto covers about 11,000 kilometres. The journey in faith from Sudanese Pentecostal to Catholic to Jesuit priest is immeasurable. Fr. Nahum Osman Gidiel Alysar, SJ, is almost certainly the only pilgrim in Christian history to have...
[caption id="attachment_22642" align="alignleft" width="329"] Life in Community, Aidan Hart with contributions from Donald Jackson, Copyright 2002, The Saint John’s Bible, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.[/caption] Regis College has been awarded $1.4 million ($997,593 U.S.) in grant money by the...
In a now distant spiritual mindset the Baltimore Catechism encouraged students to turn their gaze to the crucifix. "If we knelt down before a plain white wall we could not pray with the devotion we would have kneeling before a crucifix,” Msgr. Januarius de Concilio wrote...
[caption id="attachment_22597" align="alignleft" width="524"] Michael Kolarcik, SJ, (centre) with Prof. Michael Attridge and TST students at the Biblicum in Rome (2023).[/caption] Regis College is delighted to welcome back Michael Kolarcik, SJ, as the new Rector of the Regis Jesuit Community. After more than a decade guiding...
[caption id="attachment_22593" align="alignleft" width="260"] Ruth and Naomi, Suzanne Moore, Copyright 2010, The Saint John’s Bible, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.[/caption] Canada’s first Indigenous canon lawyer knows what obstacles lie in the path of Indigenous people becoming recognized, stable leaders...
Published in Regis Friends Quarterly, September 2024 edition (3.1). Science is big and it does big stuff. It built the nuclear bomb, mapped the human genome and sends ships into space. It got us out of COVID. It tells us where we came from and what...
On the surface, it would seem that Deacon João Francisco Haetinger SJ really didn’t need Regis College. The 37-year-old hails from the Jesuit province of Brazil, 400 men strong with a 500-year history that includes the founding of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The...
The woman who teaches the Regis course on priesthood and the Regis course on the “Foundations of Mission and Ministry” of course isn’t a Jesuit. But neither is she from one of the women’s religious communities founded on Ignatian principles and spirituality, such as the...
