Life at Saint Augustine’s Seminary of Toronto

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Salt + Light Media

Deacon Joshua Lobo talks about life at St. Augustine’s Seminary of Toronto. He tells Francky the best part and the hardest part of his seminary experience.

A new song for Edmonton: ‘Put Out Into the Deep’ now online

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Kris Dmytrenko

It’s been only nine months since S+L filmed at St. Joseph Seminary in Edmonton, but in that short period of time the sounds emanating from its chapel have become notably richer. This can be partly attributed to the new voices — as we reported on the S+L blog, enrollment of seminarians increased by 50% for […]

An encouraging trend

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Kris Dmytrenko

On a recent episode of Perspectives Weekly, I participated in our year-in-review panel with my colleagues Alicia Ambrosio and Cheridan Eygelaar. One of the trends mentioned was the upturn in seminary enrollment. The news that some seminaries are full contradicts the conventional narrative: that vocations to the priesthood are on the decline and will keep […]

What did the Canadian bishops give the Pope?

Monday, November 7, 2011

Kris Dmytrenko

Every year, a delegation from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) heads to the Vatican to meet with departments of the Roman Curia. Today they went to the top office — that of Pope Benedict XVI in the apostolic palace. The year’s group consists of the newly elected President of the CCCB, Archbishop Richard […]

August 6, 2001

Saturday, August 6, 2011

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[singlepic id=104 w=150 h=152 float=right] This week on the Summer Edition of SLRadio, David Howie of the St. Peter’s Seminary Foundation explains to us who pays for men to attend the Seminary and a featured chat with actor/director Leonardo DeFilippis, director of the Film Thérèse. Our two featured artists are Danielle Rose and Ben Apolinar.

May 14, 2011

Saturday, May 14, 2011

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[singlepic id=115 w=150 h=180 float=right] It’s ordinations time and that made us think about who pays for seminary. Join us this week as we speak with David Howie of the St. Peter’s Seminary Foundation in London, Ontario; Gillian Kantor tells us what she learned about discipline from her kids this week and we meet Canadian-Romanian […]