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The Regina Open Door Society choir performs during World Refugee Day last June. Campion College is representative of the city’s diversity with 14 per cent of its students coming from outside Canada.

Campion College opens doors to growing number of migrant students

REGINA – Mbayang Dabo laughs as she says, “Every winter I reconsider my decision (to move to Regina).” It’s quite understandable in mid-February as the Prairie city struggles through a two-week stretch of winter where the mercury has barely risen above -20.

Fr. Tibor Horvath led the Ultimate Reality and Meaning Society. At its height, the URAM society was a loose network of about 1,000 professors, experts and freelance scholars.

Life's ultimate meaning: Fr. Tibor Horvath’s scholarly movement left lasting impression

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

When it comes to higher learning, you can’t get higher than the ultimate.

Sr. Helena Burns has been running a Theology of the Body, or TOB, training course from Toronto’s Pauline Books and Media store since 2016.

Theology of the Body debuts at Sacred Heart College

By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register

Theology of the Body is for people in the pews.

To Fr. Greg Kennedy, the wonder of God’s creation is a key element in the spiritual experience. As a spiritual director, he explores the confluence of spirituality, ecology and creativity.

Jesuit brings his case for nature, technology and loneliness to Campion

By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic Register

REGINA – In modern society, people talk plenty about nature and the environment, but when it comes down to reality, they don’t actually experience what God has created around us.

Fr. Larry Pederson monitors construction of the new St. Francis Xavier Church in Camrose, Alta.

Parishes are struggling to survive, but others are breaking new ground

By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register

Declining church attendance, priests shortage and rising building costs are common factors that are forcing dioceses across the country to close churches and amalgamate parishes.

Pancakes two ways: The delicious answer to your Lenten date night dilemma

By Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic Register

In honour of the smorgasbord of Lenten landmarks, The Register has two pancake recipes: An over-the-top indulgent recipe perfect for Shrove Tuesday, along with an Ash Wednesday recipe sure to keep you energized during a day of fasting. Make them Valentine-friendly by cutting them into heart shapes.

Pope Leo XIII is depicted in this official Vatican portrait. The pope founded the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics and Archive Administration in 1884, just a few years after he opened the archives to the world's scholars.

The Register Archive: A crowning achievement for Pope Leo XIII

By Catholic Register Staff

To mark The Register’s 125th year, we are re-publishing some stories from our archive. February 1893 marked the 15th anniversary of the reign of Pope Leo XIII (below), who would go on to serve 25 years, the third longest reign in history. This excerpt from The Register of Feb. 2, 1893 looks at the Pope’s election and his accomplishments:

Clergy joined the famous Selma to Montgomery march in 1965, a key moment in the history of the civil rights movement in the U.S. The march featured Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta (centre), as well as movement co-founder Ralph Abernathy and his children, who joined hands with the unidentified clergyman.

The Register Archive: Canadian clergy march for civil rights

By Catholic Register Staff

To mark The Register’s 125th year, we are re-publishing some interesting stories from our archive. As we celebrate Black History Month, here’s an article from March 20, 1965, reporting on a march in Ottawa that drew thousands in support of the civil rights movement in the United States. The event was held shortly after the historic Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama on March 7 that resulted in state troopers attacking demonstrators on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”

Fr. Paul Woodcroft (left) Frank and Todd Woodcroft (Courtesy of the Woodcroft family). Craig Woodcroft (right) will be at the Olympics this month as a member of the men’s team coaching staff (Photo from Wikimedia Commons).

The Woodcroft Family: Passing the puck from the Flying Fathers to the NHL to the Olympics

By Tim Wharnsby, A Catholic Register Special

The backyard rink at the Woodcroft home on Cheritan Ave. in north Toronto was one busy locale back in the day.

As the 2018 Winter Olympics prepares to open Feb. 9 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, we look back at Canada’s hockey entry in the 1964 Games at Innsbruck, a team built and coached by Fr. David Bauer.

The Register Archive: Olympic team does us proud, even in defeat

By Catholic Register Staff

To mark The Catholic Register’s 125th year, we are digging into our archive to re-publish interesting stories from the pages of our past. As the 2018 Winter Olympics prepares to open Feb. 9 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, we look back at Canada’s hockey entry in the 1964 Games at Innsbruck, a team built and coached by Fr. David Bauer. A controversial scoring system meant Canada finished fourth and out of the medals despite a 5-2 record, but the team’s showing inspired words of comfort from columnist Fr. Tom Raby in The Register, in the Feb. 22, 1964 issue: