Michael Swan

‘War spending’ traps us in new Cold War

March 16, 2022

The world doesn’t just feel like a more dangerous place since Russian troops entered Ukraine, it is a reality.

The humanitarian art of war

March 11, 2022

Ivanka Galadza is not the sort of person who ever expected to go to war, nor would any of her Ottawa neighbours pick the slight young woman out as a warrior. But with a pen and a sheet of paper, Galadza can concentrate the strength she inherited from priests and poets who resisted the Soviet empire.

Crossing Ukraine’s threshold of hope

March 10, 2022

As an ordinary Ukrainian far from home, Maria Ivaniv has struggled with all the emotions the outbreak of war was bound to fuel — fear, anger, despair and confusion. As a theologian, she looks to the Church for hope.

Survey: Readers oppose Pandemic Day, want COVID commemoration

March 9, 2022

When COVID is over most Catholic Register readers just want to move on, but those same readers overwhelmingly would like their parish to mark a Pandemic Day.

Salt and Light opens Rome bureau

March 9, 2022

Early in the pandemic BBC presenter and documentary film producer Jen Copestake was reminded in a way she never had been before that she is a Catholic journalist.

Canadians urged to help Ukraine with cash

March 9, 2022

Cash and care go hand in hand in the Catholic response to the crisis in Ukraine.

St. Michael’s set for next step in evolution

March 5, 2022

If the Church needs the thinking power of a Catholic university, St. Michael’s is readier than ever to fill that bill, University of St. Michael’s College president and vice chancellor David Sylvester told The Catholic Register in an interview.

Pope Francis asks students to build synodal bridges

March 4, 2022

Canadians among those conversing with Francis on synodality

Prayers abound in Ukraine’s decisive moment

March 3, 2022

After praying the Panachyda — traditional Byzantine prayers for the dead in time of war — Katia Metersky left Toronto’s St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in tears.

Analysis: Why a war is never just war

March 2, 2022

War is never moral. It is not ordered to the good. But the Church through the centuries has taught that when faced with war, or the prospect of war, we must think carefully and morally — prudence first. So, is a war that pits a broad Western alliance against Russian aggression in Ukraine a just war?