Amundson is an associate editor and writer for The Catholic Register.
Archdiocese still looking for ways to pay $121 million judgment
November 4, 2025
December will mark four years since the Archdiocese of St. John’s launched a comprehensive restructuring process in response to being deemed “vicariously liable” by the Newfoundland Court of Appeal for the physical and sexual abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.
October 31, 2025
The Department of Finance has declined to clearly state whether pro-life non-profits will retain or lose their privileged charitable status in the 2025 federal budget to be tabled Nov. 4.
Bill would open procedure to those with mental illness
October 29, 2025
With the second reading debate for Bill C-218 expected before the Christmas recess — MPs last scheduled sitting day is Friday, Dec. 12 — advocates against expanding the Canadian assisted suicide regime are urging the successful passage of this legislation tabled by Conservative Tamara Jansen in June.
Fund supports disabled man ‘repeatedly pressured’ to end his life
October 28, 2025
A grassroots fundraising campaign launched Sept. 30 by Life Care Network is aiming to give a 50-year-old man with a rare neurological disease the care he says he is being denied.
It took 38 years for Toronto food banks to experience over one million client visits in a single year.
October 27, 2025
The Vatican is poised to return a collection of a “few dozen” cultural treasures from its Anima Mundi ethnological museum to Indigenous communities across Canada before the end of the Jubilee year.
Aim is to make St. Mike’s courses accessible to parish leaders across Canada
October 24, 2025
A Canadian Centre for Catholic Pastoral Leadership (CCCPL) is coming to the University of St. Michael’s College (USMC) in 2026, thanks to a $1.4 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Pathways for Tomorrow initiative.
October 23, 2025
Tinseltown’s Devil often splits into two archetypes: the cartoonish, red-skinned, horned figure delivering campy one-liners, as in The Simpsons or South Park, or the suave, histrionic charmer with a mischievous smile and guttural cackle, like Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate or Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick
Mary Magdalene’s discipleship legacy and the transformative impacts of spiritual curiosity are personal for Fr. Tim Uniac, CR.
October 22, 2025
Dylan McGuinty Jr. has a vision of a coalition that could strike “a grand bargain” to pave the way for more traditional palliative care options in a Canada increasingly embracing euthanasia.
