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August 2015

August 6

Pope creates exarchate for Syro-Malabar Catholics in Canada

August 6, 2015

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has established an apostolic exarchate, the precursor to a diocese, for Syro-Malabar Catholics in Canada and has named their current Toronto-based chaplain, Fr. Jose Kalluvelil, a bishop and head of the exarchate.

U.S. bishop in Japan: American bishops will push for nuclear disarmament

August 6, 2015

HIROSHIMA, Japan - For a long minute on a sunny morning, silence fell over the memorial park that commemorates the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.

August 7

The future of our Church is at Steubenville

August 7, 2015

Steubenville Toronto greeted me with crowds of people — a sea of colourful t-shirts, distinguishing each group that bustled among the different vendors. As I entered Roy Thompson Hall Friday afternoon, I felt the electrified hum of young people, reuniting with old friends from conferences past, making new ones, and expecting to encounter the Lord in a new way.

YSN covers Steubenville Toronto

August 7, 2015

Steubenville Toronto is Canada's largest Catholic youth conference. More than 1,500 youths will be at Roy Thomson Hall from Aug. 7-9, celebrating our God who is limitless. Youth Speak News reporters Chanelle Robinson, Bianca Reátegui and Danielle Sequeira will be reporting live keynote speeches, workshops, worship concerts and everything in between. Stay on top of our daily coverage by following the links below. Keep track of our social media for more news, exclusive photos and behind-the-scenes looks at Steubenville TO. Follow us on Twitter by searching for @youthspeaknews. Like us on our Facebook page at fb.com/YouthSpeakNews. Follow The Catholic Register's Instagram, @CatholicRegister

Why stay? A new book looks at feminists who refuse to give up on faith

August 7, 2015

In the moments before Jennifer Zobair converted to Islam, she had one pressing question for the imam, about a verse in the Quran that seemed to give husbands permission to beat their wives.

French, British bishops urge solution to migrant crisis in channel port

August 7, 2015

OXFORD, England - French and British Catholic bishops urged their governments to settle a growing refugee crisis around the port of Calais, where highways have been blocked and migrants from Africa and the Middle East have died attempting illegal crossings of the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel.

Pope talks to youths about discernment, grandparents, Eucharist

August 7, 2015

VATICAN CITY - Following Jesus and doing the right thing gives believers a sense of peace, but sometimes "it comes wrapped in the cross," Pope Francis told a group of teenagers and young adults.

Ethnic minorities in Myanmar struggle on many fronts, U.S. bishop says

August 7, 2015

WASHINGTON - Displaced members of Myanmar's Kachin ethnic minority are struggling with being away from their homes and the limited services available in a Catholic-run camp near the Myanmar-China border, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration.

August 8

Think big, pray big

August 8, 2015

Days before the Steubenville Toronto weekend, I wracked my brain thinking about what the theme of the conference could mean. Limitless is such a big word, but after experiencing the conference, I think that was the point.

Missionaries of Charity care for the dying in Nepal’s holiest temple

August 8, 2015

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Every Saturday morning businessman Rajan Silwal rushes to the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu to see a few friends.

Choreographer, Broadway actor help Catholic school perform 'Lion King'

August 8, 2015

BENNINGTON, Vt. - Though the budget was clearly lower, the cast definitely had less experience, the costumes were much simpler and the audiences were far smaller, there was something that the production of "The Lion King Jr." at a Catholic school in the Burlington Diocese had in common with the Broadway production of "The Lion king": Enrique Segura.

August 9

Praising God unashamedly

August 9, 2015

The last day of Steubenville Toronto focused on translating all the things Steubenville participants had learned throughout the event into their daily lives. It was a theme that permeated all of the day’s proceedings.

For some churches, food trucks are a vehicle for serving the poor

August 9, 2015

FORT WORTH, Texas - Allen Lutes wipes his brow as he prepares another plate of food. The culinary school-trained chef is serving grilled chicken, fresh vegetables and rice pilaf.

Protecting the environment goes beyond climate change

August 9, 2015

Whether motivated by Canadian garbage, Canadian mines or devastating typhoons linked to global warming, Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical has emboldened the fight in the Philippines for environmental justice, said an advisor to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

August 10

Dozens of Christians feared to be among 230 kidnapped in Syria

August 10, 2015

AMMAN, Jordan - Dozens of Christians are feared to be among the 230 people abducted by Islamic State after the extremist group's militants captured a central Syrian town in early August.

Pope Francis on the anniversary of the bomb: ‘A lasting warning to humanity’

August 10, 2015

VATICAN CITY - Seventy years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis on Aug. 9 described the bomb as a “lasting warning to humanity.”

For abortion foes, it’s now more ‘SHOCK!’ and less ‘Awwwww’

August 10, 2015

In recent years, up-and-coming leaders in the U.S. anti-abortion movement have been pushing for a kinder, gentler strategy for their “pro-life” campaign — an effort to win hearts and minds with an upbeat message and affecting ultrasound photos.

Forgiveness at heart of healing after Ferguson violence, says archbishop

August 10, 2015

ST. LOUIS - Forgiveness. Such a simple word, a mere 11 letters but it's at the heart of the Catholic faith, along with love, peace and justice, said the archbishop of St. Louis.

Pope declares Sept. 1 ‘World Day of Prayer’ for environment

August 10, 2015

VATICAN - The Vatican announced a World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, the latest move by Pope Francis to push environmental issues up the global agenda Aug. 10.

Care for creation, care for each other, Pope says in radio interview

August 10, 2015

VATICAN CITY - Caring for all of creation includes paying particular attention to the needs of young people and the aged, Pope Francis told the audience of a Catholic radio station in Argentina.