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April 2021

April 14

Speaking Out: Spread light to counter darkness

April 14, 2021

On March 26, our popular culture evidently took one more step towards a state of depravity with the release of “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” by Lil Nas X, a rapper known for his unorthodox rap/pop crossovers and his openly homosexual identity.

NFL veteran touts New Testament

April 14, 2021

Like most young boys envisaging a sports career, Luke Willson fantasized about lifting the championship trophy or making the dramatic clutch play. The down moments of the elite athlete rollercoaster were not included in those daydreams.

B.C. churches launch appeal on religious gathering ban

April 14, 2021

VANCOUVER -- Three Christian churches are appealing a B.C. Supreme Court judge’s ruling in favour of the prohibition on in-person religious gatherings in this province.

Sr. Helena Burns: The wonderful world of singlehood

April 14, 2021

The Church loves you, single people!

Film explores Benedict’s papacy

April 14, 2021

VATICAN CITY -- A documentary released on Benedict XVI’s 94th birthday states that his personal secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, tried to dissuade him from abdicating the papacy.

'The Catholic Register' takes 10 honours at Christian journalism awards

April 14, 2021

The Catholic Register earned honours in 10 categories at the annual Canadian Christian Communicators Association Awards on April 7.

April 15

Canadian bishops rally support for palliative care

April 15, 2021

Canada’s bishops are calling on Catholics to continue to push back against the “culture of death” even as efforts to block the expansion of euthanasia in Canada have so far failed.

York Catholic School Board education director leaves a month into job

April 15, 2021

The York Catholic District School Board is looking for a new director of education after Robert Hofstatter made his exit after just over one controversial month in the role.

Editorial: The gift of faith

April 15, 2021

No one is exactly sure what was going through the mind of explorer Ferdinand Magellan when he landed on the island of Cebu in the Philippines in March of 1521.

Readers Speak Out: April 18, 2021

April 15, 2021

Assist D&P Re: Religious raise concerns with D&P investigation (March 28): Kudos to Mr. Swan’s report, in which Fr. Eric Oland, Jesuit Provincial Superior, and Br. Louis Cinq-Mars, former president of the Canadian Religious Conference, deplore the withholding of funds from the poorest of the poor for fear some of the funds could be used for family planning.

Good Shepherd pivot allows it to continue feeding the poor during pandemic restrictions

April 15, 2021

Two sandwiches, a fruit bar, three granola bars, one chocolate bar, maybe a muffin or some other baked treat and a fruit cup all in a brown, paper bag — times 200,000.

Glen Argan: ‘Frightened conservatives’ on the march

April 15, 2021

In recent weeks, I have encountered a few Catholics who believe the current pandemic is not real, that it has been created by an anonymous “they” who want to restrict the civil liberties of ordinary people.

Gerry Turcotte: Waking to a new dawn

April 15, 2021

In At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past, Roger Ekirch discusses a practice in the early modern era whereby Western Europeans divided their nights in two, with a “first sleep” until midnight, and a later “second sleep” running through until morning.

April 16

Camps facing another uncertain summer with lockdowns

April 16, 2021

While a murky forecast for the 2020 summer camping season was expected with the unknowns surrounding COVID-19, organizations that operate day and overnight camps for Ontario youth never thought a similar script would play out a year later.

New King’s program takes holistic view of human rights

April 16, 2021

On the one hand, human rights might seem obvious. There is surely a minimum of freedoms, responsibilities, care and solidarity owed to all humans just because they are human. On the other hand, is there anything Catholics and Canadians argue about more fervently?

Portrait of St. Kateri survives devastating church fire on Easter Sunday

April 16, 2021

Amidst the rubble left by the fire that consumed St. Theresa Point Catholic Church on Easter Sunday laid a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha almost completely intact.

Police fire tear gas into Haitian bishops' Mass for freedom

April 16, 2021

MIAMI -- A "Mass for the freedom of Haiti," led by Haitian bishops, turned violent at the end when police fired tear gas into the church.

Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong Catholic media tycoon, jailed for 12 months

April 16, 2021

HONG KONG -- Catholic media tycoon and philanthropist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 12 months in jail after being found guilty of unauthorized assembly.

Flynn first layperson to helm St. Joseph’s College

April 16, 2021

The new boss at St. Joseph’s College in Edmonton happens to be the old boss — but not that old.

Ontario worship services limited to 10 again as COVID surges

April 16, 2021

With Ontario going into hard lockdown to combat a disturbing rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, places of worship will once again be limited to a hard cap of 10 people in attendance.