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May 2021

May 27

Development and Peace revenues takes hit during pandemic

May 27, 2021

The latest annual report from Development and Peace reveals the financial toll that COVID-19 has taken on the Canada’s Catholic development and aid organization.

The caring reality: How your parish can serve people with dementia

May 27, 2021

In the new Novalis book Here With Us: A Parish Guide to Serving People with Dementia, The Catholic Register’s Michael Swan outlines a massive pastoral challenge. There will be well over one million Canadians living with some form of dementia by 2036. They certainly will not be absent from parishes. Are we ready?

Cardus calls for vaccine incentives

May 27, 2021

OTTAWA -- Offering a financial carrot to make sure Canadians get fully vaccinated would be a good path to herd immunity, according to a new policy paper from the religious think tank Cardus.

Editorial: Moving forward

May 27, 2021

There is a bit of irony, we suppose, that the year-long fifth anniversary celebrations of Laudato Si’ have come to a close just as the world is in the throes of trying to put “our common home” back in order.

Readers Speak Out: May 30, 2021

May 27, 2021

Worthy fight RE: Lindsay Shepherd carries on fight for free speech (May 11): Ms. Shepherd innocently “fell into” her situation at Wilfred Laurier University. Her mother suggested recording the meeting that she had been mysteriously called to by her supervisors. Otherwise, Ms. Shepherd would have left the meeting feeling guilty of misdirecting students on gender ideology. Instead, she blew open for all to see one of the biggest crimes of our time.

Fr. Raymond de Souza: Symbols matter

May 27, 2021

Several Ontario Catholic school boards have decided to fly the Pride flag during the month of June. Many officials don’t want to talk very much about it; witness the briefest of stories which appeared in this newspaper.

Youth offer guide out of homelessness

May 27, 2021

A joint project by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) and A Way Home Canada — and the slate of projects earmarked for the future — aims to ensure their jointly developed framework to prevent youth homelessness remains an ever-living document.

May 28

Fr. Falke turns the everyday into art

May 28, 2021

Fr. Herman Falke has had his hands busy working on what he says is an “intentionally complicated” wood carving.

Cardinal Collins invites us to rediscover the ‘treasure’ of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in his latest pastoral letter

May 28, 2021

After a year of COVID-19, we are all heavy laden.The spectre of sickness and death wears us down, as does the devastating effect of pandemic restrictions.

St. Mike’s signs on to U.S. bishops’ statement

May 28, 2021

The University of St. Michael’s College has become the first Canadian Catholic college to sign onto a statement in support of at-risk LGBT youth.

Glen Argan: Mother Mary is ‘our tainted nature’s solitary boast’

May 28, 2021

Marian devotion and the Church’s preferential option for the poor come together in the feast of the Visitation, celebrated May 31. The feast marks the beginning of Mary’s three-month visit to her cousin Elizabeth.

May 29

Summer camp counsellors await word on camp return for the season

May 29, 2021

Jake Woodcroft has worn a few different hats throughout his lengthy association with the Catholic Youth Organization’s (CYO) Camp Marydale in Mount Hope, Ont., and Camp Brebeuf in Rockland, Ont.

Peter Stockland: Living faith within the realities of life

May 29, 2021

Five minutes into a recent online retreat, I felt myself going spiritually backwards.

May 30

Post-COVID reset needs Christian principles

May 30, 2021

OTTAWA -- As Canadians continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of what happens after the global community recovers from COVID’s impact remains unanswered.

God's Word on Sunday: God gives His word; it won’t be broken

May 30, 2021

Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, June 6 (Year B) Exodus 24:3-8; Psalm 116; Hebrews 9:11-15; Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 Blood is one of the most powerful symbols in the world.

Canada’s bishops express ‘deepest sorrow’ over loss of 215 children found buried at former residential school

May 30, 2021

Canada’s bishops are expressing their “deepest sorrow” and pledge to “continue walking side by side” with Indigenous people in the wake of the discovery of the bodies of 215 children buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.