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June 9, 2023
The weather is getting warmer, and that means… tick season. Tick season means… Lyme disease. Lyme disease is extremely “controversial.” People with Lyme are often deemed to be perfectly healthy, are misdiagnosed or dismissed with “it’s all in your head.”
June 10, 2023
As defined by the Merriam and Webster dictionary, a crusader is someone “who makes an impassioned and sustained effort to bring about social or political change.”
June 12, 2023
The Vatican's criminal court ordered two climate activists to pay more than $30,000 in damages after they glued themselves to an ancient sculpture in the Vatican Museums to draw attention to the effects of climate change.
The British girl whose injuries were "life-threatening" after a stabbing attack on the playground in Annecy, France, was awake and recovering, France's President Emmanuel Macron confirmed June 9. He said the condition of the children who were attacked while playing with their parents in Le Paquier park is "heading in the right direction."
June 14, 2023
A divide among York Catholic school stakeholders made its way down to the student body when a June 8 walkout to protest the board not flying the Pride flag turned violent at a Markham, Ont., school.
In what was one of the most important years in the history of the Catholic Church in Canada, The Catholic Register was there every step of the way.
Montreal Catholics again made their presence real in the heart of the city June 8, heeding Archbishop Christian Lépine’s call to make Christ the heart of their world.
An English Catholic bishop said he supported the decision of a judge to jail a woman for two years after she aborted her baby almost a month before she was due to give birth.
June 15, 2023
On Jan. 16, lawyer Alain Arsenault received a letter that began with the words: "I hereby describe an assault I suffered one Sunday in 1992 in the sacristy of the Grand Séminaire de Montréal," Montreal's major seminary.
Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo on why June is devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
A Jesuit at the University of Toronto is helping to map the unknown.
Prime Minister Trudeau merits mixed reviews for his multi-role performance last week as road warrior, marital warrior and culture warrior. The last of these might leave at least some Catholics wondering if it’s past time for him to exit stage left.
We want to commend John Killacky for his letter in the June 11 edition of The Catholic Register “Failing the Faith.” I am certain he echoes the words of many Catholics who are striving to live our faith and transmit it to others.
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) June 18 (Exodus 19:1-6a; Psalm 100; Romans 5:6-11; Matthew 9:36-10:8) A scant three months had passed since the Israelites left Egypt. Their liberation was incredibly dramatic. Plagues, parting seas and the humbling of one of the superpowers of the ancient world were the means by which God had led them to freedom.
Isabel Correa, the Canadian bishops’ World Youth Day coordinator, had anticipated 3,000 Canadians, largely between the ages of 16 to 35, would venture to Lisbon, Portugal for WYD 2023.
When we were young many wanted to do great things — end global poverty, help usher in an era of lasting peace, develop a cure for cancer.
The indefinite suspension of 16-year-old Josh Alexander from St. Joseph’s High School in Renfrew for opposing male access to female changing rooms and bathrooms appears to have snowballed into a rather vigorous campaign by parents across Ontario to halt the spread of gender theory and LGBT Pride in the classroom.
I had the opportunity recently of joining a dynamic inter-faith panel to discuss the issue of social justice and the environment here in Vancouver. My fellow panelists included an Imam from the local Muslim association, a Rabbi from the local synagogue and a representatives from the Mennonite community. This was followed by panel discussions from public health officials, government representatives and even an unscheduled visit by David Suzuki.
Quebec’s Catholic bishops deserve heartfelt commendation for their courage and conviction though the gesture demonstrating it was doomed to be ignored before they even made it.
June 16, 2023
Quebec’s legislature has delivered a triple-whammy expansion of so-called medical aid in dying (MAiD) that includes obliging all palliative care facilities in the province to offer doctor-supplied end of life.