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June 2023

June 23

Dauphin prayer vigil commemorates bus crash victims

June 23, 2023

Marking a “tremendously difficult week,” the small Manitoba city of Dauphin came together to mourn the loss of 16 of its elder members who lost their lives in a horrific June 15 accident.

Editorial: Good intentions gone bad, again

June 23, 2023

The culture wars have kicked up yet another reductio ad absurdum ruckus with the revelation that a pro-diversity website at Johns Hopkins University defined lesbians as non-men attracted to other non-men.

June 24

Century of faith in Allan, Saskatchewan

June 24, 2023

Fr. Andrew Wychucki, pastor of St. Aloysius Church in Allan, Sask., believes his 100-year-old parish could be an archetype of the ideal synodal Church.

June 26

Pope Francis expresses closeness to Orlandi family after new evidence in case

June 26, 2023

Forty years since the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican schoolgirl who mysteriously vanished at the age of 15, Pope Francis publicly expressed his closeness to her family.

June 27

Pope Francis' envoy to travel to Moscow on peace mission

June 27, 2023

Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi will go to Moscow on the second leg of a peace mission on behalf of Pope Francis, the Vatican said.

Two American carpenters help to rebuild Notre Dame’s spire

June 27, 2023

Highly skilled carpenters from four different companies are working together to rebuild the iconic Notre Dame spire before the grand reopening of the most famous European cathedral on Dec. 8, 2024. Among the craftsmen assigned to the prestigious task are two Americans: Jackson Dubois from New York and Michael Burrey from Boston.

Caviezel: 'Sound of Freedom' a 'weapon of mass instruction' to end child trafficking

June 27, 2023

A new film starring Jim Caviezel aims to move millions to end the scourge of child trafficking.

June 28

Pope Francis, Council of Cardinals look at need to reform diocesan chanceries

June 28, 2023

With the help of an expert canon lawyer, Pope Francis and members of his international Council of Cardinals discussed ways that the principles behind his reform of the Roman Curia also can be reflected in the structuring and functioning of diocesan chanceries.

Oblate commission to examine abuse response

June 28, 2023

Retired Quebec Justice André Denis has been appointed by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, OMI Lacombe Canada and the Oblates of the Province of France to lead the Oblate Safeguarding Commission, an independent examination of historical allegations of sexual abuse against Johannes Rivoire.

‘Hope, danger’ in wake of march on Moscow

June 28, 2023

With serious events clearly underway in Russia, a Ukraine bishop is hopeful it could help end Russia’s war on Ukraine, but worries of the dangers a destabilized Russia could bring to the situation.

Now it’s time to ‘do the good’

June 28, 2023

I have just returned from a week singing under the California sun. Not favourite lyrics from the Beach Boys though, but Gregorian chant and Renaissance motets. Along with 74 other choristers, choir directors and organists who attended a Sacred Music Symposium hosted by St. John the Baptist Parish in Orange County, I return to my home parish eager to put into practice what I have learned.

June 29

Pope Francis meeting Cuban leader ‘disappointing’

June 29, 2023

A Vatican meeting between Pope Francis and Cuban President and First Secretary Miguel Díaz-Canel on June 20 drew a small protest at the Via della Conciliazione (Road of the Conciliation), the boulevard leading to St. Peter’s Square.

‘Still a long way to go’ for ShareLife

June 29, 2023

The ShareLife parish campaign has raised $8.5 million as of June 21, which equates to roughly 62 per cent of its $13.8-million goal for the year.

‘I have only done the work of a servant’

June 29, 2023

The Register's globe-trotting journalist's career ends after 25 years.

West doesn’t view religion as basic right: report

June 29, 2023

An increase in religious persecution can draw a straight line to Western nations that prioritize economic interests over human rights, concludes Aid to the Church in Need’s latest religious freedom report.

Archbishop Leo receives pallium from Pope Francis

June 29, 2023

Archbishop Francis Leo of Toronto joined 31 other metropolitan archbishops appointed over the past year who received their pallium from Pope Francis after Mass for the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, June 29.

Verbatim: Pope Francis on 50th anniversary of Vatican Museum's collection of modern art

June 29, 2023

Pope Francis’ address to artists on the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the Vatican Museum’s collection of modern art.

Old-school nun shames self-indulgent ‘Sisters’

June 29, 2023

The recent kerfuffle regarding the Los Angeles Dodgers honouring “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” at Dodgers Stadium got me investigating the bad Sisters. I knew very little about them, except that they would often show up on the news in full nun regalia (over-the-top garish and even ghoulish, akin to the horror film The Nun) to receive accolades for their “charitable work.”

Editorial: Bishop Henry’s line in the sand

June 29, 2023

Canada’s Catholic hierarchy is being reminded why even the “Lord” backed down in a contretemps with Calgary’s Bishop Emeritus Fred Henry. At the very least, they will learn again that His Grace is not for turning.

Stand for our values

June 29, 2023

The Catholic Register’s recent editorial “What reason for Pride season?” sounds like a secular commentary on gay culture and trans individuals.