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Lauretta Brown · April 25, 2024
Pope Francis sat down exclusively with "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell on April 24 for an interview ahead of the Vatican's inaugural World Children's Day. The CBS interview marks the first time a pope has given an in-depth, one-on-one interview to a U.S. broadcast network, according to the network.
Windsor, Ont., football star chooses God’s way for path to success
Quinton Amundson · April 25, 2024
Theo Johnson reconnected with his Windsor, Ont., roots in the days before the April 25-27 NFL draft, where Bleacher Report pegged him as the 107th-ranked prospect.
Cindy Wooden · April 25, 2024
The reform projects launched by Pope Francis -- reforming not just institutions like the Roman Curia, but attitudes and pastoral approaches -- will not be reversed, even though some may take different forms in the future, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.
Culture à la Carte
Sr. Helena Burns · April 25, 2024
How does one parent the media? What do the latest studies say about the influence of media devices on youth? What are the best ages to mete out access to media devices/platforms to young people? What kind of guidance do parents and children alike need? How can young people use media in a healthy way?
The Mustard Seed
Glen Argan · April 25, 2024
The Vatican’s April 8 statement Dignitatis Infinita (Infinite Dignity) provides a welcome examination of the concept of human dignity, distinguishing proper understanding of the term from current misconceptions.
Figure of Speech
Gerry Turcotte · April 25, 2024
The words ‘magic’ and ‘magicians’ are mentioned just over 20 times in the Bible and generally describe an act of illusion for purposes of deception. In our day, however, magic is understood to be a largely joyful piece of foolery. Another phrase that I knew of, but largely in a negative context, was the concept of sympathetic magic.
Many women prefer intimacy over hospital setting, proponents say
Agnieszka Ruck · April 26, 2024
COVID-19 and life issues have brought bodily autonomy and the right to accept or refuse medical treatment to the forefront in recent years.
Luke Mandato · April 26, 2024
What began as a short-term project by the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth to bring the city’s most vulnerable out of the cold and into temporary shelter remains a project in progress more than two years later.
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · April 26, 2024
As duffers and pro prospects alike tune their golf games for another season of lightning strike joy and thunder cloud frustration, the world’s number one player models three words of sage advice: Say your prayers.
Church on the Street
Dcn. Robert Kinghorn · April 26, 2024
“Although I am a stranger, please know I hold you in my heart and in my prayers.”
Catholic Register Special · April 26, 2024
A letter from Archbishop Francis Leo for Catholic Education Week.
Catholic Register Staff · April 26, 2024
Excerpt from the blog of Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition updating events in the world of medically delivered death.
Cindy Wooden · April 29, 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that Pope Francis would participate in a G7 "outreach" discussion on artificial intelligence when the leaders of the world's leading industrialized nations countries meet in southern Italy in mid-June.
Tonny Onyuolo · April 29, 2024
Catholic agencies, along with other Christian charities in Sudan, have intensified their food distribution campaign across the country to save hundreds of thousands of suffering Sudanese people from extreme hunger as the civil war entered its second year.
Fredrick Nzwili · April 29, 2024
Amid severe floods, a leading Catholic archbishop in Kenya appealed for humanitarian support to aid thousands of displaced people, as he expressed the church's closeness to the affected populations.
Gina Christian · April 30, 2024
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church recently met with Ukrainian military officials to discuss a range of issues, including Russia's detention of two Ukrainian Catholic priests whose fate remains unknown.
Peter Stockland · April 30, 2024
The scene had a loopy, feckless, cosplay pathos about it. Then I discerned the menace. I came face-to-face not with the dictatorship of the proletariat, but with the dictates of the phone-atariat.
Anna Farrow · April 30, 2024
Shockwaves from the Gaza war impacted Christian-Jewish relations seriously enough to hamper a Montreal commemoration of the Shoah this year, say organizers of the 45th annual event held on April 28.