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Cistercians have worked the land there since early 1900s
Quinton Amundson · June 7, 2024
For 122 years, the monks who called the Cistercian-Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Calvary in Rogersville, N.B., bonded over their devotion to God and a love of agriculture.
New app looks to include Christians
Luke Mandato · June 7, 2024
With Christians being one of the more excluded communities worldwide, Zaia Ventures is working to develop a space that looks to change that for good.
Dale Gavlak · June 8, 2024
For Iraqi Catholics, it's a date they will never forget. The takeover of Mosul by militants of the Islamic State group 10 years ago began their bloody and destructive rampage over the weeks that followed through the country's ancestral heartland which Christians called home for the past 16 centuries.
Anna Farrow · June 8, 2024
A Quebec-based non-profit that helped churches to “go green” has been forced to close its doors less than 10 years after it was incorporated.
Boards building, expanding schools to meet growth
Luke Mandato · June 9, 2024
The Ministry of Education’s 2023-24 Capital Priorities Program is helping Ontario’s Catholic school boards alleviate overcrowding in schools and helping offset an expected rise in enrolment.
Catholic Register Staff · June 11, 2024
Fr. Michael Brehl, leader of the Canadian Redemptorists, has been named new bishop for the Diocese of Pembroke.
Quinton Amundson · June 11, 2024
More than 100 days after its introduction, Bill C-63, The Online Harms Act, which immediately sparked passionate reactions of furor or support, was debated for the first time in the House of Commons June 7.
Bishops condemn 'violence or vandalism' against faith communities
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has condemned the recent defilement of multiple religious monuments, the most recent being an Edmonton-area statue of an Oblate priest vandalized May 29.
Catholic Register Staff · June 12, 2024
The only church to feature artwork by members of the famed Group of Seven Canadian artists burned to the ground, taking with it the “stunning” murals on its walls and dome.
Catholic Register Staff · June 13, 2024
An attempt to overturn a decision to not fly the Pride flag on Dufferin Peel Catholic school properties was defeated June 11.
Culture à la Carte
Sr. Helena Burns · June 13, 2024
Not long ago, I was presenting a Theology of the Body series at Emmanuel Reformed Church in Whitby, Ontario. I was teaching Catholics, but some elderly women from the Reformed congregation began attending the classes.
Anna Farrow · June 13, 2024
A lawsuit launched last August against the Quebec government by pastor Art Lucier and Harvest Ministries International (HMI) was, according to their lawyer, never about the money.
Cathy Majtenyi · June 13, 2024
It all sounded so safe, so ‘progressive’. The 2018 Cannabis Act promised to “minimize harms” to Canadians as it enabled ‘recreational’ users to legally possess and consume cannabis without fear of a criminal record, which would stigmatize them for life.
Register Exclusive
Lines increasingly blurred
Luke Mandato · June 13, 2024
As support for euthanasia grows across the country, the line between genuine and holistic palliative care and medical assistance in dying has become increasingly blurred nearly inconclusively according to palliative care professionals in Canada.
Authentic friendships are made outside the Internet ecosystem
Quinton Amundson · June 13, 2024
The phenomenon of male loneliness has risen strikingly in recent years, the problem so glaring that some Canadian and U.S. social scientists classify it as an epidemic.
Annual music festival returns to Nathan Phillips Square
Nathan Phillips Square will be alive with the sound of Christian music June 15.
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · June 13, 2024
Canada’s Catholic bishops deserve full credit for sticking with their commitment to, as Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith has framed it, walk the whole long path of Indigenous reconciliation.
Lea Karen Kivi · June 13, 2024
Pizzelle. Pizzelle? I was intrigued. Is it a miniature pizza?
Readings for week 2: Sunday, June 16 to Saturday, June 22, 2024
Luke Mandato · June 15, 2024
A group of students from Toronto's Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School was crowned winners of the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative, with their $5,000 award donated to St. Felix Centre in downtown Toronto.