June 2024

Moncton monastery closes after nearly 125 years

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.

Zaia leads us to the online light

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.

10 years after Islamic State group's bloody rampage, Iraq's displaced Christians still struggle

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.

Funding struggles force Green Church Network closure

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.

Ontario Catholic schools see enrolment boom

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.

Redemptorist Brehl named new Bishop of Pembroke

Catholic Register Staff · June 11, 2024

Fr. Michael Brehl, leader of the Canadian Redemptorists, has been named new bishop for the Diocese of Pembroke.

Controversial Online Harms Bill debated in Parliament

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.

Oblate's memorial latest to be vandalized

Bishops condemn 'violence or vandalism' against faith communities

Quinton Amundson · June 11, 2024

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.

‘Invaluable’ Group of Seven works lost in church blaze

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.

Dufferin Peel Catholic board turns down Pride flag, again

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

God alone is Author and Master of life

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.

Harvest Ministries seeks ruling its Charter rights infringed when rally cancelled

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.

Listen to Pope Francis: stop cannabis poison

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

Euthanasia’s forgotten casualty: palliative care

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.

Men must reclaim personal connection from AI

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.

Christians' sounds to fill Toronto's downtown

Annual music festival returns to Nathan Phillips Square

Luke Mandato · June 13, 2024

Nathan Phillips Square will be alive with the sound of Christian music June 15.

Editorial

Voice of truth needed

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.

Baking joy at Our Lady of Sorrows

Lea Karen Kivi · June 13, 2024

Pizzelle. Pizzelle? I was intrigued. Is it a miniature pizza?

Testing our patience: what would God do?

Lea Karen Kivi · June 13, 2024

Readings for week 2: Sunday, June 16 to Saturday, June 22, 2024

Initiative puts students’ faith in action

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.