September 2024

Time of the season for creation

Luke Mandato · September 7, 2024

Catholics have been called again to become one with creation throughout the annual Season of Creation.

Young professionals connect career, faith

Luke Mandato · September 8, 2024

Young Professional Catholics of Toronto (YPCT) is hosting its biggest event to date this month, inviting working-class Catholics to the organization’s first official industry networking night.

Marriage priorities

September 8, 2024

Glen Argan’s Aug. 20 Catholic Register column made excellent use of Pope St John Paul II’s teaching about “the marriage of Mary and Joseph as more than a covenant, ‘an authentic communion according to the model of the Blessed Trinity.’”

Flash flooding temporarily closes Lourdes' grotto

Maria Wiering · September 9, 2024

River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. The shrine complex remained open to visitors. A morning Mass, however, was canceled Sept. 7 at the major Catholic pilgrimage site, which has experienced several major floods in recent years.

Thousands mourn Ukrainian family killed in a Russian strike on Lviv

Gina Christian · September 9, 2024

Lviv mourned the victims of the Sept. 4 Russian strike on the residential buildings as thousands gathered Sept. 6 for funeral services of a mother and her three daughters.

Gender rights debate taking centrestage

Quinton Amundson · September 11, 2024

Canada's Parliament returns to work Sept. 16, four days before divisions over gender approaches in schools will return to the national spotlight with the second annual 1 Million March 4 Children.

Course aims to direct us to God through music

Luke Mandato · September 11, 2024

A new course from Regis College’s Windows on Theology series is offering a look at how everyday music can become a platform to help people draw closer to God.

Civil or ecclesial court

Which path leads to justice, truth and healing?

Lea Karen Kivi · September 11, 2024

Which path leads to justice, truth and healing?

Pope Francis lands in Singapore, last stage of his Asia-Pacific trip

Cindy Wooden · September 11, 2024

Arriving in Singapore from Timor-Leste, Pope Francis made the biggest transition of his 12-day trip to Asia and the Pacific, moving from one of the world's poorest countries to one of its wealthiest and from one of the most youthful to one of the oldest.

Head of Sacred Heart order appeals to Polish authorities to respect dignity of arrested priest

Jonathan Luxmoore · September 12, 2024

As the superior general of the Sacred Heart order appealed to Polish authorities to ensure an arrested Polish priest's "dignity" is "respected," defenders have accused the country's government of using Father Michal Olszewski as a political prisoner and urged the Catholic Church to speak up on his behalf.

Love is what builds and endures, Pope Francis says in Singapore

Cindy Wooden · September 12, 2024

The true significance of Singapore's soaring skyscrapers, robust economy and high-tech achievements must be found in the stories of love and care that are behind them, Pope Francis said.

Widows of Catholic NHL star, brother testify to faith, love and new life at joint funeral

John Knebels · September 12, 2024

Perseverance, fortitude, grit and calm in the face of a storm often accompany the description of prominent athletes. At the funeral Mass of deceased brothers Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau Sept. 9 however, it was their wives who emulated the aforementioned attributes as they took turns giving words of remembrance for their fallen husbands.

Editorial

MAiD exception to the rules

September 12, 2024

Hope already seemed on life support in what have become the killing fields of Canada’s public health-care system.

The Mustard Seed

Our hope is Christ’s presence, not reviving the past

Glen Argan · September 12, 2024

In an interview which the historian Frank Linderman recounted, Plenty Coups, traditional chief of the Crow Nation, refused to speak of his life after the destruction of the buffalo. The chief’s story did not include the years between the passing of the buffalo until his death in 1932.

Sending toddlers to school is more minus than plus

Andrea Mrozek · September 12, 2024

“We know that we've stolen a year of childhood right around the Western world, the year of five, when our little ones are still supposed to be largely running around outside building sandcastles, and pretending they're unicorns or dragons.”

Ad Orientem

Put aside politics for incarnational truth

Dcn. Andrew Bennett · September 12, 2024

Some of you may remember a folk rock band from BC that was moderately popular in the 1990s named Spirit of the West. One of their hits was titled “Political”.

Remarks by Pope Francis at Indonesia’s Istiqlal Mosque

Catholic Register Staff · September 12, 2024

Remarks by Pope Francis at Indonesia’s Istiqlal Mosque during the Holy Father’s visit to that country as well as New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore Sept. 2-13, 2024.

We’d best remember all sin and fall short

September 12, 2024

You know something? Nobody is perfect. Now this might come as a great surprise to some of you just as it did to me.

Pope Francis thrives, hits main themes of his pontificate during Asia-Pacific trip

Cindy Wooden · September 13, 2024

The 87-year-old Pope Francis not only survived the longest trip of his pontificate, but he drew energy from the crowds who came to see him, and he seemed to enjoy his 12-day visit to Asia and the Pacific.

'Livin' on a prayer': Catholic-raised Bon Jovi helps save woman on Nashville bridge

OSV News · September 13, 2024

Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi reportedly saved a woman's life when he talked her into stepping off the ledge of a bridge over the river in Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 10.