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Caroline de Sury · October 1, 2024
It felt as if the whole country mourned and wept as family, friends and 3,000 other people packed the St. Louis Cathedral in Versailles Sept. 27 to say goodbye to 19-year-old student Philippine de Carlan, who was found murdered in Bois de Boulogne, or the Boulogne Forest, in Paris Sept. 21.
Cindy Wooden · October 1, 2024
The Catholic Church cannot be credible in its mission of proclaiming Christ unless it acknowledges its mistakes and bends down "to heal the wounds we have caused by our sins," Pope Francis said.
Entwined for three decades, they are now embroiled in lawsuit
Anna Farrow · October 2, 2024
Register Exclusive
Former priest and convicted sex offender Brian Boucher has been on a hospital ward with minors present for at least a month, The Catholic Register has learned.
Maria Wiering · October 2, 2024
The second meeting of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops begins this week at the Vatican. Like last year's meeting, it's a four-week-long gathering of 368 voting delegates -- with scores more of nonvoting participants -- from six continents to address the theme "For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission" and experience synodality, a posture of listening, accompaniment and communion in the church.
Canada’s Catholic bishops spent two full sessions at their recent plenary signing off on a major overhaul of how the national conference of prelates should operate.
Salt + Light dives deeper into stories of everyday pro-life heroes
Luke Mandato · October 3, 2024
Salt + Light Media is producing a special episode of its Behold series this month, diving deeper into the testimonies of four people dedicated to the pro-life cause highlighted in The Catholic Register’s Lives Lived for Life magazine project.
The Catholic Register’s special full-colour magazine project Lives Lived for Life is more than just telling 12 stories of Canada’s pro-life faithful, it is also a melding of three distinct Catholic media entities in sharing these stories for the world to see.
St. Michael’s College School (SMCS) in Toronto has brought back the Listening Circle initiative, a program implemented last year by a former student looking to ease the burden of grief for himself and his school community.
Cindy Wooden · October 3, 2024
"Rushing" to open the diaconate to women in the Catholic Church would short-circuit a necessary reflection on the relationship between ordained ministry and charismatic leadership, particularly as it impacts the participation of women in the church, said the head of the Vatican's doctrinal office.
Quinton Amundson · October 4, 2024
With over $17.5 million raised in the two-and-a-half years since the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund (IRF) became a registered charity in March 2022, the 73 Canadian Catholic dioceses are poised to exceed the five-year $30-million commitment Canada's Catholic bishops made to the nation's Indigenous peoples.
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · October 4, 2024
In the 12 months since Hamas murderers invaded Israel, the Holy Land tables have entirely turned on those behind the worst massacre of Jews after the Holocaust.
Catholic Register Staff · October 4, 2024
A report by Calgary’s Bishop William McGrattan, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, at the annual plenary meeting in Quebec City.
Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) for week 17: Sunday, Oct. 6 to Saturday, Oct 12
Lea Karen Kivi · October 4, 2024
Luke Mandato · October 4, 2024
Preparations are well underway for Canadian Catholics to join faithful worldwide as "Pilgrims of Hope" for jubilee year 2025.
Ad Orientem
Dcn. Andrew Bennett · October 4, 2024
People new to, or wishing to grow deeper in faith, often ask me to recommend good Catholic books. The height of understatement is to say coming up with such a list is a daunting challenge in a tradition that, beginning with the Holy Scriptures, has an almost inexhaustible treasury of books.
MAiD has nothing to do with good medicine
Charles Lewis · October 4, 2024
In 2013, I wrote a column for the National Post about Dr. Donald Low, a microbiologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He spoke about his cancer diagnosis, his fear of tremendous pain that might be looming and the loss of his dignity. He spoke without self-pity and urged Canada to make physician-assisted death legal. He died eight days later.
Luke Stocking · October 4, 2024
Peter Maurin, from the Catholic Worker movement, was known to proudly assert, “I am a peasant. I have roots.” Most would not share Peter’s pride. Thanks to the Middle Ages and Western pop culture’s treatment of it — the word is considered derogatory. That is something that needs to change.
Words give shape to our world
Leah Perrault · October 4, 2024
I suppose it is not a surprise to say that a writer loves words. Thinks words are powerful and important. Spends minutes and hours thinking up just the right way to express feelings and ideas with words.
From the Web Archive
October 4, 2024
“As Democrats, Christians, Catholics, have an advantage on that score.” (The Catholic Register editorial Sept. 22, 2024.)