November 2024

Catholic animators have global designs

Media produced by Catholics, for Catholics

Anna Farrow · November 16, 2024

The small team at the helm of a new Ottawa-based media company, 3NITY Group, has a vision to bring to life the largest Catholic entertainment studio in the world.

Pope Francis calls on G20 to work for food equality, end armed conflicts

Justin McLellan · November 18, 2024

The "silent acceptance" of famine in the world is a "scandalous injustice and a grave offense" that requires the unified attention of the international system, Pope Francis said.

MAiD non-compliance goes unpunished

Severe breaches in protocol not reported to police, CPSO

Quinton Amundson · November 20, 2024

Regulators of Ontario’s euthanasia program have identified 428 cases of non-compliance by assisted suicide providers since 2016, but none of those violations were reported to the public or law enforcement.

Collins to celebrate Daily TV Mass Advent retreat

‘God comes to us in different ways,’ Cardinal stresses

Luke Mandato · November 20, 2024

As Advent draws near, the National Catholic Broadcasting Council through its Daily TV Mass program is preparing its online Advent Retreat, offering daily reflections throughout the season of preparation to the faithful.

Pope Francis meets Ukrainian first lady, decries war as 'shameful tragedy'

Cindy Wooden · November 20, 2024

With Ukraine's first lady seated in the front row, Pope Francis told people at his general audience that it is "a shameful tragedy for all humanity" that Russia's war on Ukraine has lasted more than 1,000 days.

Pope Francis says he'll canonize Acutis, Frassati, host meeting on child's rights

Carol Glatz · November 20, 2024

Pope Francis announced that he will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati next year and that the Vatican will host a world meeting on the rights of the child Feb. 3.

Could Dutch attacks happen here?

Some fear they could

Quinton Amundson · November 20, 2024

Amsterdam today, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary tomorrow?

The truth and denial dilemma

‘You can’t have reconciliation without truth’

Anna Farrow · November 21, 2024

Since the May 2021 announcement by Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology had located the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Canada has been embroiled in difficult attempts to come to terms with claims of mass graves, murder and genocide.

The Mustard Seed

Truth is the sign language of God

Glen Argan · November 21, 2024

The Gospel for the feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe calls us to enter the kingdom of truth. As his death drew near, Jesus said to Pilate, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” (John 18.37)

Church on the Street

Christ’s gift lies beyond our woundedness

Dcn. Robert Kinghorn · November 21, 2024

My favourite book is “The Wound and the Gift,” the biography of Scottish poet and novelist George Mackay Brown. His poetry and novels were written with a sensitivity that was able to look beyond the wound, to see the gift within; a gift that often contributed to the person’s woundedness.

Men behaving beastly

Why?

Greg Erlandson · November 21, 2024

"Why do men become beasts?" The question was asked by South African Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale. In a speech last August, he was warning men that they will be held accountable for the treatment of women.

Seeing red about persecuted Christians

Susan Korah · November 21, 2024

Red light, illuminating St. Michael’s Cathedral in Toronto on the night of Nov. 20 stood in sharp contrast to the darkness of the city’s skyline.

'Sad' but necessary end to Welby's reign

Canadian Anglicans weigh in on Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation

Luke Mandato · November 22, 2024

While it was a “sad” end to Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby’s career, it was a necessary one, said a prominent Canadian Anglican.

Seek opportunities to connect with God

Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read for week 23: Sunday, November 24, to Saturday, November 30, 2024.

Lea Karen Kivi · November 22, 2024

Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read for week 23: Sunday, November 24, to Saturday, November 30, 2024.

Editorial

Genocide means something

November 22, 2024

Enemies and critics of Israel — they’re not the same thing — may take momentary heart from Pope Francis’ reported comments that the Gaza conflict might constitute genocide.

Excerpt from Pope Francis’ message for the 39th World Youth Day

Catholic Register Staff · November 22, 2024

An excerpt from Pope Francis’ message to young people for the XXXIX World Youth Day to be celebrated on November 24, 2024.

El Salvador charges ex-president for '89 Jesuit slayings

David Agren · November 22, 2024

El Salvador has ordered a former president to stand trial for the 1989 murders of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter -- a notorious crime from the Central American country's civil war, which has languished in the realm of impunity.

Cardinal Parolin warns war in Ukraine could spiral out of control

Carol Glatz · November 22, 2024

The situation in Ukraine is very "worrisome" and could spiral out of control, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.

Culture à la Carte

Pray for those suffering Purgatory’s pains

Sr. Helena Burns · November 22, 2024

When I was a kid, my brother came home from Catholic summer camp singing a dirge that went like this: “Pray for the dead and the dead will pray for you; seems like they have nothing else to do.”

Editorial bombs

November 22, 2024

The Register’s editorial “We stand with Jewish brethren” is one-sided and unconvincing. It blames Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, for extinguishing 42,000 Palestinians. He didn’t drop the bombs. Seventy per cent of the dead were women and children. The Israelis killed them by relentlessly bombing Gaza in a disproportionate response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.