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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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
Some fear they could
Amsterdam today, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary tomorrow?
‘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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read for week 23: Sunday, November 24, to Saturday, November 30, 2024.
Lea Karen Kivi · November 22, 2024
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · 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.
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.
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.
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
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.”
From the Web Archive
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.