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Annual Friars' Student Writing Contest sees three Toronto high school students take top prizes
Catholic Register Staff · February 11, 2025
The annual Friars Student Writing Contest, a partnership for many years between the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement-Graymoor and the Register, has seen three Toronto high school students honoured for their take on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Quinton Amundson · February 12, 2025
Canadian Catholic travel agencies know Jubilee 2025 is momentous and are adjusting pilgrimage slates for the year accordingly.
Oscar-nominated documentary’s integrity questioned
Anna Farrow · February 12, 2025
Though much lauded, can what is documented in the Oscar-nominated film Sugarcane actually be believed?
A 50-year-old Winnipeg man has been charged with assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon and disturbing an assemblage of persons after disrupting a Feb. 9 evening Mass at Holy Ghost Parish where he attempted to stab the parish pastor during Mass.
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · February 12, 2025
No one would ever mistake Donald Trump for a theologian, but he does share a trait of the worst theology in making the clear incomprehensible at the best of times.
Catholic charities cautiously optimistic
Susan Korah · February 13, 2025
The election of Joseph Aoun, a Maronite (Eastern-rite Catholic), as the 14th president of Lebanon and a fragile ceasefire have raised hopes that the war-ravaged and crisis-ridden country will finally reverse its steep descent into chaos.
Quinton Amundson · February 13, 2025
A celebrated Italian Catholic composer and conductor is dismayed with the “very strong decline of the standard of sacred music”.
Catholic Register Staff · February 13, 2025
A blog by Daniel Torchia, managing director of Torchia Communications, recently published in The Catholic Journalist, a publication of the Catholic Media Association.
Junno Arocho Esteves · February 13, 2025
The head of the Tuscan Bishops' Conference said the passage of a new law in Italy allowing medically assisted suicide was "not an achievement, but a defeat for everyone."
Campaign Life Coalition has chosen as the theme for the 2025 March for Life Protection at Conception.
Event marks 60 years since *Nostra Aetate*
Luke Mandato · February 14, 2025
Peace will be the common theme when the Archdiocese of Toronto’s Office of Interreligious Dialogue and Mosaic Interfaith gathers together seven faith groups in hopes of reigniting a culture of encounter.
Faithful need to look beyond just one or two issues in upcoming elections
Quinton Amundson · February 14, 2025
Canadians do not yet know the timing nor the circumstances that will cause a federal election to be officially called. Still, it is time for the voters of this land, Catholics specifically, to reflect upon how they intend to help chart a course for the future.
The Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read each day this week Sunday, February 16 to Saturday, February 22, 2025.
Lea Karen Kivi · February 14, 2025
Role in TV drama has been a life-changing experience for Giavani Cairo
Jack Figge · February 14, 2025
In the past four years, the TV show "The Chosen" has taken the Catholic world by storm, as thousands eagerly await the debut of the fifth season.
Cindy Wooden · February 14, 2025
After suffering from bronchitis for more than a week and having obvious difficulty breathing, the 88-year-old Pope Francis was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital Feb. 14.
Celebration of Black History Month
Luke Mandato · February 15, 2025
Our Lady of Lourdes Parish will once again host its annual Black History Month/African Heritage Mass, a celebration of African, Caribbean and Afro-Canadian culture within the Archdiocese of Toronto.
Catholic Register Staff · February 17, 2025
Fr. Charles Duval, C.Ss.R., has been named Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Grouard-McLennan in northwestern Alberta.
Quinton Amundson · February 17, 2025
Concerns have been raised about how Health Canada implemented its two-month national consultation on advanced requests for euthanasia that concluded Feb. 14.
Cindy Wooden · February 17, 2025
Pope Francis is suffering from a "polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract," test results revealed Feb. 17, "which required a further modification of his therapy," a Vatican medical bulletin said.
Luke Mandato · February 17, 2025
As the Global South struggles with a devastating debt crisis, Kairos Canada’s Jubilee 2025 campaign is calling for creditors to turn debt into hope through systemic financial reform and overall debt cancellation.