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Quinton Amundson · March 19, 2025
Deacon Alvin Joys' last name is not a misnomer. The joy in the heart of the 29-year-old was evident throughout his phone interview with The Catholic Register.
Fredrick Nzwili · March 19, 2025
A young seminarian has become the latest victim of killings in Nigeria, the West African country where attack and kidnapping of Catholic clergy is on the rise.
Catholic Register Staff · March 19, 2025
Excerpt from a speech by His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk at the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies in Toronto on February 25.
Luke Mandato · March 19, 2025
A unique theatre production will invite audiences in Guelph, Ont., and Toronto to step onto the stage this fall and rewrite the stories of exploited and mistreated migrant workers in Canada.
Cindy Wooden · March 19, 2025
Pope Francis no longer needs the "noninvasive mechanical ventilation" he has used most nights since experiencing a breathing "crisis" Feb. 28, his doctors reported in a bulletin released by the Vatican press office March 19.
Jonathan Luxmoore · March 19, 2025
As President Donald Trump held new talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin March 18, followed by a call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine March 19, bishops across Europe expressed alarm at current geopolitical developments.
Gina Christian · March 20, 2025
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, has filed a motion for the return of the Eucharist, a consecrated host and consecrated wine a Satanic group claims to have stolen, with the archbishop stating that all sacred species are the property of the Catholic Church.
The Mustard Seed
Glen Argan · March 20, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump is not a conservative. He is a right-wing populist who thinks in utopian terms. He heralds a return to a misty time when America was great, which apparently it currently is not. Precisely what made America great in his mind is far from clear.
UCA News · March 20, 2025
The military junta in Myanmar's strife-torn Kachin state allegedly burned down a Catholic cathedral dedicated to St. Patrick on the eve of the revered saint's feast.
Author offers strategies to navigate interpersonal dynamics
Quinton Amundson · March 20, 2025
Dr. Ray Guarendi said that one question looms large in the minds of many people he has encountered in recent months: What is the best way to make people around me act differently?
For 20 years Capuchin has served up dignity at St. Francis Table
Luke Mandato · March 20, 2025
For the hungry and needy of Toronto’s Parkdale community, St. Francis Table has been a beacon of hospitality, and over the past 20 years, a service kept alive through the care of Br. John Frampton.
Culture à la Carte
Someone came back from the dead, and so will we
Sr. Helena Burns · March 21, 2025
My congregation, the Daughters of St. Paul, was founded to evangelize with media. We love to spread the Gospel any which way we can. Not long ago, I wanted to choose a meaningful bumper sticker for the convent car. Bumper stickers are free advertising at stoplights.
The Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read each day this week, Sunday, March 23 to Saturday, March 29, 2025.
Lea Karen Kivi · March 21, 2025
Canadian Catholic News · March 21, 2025
Although Canadian corporations face strict regulations at home, their foreign operations are a different story. Development and Peace–Caritas Canada is trying to change that with a petition calling for stronger corporate accountability laws.
Justin McLellan · March 21, 2025
The papal preacher urged cardinals and senior officials of the Roman Curia to remain firmly anchored in Christ through lives of humility, conversion and fidelity, especially during the Holy Year, a time meant to rekindle Christian hope.
Quinton Amundson · March 21, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney has called a snap federal election for April 28 by asking Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament, setting in motion what could conceivably be the most consequential countrywide vote in generations.
Luke Mandato · March 21, 2025
Sitting quietly one day in her bedroom and cradling her pregnant belly, Ramona Trevino recalled the distinct voice that spoke to her through her tears.
John Knebles · March 21, 2025
Celebrating yet another high school victory in the fall of 2017, Jeremiah Trotter Jr. described how he and his football teammates had dismantled their latest opponent.
Fr. Gordian Okpuruka · March 21, 2025
In line with the call by the Holy Father for Catholics to see the current Jubilee year as an opportunity to be renewed in hope, Cardinal Thomas Collins has enjoined Christians to always listen to the voice of God in order to bear the right and expected witness and fruits as they make their pilgrim journey to God.
Another landmark distanced from key figure from Church’s western Canadian past
A neighbourhood named after a key architect of the Roman Catholic Church in western Canada will be no more by Sept. 1, 2025, at the latest.