March 2025

A joyful journey so far for Deacon Joys

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.

Kidnappers kill young Nigerian seminarian

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.

Excerpt from a speech by Sviatoslav Shevchuk in Toronto

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.

Harvesting justice for migrant labour

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.

Pope Francis' doctors report more improvement, but no date for his release

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.

European bishops address 'rising tensions' as Trump talks to Putin, Zelenskyy

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.

Kansas archbishop sues Satanists over alleged theft of Eucharist for 'black mass'

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

Sound the trumpet against Trump the utopian

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.

Myanmar junta allegedly torches Catholic cathedral in Kachin

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.

Golden Rule the key to getting along

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?

When God called, Br. Frampton answered

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

Sticking with the fact of resurrection

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.

Make the best use of your ‘prayer power’

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

The Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read each day this week, Sunday, March 23 to Saturday, March 29, 2025.

D&P petition launched to hold companies accountable abroad

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.

Papal preacher: Stay anchored in Christ, live hope during Holy Year

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.

Catholics urged to keep social teaching top of mind this election

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.

Pro-lifer answers call to point people to Church

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.

Super Bowl champ calls Jesuit school a forge of faith

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.

In Jubilee year, look up to God with hope, says Cardinal Collins

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.

Bishop Grandin erased from Alberta neighbourhood

Another landmark distanced from key figure from Church’s western Canadian past

Quinton Amundson · March 21, 2025

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.