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Cheryl-Ann Smith · March 22, 2025
The young man wanted to live a holy life. The key, he knew, was prayer. So he approached a wise elder in the monastery and asked for instruction. The old man said not a word but looked intently into his eyes. Then, still silent, he walked him down to the river, and they waded in. The elder put his old gnarled hand on the young seeker’s head, and pushed him into the water.
Closed Halifax church re-purposed as a downtown homeless shelter
Luke Mandato · March 22, 2025
Though its doors closed in May of last year, one of Halifax’s historic parishes has reopened with a new purpose, offering a warm welcome to the city’s most vulnerable through a temporary basement homeless shelter.
Canadian Catholic News · March 22, 2025
On a chilly morning with light snow falling, hundreds gathered at Coquitlam’s Our Lady of Lourdes Church to share their hopes and strategies for this year’s 40 Days for Life campaign.
Cindy Wooden · March 24, 2025
Immediately before leaving Rome's Gemelli hospital after more than five weeks of treatment for breathing difficulties, double pneumonia and infections, Pope Francis greeted hundreds of people who gathered outside the hospital March 23.
March for Life speaker, like Musk, accused of making Nazi salute
Quinton Amundson · March 24, 2025
An activist group is trying to dismantle the National March for Life week in Ottawa by accusing guest presenter Fr. Calvin Robinson of giving a “mocking Nazi salute—also known as a Roman salute—during an anti-abortion rally.”
Gina Christian · March 24, 2025
A Satanic group planning a "black mass" at the Kansas Statehouse March 28 has sworn in court it is not in possession of a consecrated host and wine the group said it aimed to desecrate at the event.
Cindy Wooden · March 25, 2025
For Pope Francis' medical team at Rome's Gemelli hospital, Feb. 28 was the worst day.
David Agren · March 25, 2025
Mexican parishioners placed eight candles on church altars in memory of the eight young people shot dead in an attack outside a parish church.
Questions raised about Liberal leader and his party’s principles
Scott Ventureyra · March 26, 2025
Some Canadian Catholics are eager to have a prime minister who shares their faith yet offers a contrast to Justin Trudeau. Mark Carney appears to fit the bill. However, Carney is no moderate. Nor is he a reformer.
‘Transparency’ silences too many voices at Commission on the Status of Women
Anna Farrow · March 26, 2025
As delegates made their final statements last week at the conclusion of the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at UN headquarters in New York City, there was a sense of plus ça change – except “changes” now take place behind closed doors under the control of a select few.
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · March 27, 2025
Canadians burning with federal election fever might temper the side effects of overzealousness with a calming balm passed along by Calgary Bishop William McGrattan’s dad.
Catholic Register Staff · March 27, 2025
The text of Pope Francis’ Angelus message on the Third Sunday of Lent following his release from hospital.
Lenten Mission shows how the psalms can be used to orient your heart and mind in prayer
Quinton Amundson · March 27, 2025
Fr. Julian Studden’s The Psalms as a Way of Prayer Lenten Mission retreat has been conceptualized with the frustrated beseechers of the Lord in mind.
Luke Mandato · March 27, 2025
A new initiative from the City of London fronted by two King’s University College alumni looks to inform and educate the community on anti-hate practices while supporting marginalized communities.
Canada, and so many nations worldwide, are overtly neglecting God’s call to “be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28).
For the fourth straight year, Campion College in Regina, St. Thomas More College of Saskatoon and St. Paul’s College in Winnipeg are joining forces for the Prairie Symposium for the Common Good.
St. Jerome’s University is stepping up for the planet with a new student-led environmental management system (EMS) to guide the university towards a greener future.
Figure of Speech
Gerry Turcotte · March 27, 2025
As far as I can remember, I am not at all forgetful. Nevertheless, I have dozens of notepads everywhere: at home, in my car and at work. Whenever I have a thought about something that needs to be done, I jot it down urgently.
Jonathan Luxmoore · March 27, 2025
Turkey's Christian minorities have been left in fear in the wake of nationwide disorders, which erupted following the March 19 arrest of a top opposition leader.
Church on the Street
Dcn. Robert Kinghorn · March 27, 2025
The Canadian communication expert Marshall McLuhan made famous the phrase, “The medium is the message" by which he meant that the way a message is delivered has a significant impact on how it is received. But what if the medium is one of the people of the beatitudes: the poor, the addicts, the isolated, and the homeless?