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Quinton Amundson · April 17, 2025
From April 25 to May 3, St. Michael’s Choir School will carry out “Operation Wild Rose,” providing musical cheer and transcendence to audiences throughout Alberta.
New president named at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College (SWC) has bestowed many blessings on Patrick Craine ever since he came to Barry’s Bay, Ont., in 2005 as a fresh-faced 19-year-old. On April 3, he was named as the fifth president of the Catholic liberal arts institute.
Cheryl-Ann Smith · April 17, 2025
“Jesus said to her, Mary! She turned and said to Him, Rabbouni!” And there is the most tender, powerful, healing, life-changing encounter possible.
Terry O'Neill · April 17, 2025
Pro-life voices are welcoming a United Nations report citing the need “to ensure the right to life for persons with disabilities” in the face of Canada’s growing MAiD culture.
Nicholas Elbers · April 17, 2025
The tech world isn’t known for its moral character. Its pursuit of efficiency and technological progress rarely demonstrates a deeper appreciation of spiritual or moral considerations.
Cindy Wooden · April 17, 2025
Priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically preach the good news of hope, Pope Francis wrote in the homily he prepared for the Holy Thursday chrism Mass.
While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a detention facility, arriving at Rome's Regina Coeli jail at about 3 p.m. April 17.
Simon Caldwell · April 17, 2025
A British Catholic bishop has welcomed a ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court that a woman is defined solely by biological sex.
Caroline de Sury · April 17, 2025
In a joyful moment after the rosary on St. Bernadette Soubirous' feast day April 16 at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, the shrine's rector, Father Michel Daubanes, announced that a 72nd miracle at the famed pilgrimage site has been recognized.
Luke Mandato · April 17, 2025
Amid ever-evolving tariffs and counter-tariffs between Canada, the United States and China, it has been a confusing few months for one of Toronto’s oldest religious goods stores.
Christ blessed the peacemakers
Sister Mary-Ellen Francoeur · April 18, 2025
Within the Beatitudes, we read, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" (Matthew 5:9). We can understand this as a sending forth by Jesus – “You are Blessed as you go forth to do the work of Peacemaking."
The Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read each day this week, Sunday, April 20 to Saturday, April 26, 2025.
Lea Karen Kivi · April 18, 2025
Easter through the eyes of youth
Catholic Register Staff · April 18, 2025
View this years Easter drawing contest winners.
With all of its butterflies, rainbows — and battleships
Lea Karen Kivi · April 19, 2025
I had recited the words of the Lord’s Prayer for years, but that day as I sat in my RCIA group, that word stood out to me like never before and has continued to challenge me since.
The Mustard Seed
Glen Argan · April 19, 2025
Elections are essential to democracy, but they are not the most crucial element.
Luke Mandato · April 19, 2025
Sticking with tradition, Good Shepherd Ministries will once again provide guests with a holiday feast Easter Sunday in the face of further rising needs in food bank usage and meal programs in Toronto.
Carol Glatz · April 19, 2025
Jesus, who redeemed humanity by giving up his life on the cross, shows that it is not strength that saves the world, but the "weakness" of boundless love, the papal preacher told thousands of people gathered for the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion at the Vatican.
Today's "builders of Babel" are constructing a hell on earth, rejecting everyone they decide are "losers," Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross.
Cindy Wooden · April 19, 2025
Against the backdrop of deep differences with the Trump administration over migration and foreign aid as well as concerns for Ukraine and for Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state welcomed U.S. Vice President JD Vance to the Vatican.
Schools join to make replicas for Jubilee
Luke Mandato · April 20, 2025
A creative partnership between Whitby, Ont.'s St. Bernard Catholic School and Father Leo J. Austin Catholic Secondary School has seen students recreate Rome’s iconic Holy Doors for this Jubilee year.