June 2025

Cardinal Leo's message on the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Catholic Register Staff · June 2, 2025

Message on the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from His Eminence Frank Cardinal Leo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto.

Take care of body, mind, heart, spirit, pope tells professional cyclists

Carol Glatz · June 2, 2025

In a tribute to Pope Francis and his message of hope for the Jubilee Year, elite cyclists rode through Vatican City and its gardens before starting the last stage of the Giro d'Italia in Rome.

Polish nuns beatified for heroic witness amid wartime horror

Katarzyna Szalajko · June 2, 2025

Their names may have faded from history books, but on May 31, the Church officially remembered them forever. In a solemn ceremony in Braniewo, northeastern Poland, 15 nuns from the Congregation of St. Catherine Virgin and Martyr, were beatified.

Christian party's ad appeal to be heard by Ontario court

Luke Mandato · June 2, 2025

The Ontario Court of Appeal has agreed to hear an appeal from the Christian Heritage Party of Canada in a case against the City of Hamilton for refusing to accept a bus advertisement from the party in 2023.

Kavanagh named administrator to guide Edmonton

Quinton Amundson · June 2, 2025

Fr. Paul Kavanagh has been canonically elected Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Edmonton following former Archbishop Richard Smith’s exit to become the shepherd of Vancouver.

Alberta scrutinizes library books for illicit content

Quinton Amundson · June 3, 2025

Parent groups are among those applauding the Alberta government’s newly announced efforts to scrutinize the books appearing on library shelves in the province's schools.

Video of Brazilian nuns beatboxing goes viral, boosts interest in their ministry

Eduardo Campos Lima · June 3, 2025

A video of Brazilian nuns beatboxing and dancing hip-hop, a scene taken from a local TV show and defined by celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg as "a real life Sister Act," went viral on May 28, with millions of views all over the world.

Suspected Islamists killed launching Ugandan attack on shrine

Tonny Onyulo · June 3, 2025

As millions of pilgrims flocked to the famed Ugandan shrine in Namugongo in the days leading to commemoration of the country's 45 Christian martyrs, local authorities prevented an attempted terror attack in what they said was a swift secret service operation, possibly saving hundreds from imminent death.

Hotel cancels Quebec March for Life booking

Luke Mandato · June 3, 2025

After its first-annual pro-life banquet dinner was cancelled by Delta Hotels Quebec following threats from pro-choice activists and movements just three days before the city’s March for Life, Quebec Life Coalition is now looking to adapt how it operates future events in the face of ongoing local push back.

‘Moral imagination’ can guide the future of AI

We have the agency to shape how AI will influence us

Quinton Amundson · June 4, 2025

Dr. Steven Umbrello suggested that 80 years of popular science fiction have effectively convinced many that technology is deterministic: scientists create an intelligent design, and that creation becomes sentient and inevitably turns on humanity.

God wants to help people discover their worth, dignity, Pope Leo says

Carol Glatz · June 4, 2025

God loves every person and wants to help everyone discover their inherent value and dignity, especially those who feel unworthy or unappreciated, Pope Leo XIV said.

Pope Leo speaks by phone with Russian leader Putin

Cindy Wooden · June 5, 2025

Pope Leo XIV and Russian leader Vladimir Putin held their first telephone conversation June 4 with the pope encouraging Putin to make a gesture to show he is serious about peace with Ukraine, the Vatican press office said.

Figure of Speech

Crossing a stage along the Gospel path

Gerry Turcotte · June 5, 2025

Such is the somewhat charmed life of an academic that we have the opportunity to join a platform party and watch the excitement—sometimes the outright terror—of our students as they reach a critical milestone that is shared with family, friends and the community at large.

Church on the Street

History’s boulevards bring joy and cruelty

The good and the bad of the streets

Dcn. Robert Kinghorn · June 5, 2025

It was a momentous day in history. May 8th 2025. My wife Ria and I celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary.

A bridge over troubled maternal waters

Andrea Mrozek · June 5, 2025

Today’s culture leans heavily in the direction of coaxing all women toward waged work whether or not they need to for financial reasons. Put simply, we are not marrying less and having vanishingly few children because motherhood is over-valued. Some family benefits such as generous maternity leave exist in no small part to ensure mothers of young children return to waged work.

Pope Leo XIV’s message to the Bishops of France

Catholic Register Staff · June 5, 2025

Text of Pope Leo XIV’s message to the Bishops of France on the 100th anniversary of the canonization of three French saints.

Author sees in Pope Leo a bridge-builder

New book released just two weeks after consistory chose first American Pope

Quinton Amundson · June 5, 2025

While it only took him two weeks to publish a book on Pope Leo XIV, Dr. Matthew Bunson humourously refuted the notion that he had biographical sketches of all 133 cardinal electors all set and ready to go by the time the senior clerical leaders entered the Sistine Chapel on May 7.

Council of Nicaea anniversary a call to Christian unity, speakers say

Cindy Wooden · June 5, 2025

The Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago recognized that Christian unity had to be based on a common faith and should be demonstrated by a common celebration of Easter, the most sacred feast of the Christian year, said speakers at a Rome conference.

We live due to human kindness and mutual care

Watch over loved ones with wisdom, compassion

Catholic Register Staff · June 5, 2025

The text of Pope Leo XIV’s homily for the Mass celebrated June 1 in St. Peter’s Square that concluded the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly.

Immigration society welcomes the migrant senior

Quinton Amundson · June 5, 2025

Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) is nearly six months into a three-year pilot project designed to improve the quality of life and social integration of migrant seniors.