September 2025

Pope Leo prays for victims, rescue workers in Sudan after landslide

Catholic News Service · September 2, 2025

Pope Leo XIV offered his prayers for the dead after days of heavy rain triggered a landslide in a remote area of Sudan, and he prayed for all involved in the ongoing search and rescue operations.

English archbishop warns legalizing assisted suicide could close church-run hospices

Simon Caldwell · September 2, 2025

An English archbishop has called on Catholics to write to members of the House of Lords to urge them to oppose an assisted suicide bill which could trigger the closure of church-run hospices and care homes.

Pope Leo to his Augustinian confreres: Listen, be humble, promote unity

Cindy Wooden · September 2, 2025

Twelve years after ending two terms as prior general of the Augustinian order, Pope Leo XIV encouraged his confreres in the order to pray to the Holy Spirit for the gifts of listening, being humble and promoting unity.

ARPA challenges billboard removal

Hamilton mayor calls ad ‘transphobic’

Quinton Amundson · September 2, 2025

The Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) Canada is challenging the City of Hamilton after its mayor forced the removal of one of the advocacy group's billboards in the city.

Colleges pivot to deal with international student cap

Quinton Amundson · September 2, 2025

As post-secondary institutes deal with the fallout from a cap on international students, one Catholic college appears to be nimbly responding to the new landscape.

Quebec prayer ban ‘like forbidding thought itself,’ Montreal Archbishop says

Catholic Register Staff · September 3, 2025

By calling for a ban on all public prayer, the Quebec government is raising “serious concerns” about a democratic society’s fundamental freedoms, said Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine.

Pope’s prayer for September: protect creation

Cindy Wooden · September 3, 2025

Participating in the ecumenical Season of Creation, Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of September is “for our relationship with all of creation.”

First parish Mass after shooting ‘humble beginning’

Joe Ruff · September 3, 2025

Recalling the fear and the cries from students, parents and school staff to “get low, stay down, stay down, don’t get up” as bullets tore through Annunciation Church at an all-school Mass in Minneapolis, Fr. Dennis Zehren, the pastor, said it marked a new beginning.

Pope Leo XVI’s message for the World Day of Prayer for Creation

Catholic Register Staff · September 4, 2025

Excerpt from Pope Leo XVI’s message for the World Day of Prayer for Creation and announcement of the Season of Creation that concludes Oct. 4.

Ukrainian Catholic leaders condemn assassination of Ukrainian lawmaker

Gina Christian · September 4, 2025

Leaders of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church have condemned the assassination of a Ukrainian politician who was instrumental to that nation's post-Soviet independence, as authorities investigate the killer's ties to Russian intelligence.

Newest saints united by Eucharist, charity

Cindy Wooden · September 4, 2025

As Pope Leo XIV presides over his first canonization Mass Sept. 7, he will declare the sainthood of two young Italians whose devotion to the Eucharist nourished a deep involvement in the cultures of their day.

Frassati ascends the heights to sainthood

Luke Mandato · September 4, 2025

Just over a century after his untimely death, Italian activist, social justice champion and third-order Dominican Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will officially be canonized by Pope Leo XIV Sept. 7 at St. Peter's Square in Rome.

Keeping the message of Carlo Acutis alive

Quebec woman spreads his word after befriending family

Quinton Amundson · September 4, 2025

Quebec Catholic Louise Normandeau has been given a rare and intimate glimpse into the soon-to-be St. Carlo Acutis.

Pope Leo meets Israeli president, discusses 'tragic' situation in Gaza

Cindy Wooden · September 4, 2025

As Israeli military operations in Gaza continued, Pope Leo XIV met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Vatican.

Pope Leo saddened by loss of life in streetcar derailment in Portugal that killed 17

Junno Arocho Esteves · September 4, 2025

Pope Leo XIV expressed condolences to victims and their families after the derailment of Lisbon's historic funicular streetcar Elevador da Glória, which caused the death of over a dozen people.

A pilgrimage Church stripped of pretense

Paulina Guzik · September 4, 2025

When you are born in a major pilgrimage destination, you grow up with a treasure -- a national shrine and sacred image -- within reach every day. I was that child, born in Czestochowa, home of the Black Madonna and a beloved place of spiritual refuge for St. John Paul II.

Two young men’s eyes turn to Christ

Quinton Amundson · September 4, 2025

St. Carlo Acutis and I were born just over a year apart in the early 1990s.

Editorial

No compromise on prayer

September 5, 2025

Let us pray that at next year’s World Day of Prayer for Creation a mass of committed environmentalists from across Canada gather in Montreal’s Dominion Square to pray for God’s forgiveness of our ecological sins.

Christ is found in faithful family love

Laura Kelly Fanucci · September 5, 2025

Whenever I take my kids anywhere in public, I get comments. "All boys?! Didn't you ever try for a girl?" "Five?! You must be crazy!" "Are they all yours?"

Two new saints for youth. Censorship grows in Canada.

Catholic Register Staff · September 5, 2025

Listen to the first episode of The Catholic Register's new weekly podcast: Registered. Take a deeper dive this week into the canonizations of Acutis and Frassati, as well as the news of Quebec's recent efforts to ban public prayer.