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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As Israeli military operations in Gaza continued, Pope Leo XIV met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Vatican.
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.
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.
St. Carlo Acutis and I were born just over a year apart in the early 1990s.
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · 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.
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?"
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.