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Caroline de Sury · September 19, 2025
French Christians are reeling after the brutal murder of Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old disabled Iraqi Chaldean Catholic, stabbed in the throat outside his Lyon apartment.
Catholic Register Staff · September 19, 2025
Friar Briant Cullinane, OFM Conv., the former Chancellor of Temporal Affairs for the Archdiocese of Toronto, passed away Sept. 17 in Enfield, Conn. He was 94.
For distinguished and faithful service to the Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Toronto, 10 people have been recognized with the 2025 Saint Michael Award.
Kurt Jensen · September 20, 2025
As papal conversations at weekly outdoor Masses at the Vatican go, it was characteristically brief, but because of the famous actor involved, reported worldwide.
Kevin Dunn aims to tell the story that has yet to be told properly on film
Quinton Amundson · September 20, 2025
Acclaimed Catholic filmmaker Kevin Dunn is ready to chronicle “one of the greatest stories in Canadian history that has never been told properly on film.”
The federal government is using taxpayer dollars for a new academic platform to promote the country’s euthanasia regime, said Canadian military veteran and investigative researcher Kelsi Sheren.
Terry O'Neill · September 21, 2025
It takes deep digging to find out what Canada’s permissive euthanasia regime is costing B.C. taxpayers, but the figures are there, buried in the 514-page Medical Services Commission Payment Schedule.
Luke Mandato · September 22, 2025
St. Stephen’s Chapel, a quaint, albeit historically prominent hub for corporate Catholics in Toronto's financial district and home to the archdiocese’s deaf ministry for over two decades, will celebrate its final Mass under the Archdiocese of Toronto’s ownership at the end of October.
Quinton Amundson · September 22, 2025
One of the first things Fr. Philip Larrey learned at the start of a 20-year run teaching philosophy, logic and epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome is that “you never tell a bishop what to do.”
Youth, since pandemic in particular, are making their voices heard, Cardus webinar hears
Susan Korah · September 22, 2025
Christianity, for centuries the bedrock of national identity and arbiter of moral values in Western nations, including Canada and the UK, is now increasingly marginalized by the 21st-century interpretation of pluralism as a political ideology.
Quinton Amundson · September 23, 2025
“Rising anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia have left too many people feeling unsafe in their own communities.”
Murdered priest latest in long list of offences against Church
Ngala Killian Chimton · September 24, 2025
The Church in Nigeria, ravaged by kidnappings of clergy, is mourning Fr. Mathew Eya, killed Sept. 19 as he was returning to his parish of St. Charles in Eha-Ndiagu, in Enugu state.
Simone Orendain · September 24, 2025
Clergy and religious along with lay Catholic faithful came out in droves at an anti-corruption rally in the Philippines capital of Manila Sept. 21 alongside tens of thousands of protesters.
Catholic News Service · September 24, 2025
Pope Leo XIV asked Catholics to pray the rosary each day in October for peace.
Takes advantage of growth in podcasts, audio book popularity
Quinton Amundson · September 24, 2025
North American Catholics have emerged as impactful contributors to the worldwide surge in podcast and audiobook listening, as well as e-book reading, in recent years.
Nicholas Elbers · September 24, 2025
Students at the new Saint John Paul II Academy in Surrey, B.C., can soon eat their lunches beside a bronze Christ, the latest work from the Canadian sculptor whose most famous piece, Homeless Jesus, has been installed in cities around the globe, including at the Vatican.
Junno Arocho Esteves · September 25, 2025
Over a century in the making, the Tower of Jesus Christ, designed by famed Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí, will soon crown the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, making it the tallest Catholic church in the world.
Gina Christian · September 25, 2025
Thirty years after a landmark international document safeguarding women's dignity, much remains to be done to ensure the well-being of women and girls worldwide, said a top Vatican diplomat.
Quinton Amundson · September 25, 2025
Leah Perreault’s upcoming Hearts of the Flesh retreat at Star of the North retreat centre in Alberta aims to open retreatants up to a “world that longs for love.”
In difficult times, centre seeks to lead children to prayer
Luke Mandato · September 25, 2025
St. Bernadette’s Family Resource Centre is preparing for a hectic October, with initiatives prioritizing prayer and the love of children beginning to gain traction alongside the youth care services’ expansive daily operations and retreat events.