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Quinton Amundson · October 1, 2025
Fr. Oliver Ortese has a message for Catholics and Christians around the world who stand in solidarity with persecuted Nigerian Christians.
Carol Glatz · October 1, 2025
Sharing the joy of being loved by God despite one's human flaws is the mission of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV said.
Gina Christian · October 1, 2025
As the world grapples with "mounting challenges," the global community must "recommit to the foundational pillars" of peace, justice and truth, learning from history and building a more equitable future, a top Vatican diplomat told the United Nations.
Overarching aim is to be more like Jesus
Luke Mandato · October 1, 2025
Freshly-brewed coffee awaited a group of Christian men from different denominations, tired in body but alive in spirit, as they funnelled in to join in Iris Ministries’ inaugural Men’s Breakfast gathering.
Catholic Register Staff · October 1, 2025
Cardinal Archbishop Frank Leo’s message for the Oct. 5 World Day of Migrants and Refugees
Free our young from the State’s lust for power
Joe Woodard · October 2, 2025
Reading classics such as Anne of Green Gables, Farmer Boy, or To Kill a Mockingbird, some parents meditate on the adolescents portrayed—teenagers eager to master the virtues of free, responsible citizens. We wonder if our schools are getting it wrong.
Donna Fagan · October 2, 2025
The debate of ideas has always been part of the human exchange whether it is over a good cup of coffee, a beer or a drink of scotch. Whatever it is, wherever it is, the luxury of speaking openly seems to have shifted a little in this year of 2025.
Quinton Amundson · October 2, 2025
Dr. Matthew Anderson is drawn to uncovering unlikely connections.
Canadian Catholic News · October 2, 2025
At the Spanish hostel called St. Alba, a simple, unmistakable moment crystallized Camino pilgrim Brenda Krivuzoff’s purpose as an educator and as principal of St. Mary’s Elementary School in Vancouver during the Jubilee Year of Hope.
Cindy Wooden · October 2, 2025
Migrants and refugees often are "privileged witnesses of hope through their resilience and trust in God," Pope Leo XIV said.
Luke Mandato · October 2, 2025
Catholic charities are once again bracing for another extended Canada Post strike, with the current action lining up rather inconveniently with the upcoming charitable giving season.
Kimberley Heatherington, OSV News · October 2, 2025
Onscreen, the small and visibly speedy boat plows its way through the waves, while a glowing green title at the top of the frame reads "unclassified." Seconds later, the image — and the vessel with it — explode in a brilliant flash.
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · October 3, 2025
There is unquestionably some comfort in the federal justice department’s reassurance that, as the Register reports this week, churches and places of worship will be protected under Ottawa’s amped up anti-hate legislation.
Catholic Register Staff · October 3, 2025
Register staff discuss the dangerous skies in Africa for missionaries as well as the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Also, a mens' prayer breakfast starts up as well as some faith and rivalry on the football field.
‘We make sure our hospitality is what Jesus would give people’
Luke Mandato · October 3, 2025
In the heart of downtown Stouffville, Ont., lies Saints on Main, a new Filipino-Canadian restaurant and bakery whose vibrant dishes and Christian hospitality have created a community living room where coffee, pizza and faith merge in uniting the community.
Simone Orendain, OSV News · October 3, 2025
Pope Leo XIV said prayers for victims of a 6.9 magnitude earthquake in the central part of the Philippines that killed at least 72 people late Sept. 30, according to Archbishop Alberto Uy of Cebu.
OSV News · October 3, 2025
As England mourned an Oct. 2 terror attack on a Manchester synagogue, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of England and Wales bishops' conference, expressed his shock, assuring the Jewish community of his prayers.
Miles Smit · October 4, 2025
As students have bid farewell to summer and settled back to school, Catholic education in Ontario may be at a crossroads.
But Dominic Villeneuve knows God has his back in dangerous undertaking
Quinton Amundson · October 4, 2025
Each day, Dominic Villeneuve extols God for accompanying him as he steps into a Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) plane to conduct humanitarian missions within the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Annual Blessing of the Pets honours all creation
Luke Mandato · October 4, 2025
On Oct. 4, faithful from around the world recall the spirit of one of the faith’s most beloved saints, St. Francis of Assisi, who saw every creature as a reflection of divine goodness.