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Catholic Register Staff · November 27, 2025
Text of Pope Leo’s Nov. 24 address in Rome to the Order of the Servants of Mary.
A quiet crisis
Brian Ross · November 27, 2025
Across Canada and throughout the Western world, men are facing challenges we seldom name out loud. Loneliness among men is rising. Suicide rates remain highest among middle-aged and older men.
Cardinal Francis Leo’s Message for Advent, which begins Nov. 30.
Quinton Amundson · November 27, 2025
Listen up: I’m going to impart a helpful suggestion that has never been conveyed throughout the 132-year history of The Catholic Register. You ready? Here it goes…We must strive to read The Holy Bible every day.
After a busy Sunday celebrating three Masses, Fr. Susai Jesu, OMI, returned home on Nov. 16 ready to relax.
God will be waiting for us
Leah Perrault · November 27, 2025
Advent is calling. The Church new year begins not with resolutions and parties, but with a season of purposeful waiting.
Travis Callaway, like many with such interests, eagerly awaits an expected encyclical from Pope Leo XIV on artificial intelligence.
Younger people are questioning the wisdom of New Age secularists
Susan Korah · November 28, 2025
A society purged of religious belief and practice was the Utopia envisioned by “New Ageists” like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, but this era of peace, love, harmony and understanding has not materialized, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat told a Nov. 20 audience of 600 at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre.
Quinton Amundson · November 28, 2025
This Advent, Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, SJ is calling on the Catholic faithful, both clergy and laity, to honour our faith by restoring solemnity and reverence to the Church’s sacred celebrations.
OSV News · November 28, 2025
The Diocese of Hong Kong is calling for prayer and mourning after a devastating fire at the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Tai Po left at least 128 people dead and around 200 still missing.
Gina Christian · November 28, 2025
Catholic bishops are offering prayers following the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members in the nation's capital Nov. 26.
Cindy Wooden · November 28, 2025
Meeting leaders of Turkey's small and varied Catholic communities, Pope Leo XIV asked them to embrace their "littleness" as they strive to be a leaven of God's love in Turkish society.
Although the ancient city of Nicaea lies in ruins and the geographic centre of Christianity has shifted West, Pope Leo XIV and Christian leaders gathered at an archaeological site in Turkey to celebrate the enduring faith set out in the Nicene Creed.
Archbishop-designate Stephen Hero said he is not coming to Edmonton “with an agenda in my pocket.”
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · November 28, 2025
Catholics with room on their prayer lists might do well to add Alissa Golob’s name. The unbelievably brave young Alberta mom will need all the spiritual help she can get to withstand the pro-abortion ideological furies now besetting her.
Luke Mandato · November 29, 2025
Those who have found themselves on Highway 400 travelling through West Gwillimbury on their way north of Toronto are likely familiar with Bradford’s Holland Marsh wetlands — an agricultural patch of roughly 7,200 acres, situated just 50 kilometres outside of downtown Toronto.
Toronto schools open their hearts to those in need
Monsignor Percy Johnson Catholic Secondary School is getting a head start on Christmas compassion, with its annual Winter Wonderland Christmas Market set to return to give back to those in need while welcoming in the holiday spirit for the entire school community.
Quinton Amundson · November 29, 2025
A month after attending the Vatican’s Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies (Oct. 24–26), Canadian lay leaders involved in the Church’s synodality movement hosted a webinar to reflect on the event and discuss next steps in the synodal journey.
Luke Mandato · November 30, 2025
It’s been about a month since Cardinal Giorgio Marengo was in Canada, where he visited and celebrated the Eucharist at Toronto's St. Andrew’s Parish, in thanks of a longstanding relationship between the west end parish and Marengo's home base of Mongolia.