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Singer Michael Bublé on meeting Pope Leo
Margaret Murray · December 17, 2025
A few days after his concert at the Vatican, Canadian crooner Michael Bublé took to Instagram to reflect on his time there, which included a meeting with Pope Leo XIV.
Catholic Register Staff · December 17, 2025
A Christmas message from the CCCB
Cindy Wooden · December 17, 2025
Christmas carols in every language and culture are expressions of how music can convey “feelings and emotions, even the deepest movements of the soul,” Pope Leo XIV said after listening, clapping and singing along at the Vatican Christmas concert with the poor.
Pope Leo XIV and Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke by telephone Dec. 17, just days after a terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Australia led to the deaths of 15 people.
Quinton Amundson · December 18, 2025
Cardinal Frank Leo will conclude the Archdiocese of Toronto’s commemoration of the Jubilee Year with a closing Mass on Dec. 28 at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica, starting at 5 p.m.
Joe Woodard · December 18, 2025
When I was growing up in the 1950s, what ordinary Catholics experienced was nothing like the curated, elite Latin liturgies that traditionalists enjoy today. The fact is, most Catholics always get their ongoing catechesis (if any) from the Mass.
Claire Porter Robbins · December 18, 2025
Canadian Christian aid agencies are raising concerns that the $2.7-billion reduction to overseas development assistance (ODA) in the federal budget over the next four years will contradict the churches’ moral commitments and have serious consequences for vulnerable communities and Canada’s international reputation.
'For to us a child is born, to us a son is given...'
Mickey Conlon · December 18, 2025
What would Christmas be like at The Catholic Register without the joy of seeing so many children who understand the true meaning of Christmas?
Culture à la Carte
Sr. Helena Burns · December 18, 2025
The classic Christmas favourite, “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” is truly a slice of history. I’m an advocate of watching (quality) old movies to get a sense of the past and “the way we were.” Are older Hollywood depictions true to life? In some ways, yes. If priests and nuns in BOSM were portrayed in some totally unrealistic, overly idealized fashion, there would have been a contemporaneous outcry of “foul!” There wasn’t.
Quinton Amundson · December 19, 2025
As one grows deeper in an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, it becomes completely natural — almost instinctive — to overflow with love, joy and a burning desire to serve others, which is, at its core, living the true spirit of Christmas every single day of the year.
Christmas gift program aims to help them through restorative chapter in life
Located in an industrial strip mall and known for educating students who have experienced incarceration, trafficking, gang life, addiction, poverty or homelessness, St. Gemma Outreach High School can inspire trepidation on a first visit.
Kate Scanlon · December 19, 2025
Approximately 50 Planned Parenthood clinics closed in 2025 as the group lost its ability to bill Medicaid, according to a report by the nation's largest abortion provider.
Catholic Register Staff · December 19, 2025
Excerpt from a House of Commons speech by B.C. Conservative MP Tamara Jansen laying out the “impossible paradox” of MAiD if her Bill C-218 isn’t passed.
John Mulderig · December 19, 2025
Just about everyone enjoys a Christmas holiday with all the trimmings, including Santa’s ho ho ho and Rudolph’s red nose. But the preparatory time of Advent can serve as an invitation to explore more deeply the true spiritual meaning of the Incarnation and to focus more intently on the virtues that reflection on that mystery should promote.
An expected Christmastime delivery to the remote Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories’ Sahtu region will conclude the 16th year of the North of 60 initiative in western Canada.
The Mustard Seed
Glen Argan · December 19, 2025
In the face of seemingly senseless tragedies, such as the death of a child or natural disasters, many have lost faith. The massive suffering caused by such disasters is not easily dismissed. We should and do strive to prevent such suffering. Why doesn’t God lend us more of a hand?
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · December 19, 2025
In his “Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto,” Catholic literary scholar, novelist, short story writer and poet, Joshua Hren, makes a claim that might startle even the devout of Holy Mother Church.
Quinton Amundson · December 20, 2025
Charlotte Mescall, a Grade 11 student at Holy Cross High School in Saskatoon, was so moved by the community outreach at St. Mary’s Parish that she coordinated two Christmas concert fundraisers on behalf of the church.
The quiet, powerful origins of 'Silent Night'
Katarzyna Szalajko · December 20, 2025
As Christmas approaches and "Silent Night" begins to fill churches and homes across the world, it is worth remembering how unlikely its beginning truly was.
Luke Mandato · December 20, 2025
The single word “ours” has become the quiet heartbeat behind everything the Catholic Children’s Aid Foundation is doing this Christmas through initiatives that are making sure children and families are looked after in more ways than one.