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Courtney Mares · February 17, 2026
Four hundred years after its consecration, St. Peter's Basilica is getting a 21st-century upgrade, with the Vatican unveiling plans for AI-powered translation services, expanded pilgrim access and high-tech structural monitoring.
Quinton Amundson · February 17, 2026
I Can Only Imagine 2 succeeds as a motion picture because it is underpinned by the sincerity of its convictions and elevated by strong work from a talented cast, especially an enjoyably eccentric Milo Ventimiglia.
Review was cancelled Feb. 9, new date not set
It remains to be seen if the Liberal Party will ultimately be compelled to scrap the Combatting Hate Act down the road, but it is clear that Bill C-9’s legislative momentum in the House of Commons has been significantly disrupted.
Gina Christian · February 18, 2026
Each year, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops takes up its annual Collection for the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe. Ahead of the collection OSV News spoke with Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk.
Kate Scanlon · February 18, 2026
The Holy See "will not participate" in President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" for Gaza, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's secretary of state, said Feb. 17, citing "points that leave us somewhat perplexed."
Canadian Catholic News · February 18, 2026
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is launching 'Journey Through Lent,' a weekly video series of spiritual reflections on Sunday Mass readings, running from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday.
Courtney Mares · February 18, 2026
On Ash Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to seek "the gift of true conversion" this Lent, calling for an intense spirit of prayer and a conversion of heart as the 40-day penitential season begins.
Laura Ieraci · February 18, 2026
Catholics who ever tinkered with the idea of becoming a journalist or working in media need not tinker any longer.
Jonathan Luxmoore · February 18, 2026
Supporters of the traditional Latin Mass have urged Catholics not to confuse their movement with the more controversial Society of St. Pius X, commonly referred to as SSPX, whose leaders currently risk excommunication by threatening to ordain their own bishops.
Junno Arocho Esteves · February 18, 2026
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, strongly criticized the U.S.-led Board of Peace, an international body chaired by President Donald Trump to oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza.
Katarzyna Szalajko · February 18, 2026
At the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, Polish ski jumper Kacper Tomasiak made history -- and then went to Mass.
Beneath the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate.
Friars Student Writing Contest winners
Fr. Luis Melo · February 19, 2026
"Of particular importance in the promoting of a grass roots ecumenism is the connection between family, parish, school, different groups, associations."
Indigenous artifact repatriation helps deconstruct simplistic narratives
Luke Mandato · February 19, 2026
In a discussion on the Vatican's repatriation of 62 Indigenous cultural items to Canada, Dr. Cody Groat and Noah MacDonald shared nuanced perspectives on cultural heritage, faith and reconciliation in the most recent step towards a shared understanding in Indigenous reconciliation.
Catholic Register Staff · February 19, 2026
A media release from Durham Catholic District School Board on how little hands and hearts can remind us that Christ’s love spreads far and wide beyond Valentines Day.
Quinton Amundson · February 19, 2026
A major new U.S. study found that audiences, including non-religious viewers, are drawn to authentic portrayals of faith in entertainment media.
With Pink Shirt Day just days away, one Grade 6 student's powerful illustration of an ideal, inclusive Earth aims to unite thousands in the Durham Region Catholic community.
Donna Fagan · February 19, 2026
“Forty days of pure bliss? How great!” This is a likely comment shared between a Lactobacillus acidophilus bacterium in your gut to another microbe.
My February pilgrimage to the Normandy Region of France in the company of seven Canadian Catholic priests, a representative from Air Canada and the great team from the Connaissance Travel and Tours was spiritually satisfying and visually entrancing.
Courtney Mares · February 19, 2026
The Society of St. Pius X has rejected a Vatican offer of dialogue and said it will move forward with plans to ordain bishops without a papal mandate this summer.