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Courtney Mares · March 1, 2026
The Vatican Museums announced that restoration work has begun on Michelangelo's "The Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel, a fresco an art historian describes as "a clarion call to the cardinals of what it means to be Catholic."
Andrea Mrozek · March 1, 2026
Having children is intended to happen with social support, first from the father, who is more likely to stick around if he is married to the mother, and then from an expanding network: a village of the family’s choosing.
Culture à la Carte
Sr. Helena Burns · March 1, 2026
Ever since the Fall in the Garden of Eden, we were born to die (Adam and Eve chose death for all their descendants). But because of Jesus’ Sacrifice, because we live A.D., death is no longer the same. The gates of heaven are opened to us (if we want to be with God), and so…”O death, where is your sting?”
Editorial
Catholic Register Editorial · March 1, 2026
The great 20th century journalist G. K. Chesterton famously noted that the proof of Original Sin is the front page of the daily newspaper.
Gina Christian · March 2, 2026
Catholics across the Middle East are reeling with shock and sorrow, and responding with prayer, amid joint strikes Israeli and U.S. forces launched on Iran Feb. 28.
The leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops has echoed Pope Leo XIV's call for deescalation and dialogue in the Middle East, following the joint attacks on Iran launched Feb. 28 by the U.S. and Israel.
Paulina Guzik · March 2, 2026
Pope Leo XIV issued a fervent appeal for return of diplomacy in "these dramatic hours" in the Middle East and Iran, condemning use of weapons that cause "destruction, pain, and death."
Carol Glatz · March 2, 2026
Life is a journey that requires trust and reliance on Jesus, who sometimes asks his disciples to leave everything behind, Pope Leo XIV said.
Junno Arocho Esteves · March 2, 2026
As the United States and Israel continued their campaign against Iran, bishops and Christian leaders appeal for peace before the conflict escalates any further.
Faith helps a battered population endure more than four years of war
Quinton Amundson · March 2, 2026
Hearteningly, Fr. Roman Ostrovsky, the rector of the Kyiv Three Saints Seminary, has heard multiple Ukrainian soldiers express an interest in the consecrated life once the war with Russia comes to an end.
Junno Arocho Esteves · March 3, 2026
As the scourge of war spreads across the Middle East, including Lebanon, the ones paying the ultimate price are the innocent men, women and children who want to live in peace, said Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop Georges Iskandar of Tyre.
Quinton Amundson · March 3, 2026
Conservative MP Garnett Genuis told The Catholic Register that the Iranian diaspora in Canada has relayed that the interventions by the U.S. and Israel “are a source of joy and cautious optimism”.
More than 2,000 forced to flee community as flames approached last year
Blessed with the long-running Coats for Kids program and partnerships with Sleep in Heavenly Peace and the Canadian Wheelchair Foundation, Manitoba State Deputy Mark Desjardins of the Knights of Columbus sought an opportunity to unite coats, beds and wheelchairs in a single humanitarian initiative.
Josephine Peterson · March 4, 2026
The Catholic Church is both a community made up of fragile and limited human beings and a divine reality, Pope Leo XIV said at his weekly general audience.
Courtney Mares · March 4, 2026
A Synod on Synodality study group has recommended the creation of a new “Pontifical Commission for Digital Culture and New Technologies” in the first of 15 synod study group reports expected in the coming weeks.
Quinton Amundson · March 4, 2026
Catholic and Christian organizations are expressing appreciation for the federal government’s willingness to refine Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, to remedy religious freedom concerns, but want this spirit more explicitly conveyed in the text of the legislation.
Kate Scanlon · March 5, 2026
Nigeria is facing "a terrifying crisis of religious violence," the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its 2026 annual report, released March 4.
Dale Gavlak · March 5, 2026
The Catholic community in northern Iraq has been shaken by the attack of an explosive drone hitting the Chaldean Catholic complex in Ankawa, outside of Irbil.
Quinton Amundson · March 5, 2026
At a special event on March 26 at Toronto's University of St. Michael’s College, respected Canadian Catholic academic and writer Michael Higgins will unveil Synod Diary: Sixty Days That Shook the Church.
Aiming high, school looks to be Canada’s pre-eminent Catholic university
St. Mary’s University in Calgary is poised to significantly grow its student population and campus space over the next several years.