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Pope Francis eats lunch with the poor in the Paul VI hall as he marks World Day of the Poor at the Vatican Nov. 17, 2019.

Editorial: Poor need Minister

By Catholic Register Editorial

The poor need our hands to lift them up and give them hope, said Pope Francis on the World Day of the Poor. Three days later, Canada’s new government extended a hand in a different direction when it swore in our first-ever Minister of Middle Class Prosperity.

Editorial: Environmental sin

By Catholic Register Editorial

Thou shalt not commit ecocide.

The Ontario Provincial Legislature at Queen's Park, Toronto.

Editorial: Take the next step

By Catholic Register Editorial

An emphatic defence of religious freedom by Ontario politicians was almost enough to set bells ringing at churches — and mosques, synagogues and temples — across the province.

Taylor Dallin, a 2019-2020 TCDSB student trustee discussed the gender issue debate with Kyle Iannuzzi, a former student trustee.

Editorial: Trustees get it right

By Catholic Register Editorial

It may seem odd to be extending congratulations to a committee that exists to protect Catholic educational values merely for doing its job.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, wave to supporters at the Palais des Congres in Montreal after claiming victory in the election.

Editorial: Reflect ... then act

By Catholic Register Editorial

It was a humbled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who indulged the media after his Liberal Party was returned grudgingly to Ottawa with a minority government.

Displaced Kurdish women and children, who fled from violence with their family after a Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria, sit in a classroom Oct. 22, 2019, at a public school used as shelter in Hassakeh, Syria.

Editorial: A cry for justice

By Catholic Register Editorial

Syrian Christians have been neglected, forgotten and cast aside like “the scum of the world,” charged the patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church.

Editorial: Voting is our duty

By Catholic Register Editorial

All Canadians over the age of 18 enjoy the right to vote but, for Catholics, voting is also a duty.

New Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny greets French Cardinal Dominique Mamberti during a consistory led by Pope Francis for the creation of 13 new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 5, 2019.

Editorial: A new shepherd

By Catholic Register Editorial

Canada’s newest cardinal insists he has no idea why the Pope of surprises invited him, a priest, to enter the College of Cardinals. But to anyone familiar with the resume of Cardinal Michael Czerny, the answer seems obvious.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers and impassioned speech at the UN.

Editorial: Youth must be heard

By Catholic Register Editorial

Out of the mouths of babes has poured a passionate and brutally blunt condemnation of mankind’s contamination of God’s creation.

Editorial: Extinguish vaping

By Catholic Register Editorial

Unlike a year ago, when it signalled all aboard for marijuana, Ottawa needs to derail the toxic and addictive practice of vaping before it becomes a runaway train.