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Long way to go on path of reconciliation

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Long way to go on path of reconciliation

One year after the historic papal visit to Canada, positive signs abound.

St. Agnes the beating heart of Lac-Mégantic

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St. Agnes Church in Lac-Mégantic, Que., was at the heart of the commemoration for the victims of one of Canada’s worst rail disasters.

Parish stood, and stands, at centre of remembering the 47 taken too soon.

‘I have only done the work of a servant’

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‘I have only done the work of a servant’

The Register's globe-trotting journalist's career ends after 25 years.

Judicial balancing act

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With the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown, top left, who was among the more conservative justices on the high court, will the scales of justice lean too far one way? Catholic lawyers like Phil Horgan, general counsel for the Catholic Civil Rights League, believe it will.

Unravelling the mysteries of dark matter

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in a Chilean desert, recently decommissioned and to be replaced with a stronger telescope, has measured the oldest light in the universe.

A Jesuit at the University of Toronto is helping to map the unknown.

Connection must go beyond digital realm

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In a world going increasingly digital, with the ability to compose sonatas and paint with new technologies, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communications is looking at how digital culture is shaping us as individuals and as a society.

Are we losing our ability to think deeply, purposefully?

Africa’s gift

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For Africans arriving in Canada, they find the Mass is different. It doesn’t have the colour, the energy they are accustomed to back home, which was on display May 27 at the Africa Day Mass at Toronto’s Our Lady of Lourdes.

Hope and energy brought to Church in Africans’ new homeland.

The art of work

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The value of work, particularly that of migrant workers who have helped build Canada, have been the focus of Vince Pietropaolo’s lens over the years.

Vince Pietropaolo’s lens points us to who built Canada.

Easter Drawing Contest 2023 winners

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Winning drawing by Sophia Della Rossa, Grade 8, for the 2023 Easter Drawing Contest.

Here at The Catholic Register, we make it a key part of our journalistic mission to find and communicate beauty even in a fallen world, which is why at the joyous Christian seasons of Christmas and Easter we save some of our pages for art created by elementary school students as part of our twice-yearly drawing contest.

For the love of a mother

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Kenzie Stewart with nine-month-old daughter Nova. Stewart is learning the ropes as a new mother. Rose of Sharon is helping Stewart on her path, as it has for countless young mothers and their children over the years.

Rose of Sharon aids in turning young ladies into loving moms.

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