2025: the year of Pope Leo XIV

Mickey Conlon · December 30, 2025

When Pope Francis opened the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica to officially launch Jubilee Year 2025, little did anyone know that when it would close just over a year later, it would be at the hands of his successor on the See of Peter.

Football and faith

B.C. legend, Grey Cup champ on his journey

Pat Macken · December 26, 2025

This year’s version of the B.C. Lions came within a few seconds of advancing to the 2025 Grey Cup. While desperately clinging to a lead in the dying seconds, the defence allowed the Saskatchewan Roughriders to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Born in hardship, sung in hope

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.

A father's love, a son's forever home

Gary Langen looks to provide for son even when he’s passed

Luke Mandato · December 6, 2025

Tyler lives with severe cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder he was diagnosed with shortly after his birth. Now 40 years old, there has never been a moment in his life when his father was not there to look after him.

Mission meets migrant workers in the fields

Luke Mandato · November 29, 2025

Those who have found themselves on Highway 400 travelling through West Gwillimbury on their way north of Toronto are likely familiar with Bradford’s Holland Marsh wetlands — an agricultural patch of roughly 7,200 acres, situated just 50 kilometres outside of downtown Toronto.

AI encyclical could be Pope Leo’s Rerum Novarum

Quinton Amundson · November 27, 2025

Travis Callaway, like many with such interests, eagerly awaits an expected encyclical from Pope Leo XIV on artificial intelligence.

French nun powerfully changing digital habits

Caroline de Sury · November 23, 2025

At just 29, Sr. Albertine Debacker is proving that habit and hashtag can go hand in hand.

From our archives: We remember

Catholic Register Staff · November 8, 2025

In this, the 80th year since the cessation of hostilities that brought an end to the Second World War, The Catholic Register goes back to its Nov. 10 and 17, 1945 issues and reprints two pieces to mark Remembrance Day.

Cardinal Leo to lead Jubilee pilgrimage

Group will share in Cardinal’s taking possession of titular church

Quinton Amundson · November 6, 2025

Over 100 Catholics from over 40 different Archdiocese of Toronto parishes will join Cardinal Francis Leo for a Jubilee Pilgrimage to Rome from Nov. 10 to 17.

Great sacrifice brings great gain in Sarah's Oil

New faith-based film champions timeless values

Quinton Amundson · November 5, 2025

Sarah’s Oil, the new faith-based film from Kingdom Story Company hitting theatres on Nov. 7, chronicles the story of a young girl, Sarah Rector, who believes there is oil underneath the path of barren land she’s allotted in Oklahoma in the early 1900s.