Canada’s Catholic bishops spent two full sessions at their recent plenary signing off on a major overhaul of how the national conference of prelates should operate.
Exclusive: Sex offender ex-priest in hospital with sick kids
By Anna FarrowFormer priest and convicted sex offender Brian Boucher has been on a hospital ward with minors present for at least a month, The Catholic Register has learned.
Ten years after ISIS, Yazidis seek healing
By Susan KorahA unique research project out of King’s University College in London, Ont., has given a a face and a voice to Yazidis who settled in Canada, a decade after Islamists attempted to eradicate them from this world.
Syro-Malabar rite enriches Yukon
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterSacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse has long stood out in Yukon for being the only traditional, fully-fledged Catholic parish in a territory populated with missionary churches.
Call it what it is: lethal injection
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register“Saddened, but not surprised” is how Cardinal Thomas Collins characterized his reaction to Canada’s now infamous reputation as the world’s fastest-growing euthanasia regime.
Synod guides a practical step forward, bishop says
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterMere days from the Second Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, a sentiment expressed by an African prelate at the first gathering in 2023 lingers with Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) President Bishop William McGrattan.
Disability rights coalition challenging Track 2 MAiD
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterA coalition of disability rights organizations has united to challenge Track 2 of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not dying or whose death is not reasonably foreseeable.
At 200, St. Michael's Corkery a testament to Irish forefathers
By Angelica Vecchiato, Register CorrespondentThe small country parish of St. Michael’s Parish Corkery is a testament to the grit, hard work and pious devotion of early Irish settlers in Canada.
Daily Mass cancelled at Ottawa Hospital
By Luke Mandato and Anna Farrow, The Catholic RegisterCatholics in the nation's capital region are worried that what began as a temporary suspension of daily Mass at The Ottawa Hospital, one of the city’s prominent hospital centres, has become permanent.
Jubilee, synod at top of CCCB agenda
By Anna FarrowCanada’s bishops began their 2024 plenary assembly Sept. 23 with the ancient invocation of the Holy Spirit Venite Creator Spiritus, but in their message to Pope Francis they spoke, in another Latin phrase, of a new modus operandi in the Church.
Parishioners take control of Portugal Cove South church
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterCynthia Power proudly declares that she is a lifelong inhabitant of Portugal Cove South, a quiet coastal town featured along Newfoundland’s famed and scenic Irish Loop, which circles the southeastern portion of the Avalon Peninsula.