Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
Michael is Associate Editor of The Catholic Register.
He is an award-winning writer and photographer and holds a Master of Arts degree from New York University.
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Saving the Amazon: A Special Feature
Pope Francis has called a Synod of Bishops on the Amazon to challenge the world to share the pain and heal the wounds of this critical region of God’s creation. The Catholic Register’s Michael Swan went to the Amazon to capture the pulse of a land and people struggling to preserve this vast natural environment and the way of life it sustains.
Refugee advocates heave sigh of relief
Federal funding that will reverse Ontario government cuts to legal aid for asylum seekers is getting praise from Catholic refugee advocates.
Season of Creation demands action
Seventy-six-year-old great grandmother Patricia Timson is appalled at the low level of Catholic participation in this month’s Season of Creation — a liturgical observance beginning with the World Day of Prayer for Creation on Sept. 1, endorsed and promoted by Pope Francis since 2015.
As Amazon burns, ‘the world suffers’
Canadians can’t extinguish the thousands of forest fires raging across the Amazon region but the devastation should become a call for Catholics to forge an alliance with the Indigenous people of the Amazon, says the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace.
Archdiocese gears up for federal election
Something big, free and political is coming live to Toronto Catholics before the Oct. 21 federal election.
Author gives readers food for the soul
Theologian, therapist and author Mary Marrocco is not the sort who imposes pat formulas or rules of thumb to living her Catholic faith. But she does have one rule.
Keeping churches ‘alive and kicking’
Toronto’s incredible, seemingly unstoppable condo market may furnish this city’s Catholics with a brand new, $17-million, architectural gem of a midtown church sometime around 2025.
Group evolves from prayer group to music ministry named iv24
The music produced by the band iv24 for young Catholics at high school retreats, young adult events and evenings of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament is more a by-product than anything else. The seven-member praise and worship band from Mississauga, Ont., didn’t start off trying to achieve close harmonies, infectious beats or uplifting melodies.
Christian refugee flees from more threats
A Pakistani Christian refugee in Thailand, begging for help from Canada, has had his family’s location revealed for the second time in a month.
Development and Peace quits ombudsperson’s advisory board
Development and Peace has joined a mass resignation from a government advisory board created to monitor allegations of unethical and illegal activities by Canadian corporations involved overseas in mining, oil and gas and textiles.