The Mustard Seed

Refreshing life’s beauty with holy desire

The force that unifies truth, goodness

Glen Argan · December 5, 2025

The root of the Church’s inability to adequately evangelize the Western world is that we are so full of truth and goodness that we have forgotten beauty. In that, we resemble the modern world we sometimes criticize. Beauty has been sacrificed to function and efficiency in architecture, ritual and thought.

Christmas memories all over the convent

Sr. Helena Burns · December 5, 2025

Have you ever wondered what Christmas is like in the convent? Grab a cup of hot chocolate and I’ll give you a peek into the inner be-jingled sanctum!

Church on the Street

Winter cannot stop the journey of hope

Dcn. Robert Kinghorn · December 4, 2025

For several years now, faithful as a trusted friend, a large box has arrived at my home when winter has thrust the streets of the city into the dark and uncompromising grip of winter.

A Church ready to speak up for the planet

Luke Stocking · December 4, 2025

Ten years after the Paris Agreement and Pope Francis’s call to protect our common home, the world faces more extreme weather and environmental degradation. Hosting COP30 in Brazil, a country where the Church, Indigenous peoples, and social movements have long walked together in defense of life, further strengthened the hope felt throughout the Catholic community.

Editorial

In praise of Alissa Golob

November 28, 2025

Catholics with room on their prayer lists might do well to add Alissa Golob’s name. The unbelievably brave young Alberta mom will need all the spiritual help she can get to withstand the pro-abortion ideological furies now besetting her.

Advent’s invitation to be where we are

God will be waiting for us

Leah Perrault · November 27, 2025

Advent is calling. The Church new year begins not with resolutions and parties, but with a season of purposeful waiting.

Ready, set, start reading your Bible

Quinton Amundson · November 27, 2025

Listen up: I’m going to impart a helpful suggestion that has never been conveyed throughout the 132-year history of The Catholic Register. You ready? Here it goes…We must strive to read The Holy Bible every day.

Breaking the silence of male loneliness

A quiet crisis

Brian Ross · November 27, 2025

Across Canada and throughout the Western world, men are facing challenges we seldom name out loud. Loneliness among men is rising. Suicide rates remain highest among middle-aged and older men.

Answering the Church’s call to stand with the poor

Fr. Prakash Anthony Lohale · November 22, 2025

In a world increasingly defined by metrics and algorithms, the human person can easily be reduced to a data point. This is perhaps most tragically true for the poor, who are often discussed in terms of statistics, poverty lines, and percentages.

The Mustard Seed

A yawning chasm between rich and poor

Glen Argan · November 21, 2025

The poor are our brothers and sisters. While we talk about seeing Christ in the poor, we can also see the poor as estranged family members.