God's word on Sunday: Forgiveness is essence of Jesus’ mission

Third Sunday of Easter, April 15 (Year B) Acts 3:13-15, 17-19; Psalm 4; 1 John 2:1-5; Luke 24:35-48


Charles Lewis: It’s a bumpy road to finding true peace

What is peace? What does it mean in the Christian sense? 

Letters are an escape for man serving life in prison

A year ago, The Catholic Register printed an article of mine about writing to condemned prisoners. 

Peter Stockland: Will Canada follow the Middle East's eviction of Christians?

Carl Hétu has watched the disappearance of Christians in the Middle East by the thousands. Lately, he’s begun to wonder if he’s seeing it begin in Canada, too.

Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: My piano keeps my life in tune

There is a special type of panic that is reserved for watching your piano being maneuvered up three flights of stairs. 

God's word on Sunday: Loving one another builds path to God

Second Sunday of Easter, April 8 (Year B) Acts 4:32-35; Psalm 118; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31


Peter Stockland: It’s our turn to ride the wave of change

There is a deeply Catholic sense of hope in standing on history’s shore watching a major wave break while sensing another building, barely visible, on the horizon.

Bob Brehl: Coyote attack a sign of upside down world

Do you ever wonder if sometimes the world is upside down?

Charles Lewis: Silence much easier said than done

Many of us were fortunate enough to hear Cardinal Robert Sarah speak at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica last month. He is truly a holy man and strong voice in a world of banalities. How many people do you know whose cause is silence?

Fr. Raymond J. De Souza: Rosica pulls back curtain on ‘a new dictatorship’

Fr. Thomas Rosica, CEO of Salt & Light Catholic Media Foundation, published a blistering assessment of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the pages of a Jesuit magazine, identifying in practice what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger memorably called the “dictatorship of relativism.”

God's word on Sunday: The yeast of Christ will lead us to the truth

Resurrection of the Lord, April 1 (Year B) Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118; 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8; John 20:1-18