It is neither the place nor the desire of The Catholic Register to mouth off in the mode of political partisanship. But being Catholic, we are justified in piping up about death and resurrection.

Fundamental political leadership demanded that Prime Minister Trudeau unequivocally declare before Christmas whether he would try to continue leading Canada or resign.

In a gesture of outright cheek, Canada Post sent the Register an e-mail invoice last week even as the month-long postal strike dragged on. 

Prompted by the Canada Post strike that has left Canadians curiously unperturbed, one of Canada’s most august Catholic voices is calling for a rethink of public sector strikes in general.

Enemies and critics of Israel — they’re not the same thing — may take momentary heart from Pope Francis’ reported comments that the Gaza conflict might constitute genocide.

As a Catholic newspaper committed to telling non-partisan truth in charity, the Register would never seek to interest its readers in generic badmouthing of Justin Trudeau as an “idiot” and an “imbecile. We need only look south of the border to witness what festers in, erupts from, and corrupts the body politic when such schoolyard insults become the public office invective of the day.

Following the lead of our august newspaper confreres at the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and possibly the Muncie Morning Tidbit, The Catholic Register will not be endorsing anyone in the election race to succeed Pope Francis.

The obnoxious-gusting-to-toxic pro-Hamas mob, and even moderate people who support their cause but cringe at their conduct, might want to consider a salient fact about the movement’s dead leader, Yahya Sinwar.

Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo’s elevation to Cardinal this week gives added cause for the celebration of Thanksgiving this weekend. 

In the 12 months since Hamas murderers invaded Israel, the Holy Land tables have entirely turned on those behind the worst massacre of Jews after the Holocaust.