Catholic Register Editorial
The Catholic Register's editorial is published in the print and digital editions every week. Read the current and past editorials below.
Editorial: Event of the decade
From a Catholic perspective, few if any dates were more significant during the soon-to-close decade than Feb.11, 2013.
Editorial: Christmas prayers
With good reason, Canadians generally take it for granted that Christmas is a season of peace and goodwill. We are blessed to live in a country that slows down to let the joy of the season wash over us.
Editorial: A necessary delay
The call went up to have Archbishop Fulton Sheen declared a saint almost from the day he died 40 years ago. So current disappointment at a Vatican directive to touch the brakes on the popular American’s sainthood cause is no surprise, but the decision is appropriate.
Editorial: Mangers a must
If it’s true that the best ideas are often the simplest ones, then give credit to Pope Francis for endorsing an 800-year-old strategy to place Christ at the centre of Christmas.
Editorial: Poor need Minister
The poor need our hands to lift them up and give them hope, said Pope Francis on the World Day of the Poor. Three days later, Canada’s new government extended a hand in a different direction when it swore in our first-ever Minister of Middle Class Prosperity.
Editorial: Environmental sin
Thou shalt not commit ecocide.
Editorial: Take the next step
An emphatic defence of religious freedom by Ontario politicians was almost enough to set bells ringing at churches — and mosques, synagogues and temples — across the province.
Editorial: Trustees get it right
It may seem odd to be extending congratulations to a committee that exists to protect Catholic educational values merely for doing its job.
Editorial: Reflect ... then act
It was a humbled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who indulged the media after his Liberal Party was returned grudgingly to Ottawa with a minority government.
Editorial: A cry for justice
Syrian Christians have been neglected, forgotten and cast aside like “the scum of the world,” charged the patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church.