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Religious vitality rising

Religious vitality rising

September 12, 2025

As the Register reports from Sunday’s canonization that made Blessed Carlo Acutis a saint, “confidence in God… was clearly in the air.”
No compromise on prayer

No compromise on prayer

September 5, 2025

Let us pray that at next year’s World Day of Prayer for Creation a mass of committed environmentalists from across Canada gather in Montreal’s Dominion Square to pray for God’s forgiveness of our ecological sins.
Intelligence is not artificial

Intelligence is not artificial

August 30, 2025

On our Comment pages, Sr. Helena Burns issues a robust call for a return to “old school” means of acquiring, developing and retaining knowledge in the age of AI.
Pope Leo is Christ’s disciple

Pope Leo is Christ’s disciple

Michael Heinlein · August 22, 2025

In an age when the pope has become something of a global celebrity, Pope Leo so far has operated in such a way that distances his new office from his personality. While he speaks at times of his own experience, Leo is much more squarely focused on the Church's life and mission and what his office offers to it.
Yes, mother knows best

Yes, mother knows best

August 6, 2025

Ceaseless news of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, inundations of reporting on bloodshed in Ukraine, dialogues of the deaf over climate change, the unstoppable unfurling of AI, feed a spirit of defeat about continued human existence.
Media literacy in digital times

Media literacy in digital times

Sr. Hosea Rupprecht · July 26, 2025

In this age of digital communication, it seems like nothing we say or do ever goes away. Once an interview, a podcast, a social media post or an article has been recorded, reported on or printed, it's out there for anyone at any time.
That blessed room was real

That blessed room was real

July 10, 2025

A key to Cardinal Francis Leo’s second pastoral letter for the Archdiocese of Toronto comes, fittingly, in the fifth paragraph of the introduction to the document’s nine segments.
United in One

United in One

June 27, 2025

Pope Leo has assumed the Petrine ministry as old ecclesial divisions have reared up anew and as heightened polarization has weakened the Church's unity and mission.
Christ’s Victory is reality

Christ’s Victory is reality

June 19, 2025

There is little doubt pro-lifers across North America braced for an onslaught of invective after news broke of “politically motivated” murders in Minnesota wrought by an apparent anti-abortion fanatic.
Deportation’s knife edge

Deportation’s knife edge

June 12, 2025

Although most people would consider the United States a nation of immigrants, consistent with our immigration history, there also has been a history of deportation, a history that begins with the now-controversial 1798 Alien Enemies Act.