Catholic Register Columns

Palestinian militants ride an Israeli military vehicle that was seized by gunmen who infiltrated areas of southern Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip Oct. 7, 2023.

Editorial: Bishops, find thy voice

Not even the horrifying violence spiralling beyond imagining in the Holy Land should blind us to Hamas’ ultimate responsibility for the carnage resulting for its Oct. 7 slaughter of Israeli innocents.

By Catholic Register Editorial

Verbatim: What has been said about Hamas attacking Israel

Excerpts from various sources commenting on the terror attack on Israel

October 19, 2023

Christ’s face shines with tears and joy

By Robert Kinghorn

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following his speech in the House of Commons Sept. 22.

What is history without the truth?

By Peter Stockland

Before a papal Mass at the council; area between papal altar and apse/cathedra altar, in front of it the seat of the pope.

Still waiting for Vatican II to bear fruit

By Glen Argan

Speak, bishops, speak

The Sept. 20 Register article “Gender ideology rallies draw thousands” concludes with this sentence: “A number of public school boards issued statements in support of the LGBT community as the rallies took place, but Catholic boards remained silent.”

An assortment of protest signs are arranged in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa Sept. 20 at the 1 Million March 4 Children protest.

Marchers were united around a shining truth

By Sr. Helena Burns, FSP

A woman holds up a sign that say "Pace," peace in Italian, as Pope Francis appeals for an end to the fighting between Israel and Palestine after reciting the Angelus prayer Oct. 8, 2023, with visitors in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Editorial: Pray for the victims, on all sides

We applaud and magnify the sombre yet vital words the good people of Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto issued in the aftermath of last weekend’s heart-wrenching atrocities in the Holy Land.

By Catholic Register Editorial

Israeli soldiers carry a body in Kfar Aza, a kibbutz in southern Israel, Oct. 10. IDF works to remove the bodies of the victims from the homes where they were murdered by Hamas terrorist infiltrators Oct. 7.

‘They were killed because they were Jewish’

My sister is a Shabbat-observing Orthodox Jew. When I saw the news trickling out of Israel on Saturday morning, I knew I wouldn’t be able to check in with her until that night. Her phone is off from Friday evening until Saturday sundown. Then I remembered that it was Simchat Torah, and that observant Jews in the U.S. wouldn’t be turning their phones back on until Sunday evening.