Catholic Register Columns

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.

By Anna Farrow

Verbatim: A very brief recent history of Catholics and Jews

A very brief recent history of Catholics and Jews…

October 12, 2023

Participants in the assembly of the Synod of Bishops gather in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican before the first working session of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops October 4, 2023.

Listening to discern the Spirit calling

By Catherine Pead, Catholic Register Special

Let’s open our eyes to the reality of AI

By Cathy Majtenyi

Many priests cite having been altar servers as helping bring them into the priesthood.

Priestly calls often follow altar service

By Fr. Mike Bombak, Catholic Register Special

Glen Argan suspects the oil industry’s hands are all over calls for an Alberta Pension Plan.

Include me out of Alberta pension plans

By Glen Argan

Historical inaccuracy

Carol Glatz’s article “Jesuit letter revealing Nazi atrocities discovered” in the Sept. 24 Catholic Register contains inaccurate, not to mention hurtful connotations.