Books

Golden Rule the key to getting along

Author offers strategies to navigate interpersonal dynamics

Quinton Amundson · March 20, 2025

Dr. Ray Guarendi said that one question looms large in the minds of many people he has encountered in recent months: What is the best way to make people around me act differently?

Wake up to better days in Lent

Six steps to practise faith practically

Luke Mandato · March 5, 2025

Fr. John O’Brien, SJ, is looking to timeless Jesuit traditions as one of many means for the faithful to practice and nurture their spiritual resiliency as Lent gets underway.

50 years of poustinia’s solitude

Catherine Doherty’s classic in 28th printing

Luke Mandato · February 20, 2025

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of one of the great modern spiritual classics with Catherine Doherty’s guide on the poustinia still inspiring many Catholics to find the dwelling Lord today.

Composer looks to reverse sacred music’s decline

Quinton Amundson · February 13, 2025

A celebrated Italian Catholic composer and conductor is dismayed with the “very strong decline of the standard of sacred music”.

Faith and the final frontier: Jesuit astronomer releases guide to the cosmos

Carol Glatz · February 11, 2025

A nerdy love of science fiction, a yearning for adventure, a passion for science and a foundation of Jesuit education all helped in some way to lead a man from Detroit, Michigan, to become a master of meteorites and the head of the Vatican Observatory.

Church renewal in a post-modern age

Much is pointing us toward God

Quinton Amundson · January 17, 2025

Bobby Angel knows the “postmodern genie is out of the bottle” and cannot be undone.

Pope Francis looks back on his life

In new autobiography, ‘old man’ Pontiff urges people to look to future with hope

Cindy Wooden · January 15, 2025

While calling himself an “old man” and saying he never expected to be Pope this long, Pope Francis said he still has dreams for the future.

The elegance of the soul emerged from war

Catholic Register Special · December 6, 2024

Growing up in the shadow of the Second World War, most Canadian children were well aware of tales of sacrifice and derring-do on the part of our parents’ generation in defeating Germany and the Nazi horrors it had unleashed.

'Just act' to spawn positive change

We are poverty's solution

Quinton Amundson · October 11, 2024

Angie Peters, the former telecommunications executive — since 2013 the president and CEO of the Toronto-based Christian social service organization Yonge Street Mission — effortlessly cites Scripture to explain the ethos driving her mission to support people trapped in generational poverty.

New Bible study accompanies latest season of popular series 'The Chosen'

Luke Mandato · August 22, 2024

The husband and wife team of Dallas and Amanda Jenkins, alongside Dr. Douglas S. Huffman, have released their fourth interactive Bible study coinciding with the newest season of The Chosen.