Letters to the Editor

Readers Speak Out: May 17, 2020

May 14, 2020

Domestic church I believe the present focus on streaming Masses is the wrong way to go.

Readers Speak Out: May 10, 2020

May 7, 2020

Profound impact I spent Grade 9 to 12 attending a small Anglican school in Toronto. Probably like many young people forced to attend church, I graduated with a disdain for organized religion.

Readers Speak Out: April 26, 2020

April 23, 2020

Devil’s virus One of The Catholic Register’s youth writers suggested another name for the virus beast. But how about Devil’s Virus for one or, even better, Psalm19 for another.

Readers Speak Out: April 19, 2020

April 16, 2020

Long-term pain Re: A chance for change in post-virus world (March 29): This article hits many truths. Too many people have wanted too much too fast — expensive cars and houses, for example.

Readers Speak Out: April 12, 2020

April 9, 2020

Responding to crisis COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is causing many to become ill and some to die. It is devastating the economies of the world. However, it is in times of crisis that one can truly observe the character of individuals and organizations.

Readers Speak Out: April 5, 2020

April 2, 2020

The big picture Re: Trump attack (Letters to Editor, March 15): In response to Deacon Jurenas’ praise of Donald Trump I would like to say that Trump observes the First Commandment very well in public, but in private he wants to be worshipped and he worships money.

Canada's bishops on COVID-19: March 29, 2020

March 26, 2020

In place of The Catholic Register’s editorial and letters from readers, this week we are turning over this page to reprint abridged versions from a sampling of messages from Canadian bishops to the people of their dioceses as they address the COVID-19 crisis.

Readers Speak Out: March 22, 2019

March 19, 2020

Coronaphobia The coronavirus is dominating world news, shaking all kinds of human activities and becoming a hysteria rarely seen. The fear of it might be called coronaphobia, and it could be more dangerous than the virus itself.

Readers Speak Out: March 15, 2020

March 12, 2020

Railway blues The Register gives de facto support to the protesters who shut down crucial rail lines and disrupted the lives of untold thousands as a nation was held hostage by illegal protests against a legal pipeline. Notably absent, as it was in the CBC or most regional rating-hungry TV news programs, was any interview with Indigenous Canadians among the 20 bands who support the pipeline. They support it because it represents a real opportunity to lift themselves out of devastating poverty.

Readers Speak Out: March 8, 2020

March 5, 2020

Vanier abuses Re: Glen Argan: A lesson for all of us in Vanier’s fall (March 1): Jean Vanier and L’Arche were a huge part of my formative years. As a child and again in my late teens I spent a year at L’Arche in Trosly, France.