Catholic Register Staff

November 8, 2015

How to make an estate gift to your church

An estate gift to your parish or favourite archdiocesan charity can be a way to say thank you to God for all the blessings He has given you. Some of the most common gifts are as follows.

Published in Estate Planning

November 11, 2015

Lest we forget: in honour of our war dead

“Patriotism is not dying for one’s country, it is living for one’s country — and for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it’s better.”

Published in Canada

November 5, 2015

Cardinal Collins pledges $1 million for palliative care facility

TORONTO - With doctors about to become "agents of death" when assisted suicide comes to Canada in three months, politicians and society should instead be focussed on bringing comfort to the dying, said Cardinal Thomas Collins.

Published in Canada

October 29, 2015

"Out of the Cold: A history of caring" by Michael Swan

Out of the Cold: A history of caring
By Michael Swan

From a modest storefront that opened 28 years ago to serve hot meals to a handful of homeless people, Out of the Cold has developed into an acclaimed winter program that last year provided food and overnight shelter to more than 12,000 homeless people.

Catholic Register associate editor Michael Swan tells the remarkable story of how Out of the Cold evolved from modest beginnings as a weekend project at a Toronto Catholic high school into an extraordinary example of Christian love and caring. It’s a story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Published in Catholic Register Bookstore

October 25, 2015

Higher calling: six things to know about campus ministry

Editor’s note: this is an edited version of a blog entry Oriana Bertucci, director of Ryerson Catholic Campus Ministry, shared about what campus ministries offer to students in the Archdiocese of Toronto. It originally appeared at archtoronto.org.

University campuses represent the fertile landscape of our society, nurturing culture and giving root to our future world leaders. This is where research and technology develop and emergent ideas flourish. And today, it’s a place in desperate need of the life-giving water of the Gospel message.

Published in Education

October 14, 2015

Scripture’s truth must overcome secular culture

The Church must uphold “the objective truths of Sacred Scripture” in the face of a secular culture that poses a grave challenge to the Christian view of family, Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins told the Synod of Bishops meeting in the Vatican.

Published in Canada

October 3, 2015

The article published on this page has been removed

As a member of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada and the Canadian Church Press, The Catholic Register adheres to a code of ethics which includes a pledge to fully attribute material reprinted from other sources. Following allegations that a freelance contributor to The Register failed to meet those standards, the article originally published on this page has been removed.

Published in Removed Articles

September 24, 2015

Francis in the USA

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Pope Francis began his historic visit to the USA on September 22, 2015 and The Catholic Register's associate editor Michael Swan was there to cover the daily events as they unfolded.

Published in About the Catholic Register