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June 11, 2020

Charles Lewis: Conversion therapy bill on a risky path

Ryan Anderson, author of When Harry Became Sally.

In the midst of the COVID-19 virus it is easy to forget what other dangers lurk in our society. We must remember that our government has been involved in a great and destructive program of social engineering — and it is about to get far worse.

Published in Charles Lewis
March 13, 2020

Proposed legislation bans conversion therapy for minors

Minister of Justice David Lametti.

OTTAWA -- The federal government has proposed legislation that would make it a crime to force anyone into conversion therapy or provide the controversial therapy to minors.

Published in Canada
February 20, 2019

Irish archbishop warns against sex abuse becoming 'political football'

Ahead of a major Vatican summit on the protection of minors, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, has criticized Catholics who use the issue of clerical abuse to score points against people they disagree with in the church. Archbishop Martin is pictured in an Aug. 26, 2018, photo in Dublin.
DUBLIN – Ahead of a major Vatican summit on the protection of minors, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, has criticized Catholics who use the issue of clerical abuse to score points against people they disagree with in the church.
Published in International
February 20, 2019

Blaming homosexuality for sex abuse of minors is 'absolutely immoral', victims say

Tim Lennon, board president of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, poses in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Feb. 20, 2019.
ROME – People must stop using homosexuals as scapegoats for the sexual abuse of children, two male survivors of abuse by priests told reporters.
Published in International
February 11, 2019

Religious beliefs at centre of Christian couple’s dispute with child services agency

Religious beliefs at centre of Christian couple’s dispute with child services agency

OTTAWA – The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has warned an Ontario child services agency it could face legal action for discriminating against a Christian couple.

Published in Canada
February 4, 2019

Readers Speak Out: Trump bashing, shifting values, the Church is not mean (January 3, 2019)

Readers Speak Out: Trump bashing, shifting values, the Church is not mean (January 3, 2019)

Trump bashers

What is happening to The Catholic Register? It used to report about Catholic Canadian values. Now it consistently bashes Donald Trump. Trump is not perfect, but which politician is? However, he is pro-life. Because of his pro-life belief, the tide may be turning in the United States. Millions of children can be saved.

Published in Letters to the editor
January 15, 2019

Robert Brehl: Persecution hits close to home

Bishop Robert McElroy supported outreach program for gay Catholics.

Over the Christmas season, one story after another that I read or watched seemed to indicate Christianity is under siege around the world.

Published in Register Columnists
October 11, 2018

U.K. court upholds bakers' right to refuse making same-sex themed cake

Daniel and Amy McArthur, owners of Ashers bakery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, leave the Supreme Court in London Oct. 10. The court upheld their right to refuse to make a cake emblazoned with a slogan in support of same-sex marriage.
MANCHESTER, England – The United Kingdom's Supreme Court has upheld the right of a bakery to refuse to make a cake emblazoned with a slogan in support of same-sex marriage.
Published in International
October 4, 2018

Archbishop Chaput urges synod to be careful with language, especially on sexuality

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia arrives for the opening session of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment at the Vatican Oct 3.
VATICAN  – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia told members of the Synod of Bishops their task was to help young people understand Catholic teaching on sexuality and to avoid using terms like "LGBTQ" that make it seem as if the church categorizes people that way.
Published in International
September 24, 2018

Abuse survivor priest in Chicago removed 'temporarily' following rainbow flag burning

Photograph of Cardinal Bernardin presiding over Mass in 1991 at Resurrection Parish.
CHICAGO – The Archdiocese of Chicago has confirmed the temporary removal of the parish priest at the center of a controversy over the burning of a rainbow banner. According to the archdiocese, Fr. Paul Kalchik has “left willingly” from his Chicago parish “to receive pastoral care.”
Published in International
September 7, 2018

'What is legal is not equal to moral', Indian church leaders say after decriminalization of homosexual acts

A LGBT supporter in Bengaluru, India, celebrates Sept. 6 after the country's Supreme Court decriminalized homosexual acts between consenting adults.
NEW DELHI  – India's Supreme Court ruled in a landmark judgment that homosexual acts between consenting adults are no longer a crime, but church officials said that legal validity does not make such practices morally acceptable.
Published in International
August 23, 2018

Fr. James Martin says gay people have been treated like 'lepers' by the church

An LGBT choir sings outside the Pastoral Congress at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin Aug. 23.
DUBLIN (CNS) -- U.S. Jesuit Father James Martin set out a series of ways in which parishes can show welcome and respect to LGBT Catholics.
Published in International
August 19, 2018

'Homosexual subculture' is source of sex abuse 'devastation' in the Church, Bishop Morlino says

'Homosexual subculture' is source of sex abuse 'devastation' in the Church, Bishop Morlino says
MADISON, Wis., – In response to recent sexual abuse crises, the Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, has said that the Catholic Church must renew its conviction to identify and reject sin, and admit that a homosexual culture among some clerics has caused great harm in the Church.
Published in International
August 14, 2018

Pennsylvania grand jury says church purposely hiding sex abuse allegations for decades

In a screen grab taken from video, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during an Aug. 14 news conference to release a grand jury on a months-long investigation into abuse claims spanning a 70-year period in the dioceses of Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Scranton, Allentown, Greensburg and Erie.
WASHINGTON – A Pennsylvania grand jury report issued Aug. 14 paints a picture of a Catholic Church in six of the state's dioceses that for decades handled claims of sex abuse of minors under its care by hiding the allegations and its victims.
Published in International
August 14, 2018

Priest sent second letter reporting McCarrick abuse to Cardinal O'Malley

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, is pictured before a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 28. A U.S. priest, Father Boniface Ramsey, wrote to Cardinal O'Malley in 2015 regarding the alleged sexual abuse of seminarians by Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick. Cardinal O'Malley said he did not "personally receive" the letter but that a reply was made at the staff level that it "did not fall under the purview of the Commission or the Archdiocese of Boston."
WASHINGTON – In a June 2015 letter to Boston's Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley obtained by Catholic News Service, a New York priest tells the prelate about "sexual abuse/harassment/intimidation" allegations he had heard concerning then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and asks that if the matter doesn't fall under his purview, to forward it to the "proper agency in the Vatican."
Published in International
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