Panama pilgrims packing plenty of anticipation
By Thandiwe Konguavi, Canadian Catholic News
EDMONTON – A much smaller group of pilgrims than usual is heading off to World Youth Day from Edmonton this week. But the anticipation is huge.
Canadian pilgrims ready to absorb ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience of World Youth Day
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register
José Murillo is the only one in his family who hasn’t been back to Panama City since they immigrated to Canada about 12 years ago.
Dancing for the Pope in Panama, 17 years after dancing for pope in Toronto
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register
Myriam Guevara Mann still remembers looking out to a crowd of 800,000 people before she danced the biggest show of her life.
Mother's prayers take fruit in new auxiliary bishop's life, conversion
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA – On Guy Desrochers’ 24th birthday, his mother gave him a Bible.
Nicaraguans face greater challenges than most heading to World Youth Day
By Catholic News Service
Fifty years and counting: Serving the Church comes naturally for the Surmans
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic Register
Stan Surman has officially been retired for more than 20 years, but not when it comes to his work at church.
The young artists who enter The Catholic Register’s annual Christmas drawing contest express themselves in many artistic forms.
Bethlehem has seen many changes this past century, much of it due to the effects of war and an ever dwindling Christian population — but its drawing power never ceases, especially at this time of year. The grotto of the Church of the Nativity is the destination for many — the birthplace of Christ. It was the same 99 years ago, as reported in The Catholic Register of Dec. 25, 1919:
Companionship ministry makes Christmas season a little less lonely
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but for some it can be the loneliest.
“The Huron Carol” you may have so enjoyed singing and listening to all these Christmases — well, it’s not the true words of St. Jean de Brébeuf’s you have been led to believe.
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Christmas may come but once a year, but at the Furniture Bank they keep their eyes and ears open to the season year-round.
At St. Oscar Romero Catholic Secondary School, students believe the true joy of Christmas is in sharing what you have.
For your average serf of medieval Europe, Christmas was a pretty good deal, but not really a big deal.
Canada’s David Saint-Jacques joined the exclusive club of space explorers when he blasted off to the International Space Station on Dec. 3, almost 46 years after NASA ended the Apollo program that put men on the moon. On Dec. 19, 1972, the last Apollo mission ended with the splashdown of the Apollo 17 capsule. It was an historic achievement, though by this time — after five previous moon landings in three years — the excitement of moon landings was waning. The last moon mission, however, held a deeper meaning for Fr. Harold O’Neill, who was a professor of dogmatic theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto. At the time he wrote this for The Register, he was studying at the University of Regensburg in West Germany, where he drew inspiration from a lecture by Professor Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI.