Readers Speak Out: October 4, 2020
Holy time
As a liturgical musician for more than 50 years, I feel obliged to comment on the Sept. 13 article “Musical dilemma over abuse claims.”
Pope Francis' address to United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 25
Address by Pope Francis to the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25:
Readers Speak Out: September 27, 2020
Ensure equality
Canada is not a racist country. This is so obvious that it feels wrong to have to say it. Yet we saw this charge, of systemic racism, in The Register’s Sept. 6 issue.
Readers Speak Out: September 20, 2020
Loving enemies
Re: Tabernacle stolen from St. Catharines cathedral:
It is rather interesting that the discarded tabernacle was found on Sept. 9, and the very next day the Gospel reading from Luke (Ch. 6: 27-38) was as if Jesus came out to speak to anyone who might be feeling angry and hateful towards the criminals who did such a disrespectful act: “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who abuse you.” When I read the article I did feel very angry and wanted to exchange with family and friends all kinds of hateful words about the criminals, just making my assumption who they might be.
Readers Speak Out: September 13, 2020
Work together
As a Past President of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace – Caritas Canada (D&P), I am very pleased to see that the bishops want to return to the National Council (NC), the governing board of the organization. I have always believed their presence at NC meetings is imperative.
Readers Speak Out: September 3, 2020
Support for priest
In a recent edition The Catholic Register reported that Fr. Nino Cavoto, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Toronto, has been removed from ministry following the Archdiocese of Toronto receiving an allegation that he had abused a minor while serving at a parish in the New York archdiocese between 1979 and 1983.
Virgin Mary statue decapitated in west-end Toronto
Toronto police have released an image of a man sought for decapitating a statue of the Virgin Mary outside a church in the city’s west end.
Readers Speak Out: August 30, 2020
Hate crimes
It’s sad that we have come to a time when churches and statues of saints are being defaced and vandalized.
Toronto priest removed from ministry
The Archdiocese of Toronto has removed from ministry a priest accused of abuse against a minor in the Archdiocese of New York dating back to the late 1970s or early 1980s.
Readers Speak Out: August 16-23, 2020
A new low
Re: Wanton destruction of religious art:
The standard dictionary definition for an iconoclast is one who attacks cherished beliefs and institutions and a destroyer of images used in religious worship.