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May 12, 2023

From one Catholic novelist to another

Catholic novelist Ben Galeski had his first novel, 'Starvation Cove', published by Justin Press. The historical fiction explores how the last four survivors of the doomed Franklin Expedition, seen abandoning the ships in this artwork by Julius Von Payer, spent their final days at Nunavut’s Starvation Cove.

Acclaimed and prolific Canadian Catholic author Michael O’Brien once said, “If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source — our living Saviour. He is real. He is present.”

Published in Book News
June 24, 2022

James Joyce ushers us into the holy

Famed Irish writer James Joyce is often venerated as the novelist who transformed 20th-century literature with works like Ulysses, which was published 100 years ago. Despite the author turning his back on the Jansenist Irish Church, there is no doubt, says Peter Stockland, “his 14 years with the Jesuits ontributed significantly to letting his literature... usher us to the threshold of the holy.”

I once interviewed the Irish Times columnist and author John Waters, a very devout and public Catholic, about changes roiling through Irish society that were creating pressures to amend the Constitution in areas such as abortion and gay marriage. I noted that despite the Church’s long dominance over Irish politics, an equally long-standing antipathy toward it could be found in figures such as James Joyce.

Published in Publisher's Notebook
April 17, 2015

Catching up with Youth Speak News alumni

L-R: Faith Goldy, Beth Brown and Desmond Devoy are three of the YSN graduates who have used their experience to find careers in journalism. More than 150 young people have gone through the program in its 15 years in existence.

DIGITAL EDITION EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Political commentator Faith Goldy talks about how writing for The Catholic Register’s Youth Speak News gave her the important journalistic skills and start in Canadian media without attending a journalism school.

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A young Desmond Devoy was on holiday in British Columbia in 2000 when a Catholic news story fell into his lap. Unable to resist the temptation, the budding writer phoned back to Toronto to report his story to The Catholic Register.

Published in Youth Speak News