Catholic Register Staff
Enhanced security remains in place at Peel Catholic schools
Attendance is low as enhanced security remains in place for the second straight day at four Peel Region Catholic high schools that were among six schools targeted by online threats of violence.
Verbatim: The principle duty of government
Proceedings from the House of Commons as reported in Hansard
Transcript of the presentation by Ilora Finlay, Barroness Finlay of Llandhoff, a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, professor of palliative medicine, and a Welsh medical doctor, to the Canadian Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.
Friars' Essay Contest 2023 winners
Once again this year, along with our partner-sponsors at the Archdiocese of Toronto’s Office for Christian Unity and Religious Relations with Judaism and the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, The Catholic Register is pleased to announce the winners of the Friars Student Essay Writing Contest.
Verbatim: One year into the synodal process
A blogpost by Catherine Clifford, a theolgy professor at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, on the synodal process.
Verbatim: ‘I will bring ... all that I am and all that I have’
Greetings Message to the People of God in the Archdiocese of Toronto from Archbishop-designate Most Rev. Francis Leo
Cardinal Collins retirement to be filled by Montreal’s Bishop Leo
On hearing that Montreal Bishop Frank Leo would succeed him as Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins immediately thought of Toronto’s first bishop, Michael Power. At a parish feast day Mass in Our Lady of Lourdes, downtown Toronto, Collins reminded the congregation how Toronto’s first bishop also came from Montreal and was also, as a priest, vicar of English-speaking Montrealers.
Verbatim: Testimony of Dr. Heidi Janz to Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on MAiD
Testimony of Dr. Heidi Janz, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba and a disability rights advocate, to Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, on Nov 22, 2022.
Verbatim: Sr. Nancy Brown fights against human trafficking
Nancy Brown, Sister of Charity, has fought against human trafficking for more than 20 years.
MAiD for mentally ill delayed by Parliament
The expansion of assisted suicide in Canada to those suffering solely from mental illness is being delayed by a year.