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Life & Family Special Section

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Life & Family Special Section

Catholic Register's latest special is about life and family. Click here to check out all of our feature stories!

Making the case for Catholic education amid defunding cries

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Since the government of Ontario has begun posting its budget over the past three years, there have been suggestions to defund the province's Catholic education system.

For the last three years Ontario’s Liberal government has opened up its budget-making process to anybody with an Internet connection and each year among the most frequent suggestions is de-funding the Catholic school system.

Why famed atheist Stephen Hawking is on a pontifical academy

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Pope Francis greets Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, during a Nov. 28 meeting with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican.

VATICAN CITY – Stephen Hawking’s visit to the Vatican this week has raised curiosity, with some asking what exactly the famed astrophysicist and self-proclaimed atheist was doing in the heart of the Catholic Church.

Standing Rock anti-pipeline activists see Pope Francis as spiritual ally

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Several hundred people took part in a prayer walk on Sept. 14, 2016, from the Oceti Sakowin camp near Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to the site up the road where Dakota Access began digging over Labor Day weekend for construction on a nearly 1,200-mile pipeline project. Construction temporarily has been halted.

STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. – Does Pope Francis have a position on the Dakota Access Pipeline?

Atlanta Archbishop: Racism is a disease that must be cured

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Archbishop Gregory says that whenever one can play on the fears of some people and depend on the ignorance of others, racism flourishes, and that as a political strategy, such taunting may win votes, but it destroys national unity and our future.

The U.S. national election brought many issues that the Roman Catholic Church has to face. Below, Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, the former chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Task Force to Promote Peace in Our Communities, addresses the racism that came to the forefront in this U.S. political cycle.

Ancient music sets stage for the Christmas season

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University of St. Michael’s College’s Schola Cantorum founder, Michael O’Connor (second row left) teamed up with John Edwards (front row with lute), the Musicians in Ordinary and others for an Advent program spanning nearly 1,000 years of Christian music from the Middle Ages into the 17th century.

There’s no better way to get ready for Christmas than to open your ears to a little Advent music — not the jingles in the mall but music that slows time down just enough to allow for some peace and reflection.

Cardinal Dolan: What the pro-life community wants from the Trump administration

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New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and Donald Trump at the 71st annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner Oct. 20. Cardinal Dolan says he hopes promises made by Trump, now president-elect, on life issues will become his administration's policies and that the pro-life community will hold him accountable to those promises.

The U.S. national election brought many issues to the surface that are important for both the Roman Catholic Church and the new Trump administration. Below, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, offers his take on what needs to happen on the political front.

Fidel Castro, Jesuit-influenced Marxist revolutionary

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Pope John Paul II greets Cuban President Fidel Castro at the end of Mass in the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana Jan. 25, 1998.

Fidel Castro, the Marxist revolutionary who ruled the Western Hemisphere’s only Communist state, acknowledged later in life that he was deeply influenced by Catholic teaching and welcomed a succession of popes to Cuba.

What do you say to a homeless person? Advice from Catholic urban missionaries

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A Denver-based urban ministry, Christ in the City, offers some advice as to how to talk to homeless people.

DENVER – It’s a common sight at a city intersection. A man or a woman holds a cardboard sign: “Homeless, Hungry. Please Give. Anything Helps.”

Recent polls point to Canadians demanding better palliative care

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In a recent Nanos-Globe and Mail survey, almost 60 per cent of Canadians say they would pay higher taxes if the public health system improved palliative care.

If there’s anything that unites Canadians, it’s their overwhelming support for something very few of us have.

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