TORONTO - Very soon church choirs around the world will have 900 manuscripts of music, most of it lost, forgotten and long out of print, available for free download from the St. Michael’s Choir School web site. The music, almost all of it liturgical and most of it set to Latin texts, was written by Msgr. John Edward Ronan, founder of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Choir School.
'Three-continent endeavour' results in universities' joint Rome Center
By Catholic News ServiceWASHINGTON - What the president of The Catholic University of America called a "three-continent endeavour" has resulted in an agreement by the university in Washington and the Australian Catholic University to share a campus in Rome.
Counting the costs of marriage
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterFor most people marriage, a family — hearth and home — are the keys to a meaningful, successful life. But what if you can’t afford it? What if our economy, our society, is increasingly reserving marriage for a privileged few? What if the gap between rich and poor includes a marriage gap?
TCDSB program helping parents improve children’s communication skills
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Parents of Toronto Catholic kindergarten pupils are becoming better equipped to support, enhance and enrich the development of their child’s communication skills.
Pope Francis visits Asia
By Catholic Register Staff
Pope Francis made an apostolic visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines Jan. 13-19, 2015. The Sri Lanka highlight was the canonization of St. Joseph Vaz. In the Philippines, the Pope celebrated Mass with six million people in Manilla. All the articles from his trip are listed below, including some Canadian reaction written by Register reporters Michael Swan and Evan Boudreau.
Open season on Catholic education
By John B. KostoffIn his new book The Global War on Christians, John L. Allen Jr. follows in the path of Phillip Jenkins’ book, The New Anti-Catholicism, in highlighting growing anti-Catholicism in our society.
Chalice takes on roots of poverty
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterWhat Fr. Pat Cosgrove started in anger is ending in communion. Chalice, the Catholic Canadian child sponsorship agency, has matured into a real partner to help feed poor communities in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Haiti and Ukraine.
Food bank use continues to rise
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterMore than 840,000 Canadians got food from a food bank in March this year. That isn’t the number who needed food they couldn’t afford. It’s just the number who swallowed their pride and figured out when and where they could collect a box of groceries consisting for the most part of stuff grocery shoppers didn’t want for themselves.
Farming locally, helping globally
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterFifty years ago Len Kraemer was young, strong, intelligent and rural, which is why he was helping bring in a crop of hay on the family farm near Walkerton, Ont. As he jammed his gloves on harder and lifted bales of hay under the afternoon sun, young Kraemer started thinking about Africa.
‘Food is an inalienable right’
By Cardinal Peter Turkson, Catholic Register SpecialGod’s gifts to us should be used to overcome the scourge of hunger
The human tragedy of hunger
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe planet produces enough food to feed everyone, yet more than 800 million people go hungry every day.