hand and heart

The recent post office troubles have impacted our regular fundraising efforts. Please consider supporting the Register and Catholic journalism by using one of the methods below:

  • Donate online
  • Donate by e-transfer to accounting@catholicregister.org
  • Donate by telephone: 416-934-3410 ext. 406 or toll-free 1-855-441-4077 ext. 406
×

Warning

JUser: :_load: Unable to load user with ID: 7305

NEWS

A Lebanese demonstrator is pictured in a file photo gesturing at a soldier near Beirut during a protest against the collapsing Lebanese pound currency and price hikes.

'We need a miracle,' Lebanese nun says a month after Beirut blasts

By

BEIRUT -- Sister Marie Justine el Osta had just begun a spiritual retreat in a mountain convent 27 miles north of Beirut. Even in that remote location, the blast that rocked Lebanon's capital Aug. 4 could be felt, like an earthquake.

Lucio Abbruzzese, centre beside the bag, and the Street Patrol team prepare for another Wednesday evening ministering to the homeless. At right, a volunteer gives a food package to a man in need.

Street Patrol hasn’t taken pandemic hiatus

By

With the needs of the less fortunate exasperated in so many ways by COVID-19, volunteers with the summer Street Patrol ministry have continued providing meals to those living on the streets of downtown Toronto.

Dr. Hilda Koster will teach in the University of St. Michael’s College’s faculty of theology this year, albeit from her home in Minnesota as classes go virtual.

Laudato Si’ key to prof’s eco-theology

By

In a time and place where Christians, and especially Catholics, are at each other’s throats over basic truths about the world we’re living in, how we teach theology matters a great deal to the University of St. Michael’s College’s newest theology professor.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, with red sash, views the damage at Sacred Heart School near Beirut's port area Sept. 4, 2020, one month after the city suffered double blasts.

Visiting Lebanon, Cardinal Parolin emphasizes 'You are not alone'

By

BEIRUT -- Bringing a message of hope to Lebanon, a month after a double blast struck Beirut, Pope Francis' closest collaborator assured the Lebanese: "You are not alone. The whole world supports you."

ShareLife gets a reboot

ShareLife gets a reboot

By

The rapid proliferation of COVID-19 prevented ShareLife, the Archdiocese of Toronto’s annual charitable appeal, from launching its major parish fundraising campaign on the last weekend of March as intended. 

Firefighters respond to an Aug. 30 fire at Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples in Edmonton. No one was injured in the blaze and the cause is under investigation.

Edmonton vows to restore historic Indigenous parish

By

EDMONTON -- The Archdiocese of Edmonton says it will do whatever it takes to restore Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples after a devastating fire Aug. 30 tore through the rear of the building.

Alex Schadenberg

Wife fighting husband’s bid for assisted suicide

By

OTTAWA -- A legal battle between an elderly married couple in Nova Scotia over the husband’s wish to kill himself with medical aid has become a rallying cry for anti-euthanasia organizations in Canada.

Asia Bibi -- the Pakistani Catholic woman who spent nearly a decade on death row after she was falsely accused of blasphemy -- is pictured in Paris Feb. 26, 2020. Human rights activists were shocked after Bibi dissociated herself from her autobiography, due out later in September.

Activists shocked after Asia Bibi disowns autobiography

By

LAHORE, Pakistan -- Human rights activists were shocked after Asia Bibi dissociated herself from her autobiography, due out later in September.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Archdiocese of Vancouver claiming the archdiocese was “systematically negligent” in protecting parishioners from abusive priests.

Vancouver archdiocese ‘negligent’ on abuse, suit says

By

VANCOUVER -- A proposed class-action lawsuit filed against the Archdiocese of Vancouver claims the archdiocese was “systematically negligent” in protecting parishioners from abuse by clergy.

Opposition supporters take part in a rally against election results in Minsk, Belarus, Aug. 30.

Belarus archbishop warns of civil war

By

WARSAW, Poland -- The president of the Belarusian bishops’ conference has been barred from re-entering his country from abroad, after warning in a pastoral letter that the nation’s worsening crisis could spill into civil war.

Pope Francis.

Pope’s reforms meet ‘active resistance’ in U.S.

By

WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis’ efforts to bring reform in the Catholic Church are meeting resistance in some Church circles, according to one panelist at an Aug. 31 online forum sponsored by Georgetown University’s Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement.

Page 233 of 1310