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

News/Canada

Catholics in public life must take positions coherent with the Catholic faith, says Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, and that includes not only what they believe but how they vote.

Catholics in public life must adhere to Catholic teachings, says Prendegast

By

OTTAWA - Catholics in public life must take positions coherent with the Catholic faith, says Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, and that includes not only what they believe but how they vote.

Register associate editor Michael Swan shows off some of the awards he won at the recent Canadian Church Press awards gala in Winnipeg. Swan took first place in four categories, and second in the A.C. Forrest Memorial Award.

Michael Swan leads way as The Register picks up 11 honours at church press awards

By

WINNIPEG - The Catholic Register’s veteran reporter and photographer Michael Swan was awarded four first-place prizes at the annual Canadian Church Press gala dinner.

Cardinal Thomas Collins offically launches the $105 million Family of Faith campaign to the public at Toronto's St. Andrew Kim Catholic Church..

Archdiocese of Toronto launches $105 million campaign

By

Updated 10/16/14

TORONTO - With $26.5 million already pledged — including $5 million from a single donor — the Archdiocese of Toronto has officially kicked off one of the largest Church-based fundraising campaigns in Canadian history.

Kang Lee, a University of Toronto professor whose research indicates that sometimes what people believe can influence what they see.

Power of faith could mean believing is seeing

By

TORONTO - The adage that seeing is believing is being questioned by recent science that suggests the opposite may also be true: believing is seeing.

Matercare International’s Dr. Robert Walley meets with Pope John Paul II.

Matercare names maternity hospital in Kenya after St. John Paul II

By

A Kenyan hospital specializing in maternal care that was co-founded by a Canadian doctor is being credited as the first health care facility in the world to be named after St. John Paul II.

Conservative MP Wladyslaw Lizon's private member's Bill C-266 is now headed for third reading in the Senate after being stalled for a year.

Federal Pope John Paul II Day one step closer to fruition

By

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Wladyslaw Lizon’s Bill C-266 to designate April 2 Pope John Paul II finally passed through a Senate committee May 12 and is expected to come to a vote in the fall.

MP Niki Ashton

NDP backs off on abortion motion

By

The federal New Democrats have backed down, for now, in presenting its abortion-rights motion.

Development and Peace dropped 80,000 signed cards on Parliament Hill calling for the creation of a mining ombudsman.

Development and Peace continues to press for mining ombudsman

By

OTTAWA - The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace dropped 80,000 postcards off on Parliament Hill May 14, demanding an ombudsman for the mining industry.

Bishop Christian Riesbeck delivers the homily at the Pro-life Mass at Ottawa’s Notre Dame Cathedral May 8.

Eliminate crisis, not pregnancy

By

OTTAWA - When Ottawa Auxiliary Bishop Christian Riesbeck became the pastor of a parish in Houston, he came face to face with a difficult pastoral challenge — the pregnancy of a young girl.

In an open letter to Justin Trudeau, Cardinal Collins urged the Liberal leader to rescind his party's unprecedented ban on pro-life supporters.

Cardinal to Trudeau: 'reconsider your position'

By

TORONTO - In an open letter to Justin Trudeau that upholds the important role of faith and conscience in politics, Cardinal Thomas Collins has urged the Liberal leader to rescind his party's unprecedented ban on pro-life supporters.

Fr. Gilbert Dasna

Slain Alberta priest remembered as a faithful minister

By

ST. PAUL, ALTA. - Fr. Gilbert Dasna is being remembered for being strong and faithful to his ministry as a priest.

Page 380 of 532