Catholic Register Staff
Readers Speak Out: June 21, 2020
Lower class
While being allowed to visit numerous vital places but not being allowed to come to the Catholic Church, the soul’s place, I have felt like a Canadian of lower class.
Despite the go-ahead to begin celebrating Mass on June 12, Ontario dioceses continue to take a cautious approach to re-opening churches.
Readers Speak Out: June 14, 2020
Beautiful sculpture
Re: Jesus 2020: A clay model for our times (April 26):
Thank you Timothy Schmalz for the most incredibly beautiful sculpture I have ever seen. I was physically and emotionally moved, as I turned to Page 6 in The Catholic Register and saw how you captured our Most Holy Lord in such beautiful movement.
Readers Speak Out: June 7, 2020
Energetic message
Congratulations on the compelling, energetic message of the May 24 edition!
Readers Speak Out: May 31, 2020
Smear campaign
Re: Don’t Judge Pius XII yet, expert warns (May 10):
If ever there was a smear campaign, the one against Pope Pius XII is one for the history books. Having studied his pontificate, I am convinced that the campaign against him has done considerable damage against a man who was acclaimed in the late 1940s-early ’50s by so many Jews, including the Jewish State of Israel, as a hero for all he did during the Second World War.
Readers Speak Out: May 24, 2020
Needs of faithful
Re: Cautious approach to re-open churches (May 10):
I am very surprised that Canada’s bishops are reluctant to press our government to ease restrictions on churches.
Following five COVID-19 deaths in one horrific week, the Jesuit long-term care facility in Pickering, Ont., is closing temporarily.
Readers Speak Out: May 17, 2020
Domestic church
I believe the present focus on streaming Masses is the wrong way to go.
A weekend fire suspected to have been deliberately set and an accompanying vandalism spree has caused about $8 million in damage to a Brampton Catholic school.
While restrictions are expected to remain in place for the immediate future, preparations are under way for a time when churches will re-open, Cardinal Thomas Collins wrote in a pastoral letter.