The Catholic Register's Ottawa Correspondent Susan Korah has been recognized with the King Charles III Coronation Medal, a national acknowledgement for decades worth of human rights activism through ink.

Where recent trends show Catholic Mass attendance levels in the United Kingdom and the United States have all but returned to post-pandemic levels, the Archdiocese of Toronto finds itself still with a ways to go.

Even as they began the busy work of transferring episcopal responsibility for Vancouver, it was the health of Pope Francis that was on everyone’s mind as the Holy Father announced Archbishop Richard Smith would be the next Archbishop of Vancouver.

On his 21st day in Rome's Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis recorded a 27-second audio message thanking people for their prayers.

Pope Francis marked Ash Wednesday on his 20th day in Rome's Gemelli hospital by taking part in the rite of the blessing of the ashes and receiving them in a short prayer service, the Vatican said.

Pope Francis has not had any further respiratory crises a day after he experienced two of them, the Vatican said, and his condition remained "stable."