Catholic Register Editorial
The Catholic Register's editorial is published in the print and digital editions every week. Read the current and past editorials below.
Editorial: Raising faith from the dead?
The 2024 Jerry Seinfeld Award for Drip Dry Irony can already be safely presented to Wall Street Journal reporter Tim Higgin’s for arch-lipped appraisal of Elon Musk’s evocation of Christianity.
Editorial: ‘Uglification’ personified
A quote dubiously attributed to Oscar Wilde defines a gentleman as someone who never gives offence unintentionally.
Editorial: Cast your wishes ahead
Since President Joe Biden has abandoned his quest for a second term “running the world” as he framed it, perhaps he can get work as a mascot for the Church’s World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.
Editorial: Trudeau, Biden, meet Benedict
A venerable guide for gracious living in all walks of life is the reminder that the graveyards of the world are filled with irreplaceable people.
Editorial: This is how healing is done
Flaws will be found, objections raised, and nits picked with the Sacred Covenant made between Catholic and Indigenous leaders regarding the Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C.
Editorial: ‘Is MAiD made for prisoners?’
The appalling contemporary throwback known by its cutesy euphemism “medical aid in dying” (MAiD) is now making its death fingered presence felt in the nation’s jail houses.
Editorial: Voice of truth needed
Canada’s Catholic bishops deserve full credit for sticking with their commitment to, as Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith has framed it, walk the whole long path of Indigenous reconciliation.
Editorial: Preferences, questions, paradoxes
Concluding his letter to the Catholic faithful on devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus during June, Archbishop Francis Leo offers vital watchwords for the current moment and mood.
‘Christ is king’
The Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl winning field goal kicker has been perma-labelled “him with his foot in his mouth” for his recent commencement address to a Catholic college.
Sanity prevails with ‘no’ to drugs
When even the Trudeau government just says ‘no’ to drug decriminalization, it’s clear the push to flood addicts’ bodies and urban life with stupefying toxins has gone too far.