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Nine months ago, Cardinal Thomas Collins declared that a “cold shadow of euthanasia” that was spreading across Canada had to be resisted.
Editorial: They need our help
By Catholic Register EditorialWanted: 63 Canadian parishes with the resources and the heart to rescue 63 Christian families who are huddled in a nation which scorns them as outcasts but who are too scared for their life to go home.
Editorial: Setting an example
By Catholic Register EditorialA Vatican decision to ban single-use plastics won’t by itself empty landfills or save the planetƵapp oceans, but it sends a message the world needs to hear.
Editorial: GodƵapp grace in space
By Catholic Register EditorialThe 50th anniversary of the first moon landing salutes a towering human achievement, but it should also be a call to contemplate our place in GodƵapp creation.
Editorial: Well done, Mr. Swan
By Catholic Register EditorialItƵapp impolite to brag, we’re told, so our apologies off the top for this boastful editorial.
Editorial: Positive steps
By Catholic Register EditorialA quarter century ago, towards the end of a year in which her children had been running amok, Queen Elizabeth lamented her annus horribilis, her horrible year. The bishops of America know that feeling.
Editorial: Bonum fortuna
By Catholic Register EditorialLatin may never bounce back from being all but dead, but the Vatican keeps trying and deserves credit for its efforts. If not them, no one else will.
Editorial: Failing grades
By Catholic Register EditorialIt turns out that recent measures in Canada and abroad to protect minors, punish abuser priests and discipline bishops who cover up these crimes are one of the ChurchƵapp best-kept secrets.
Editorial: Trash Talk
By Catholic Register EditorialNormally itƵapp best simply to ignore trash-talking Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte. But when he heaps scorn on Canada for treating his country like a garbage dump, his trash reeks of a sad truth.
Editorial: Rights are wronged
By Catholic Register EditorialThe executive director of Canadian Physicians for Life spoke for many when she grieved a ruling by OntarioƵapp highest court that suggested religious rights, in the grand scheme of things, aren’t really a big deal.
Editorial: A big step forward
By Catholic Register EditorialFinally the Vatican seems to recognize that the shame inflicted on the Church by the sex-abuse scandals is as much about bishops who cover up crimes as it is clerics who commit them.