Feature Series Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:31:30 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb ‘Pope Francis is different’ /item/35311-pope-francis-is-different /item/35311-pope-francis-is-different

A humble Nazarene summarizes this papacy: ‘love, love, love, forgive’

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:40:17 -0500 Friars' Essay Contest 2023 winners /item/35292-friars-essay-contest-2023-winners /item/35292-friars-essay-contest-2023-winners

Once again this year, along with our partner-sponsors at the Archdiocese of TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Office for Christian Unity and Religious Relations with Judaism and the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, The Catholic Register is pleased to announce the winners of the Friars Student Essay Writing Contest. 

]]> crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Features Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:51:38 -0500 Christian support fuels UkraineöÏÓãÊÓƵapp survival /item/35291-christian-support-fuels-ukraine-s-survival /item/35291-christian-support-fuels-ukraine-s-survival

Archbishop praises international aid at one-year mark of war with Russia.

]]> skorah@catholicregister.org (Susan Korah) Features Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:42:29 -0500 Answer to marriage isn’t blowing in the wind /item/35243-answer-to-marriage-isn-t-blowing-in-the-wind /item/35243-answer-to-marriage-isn-t-blowing-in-the-wind

Anne and Dane MacCarthyöÏÓãÊÓƵapp 61-year marriage rooted their commitment to Catholic tradition.

]]> qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Features Thu, 09 Feb 2023 10:32:20 -0500 The good, the true and the beautiful… of horror /item/35194-the-good-the-true-and-the-beautiful-of-horror /item/35194-the-good-the-true-and-the-beautiful-of-horror

Lots of people read Aquinas and ignore horror movies. Lots of people watch horror movies and ignore Aquinas. The opportunity we have is to bring these things together.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:45:16 -0500 The colour of charity /item/35178-true-colours-come-through-in-art-project /item/35178-true-colours-come-through-in-art-project

A colouring book of famous religious paintings shows the beauty of Christian faith both in art and charity.

]]> qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Features Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:34:34 -0500 Late pope laid to rest in saints’ spot /item/35151-late-pope-laid-to-rest-in-saints-spot /item/35151-late-pope-laid-to-rest-in-saints-spot

In what looks like a continuation of pontifical legacy, Pope Benedict XVI was buried in the crypt where his Polish predecessor, St. John Paul II, was first buried. St. John XXIII also was buried there prior to his beatification.

]]> Features Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:18:10 -0500 Santo subito? Church wise to take its time /item/35150-santo-subito-church-wise-to-take-its-time /item/35150-santo-subito-church-wise-to-take-its-time

When the coffin containing the remains of Pope Benedict XVI was carried into St. PeteröÏÓãÊÓƵapp Square, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi was among the 3,700 priests who concelebrated the funeral Mass Jan. 5.

]]> Features Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:07:55 -0500 Pope Benedict canonized two Canadians /item/35149-pope-benedict-canonized-two-canadians /item/35149-pope-benedict-canonized-two-canadians

During his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI beatified 870 people and canonized 45 saints, among them two notable Canadians, St. Kateri Tekakwitha and St. André Bessette. 

]]> Features Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:58:07 -0500 MontrealöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Great Blessing of Water calls for Ukraine peace /item/35147-montreal-s-great-blessing-of-water-calls-for-ukraine-peace /item/35147-montreal-s-great-blessing-of-water-calls-for-ukraine-peace

Worshippers braved the bitter wind to celebrate the Great Blessing of the Water on the eve of Theophany. But they were equally there to pray for peace in their war-torn spiritual homeland across the sea.

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