Feature Series Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:10:43 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Looking beyond the stars /item/36644-looking-beyond-the-stars /item/36644-looking-beyond-the-stars

As both an astronomer and a Jesuit, Br. Guy Consolmagno recognizes the relationship between science and religion.

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lmandato@catholicregister.org (Luke Mandato, The Catholic Register) Features Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:42:29 -0400
Friars' Essay Contest 2024 winners /item/36633-friars-essay-contest-2024-winners /item/36633-friars-essay-contest-2024-winners

Three Toronto area students have been named winners of the 2024 Friars Student Essay Writing Contest. 

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crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Features Fri, 05 Apr 2024 09:00:16 -0400
Peterson finds her new home in Mary /item/36618-peterson-finds-her-new-home-in-mary /item/36618-peterson-finds-her-new-home-in-mary

Cancer survivor and Canadian podcaster Tammy Peterson has chosen the confirmation name of “Mary” and says she feels like a new woman in Christ.

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Features Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:52:52 -0400
Tammy PetersonƵapp homecoming: Popular podcaster welcomed into the Catholic Church /item/36611-tammy-peterson-s-homecoming-popular-podcaster-welcomed-into-the-catholic-church /item/36611-tammy-peterson-s-homecoming-popular-podcaster-welcomed-into-the-catholic-church

In her journey towards the Catholic Church, cancer survivor, speaker and popular podcaster Tammy Peterson has endured her own cross of debilitating illness and loss. Four years ago, she was granted the miracle of healing from terminal cancer and received the grace of inner conversion.

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Features Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:00:00 -0400
France pilgrims discover a world of difference /item/36610-france-pilgrims-discover-a-world-of-difference /item/36610-france-pilgrims-discover-a-world-of-difference

What is the difference between a traveller and a pilgrim?

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peterstockland@catholicregister.org (Peter Stockland) Features Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:49:45 -0400
Easter Drawing Contest 2024 winners /features/item/36607-easter-drawing-contest-2024-winners /features/item/36607-easter-drawing-contest-2024-winners

This year, The Catholic Register received almost 100 entries to our Easter drawing celebration for school children, including one all the way from Melbourne, Australia.

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crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Special Features Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:22:37 -0400
Chrism Mass celebrates Indigenous ways /item/36562-chrism-mass-celebrates-indigenous-ways /item/36562-chrism-mass-celebrates-indigenous-ways

Sault Ste. Marie Bishop Thomas Dowd asked his priests to take a road trip last week to Wiikwemkoong on Manitoulin Island to celebrate the Chrism Mass.

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afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Features Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:36:00 -0400
If Christians are oppressed, ACN can be found /item/36546-if-christians-are-oppressed-acn-can-be-found /item/36546-if-christians-are-oppressed-acn-can-be-found

Between them, Regina Lynch and Philipp Ozores have served over five decades with the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), and this year alone will help oversee 5,000 projects to aid suffering Christians worldwide.

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afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Features Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:05:22 -0400
Pew Research finds increased bureaucratic targeting of faith /item/36545-pew-research-finds-increased-bureaucratic-targeting-of-faith /item/36545-pew-research-finds-increased-bureaucratic-targeting-of-faith

Government restrictions involving religion in 198 countries is at its highest point since Pew Research began tracking such numbers in 2007.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Features Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:48:17 -0400
History professor to catalogue the CaminoƵapp way /item/36540-history-professor-to-catalogue-the-camino-s-way /item/36540-history-professor-to-catalogue-the-camino-s-way

Pope Benedict XVI once said the network of pilgrims’ ways known as the Camino de Santiago is “a way sown with so many demonstrations of fervour, repentance, hospitality, art and culture which speak to us eloquently of the spiritual roots of the Old Continent.”

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Higher Education Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:48:57 -0400