The Catholic Register - Guest Columns

Joe Gunn: Strategy to eradicate Canadian poverty needs an action plan

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:06:55 -0500

The world commemorated the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Oct. 17, but you could be forgiven for not noticing.

Luke Stocking: Inspiring words offer a simple message

lstocking@catholicregister.org (Luke Stocking) — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 11:26:35 -0500

Live simply so that others may simply live. These words haunt me. These words inspire me.

Jenny Cafiso: ‘Bridging borders’ worth the price for Hondurans

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:49:14 -0500

More than 7,000 Honduran migrants including children have crossed the Guatemalan and Mexican borders and are marching toward the United States. Some people, including the American president, are describing them as murderers, rapists, “very bad criminals.” Helicopters are hovering over them, while the border patrol and the military have been alerted. There are calls to close the border.

Francis Campbell: Archdiocese restructuring in face of big challenges

fcampbell@catholicregister.org (Francis Campbell) — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:05:10 -0400

Nobody goes there anymore … it��Ƶapp too crowded.

Bishop Robert Barron: There is a way to set young hearts on fire

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:05:27 -0400

The following is an abridged version of Bishop Barron��Ƶapp recent presentation at the Synod of Bishops on young people:

Francis Campbell: Fundamental truths about Kavanaugh hearing circus cannot be ignored

fcampbell@catholicregister.org (Francis Campbell) — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:07:47 -0400

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. That old newsroom jest has been bandied about for years, especially when questioning a dubious article in a rival publication.

Luke Stocking: Time to overcome fear

lstocking@catholicregister.org (Luke Stocking) — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:03:27 -0400

How little it takes. How few people cross our borders before we allow narratives of fear to start taking hold of us.

Angela Saldanha: The joy of being aware of God��Ƶapp presence

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:01:42 -0400

I left home in my teens; travelled afar, far from family and friends. Life in the new country was different,exciting, challenging. And horribly lonely.

Francis Campbell: We can no longer hide from some ugly truths

fcampbell@catholicregister.org (Francis Campbell) — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:59:32 -0400

Groundhog Day is a 1993 movie featuring actor Bill Murray as a cynical television weatherman forced to live the same day over and over again.

Fr. Thomas Reese: Doubts about Viganò��Ƶapp accusations aside, Pope Francis needs a better response

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:48:52 -0400

Religion News Service – It is hard to know what to think of the bombshell dropped by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who released a scalding letter on Sunday (Aug. 26) calling on Pope Francis to resign. Viganò, the former Vatican ambassador to the United States, claims in the letter that Pope Francis knew that recently resigned Cardinal Theodore McCarrick abused seminarians when he was a bishop in New Jersey but nonetheless didn’t punish the cardinal.