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In the years I have had a ministry to the street people, I cannot say I have cured a single person. But I do believe that with the presence of Jesus, many have been healed and have managed to get off the streets because they have received new hope and courage to fight their addiction.

January in Saskatchewan brings cold, clear days with hoar frost and ice crystals catching light in the air. I was driving with my son, teaching him about sun dogs, the refraction of light through ice that creates a halo around the sun, with two bright rainbows on either side. And it got me thinking about the space – and edges – of freedom.

The woman had come to the end.  She had barely escaped from her country with her life, and was reeling from the profound rejection of her people.  Miraculously, she and her husband had made their way to Canada, but he compounded the rejection through constant infidelities.  With his PTSD, he couldn’t work, and there was almost no work during the Depression anyway, so a priest friend gave the woman bus fare to New York City to find a way to support her husband and child.  The poverty was biting:  for shelter, she rented a room with five other women who had shift work in a laundry.  Ravaging hunger was constant, so she sought waitressing work instead, hoping for food, but the sexual harassment there was unendurable.  ThatöÏÓãÊÓƵapp when she reached the end and found herself on the Brooklyn Bridge, peering into the water and poised to jump.  

It is neither the place nor the desire of The Catholic Register to mouth off in the mode of political partisanship. But being Catholic, we are justified in piping up about death and resurrection.

Biblical text for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Can you really know the will of God? I mean, can you really know the will of God for your life, for your day-to-day life? Indubitably. And itöÏÓãÊÓƵapp not as hard as you might think. 

In the year of our Lord 2025 there is a particular historical event that should be on hearts and minds of all: the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

How fortunate it was for me to start this important year of remembrance on the right note by reading Canadian Catholic author Ben GaleskiöÏÓãÊÓƵapp new book Through Whom the Light Shines.

In the early days of Pope Francis’ pontificate, Mary Ann Glendon unexpectedly encountered the Holy Father at Casa Marta on her way down to breakfast.

Glendon was in Rome for meetings of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, of which she had been president since 2004.

The Catholic RegisteröÏÓãÊÓƵapp regular columnist, Andrea Mrozek, recently published the book I...Do? Why Marriage Still Matters, co-written with Peter Jon Mitchell, Cardus program director for family. Here is an edited excerpt. 

Volumes have been written on the consequences associated with unconstrained sexual freedom. Few would contest a breakdown of the relationship between the sexes. Apps intended to facilitate dating do anything but. 

For the first 100 years of CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp existence, our countryöÏÓãÊÓƵapp leaders mostly held to the belief that Canada had to protect itself from the power of our American neighbours. Canada in its early years was a small country – in both population and geographic size – relative to the United States. However, the National Policy of our first prime minister, John A. MacDonald, put forward a strategy for developing a nation free of American influence – a high tariff on manufactured goods, a transcontinental railway and European settlement of the West. Remarkably, that goal was achieved.