Catholic Register Columns Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:22:54 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb What is history without the truth? /opinion/columnists/item/35988-what-is-history-without-the-truth /opinion/columnists/item/35988-what-is-history-without-the-truth

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau clearly hit the nail on the Nazi head if, as reported, he imposed omerta on his caucus during one of the greatest humiliations in Canadian Parliamentary history.

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peterstockland@catholicregister.org (Peter Stockland) Register Columnists Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:00:00 -0400
Still waiting for Vatican II to bear fruit /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35987-still-waiting-for-vatican-ii-to-bear-fruit /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35987-still-waiting-for-vatican-ii-to-bear-fruit

CanadaƵapp dioceses should adopt new measures to recruit more young men to choose a priestly vocation, says a new study of Canadian seminarians and recently ordained priests.

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glenargan@catholicregister.org (Glen Argan) Guest Columns Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:00:00 -0400
Speak, bishops, speak /opinion/letters/item/35990-speak-bishops-speak /opinion/letters/item/35990-speak-bishops-speak

The Sept. 20 Register article “Gender ideology rallies draw thousands” concludes with this sentence: “A number of public school boards issued statements in support of the LGBT community as the rallies took place, but Catholic boards remained silent.”

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crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Letters to the editor Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:20:15 -0400
Marchers were united around a shining truth /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35986-marchers-were-united-around-a-shining-truth /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35986-marchers-were-united-around-a-shining-truth

On an ordinary weekday, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, tens of thousands of ordinary Canadians took to the streets of our major cities and sleepy towns to protest the extraordinary promotion of gender ideology to children and youth in our schools. They called it “The 1 Million March 4 Children.” Seemingly out of nowhere, passionate parents, concerned citizens and fed-up youth took to the streets to peacefully protest the deluge, the unrelenting onslaught of often explicit and graphic LGBTQ+ issues being highlighted in cross-curricular fashion from pre-K through to high school graduation.

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burnsh@catholicregister.org (Sr. Helena Burns, FSP) Guest Columns Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:00:00 -0400
Editorial: Pray for the victims, on all sides /columns/item/35981-editorial-pray-for-the-victims-on-all-sides /columns/item/35981-editorial-pray-for-the-victims-on-all-sides

We applaud and magnify the sombre yet vital words the good people of Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto issued in the aftermath of last weekendƵapp heart-wrenching atrocities in the Holy Land.

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editor@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Editorial) Editorial Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:04:32 -0400
‘They were killed because they were Jewish’ /opinion/columnists/item/35978-they-were-killed-because-they-were-jewish /opinion/columnists/item/35978-they-were-killed-because-they-were-jewish

My sister is a Shabbat-observing Orthodox Jew. When I saw the news trickling out of Israel on Saturday morning, I knew I wouldn’t be able to check in with her until that night. Her phone is off from Friday evening until Saturday sundown. Then I remembered that it was Simchat Torah, and that observant Jews in the U.S. wouldn’t be turning their phones back on until Sunday evening.

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afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Register Columnists Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:42:16 -0400
Verbatim: A very brief recent history of Catholics and Jews /opinion/verbatim/item/35991-verbatim-a-very-brief-recent-history-of-catholics-and-jews /opinion/verbatim/item/35991-verbatim-a-very-brief-recent-history-of-catholics-and-jews

A very brief recent history of Catholics and Jews…

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crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Verbatim Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:24:09 -0400
Listening to discern the Spirit calling /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35948-listening-to-discern-the-spirit-calling /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35948-listening-to-discern-the-spirit-calling

The Synod on Synodality is the most important moment in our Church since Vatican II. And yet, a surprising number of lay Catholics still know nothing about this momentous process currently taking place in our Church.

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Guest Columns Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:30:00 -0400
LetƵapp open our eyes to the reality of AI /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35946-let-s-open-our-eyes-to-the-reality-of-ai /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35946-let-s-open-our-eyes-to-the-reality-of-ai

“Ban it, or use it?” ponders the headline of an article marking the six-month anniversary of an innovation rocking the education and academic world. Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) has turned the practice of conventional teaching and learning on its head forever.

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cmajtenyi@catholicregister.org (Cathy Majtenyi) Guest Columns Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:00:00 -0400
Priestly calls often follow altar service /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35947-priestly-calls-often-follow-altar-service /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35947-priestly-calls-often-follow-altar-service

This week the Benedict XVI Institute for New Evangelization presented a new study: “Meet Our New Priests: 12 Key Findings about the Background, Discernment and Seminary Formation of CanadaƵapp Recent Ordination Classes.”

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Guest Columns Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:30:00 -0400