Catholic Register Columns Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:49:21 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Euthanasia rejects the Cross, Resurrection /opinion/columnists/item/35421-euthanasia-rejects-the-cross-resurrection /opinion/columnists/item/35421-euthanasia-rejects-the-cross-resurrection

Euthanasia is murder. And, it is not simply murder but State-sanctioned, State-abetted, and State-funded homicide. To call it anything else is to engage in a serious form of deception. 

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abennett@catholicregister.org (Andrew Bennett) Register Columnists Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:11:36 -0400
A street-wise invitation to Archbishop Leo /opinion/columnists/item/35420-a-street-wise-invitation-to-archbishop-leo /opinion/columnists/item/35420-a-street-wise-invitation-to-archbishop-leo

I was born and raised in Glasgow and it does not take long for those who hear my Scottish accent to know I am not a native-born Canadian. However, it does cause confusion at times, as I found out when I came upon a man standing outside a downtown shelter. The shelter is in the heart of the drug area, and so I am always prepared for many and varied conversations.  

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robert.kinghorn@ekinghorn.com (Robert Kinghorn) Register Columnists Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:08:17 -0400
Easter begins something beyond human capacity /opinion/columnists/item/35419-easter-begins-something-beyond-human-capacity /opinion/columnists/item/35419-easter-begins-something-beyond-human-capacity

On the Second Sunday of Lent, the Gospel was the story of ChristƵapp transfiguration on a mountaintop. Only three men of faith — Peter, James and John — accompanied Jesus as He was transfigured between Moses and Elijah. The three disciples were ordered to tell no one of the event until after ChristƵapp resurrection.

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glenargan@catholicregister.org (Glen Argan) Register Columnists Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:39:55 -0400
Nigerian seminarian killed for being Christian /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35399-nigerian-seminarian-killed-for-being-christian /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35399-nigerian-seminarian-killed-for-being-christian

In 1936, English novelist Evelyn Waugh published a short biography of Edmund Campion, English priest and martyr. When an American edition of the book was published 10 years later, Waugh wrote in the preface, “We are nearer Campion than when I wrote of him.” 

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afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Guest Columns Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:06:34 -0400
Politics is relative at London school board /opinion/columnists/item/35398-politics-is-relative-at-london-school-board /opinion/columnists/item/35398-politics-is-relative-at-london-school-board

Politics at the best of times can make anyoneƵapp blood boil, from the mundane local ordinances enforced by your local council right up to the big decisions that affect every-day life, which are of extreme importance to most, especially peoples’ pocketbooks. And there is no “right” side, everyone has their own opinion. Hence, politics, we are told, is one of those thing to never be brought up in polite company (alongside religion of course).

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mickeyc@catholicregister.org (Mickey Conlon, The Catholic Register) Register Columnists Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:52:50 -0400
Abuse survivors build bridges to reconciliation /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35397-abuse-survivors-build-bridges-to-reconciliation /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35397-abuse-survivors-build-bridges-to-reconciliation

The PopeƵapp prayer intention for March 2023 was that victims of abuse find within the Church herself a concrete response to their pain and suffering. One organization already responding to such pain by building spiritual bridges between victims/survivors of clergy sexual abuse and the general Church community is Awake Milwaukee (Awake).

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Guest Columns Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:34:18 -0400
Say ‘no’ to ChatGPT outsourcing your brain /opinion/columnists/item/35379-say-no-to-chatgpt-outsourcing-your-brain /opinion/columnists/item/35379-say-no-to-chatgpt-outsourcing-your-brain

Google is in a panic. It finally met its match and has a competitor. A code red was issued to staff members at the tech behemoth. WhatƵapp all the fuss about? 

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burnsh@catholicregister.org (Sr. Helena Burns, FSP) Register Columnists Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:25:56 -0400
Canada falling into anti-faith hatred /opinion/columnists/item/35378-canada-falling-into-anti-faith-hatred /opinion/columnists/item/35378-canada-falling-into-anti-faith-hatred

Why do we hate one another? Why do wait hate those who are unlike us in what they believe, how they act, or in how God Himself made them? The simple answer is because of the effects of the First Sin, the Fall, through which we became subject to sin, death and corruption. While Our Lord Jesus Christ through His passion, death and resurrection has conquered these effects, we are still prone to sin. Hate is a particular ugly manifestation of the effects of the Fall. 

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abennett@catholicregister.org (Andrew Bennett) Register Columnists Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:10:19 -0400
Sowing hope again in community /opinion/columnists/item/35381-sowing-hope-again-in-community /opinion/columnists/item/35381-sowing-hope-again-in-community

She walks into the room, and I see she is wearing a very familiar straw hat with a coloured band. I have seen the hat, and its owner, a thousand times: in our Share Lent poster, our mini-magazine, and countless other campaign images — even my e-mail signature. It is like she has walked right out of an image and into our lives — incarnate for us.

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lstocking@catholicregister.org (Luke Stocking) Register Columnists Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:35:44 -0400
Strive to live with loveƵapp dark energy /opinion/columnists/item/35376-strive-to-live-with-love-s-dark-energy /opinion/columnists/item/35376-strive-to-live-with-love-s-dark-energy

Although I didn’t know it at the time, my life changed profoundly one summer evening in 1976. I was partying with friends at a cottage in central New Brunswick. After some time, I wanted some quiet and went to sit on the pier on the peaceful lake. 

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glenargan@catholicregister.org (Glen Argan) Register Columnists Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:59:57 -0400