The strong temptation is to respond to a case now before the B.C. Supreme Court by demanding Dying with Dignity and other pro-medical homicide lobby groups stop shoving their immorality down our throats.

The familiar claim that war solves nothing must be balanced off with the acknowledged wisdom that peace is not the mere absence of war.

It delights us to affirm that whether readers who engage with the Register through our website or traditional newspaper in 2026, they will join the ranks of the trendy and uber cool.

In his “Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto,” Catholic literary scholar, novelist, short story writer and poet, Joshua Hren, makes a claim that might startle even the devout of Holy Mother Church.

Only the uninformed, the stubborn, or the mischievously contrarian would kick against accepting that Canadians missed the boat when we abandoned our historic compacts with Indigenous peoples in the northern half of the continent.

Compos mentis Canadians will intellectually and instinctively agree that efforts to counter willful promotion of hatred – though outright elimination might prove impossible – deserve country-wide support.

Catholics with room on their prayer lists might do well to add Alissa Golob’s name. The unbelievably brave young Alberta mom will need all the spiritual help she can get to withstand the pro-abortion ideological furies now besetting her.

This week, 100-plus Jubilee pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Toronto return to their home lives after seven faith filled days accompanying Cardinal Frank Leo to Rome.

We’ve done our share of criticizing the federal Liberal government for its miscues, pratfalls and headscratchers over the years. Fairness, decency and Catholic charity demand giving credit where it’s due.