There’s a valuable lesson here, for Peter and for us. And it’s not exactly subtle. It tells us that to follow Christ means carrying a cross.

It’s a challenge to imagine a more fitting way for Catholics to mark the first turning of summer into autumn than with a Holy Mass celebrating shared life.

Doubtless according to plan, bureaucratic banishment of public prayer by Canada’s military chaplains went virtually unnoticed amid the perpetual media crisis that filters into Canadian summer consciousness.

“God etc.” In that two-word nutshell, the current federal government has expressed the fullness of its utter contempt for religious faith and religious believers. 

The creative drive behind the multiple millions of artistic forms humanity has birthed since our ancestors first began painting cave walls is ultimately the Creator creating through us, His creations.

The Lefebvrites are again in full schism with the Catholic Church.

As Canadians blow out the candles on our 159th birthday cake, many will also be heaving a huge sigh of relief.

Few would ever fault Canada’s Catholic bishops for expressing themselves with an excess of poetry. Yet their document on the tenth anniversary of MAiD in Canada deserves comparison with T.S. Eliot.

The one thing to regret about Pope Leo’s June 7 Mass and Eucharistic procession, which attracted about 1.2 million celebrants, is that it occurred in Madrid, not Montreal.

Some weeks ago, the Register expressed hope that the Senate would get the message about the dangerous implications of Bill C-9, the so-called Combatting Hate Act.