Fyodor Dostoevsky never said or wrote the words attributed to him that “Beauty will save the world” but the thought contains such hope that it seems suited to a writer of his genius.

Eman Badah, 31, gave birth a few days ago and while her premature son lies in an intensive care unit, she and her husband live in a bombed-out Gaza building with an insect-infested tent for a toilet.

There is unquestionably some comfort in the federal justice department’s reassurance that, as the Register reports this week, churches and places of worship will be protected under Ottawa’s amped up anti-hate legislation.

Violence on the global and individual scales clamours for attention these days from wars in Gaza and Ukraine to assassinations of political figures and random deadly attacks on those deemed symbols in various causes.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox deserves credit for courage and honesty in calling for “moral clarity” following the spine-chilling cheering of activist Charlie Kirk’s cold-blooded murder.

As the Register reports from Sunday’s canonization that made Blessed Carlo Acutis a saint, “confidence in God… was clearly in the air.”

Let us pray that at next year’s World Day of Prayer for Creation a mass of committed environmentalists from across Canada gather in Montreal’s Dominion Square to pray for God’s forgiveness of our ecological sins.

On our Comment pages, Sr. Helena Burns issues a robust call for a return to “old school” means of acquiring, developing and retaining knowledge in the age of AI.

In an age when the pope has become something of a global celebrity, Pope Leo so far has operated in such a way that distances his new office from his personality. While he speaks at times of his own experience, Leo is much more squarely focused on the Church's life and mission and what his office offers to it.

Ceaseless news of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, inundations of reporting on bloodshed in Ukraine, dialogues of the deaf over climate change, the unstoppable unfurling of AI, feed a spirit of defeat about continued human existence.