The Catholic Register

• Papal visit a wake up call for Canadians May 18, 2022
  For six days in July the most important thing happening in this country will be an old man confronting our history.
• Vatican's foreign minister travels to Ukraine May 18, 2022
  Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister, was set to visit Ukraine May 18-20, meeting with church and government officials, people displaced by the war and towns destroyed by Russian bombings.
• Chaos, curfew after arrests in mob murder of student accused of blasphemy May 17, 2022
  Catholic churches in Sokoto suspended Masses May 15 as the governor imposed a 24-hour curfew to quell violence during protests against the arrest of young men for the May 12 murder of Deborah Yakubu.
• Citing 'police state,' Cardinal Bo urges prayers for Hong Kong May 16, 2022
  Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, urged prayers for Hong Kong after the detention of Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun.
• Cardinal Collins ordains four, calls them to conform to Christ May 16, 2022
  Before rising before the gathered at St. Michael’s Cathedral-Basilica as priests, each of four men accepted a chalice from Cardinal Thomas Collins. The chalice was a gift to Toronto Bishop Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel from Pope Pius IX in the 1850s.
• Post-COVID, migrant worker issues remain May 15, 2022
  This will be a better summer for migrant workers on Canadian farms, but only because local health authorities have become better at identifying and controlling COVID-19 outbreaks and not because Canada has addressed fundamental issues that made COVID into a rolling disaster across farm country the last two summers, says Connie Sorio.
• Ethiopia in crisis: the forgotten war May 14, 2022
  With much of the world’s focus on the war in Ukraine, Ethiopian Catholic leaders world-wide have been calling on the international community not to forget the thousands of people impacted by conflict in the East African nation’s Tigray region.
• Roe v. Wade leak gives March for Life added momentum May 13, 2022
  Thousands, emboldened by the news that an almost 50-year-old ruling opening up abortion in the U.S. is expected to be overturned, converged on Parliament Hill for the annual National March for Life May 12.
• Pope Francis fighting personal pain to heal Indigenous wounds May 13, 2022
  Pope Francis will visit a residential school and will very likely be seen on the shores of Lac Ste. Anne during the annual pilgrimage to Manitou Sakahigan – Cree for “Lake of the Spirit.”
• New paths sought in reconciliation walk May 13, 2022
  Chief Cadmus Delorme of Cowessess First Nation and Regina Archbishop Donald Bolen have been walking together for some time now — including through the work of ground-penetrating radar and finding 751 hits near a former Catholic-run residential school on Cowesses First Nation east of Regina in the summer of 2021.