Faith in the Public Square

Montreal Archbishop Christian Lepine said the coming weeks will present a prime opportunity to learn whether there is any leeway to host a public prayer event after Bill 9 became law in Quebec April 2.

A new ban on foreign flags being flown at Toronto City Hall and civic centres will not prevent the Vatican flag from flying this year on Oct. 22 for Pope John Paul II.

It was on Good Friday in the heart of Old Montreal many years ago when, amid the quiet of faithful footsteps, John Zucchi had an interaction with a young girl he remembers to this day.

On a cold, crisp Ottawa morning, a crowd of approximately 2,000 packed Rogers Centre in the shadow of Parliament Hill today to celebrate Canada’s Christian heritage and to pray together for unity in a divided world.

Randy Boyagoda has examined why Catholicism at large seems to have shifted in fashion — it's "cool again" as per a recent column he wrote — and why that isn’t automatically a “good” thing.

It has become apparent to Molly Banerjei the Government of Ontario has no enthusiasm nor urgency to join with nearly 60 municipalities, three regions and the province of Saskatchewan in declaring December as Christian Heritage Month.

Christianity, for centuries the bedrock of national identity and arbiter of moral values in Western nations, including Canada and the UK, is now increasingly marginalized by the 21st-century interpretation of pluralism as a political ideology.

Listen to the first episode of The Catholic Register's new weekly podcast: Registered. Take a deeper dive this week into the canonizations of Acutis and Frassati, as well as the news of Quebec's recent efforts to ban public prayer.

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.

By calling for a ban on all public prayer, the Quebec government is raising “serious concerns” about a democratic society’s fundamental freedoms, said Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine.