In this episode, correspondent Luke Mandato takes the role as host alongside his guest, Register publisher emeritus Peter Stockland, as the two provide a brief overview of the paper's ongoing coverage of the Archdiocese of Toronto's Jubilee pilgrimage in Rome. While Amundson files from the frontlines, Mandato and Stockland speak on the breaking story of one pro-life group's work toward exposing a late-term abortion clinic, soon to be examined by the Register. Mandato then highlights this coming week's Red Wednesday Mass at St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica, sharing insight from his call with Auxiliary Bishop John A. Boissonneau, while Stockland underscores the Church as a global symbol of unity and solidarity. 

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• Undercover in Canada's late-term abortion industry
• Archdiocese pilgrims experience spiritual change | The Catholic Register - Wilfred and Jean Guthrie, a couple who will celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary in December, were told in advance of their participation in the Archdiocese of Toronto’s Jubilee Pilgrimage that they would be made different by their time in Rome.
• Night flight to the Eternal City | The Catholic Register - Travelling in the company of Cardinal Francis Leo, 108 Catholics from 40 different Archdiocese of Toronto parishes landed in Rome Nov. 11 for a week-long Jubilee pilgrimage.

In this episode, correspondents Luke Mandato and Quinton Amundson join host Mickey Conlon to celebrate the Archdiocese of Toronto’s upcoming Jubilee pilgrimage to Rome. Amundson shares insights from his conversation with Fr. Tim Hanley ahead of his upcoming journey, while Mandato highlights local pilgrimage stories covered in the Register. The three examine the state of Nigeria as a country of particular concern, looking into Amundson’s interview on the persecution of Christians. Turning to remembrance, Mandato provides an update on the Toronto Holocaust Museum’s Education Week events, before Conlon previews the Register’s past Remembrance Day coverage, looking back and honouring those who sacrificed their lives for Canadian freedom.

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• Holocaust remembrance vital in a post-Oct. 7 world | The Catholic Register - Toronto’s Leah Posluns Theatre was packed to capacity on Monday, with close to 300 gathering to mark the opening night of the Toronto Holocaust Museum's Neuberger Holocaust Education Week (HEW), with this year’s instalment cementing 43 years of knowledge and remembrance towards the Shoah.
• Nigerian bishop praises Trump's defence of Christians | The Catholic Register - Persecuted Nigerian Christians are embracing U.S. President Donald Trump's designation of their homeland a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) as a long-desired answer to their anguished prayers.
• Cardinal Leo to lead Jubilee pilgrimage | The Catholic Register - Over 100 Catholics from over 40 different Archdiocese of Toronto parishes will join Cardinal Francis Leo for a Jubilee Pilgrimage to Rome from Nov. 10 to 17.
• Catholic higher education can't lose focus on the person, Meehan says | The Catholic Register - Knowing Pope Leo XIV, a native of Chicago, is a passionate baseball fan, St. Jerome’s University president and vice-chancellor Peter Meehan took the opportunity during an Oct. 31 papal audience.

About the Hosts:

Mickey Conlon: Is the Editor of The Catholic Register and has been a reporter and columnist for the Register.

Luke Mandato: Is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

Quinton Amundson: Quinton is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

In this episode, correspondents Luke Mandato and Quinton Amundson join host Mickey Conlon to discuss this season's launch of Out of the Cold programs and their vital role in combating homelessness, their expansion beyond Toronto, and on-the-ground insights from Mandato’s interviews this week. Discussion shifts to persistent homelessness issues, with Amundson outlining conditions and programs in Alberta, and Conlon reflecting on changes in the homeless population over the years. Register staff then examine food insecurity through executives’ concerns and hopes for the federal budget, alongside personal anecdotes of grocery struggles even among the fully employed. Lastly, Conlon spotlights Amundson’s story of Roger Foley and Life Care. 

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• Budget must address food insecurity, advocates say | The Catholic Register - It took 38 years for Toronto food banks to experience over one million client visits in a single year.
• Campaign cares for patient offered MAiD | The Catholic Register - Fund supports disabled man ‘repeatedly pressured’ to end his life

About the Hosts:

Mickey Conlon: Is the Editor of The Catholic Register and has been a reporter and columnist for the Register.

Luke Mandato: Is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

Quinton Amundson: Quinton is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

In this episode, correspondents Luke Mandato and Quinton Amundson join host Mickey Conlon, opening with a conversation about the federal government's decision to not pull the charitable status of faith-driven organizations and churches and whether pro-life groups will be afforded the same courtesy. Register staff then look at the AI symposium at St. Mary’s University, with Amundson giving a rundown of McGrattan’s comments in particular. In Ottawa and Mississauga, Mandato explores different Catholic alternatives to Halloween that are popping up at parishes, before Conlon speaks to the Register's latest Higher Education feature. 

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• Are Catholics ready for AI? | The Catholic Register - “The danger isn’t that AI will suddenly wake up, it’s that we’ll forget that it hasn’t.”
• Church can't be 'AI-illiterate,' McGrattan says | The Catholic Register - Calgary Bishop William McGrattan said the Church cannot ignore the profound implications of the rapidly advancing technological revolution that is artificial intelligence.
• Church charity status won't be removed, MP says | The Catholic Register - Liberal MP Karina Gould, the chair of the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Finance, is signalling the charitable status of faith-driven non-profits will not be revoked in the budget her party’s government is set to unveil on Nov. 4.

About the Hosts:

Mickey Conlon: Is the Editor of The Catholic Register and has been a reporter and columnist for the Register.

Luke Mandato: Is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

Quinton Amundson: Quinton is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

In this episode, correspondents Luke Mandato and Quinton Amundson join host Mickey Conlon to provide an update on the state of the newest peace deal in Gaza and chat about what a lasting peace might look like, if possible. Register staff then explore Pope Leo XIV’s new exhortation Dilexi te (“I Have Loved You”), which calls us to walk “poor with the poor,” building on the late Pope Francis’s legacy. Closer to home, staff look at Amundson’s story on Bill S-235’s push against human trafficking and Mandato’s chat with Fr. Terrence McKenna, who reflected on the Blue Jays’ playoff “spiritual journey” after the Game 3 thriller in Seattle.

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• Priest finds spiritual in Jays' run | The Catholic Register - The divine drama of the Toronto Blue Jays' current postseason run isn’t lost on Fr. Terrence “Terry” McKenna, who continues to support his favourite team and find spiritual echoes hidden on baseball's grandest stages.
• Proposed trafficking strategy puts victims first | The Catholic Register - Non-profits raising awareness about human trafficking have pressed Canadian politicians for over a year to implement a renewed national strategy as the previous countrywide plan expired at the end of 2024.
• Church for the poor is 'fitting,' says CCCB president | The Catholic Register - Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) president Pierre Goudreault lauds Pope Leo XIV’s maiden apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (“I have loved you”) as a “great contribution to the theology of revelation of God” and “the social teaching of the Church.”
• Church must 'walk poor with the poor' to serve Christ, Pope says in new exhortation | The Catholic Register - In his first apostolic exhortation, Pope Leo XIV has taken up the call of Pope Francis for Christians to see in the poor the very face of Christ — and to be a Church that "walks poor with the poor" in order to authentically live out the Gospel.
• In Egypt, Trump touts 'phase 2' of ceasefire deal after Hamas releases living Israeli hostages | The Catholic Register - President Donald Trump said during a meeting in Egypt on Oct. 13 that "phase two has started" of a peace deal between Israel and Hamas in response to a question from a reporter about when the next stage of negotiations would begin.

About the Hosts:

Mickey Conlon: Is the Editor of The Catholic Register and has been a reporter and columnist for the Register.

Luke Mandato: Is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

Quinton Amundson: Quinton is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

In this episode, correspondents Luke Mandato and Quinton Amundson join host Mickey Conlon to dissect the breaking news of a potential ceasefire in Gaza. Register staff explore Conlon’s latest column on the Nobel Peace Prize, floating people and organizations as contenders, weighing merits against those of Pope Francis. Shifting to domestic concerns, Amundson unpacks Canada’s plummeting fertility rates and the contradiction of federal policies funding abortion and MAiD while chasing population growth. Finally, Mandato speaks about his talk with Noah MacDonald on the topic of this year’s Indigenous Reconciliation Fund collection and the growing consideration of Truth & Reconciliation.

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• Canada's fertility rate reaches new low | The Catholic Register - Canada’s total fertility rate (TFR) has sunk to an all-time low for a third year in a row.
• Francis' penitential pilgrimage bears fruit | The Catholic Register - As Catholics joined Canadians nationwide in marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Sept. 30, and the following weekend in supporting the Church's Indigenous Reconciliation Fund (IRF) collection, many are seeing how Pope Francis' penitential pilgrimage is continuing to resonate.
• Donald Trump for Nobel? How about Pope Francis? | The Catholic Register - Nelson Mandela, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama, our own Lester Pearson — just some of the names that justifiably have been honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize. Could that list soon include Donald Trump?
• Israel, Hamas sign off on first phase of peace proposal | The Catholic Register - Israel and Hamas "have both signed off" on the first phase of a White House peace proposal for Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump said late Oct. 8 in a social media post.

Mickey Conlon: Is the Editor of The Catholic Register and has been a reporter and columnist for the Register.

Luke Mandato: Is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

Quinton Amundson: Quinton is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

In this episode of Registered, correspondents Luke Mandato and Quinton Amundson join host Mickey Conlon, looking at the Democratic Republic of Congo and Amundson's story on pilot Dominic Villeneuve's. Register staff explore the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria, before Conlon and Mandato recap the reporter's time at Iris Ministries inaugural men's breakfast event. Lasty, Mandato spotlights his talk with James Cardinal McGuigan's coach Nick Vescio, who was recently awarded the 2025 Coaches' Excellence Award, and their upcoming battle on the gridiron. 

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• Mission pilot flies not-so-friendly skies | The Catholic Register - But Dominic Villeneuve knows God has his back in dangerous undertaking
• Coach makes champs on and off the field | The Catholic Register - On the back of years of continual pivoting from the classroom to the athletic track, even the sidelines, teacher and coach Nick Vescio has earned the prestigious 2025 Coaches' Excellence Award for transforming student-athletes into champions on and off the field.
• Combatting hate bill includes Christians, justice ministry affirms | The Catholic Register - Justice official clarifies misunderstanding after Bill C-9 introduced
• Christian genocide feared in Nigeria | The Catholic Register - The Church in Nigeria, ravaged by kidnappings of clergy, is mourning Fr. Mathew Eya, killed Sept. 19 as he was returning to his parish of St. Charles in Eha-Ndiagu, in Enugu state.
• Persecuted Nigerian Christians seek world's prayers | The Catholic Register - Fr. Oliver Ortese has a message for Catholics and Christians around the world who stand in solidarity with persecuted Nigerian Christians.

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Luke Mandato: Is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

Quinton Amundson: Quinton is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

In this episode of Registered, correspondents Luke Mandato and Quinton Amundson once again join seasoned host Mickey Conlon, diving into the emerging trend of youth resurgence in the Catholic Church. From Hamilton’s children liturgies to innovative apps out West, Register staff explore what’s drawing young people back to faith and why it’s a welcome sight. Conlon and Amundson go on to preview the Canadian bishops’ annual plenary, gearing up for the upcoming news conference, before Mandato spotlights a Barrie parish’s continued work to address the homelessness crisis. 

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• Saintifi app aims to make truth accessible, connect with youth | The Catholic Register - North American Catholics have emerged as impactful contributors to the worldwide surge in podcast and audiobook listening, as well as e-book reading, in recent years.
• Symposium takes aim at Barrie homelessness | The Catholic Register - While still coming to terms with the city’s recently declared state of emergency, St. Mary’s Parish in Barrie, Ont., will be hosting its second annual symposium on homelessness Oct. 6 under the theme of “Responding with Compassion and Hope.”

Mickey Conlon: Is the Editor of The Catholic Register and has been a reporter and columnist for the Register.

Luke Mandato: Is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

Quinton Amundson: Quinton is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

In this episode of Registered, sponsored by EWTN, Catholic Register editor Mickey Conlon joins correspondents Luke Mandato and Quinton Amundson as they dive into Barrie’s homelessness emergency, exploring Mandato’s insights from his conversation with Fr. Larry Léger about a local Catholic parish’s response and the state of homelessness across Canada. Next, the hosts tackle the troubling findings of Cardus’ latest report on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), as Amundson explains how vulnerable and disabled individuals are increasingly at risk. This week’s episode closes with a look at the Canadian bishops’ plenary meeting in Montreal, where Amundson outlines the agenda and explores the skeptical interest in AI the Church holds today. 

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• Foreign worker program fails social justice lens, MP says | The Catholic Register - Though Canadians have long supported a robust immigration system, cracks in that support have been growing over at least the past year.
• Canadian bishops to meet in Montreal for annual plenary | The Catholic Register - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) leadership will change significantly by the end of its 2025 plenary assembly in Montreal.
• Original MAiD expectations shattered, report finds | The Catholic Register - Safeguards for vulnerable populations never came to fruition, service expanded, Cardus study finds
• Supports lacking in face of Barrie's homeless crisis | The Catholic Register - It’s been a disappointing few days, weeks and even months for Fr. Larry Léger, pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in Barrie, Ont.

Mickey Conlon: Is the Editor of The Catholic Register and has been a reporter and columnist for the Register.

Luke Mandato: Is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

Quinton Amundson: Quinton is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

In this episode of Registered, Catholic Register editor Mickey Conlon talks with correspondents Luke Mandato and Quinton Amundson about the theme of peace, and the seeming lack thereof in today’s world. The Register staff explore Cardinal Mykola Bychok and his recent visit to southern Ontario, as well as his message on the importance of family during conflict. Luke, Quinton and Mickey then discuss the state of countries various countries around the world, including in Poland, amid a Russian drone scare, as well as those throughout the Middle East. Finally, the hosts explore the upcoming return of Parliament in Canada, as well as the ongoing Season of Creation and its reflection of Pope Francis’ legacy.

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• 'We need to pray a lot,' Pope Leo says after Israeli attack in Qatar - The "whole situation" in the Middle East "is very serious," Pope Leo XIV told reporters after Israel launched an attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar.
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• Immigration expected to be a top concern for MPs - Immigration, especially the Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program, is shaping up to be a top concern as Canada’s parliamentarians return to the House of Commons Sept. 15.
• Polish prelate calls for peace after 'reckless' Russian drone attack violates country's airspace - Several Russian drones entered Polish airspace in the morning hours of Sept. 10, and were shot down by Polish military, with debris falling in eastern and central Poland.

Mickey Conlon: Is the Editor of The Catholic Register and has been a reporter and columnist for the Register.

Luke Mandato: Is a reporter for The Catholic Register.

Quinton Amundson: Quinton is a reporter for The Catholic Register.