Pope Francis offers Mass at St. Peter's Basilica for the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God on Jan. 1, 2022.
Pope Francis offers Mass at St. Peter's Basilica for the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God on Jan. 1, 2022. (photo: Grzegorz Galazka via Vatican Pool / Getty Images)

End Of 2022 Review (Dec. 31)

As we closed out 2022, the Register prepared our Year in Review edition. The Register’s national correspondent Lauretta Brown gives special attention to pro-life heroes this year marking their long hard work to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Then the Register’s Rome correspondent Edward Pentin takes a look back at this year’s happenings involving the Pope and the Vatican.

Edward Reginald Frampton, “The Voyage of St. Brendan,” 1908, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.

Which Way Is Heaven?

J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystic west was inspired by the legendary voyage of St. Brendan, who sailed on a quest for a Paradise in the midst and mists of the ocean.