Past Events
Salt + Light TV 2025 Christmas Schedule
Friday, December 19 2025
Ottawa — The Canadian Catholic television channel Salt + Light TV has arranged a special programming schedule for Christmas 2025, covering the celebrations traditionally led by the Holy Father in Rome. Visit the Salt + Light TV site for ways to watch. Schedule of celebrations Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord on December 24 at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT Christmas Day Mass and Urbi et Orbi…
Vatican artifacts return to Canada
Saturday, December 06 2025
(Montreal) – In celebration of the Jubilee of Hope declared by Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV gifted 62 cultural artifacts that had been part of the Vatican Museums’ Anima Mundi collection to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, for immediate transfer to Indigenous communities in Canada. Among the items is a rare, century-old kayak from the Western Arctic and other artifacts of cultural significance to…
Proposed Restrictions on Religious Freedom – Bill C-9
Thursday, December 04 2025
(Ottawa) — The Liberal government has reached an agreement with the Bloc Québécois concerning an amendment to eliminate the religious exemption clause from Canada’s hate speech legislation in Section 319 (3) (b) of the Criminal Code. This initiative is intended to garner support for Bill C-9, titled ‘An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime, and access to religious or cultural places).’…
Lighting the Way: Editorial by the Co-Chairs of the CCCB-sponsored Jewish-Catholic Dialogue
Thursday, December 04 2025
(Ottawa) —The co-chairs of the CCCB-sponsored Jewish-Catholic Dialogue have written an editorial in advance of Christmas and Hanukkah. The co-chairs are the Most Rev. Christian Lépine, Archbishop of Montreal, and Baruch Frydman-Kohl, C.M., Rabbi Emeritus of Beth Tzedec Congregation of Toronto. The editorial marks Christmas and Hanukkah, in the context of celebrating a decade of Jewish-Catholic national relations in Canada, and to share this “good news”…