Decrees, Statements, Letters, Briefs
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) releases numerous official documents every year. Some are under the form of decrees, while others are public statements, pastoral letters, or briefs. Only a few documents published before 1996 are available online.
Message from the President
Monday, December 30 2013
“A lively awareness of our relatedness helps us to look upon and to treat each person as a true sister or brother; without fraternity it is impossible to build a just society and a solid and lasting peace.” Pope Francis, 1 January 2014 On this New Year’s Day of 2014,…
Christmas Message 2013
Tuesday, December 10 2013
This year, I feel like wishing my friends a ‘lucid’ Christmas. It’s a beautiful word which comes from the Latin ‘lucidus’, illuminated, well-lit. It applies well to the Christmas season with its candles and votive lamps, its colourful light bulbs, its glowing hearths and shining windows as families and friends…
CCCB President’s letter upon the death of Mr. Nelson Mandela
Monday, December 09 2013
The Most Reverend Paul-André Durocher, Archbishop of Gatineau and President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), has sent a letter to the Most Reverend Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Cape Town and President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, on the death of Mr. Nelson Mandela. In his…
CCCB Comment on the Preparatory Document for the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
Wednesday, November 06 2013
The Holy See held a news conference on November 5, 2013, to present the Preparatory Document for the upcoming Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops which will meet at the Vatican, 5-19 October 2014. The theme of this Third Extraordinary General Assembly is “The pastoral challenges for the…
BLESSED JOHN XXIII AND BLESSED JOHN PAUL II -- TWO IMPORTANT WITNESSES FOR OUR TIME:
Wednesday, October 02 2013
Statement on their canonization by the Most Reverend Paul-André Durocher, President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Together with all the Bishops of Canada, I welcome the announcement of the canonizations of Blessed John XXIII and Blessed John Paul II on April 27, 2014. Their canonization will be a…
CCCB welcomes Pope’s appeal for peace in Syria
Friday, September 06 2013
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) welcomes and fully supports the appeal of the Holy Father for peace in Syria and the Middle East. Already three times this week, Pope Francis has made this appeal. Yesterday, September 5, the Holy See released a letter from Pope Francis to President…