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.
Explanatory Note by the Episcopal Commission for Liturgy on the Revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal
Monday, September 18 2000
The Vatican Information Service on August 4, 2000, published the following information: This autumn, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Disciplineof Sacraments is to publish the Latin text of the new updated Roman Missal.The text of the new Missal has been sent to Episcopal conferences and nuncios in order…
Letter to Federal Minister Lloyd Axeworthy Concerning the Status of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
Tuesday, August 15 2000
The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade 125 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2 Dear Mr. Axworthy: I am writing concerning the status of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, which was adopted and…
Letter to the Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, from the Chairman of the CCCB's Social Affairs Commission, Archbishop James Weisgerber, Demanding that Canada End Economic Sanctions against Iraq
Tuesday, August 08 2000
The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade 125 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2 Dear Mr. Axworthy: I write to you concerning the tenth anniversary (August 6) of the imposition of sanctions against Iraq, in order to join the voice of the Canadian bishops to the…
Comment by the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on the Attack on a Doctor who Performs Abortions
Tuesday, July 11 2000
If the police are correct in their assumption that a doctor in Vancouver was stabbed in his office yesterday because he performs abortions, this attack is to be condemned as completely contrary to the most basic pro-life principle that the dignity and integrity of human life, both born and unborn,…
The President of the CCCB is Deeply Troubled by the Government's Approval for Clinical Trials of the Abortion Pill RU-486
Tuesday, July 11 2000
The Honourable Allan Rock Minister of Health Brooke Claxton Building Postal Locator 0916A Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9 Re: The Abortion Pill RU-486 Dear Mr. Rock: On behalf of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, I would like to say how deeply troubled we are that Health Canada has granted approval…
Appeal of CCCB's president to Canadian Catholics to help people of the Horn of Africa threatened with famine
Sunday, June 11 2000
Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Catholics in the Horn of Africa recently appealed to Canada’s Catholic Church to offer whatever assistance it can to alleviate the suffering caused by famine and war in that part of the world. Between 16 and 20 million people are now threatened with famine. Ethiopia…