Past Announcements
Online catechesis and other resources in view of 2018 World Meeting of Families
Thursday, February 15 2018
The Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life has announced that a digital series of seven catecheses on the family is freely available on its website and its YouTube channel, PcFamiglia. The materials, which are in preparation for the upcoming World Meeting of Families (WMF) in Dublin, Ireland, 21-26 August 2018, are available in five languages, including English and French. As well, the WMF website…
2018 World Day of the Sick
Friday, February 09 2018
The 26th World Day of the Sick will be celebrated on 11 February 2018, the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. The Holy Father's Message is entitled Mater Ecclesiae: "Behold, your son... Behold, your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his home." (John 19:26-27). In his Message, Pope Francis recalls that "Health care ministry will always be a necessary and fundamental…
Responses by faith leaders and coverage by media on the government’s changes to Canada Summer Jobs program
Tuesday, February 06 2018
Over the past weeks, many faith groups, including the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), have expressed their alarm about recent changes by the federal government to the Canada Summer Jobs program which infringe on the fundamental Charter rights and freedoms of conscience, religion, thought, belief, opinion and expression. The CCCB published its first statement about these concerns on 11 January 2018, and subsequently signed…
Ordination of the new Bishop of Chicoutimi
Thursday, February 01 2018
The ordination of the Most Reverend René Guay as Bishop of the Diocese of Chicoutimi will take place on Friday, 2 February 2018, at 7:30 p.m., in Saint-François-Xavier Cathedral, Saguenay. His Eminence Gérald Cyprien Cardinal Lacroix, Archbishop of Québec and Primate of Canada, will preside as the principal ordaining Bishop, along with the Most Reverend André Rivest, Bishop Emeritus of Chicoutimi, and the Most Reverend…