Past Announcements
Life and family suggestions for homilies and prayers of the faithful during July 2018
Thursday, June 21 2018
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) continues to post possible homily ideas and prayers of the faithful to help link the Sunday liturgy with the national pastoral initiative for life and family. The proposed texts for the month of July 2018 include suggestions from the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 1 July (Canada Day), to the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 29 July. As…
2018 Annual Anglophone Safeguarding Conference
Monday, June 11 2018
The Most Reverend Mark A. Hagemoen, Bishop of Saskatoon, and Deacon Rennie Nahanee, Archdiocese of Vancouver, have been delegated by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) to attend the 2018 Annual Anglophone Safeguarding Conference that will take place at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, 18-21 June 2018, on the theme Culture : an Enabler or Barrier to Safeguarding. Bishop Hagemoen is the Episcopal Co-Chair…
Pope Francis to visit World Council of Churches as part of its 70th anniversary celebrations
Wednesday, June 06 2018
In 2018, the World Council of Churches (WCC) is celebrating its 70th anniversary. To mark this occasion, Pope Francis will visit the WCC in Geneva on 21 June 2018. The theme for the visit is Walking - Praying - Working Together, which is intended to echo the pilgrimage for justice and peace, a theme adopted by the WCC at its last assembly. The Holy Father's…
Canadian Religious Conference elects new Administrative Council
Tuesday, May 29 2018
The Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) held its 32nd General Assembly 24 to 27 May 2018 in Montreal. Some 250 leaders of Catholic institutes of religious life from across Canada elected a new CRC Administrative Council. Father Louis Cinq-Mars, O.F.M.Cap., is the new President and Sister Francine Landreville, C.N.D., Vice President. The other members elected are: Sister Françoise Drouin of the Daughters of Charity of the…