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CCCB Welcomes Pope Leo XIV with Rejoicing and Prayers

Thursday, May 08 2025

Today, the Church in Canada and throughout the world rejoices, as His Eminence Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, O.S.A., after being duly elected by the College of Cardinals, has accepted to become the 267th Bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter, and vicar of Christ on earth! Taking the name Leo XIV, the Roman Pontiff, as the successor of Saint Peter, is the “perpetual and visible…

Statement by the Most Rev. William T. McGrattan, Bishop of Calgary, and President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on the Passing of Pope Francis

Monday, April 21 2025

It is with profound sadness that I join my brother Bishops, as well as the Catholic faithful in Canada and those around the world, to mourn the loss of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025 in Rome at the age of 88. When the Cardinals elected him to the See of Peter in March 2013, Pope Francis invited…

Salt + Light TV special schedule for Holy Week and Easter

Wednesday, April 16 2025

16 April 2025, Ottawa - The Canadian Catholic television channel Salt + Light TV has arranged a special programming schedule for Holy Week and Easter 2025, covering the celebrations traditionally led by the Holy Father in Rome. Holy Week Broadcast Schedule HOW TO WATCH Viewers are invited to subscribe to Salt + Light TV (S+L), Canada's National Catholic TV Network, available on most cable and satellite carriers across…

Death of the Most Rev. Albert Thévenot, M. Afr., Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Prince Albert

Tuesday, April 15 2025

OTTAWA, 15 April 2025 – His Excellency, the Most Rev. Albert Thévenot, M. Afr., Bishop Emeritus of Prince Albert, died on 13 April 2025, at the age of 79. Born on 4 November 1945, in Somerset, Manitoba, Bishop Thévenot dedicated his life to missionary service, pastoral care, and evangelization. He entered the Society of the Missionaries of Africa in September 1964, making his first profession…