Almost 4,000 Canadian youth going to Krakow for World Youth Day 2016

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

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*This post was originally published on the CCCB. (CCCB – Ottawa)… Young pilgrims from all over the world are expected in Krakow, Poland, July 25-31, 2016, to participate in the31st World Youth Day (WYD). Krakow is the city of Karol Wojtyla – Saint John Paul II – who in his early years as priest, university […]

Sign the Joint Declaration on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Monday, January 18, 2016

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This past October 29, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) launched a joint Declaration on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. The sponsoring signatories to the Declaration intend now to engage in a concerted effort in view of obtaining signatures from a wide spectrum of people in Canada who agree […]

CCCB Letter to Pope Francis

Friday, March 14, 2014

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Your Holiness, One year ago today, the Bishops of Canada along with all the faithful of our great land saw you appear for the first time on the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The simplicity of your manner and your words, the humility with which you invited us to pray for you, and […]

2013 Plenary Assembly Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops: President’s Report

Monday, September 23, 2013

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The following is the address given by Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, to his brother bishops at the opening of the plenary assembly of the CCCB. My brother Bishops, guests, and members of our staff, On February 11th of this year, a photographer captured a […]

CCCB Plenary Assembly: Day 1

Monday, September 24, 2012

Alicia Ambrosio

The eighty Bishops from across Canada who have gathered in Saint-Adele, Quebec for the annual plenary assembly, will spend the week evaluating their Ecumenical collaboration, helping their chosen delegates prepare for the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization, preparing for the the Year of Faith, and the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha. In his address […]

Canadian bishops unite in prayer with Norway

Monday, July 25, 2011

Kris Dmytrenko

On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI responded to the terror attacks in Norway that killed 76. In his message after praying the Angelus, he reiterated his “heartfelt appeal to abandon forever the ways of violence and to shun the logic of evil”. Bishop Pierre Morissette, president of the Canadian episcopal conference, released the following statement today, […]

February 5, 2011

Saturday, February 5, 2011

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[singlepic id=102 w=150 h=150 float=right] Canadian Bishops have re-ignited the chastity talk and across the country youth leaders are responding. Chastity speaker and author Carmen Marcoux joins us to give us her reaction and Carey B. Grant returns as featured artist of the week; plus we introduce our new segment, DVD picks with Chris Giardino.