Yesterday, May 16, 2013, the Holy Father received the credentials of four new ambassadors to the Holy See from Kyrgyzstan, Antigua and Barbuda, Luxembourg, and Botswana. Pope Francis used this opportunity to speak about “the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.
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Pope Francis emphasizes importance of ethics in the economy and social life
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail The recent national bilingual conference on New Evangelization and Communications featured a panel with the Most Reverend Paul-André Durocher, Archbishop of Gatineau and Vice President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), and Mr. Pierre Maisonneuve, former journalist with Radio-Canada (the French network of CBC)
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During the recent plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General, Pope Francis received the delegates in an audience on May 8, 2013.
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Pope Francis addresses plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, following a consultation with the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, has appointed Father Alex Osei, C.S.Sp., as Director of the Canadian English Sector of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS). He succeeds Mr.
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New National Director appointed for Pontifical Mission Societies
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail The Standing Committee for Relations with Movements and Associations of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has sent its annual Pentecost message to the Catholic movements and associations of Canada.
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2013 Pentecost Message for Canadian Catholic National Movements and Associations
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail A working group of clergy and laity from Europe, North America and South America has been meeting this May in Brukhovitsi / Lviv, Ukraine, to assist Ukrainian Catholic Bishops implement a pastoral plan to the year 2020. The plan is based on a December 2011 pastoral letter by the leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, “The Vibrant Parish, the place to encounter the Living Christ”.
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Ukrainian Catholic Church working group prepares plan to implement pastoral letter on the parish
The colours of the web site represent the official heraldic insignia of Bishops. The green corresponds to the galero (ecclesiastical hat) and six tassels on each side that make up the crest and supporters of the coat of arms of each Bishop while the gold represents the processional cross.
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2013 National Week for Life and the Family — celebrations across the country
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail The Rassemblement québécois contre l’euthanasie is planning a march May 18, 2013, on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City to oppose euthanasia. The Collectif de médicins du refus médical de l’euthanasie and the organization Living with Dignity have also launched a Quebec media campaign, Tuer n’est pas un soin (“Killing is not health care”)
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March planned in Quebec City by Rassemblement québécois contre l’euthanasie to oppose euthanasia
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail Vision TV this evening, May 13, 2013, at 10:00 p.m., Eastern Time, will carry a round table discussion on religious persecution throughout the world as part of a special program, The War on Faith: Religious Persecution around the World. His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, will be one of the special guest commentators.Link to the Vision TV website
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Vision TV: The War on Faith: Religious Persecution around the World
The colours of the web site represent the official heraldic insignia of Bishops. The green corresponds to the galero (ecclesiastical hat) and six tassels on each side that make up the crest and supporters of the coat of arms of each Bishop while the gold represents the processional cross
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Texas explosion: CCCB President receives response from local Bishop
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail The Most Reverend Claude Champagne, O.M.I., Bishop of Edmundston and President of the Atlantic Episcopal Assembly (AEA), released a letter on May 6, 2013, from the Bishops of Atlantic Canada to all the faithful in their dioceses regarding the impact of recent reforms to Employment Insurance. “Some of the changes put forward will have great impact on our people, particularly those who are seasonal workers and are very dependent on employment insurance to make life more tolerable,” the letter states
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Bishops of Atlantic Canada write to the faithful of their dioceses on employment insurance reforms
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail The Most Reverend Richard Smith, Archbishop of Edmonton and President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), has sent condolences to Father Gérard Blais of the Marianist community in Quebec. In his letter, Archbishop Smith conveyed the sympathies and prayers of the Bishops of Canada following the death of Brother Richard Joyal, 62 years old, who was killed while leaving a bank in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Link to the Letter
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Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail On the occasion of the first National Week for Life and the Family, May 12 to 19, 2013, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) joins Catholics from across the country and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) by releasing the message “Celebrate life!
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COLF Message for the 2013 National Week for Life and the Family
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail The episcopal ordination of the Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton, the Most Reverend Daniel J.
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Episcopal ordination of the Most Reverend Daniel J. Miehm, Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton
Following the launching by the Archdiocese of Toronto of the Pastoral Letter on Gambling, Gaming and Casinos, His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, was interviewed by Vatican Radio, April 30, 2013, about “the false Eden” of gambling.
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Vatican Radio interviews Cardinal Collins about his pastoral letter on gambling
At his General Audience on May 1st, 2013, Feast of St Joseph the Worker, Pope Francis launched an appeal to end slave labour by pointing out the recent tragedy in Bangladesh. “I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes slave labor”, said the Holy Father
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At his General Audience on May 1st, Pope Francis appeals against slave labor
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) regularly posts possible homily ideas and prayers of the faithful to help link the Sunday liturgy with the national pastoral initiative for life and family.
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Life and family suggestions for homilies and prayers of the faithful during May 2013
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail Pope Francis has appealed for prayers for the victims of the garment factory that collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Asia News carried reports on April 30, 2013, that rescuers have removed 384 bodies and at least 2,437 survivors from the debris.
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Pope Francis appeals for prayers for victims of the collapsed factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail The Council of Catholic Patriarchs of the East on April 28, 2013, issued a call of solidarity and prayer for Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Paul (Boulos) Yaziji and Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim. The two Orthodox Archbishops were abducted in Syria on April 22 while on a humanitarian mission.
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