Pope Francis’ 'Urbi et Orbi message on Easter Sunday challenges us to ban indifference, self-centredness, division and forgetfulness during this time of Covid-19 – and to spread the “contagion” of hope.

Pope Francis invites us at Mass on Tuesday, April 14th, to discover that unity is greater than any division, and urges us to seek security in God alone.

Here is Archbishop Christian Lépine's fifith pastoral letter.

“So they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy, and ran to tell the disciples.” (Matthew 28:8)

In an open letter, Carl Hétu, director of the Canadian office of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA), looks back on his recent trip to the Holy Land and recounts how a young Gazan girl “touched [his] heart, without saying a word.”