(CCCB) On the occasion of the Year of Consecrated Life, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops joins the Canadian Religious Conference in inviting you to a Mass of Thanksgiving, September 17, 2015, at 10:30 a.m., at Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal.

To respond to the invitation of Pope Francis to have a World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, we invite you to attend a bilingual ecumenical evening of prayer at Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel on Tuesday, September 1st, 2015 at 7.00 pm.

A thanksgiving Mass for in honour of the Venerable Jeanne Mance, one of Montreal’s co-founders, and founder of the Hôtel-Dieu, will be celebrated by Archbishop Christian Lépine on Sunday, September 6, 2015, at 11 a.m., at Notre-Dame Basilica.

(CCCB) With the federal election campaign underway, the Commission for Justice and Peace of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has issued a guide inviting Catholics to vote with discernment.

At this moment, 75% of religiously motivated violence in the world is directed at Christians. Most Reverend Christian Lépine, Archbishop of Montreal, returned from a trip to Rome where he attended the meeting, as a new member, of the International Board of Directors of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a pontifical foundation that provides assistance to Catholics where the Church is suffering from poverty and persecution.