(CNS/Presence-info) Church authorities in Montreal said they were expecting 1,000 people at St. Joseph's Oratory for a special Mass with Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle. When Mass started at 6 p.m. April 6, the crowd was twice as big.

(Vatican-Radio) The Vatican on Friday published Pope Francis’ eagerly-awaited Apostolic Exhoratation on the family, drawing together almost three years of consultations with Catholics in countries around the world.

Campus ministry at Concordia University will get a boost this September with the arrival of three campus missionaries from Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO).

Archbishop of Montreal from 1990 to 2012, Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte died on April 8, 2015, at the age of 78.

On March 30, 2016, St. Raphael Palliative-Care Home and Day Centre officially secured its access to the property of the old St. Raphael church with the signing of an emphyteutic lease with the Archdiocese of Montreal.