The exemption from the Sunday obligation to attend Mass, which began in 2020 due to the pandemic, is ending.

June 8, 2022 - Our warmest greeting from Peru to the delegates attending the PDAC 2022 Convention.

In the Vatican museums there is an ancient Christian sarcophagus dating from the 340s. It is called the “Dogmatic Sarcophagus”; sculpted on its side, among various biblical images, is what may be the earliest known representation in art of the Blessed Trinity. The three figures, bearded men, are identical: the Father sits and blesses the arm of the Son who creates Eve; the Son looks back at the Father rather than at his handiwork. The Spirit stands behind the Father’s chair. This early Christian art is fascinating because it was not for another forty years that the Council of Constantinople would formally define the co-equal divinity of the Holy Spirit.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Montreal together with the Ecclesiastical Province of Gatineau today released the findings of the Honourable André Denis regarding allegations of sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults from 1940 to 2021 as recorded in the archives of the dioceses concerned.

On Wednesday, 1 June 2022, the Holy See Press Office announced that His Holiness Pope Francis appointed the Most Rev. Douglas Crosby, O.M.I., Bishop of Hamilton, as a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.