Marie-Claude Lalonde, the national director of Aid to the Church in Need Canada (ACN), attended Pope Francis' blessing of an icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Sorrows and Consoler of the Syrian People, this past Sunday, September 15. The ceremony took place at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican. The icon will be carried through 34 dioceses in Syria—as a sort of pilgrimage—offered for the veneration of the faithful along it’s path intended to finish in Damascus, in May 2020.

With October 2019 being the Extraordinary Missionary Month, Mission foi invites all Canadians to join a digital missionary campaign.

An estimated 1,800 Catholic primary and secondary school students gathered to celebrate mass Sept. 10 at St. Joseph’s Oratory, marking not only the beginning of another school year, but a first for four Montreal Catholic schools.

Memories and messages marking Pope Francis' Apostolic Journey to Mozambique, Madagascar, and Mauritius. They were five intense and extraordinary days. Our minds are still filled with the joyful faces of the children, women, and men who accompanied Pope Francis.