It is a new record year for the international Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). In fact, thanks to 22 national offices established around the world, a little over 175 million dollars were collected in order to support 6,209 projects.

The diocesan committee for the Year of Mercy is offering pilgrimage routes in Montreal's sanctuaries and churches that have an open Door of Mercy, commemorating the jubilee year called for by Pope Francis. Get your passport now!

(CCCB) On July 8, His Holiness Pope Francis named the Most Reverend Donald Bolen Archbishop of Regina. At the time of his appointment, he was Bishop of Saskatoon.

(CCCB ) Young pilgrims from all over the world are expected in Krakow, Poland, July 25-31, 2016, to participate in the31st World Youth Day (WYD). Krakow is the city of Karol Wojtyla - Saint John Paul II - who in his early years as priest, university chaplain, Bishop and then Cardinal Archbishop sowed the seeds of what would become in the first years of his pontificate "World Youth Days".

(CCCB) His Holiness Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Most Reverend Jean Gagnon as Bishop of the Diocese of Gaspé, and has appointed on July 2, 2016, as his successor the Most Reverend Gaétan Proulx, O.S.M.