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Journey Through Advent 2025 – First Sunday of Advent

December 1, 2025

CCCB Journey Through Advent – First Sunday of Advent

World Day for Grandparents – July 27th

July 14, 2025

World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly (WDGE), which will take place on Sunday, 27 July 2025. Pope Francis instituted WDGE in 2021 to be celebrated by the universal Church every July, on or near the liturgical Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, grandparents of Jesus. This year’s theme is “Blessed are those who have…

Our New Pope

May 12, 2025

CCCB Welcomes Pope Leo XIV with Rejoicing and Prayers. Today, the Church in Canada and throughout the world rejoices, as His Eminence Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, O.S.A., after being duly elected by the College of Cardinals, has accepted to become the 267th Bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter, and vicar of Christ on earth!

The Passing of Pope Francis

April 22, 2025

His Eminence Kevin Cardinal Farrell, Camerlenguo of the Holy Roman Church, has announced the death of His Holiness Pope Francis at the age of 88, at his residence Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican, on this Monday, 21 April 2025, at 7:35 a.m. (Rome time).