QUEBEC CITY (AP) — Pope Francis arrived in Quebec on Wednesday at a time when many French Canadians in the province are not only moving away from religion but explicitly rejecting it, embracing ...

In a pastoral message released in December, Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of the Archdiocese of Quebec announced a dramatic transformation in how the Catholic Church in the province should understand itself ...

The Missionaries of Africa will be taking charge at Saint-Roch as Quebec’s Catholic community is experiencing a resurgence in ...

Catholics have protested during the pandemic the classification of religious gatherings as “not essential.” But what if religious practice was not taken into consideration at all? That was the ...

ONLY 18 months ago the French-Canadian Province of Quebec reëlected the provincial Premier, Maurice Duplessis, by a huge majority -- he won 82 of 92 seats in the Legislature. It was a triumph of the ...

A statue of Christ is pictured in a file photo outside Sts. Paul and Peter Catholic Church in Baie-Saint-Paul, near Quebec City. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Quebec government is limiting ...

For generations, parishioners whispered their sins in the dark wooden confessional booths of Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours, an imposing Roman Catholic church in Montreal. But on a recent day, the ...

Drive through city neighbourhoods, or through the towns and villages that dot Quebec's countryside, and often the most distinctive feature is the church steeple, a reminder of a not-too-distant past ...

A woman walks by Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, on April 10, 2020. Pope Francis arrives in Quebec on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at a time when many French Canadians in the province are not only ...

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