CCCB President Archbishop Richard Smith congratulates Cardinal-designate Collins on the announcement that the Holy Father has elevated him to the dignity of Cardinal of the Church of Rome. Below find his official statement: As President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, it is a great joy for me, on behalf of all the Bishops ...read more

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement on the announcement that the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, elevated His Grace, Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, to the College of Cardinals, an international group of principal advisors to the Pontiff: The appointment of Thomas Collins to the College of Cardinals is a great honour ...read more

With any announcement of a consistory comes a flurry of media activity around the new Cardinal-designates. In New York, Archbishop Timothy Dolan appeared on NBC’s morning show with Matt Lauer in what is probably one of the Cardinal-designate’s most memorable interviews. ...read more

By now you’ve heard the great news for the Canadian Church: Toronto’s Archbishop has been named a Cardinal. All the local and national news outlets have been covering the story, including the CBC’s six minute phone interview with Archbishop Thomas Collins this morning. The Pope made the announcement following the celebration of Mass and the ...read more

Jeroen shares his memories of Christmas in Holland as a child and gives us a peak into his Canadian Christmases with his Focolare community. ...read more

Daniel’s family is made up of a mix of Italian, Lebanese and Columbian cultures. He shares with us how he melds those different traditions and shares the richness of each culture with his children. ...read more

Joseph reflects on how his family’s Christmas celebrations evolved over the years and what that evolution revealed to him about celebrating Christ’s birth. ...read more

Growing up on the West Coast, David rarely experienced a white Christmas. He shares his memories of rainy Christmases in Vancouver and reveals what his parents did to keep Christmas commercialism at bay in the LeRoss household. ...read more

Christmas of 1989 was a moment of tension. The eyes of the world were on Panama as paramilitary troops ruled the streets and American troops entered to restore order and oust the nation’s leader. Pedro was in Panama that Christmas. He remembers what that Christmas was like and why it was so rich spiritually. ...read more

Bosco Chan is a Volunteer with Fountain of Love and Life, Salt + Light’s Chinese production divison. In this installment of the 12 Days of Christmas Bosco talks about a particularly memorable Christmas Eve he spent in Hong Kong as a child. ...read more