These are the Church’s three newest saints: a bishop with a missionary heart, a rope-maker who taught women, and a spirited priest from Como, who became a missionary of sorts in his 70s. They share a few features: they all founded religious orders and they all felt called to serve the disadvantaged, whether they were ...read more

Canadian Bishops gather every year for their annual Plenary Assembly. This week, on a special edition of S+L Radio, we travel to the bishops’ plenary in Cornwall, Ontario and learn what they’ve been working on this past year. Featured chats with Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, Archbishop Michael Miller of Vancouver, Bishop Paul-André Durocher of ...read more

How should I feel when hearing the news of the death of Muammar Gaddafi? I am not a Libyan. I do not have any friends from Libya. All I know is what I hear in the media and what I’ve been hearing in the media about Libya and Gaddafi for the last 40 years. Part ...read more

Let me tell you about Brother Paulus, a Capuchin priest based in Frankfurt who considers himself to be, in his own words, “a special messenger of God.” He has been involved in media for some 20 years and you need to watch the kind of work that he’s been doing. What’s unique is that it’s ...read more

In the video above, Msgr. Patrick Powers shares what we can expect on the final day of the Canadian bishops’ annual gathering in Cornwall, Ontario. Two of the events he describes will be televised live on S+L and streaming on the CCCB Plenary Assembly section of our website. First, the bishops will celebrate Morning Prayer ...read more

On Wednesday, the Canadian bishops addressed one of the more controversial topics of the CCCB Plenary Assembly: the ongoing process of renewal of Development and Peace (CCODP). According to Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary, the bishops are continuing to revision Development and Peace in light of Benedict XVI’s social encyclical Caritas in Veritate. The reform ...read more

Tonight on Perspectives: The new President of the CCCB grants his first interview, the Bishop of Calgary explains “bumps in the road” in the renewal of Development and Peace, and the CCCB announces a new initiative to promote life and the family. ...read more

Watch live streaming video from cccb2011 at livestream.com Every year, the Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops begins with the president’s report. Bishop Pierre Morissette, whose term as head of the CCCB ends this week, outlined the work that has been done over the past year and the challenges that lie ahead. ...read more

As the bishops of Canada do each morning at their annual gathering, they began the day with Mass and Morning Prayer. Today’s homilist was Bishop Douglas Crosby of Hamilton, who was was re-elected yesterday as the Co-Treasurer of the bishops’ conference. This morning, the bishops discussed two issues that have inspired a great deal of ...read more

Tonight on Perspectives: On day two of the CCCB Plenary Assembly, we tell you who was elected as the new President of the Canadian bishops’ conference. Plus, the Pope’s representative assesses the state of the Church in Canada. ...read more