Alberta sites announced for Papal Visit to Canada – July 24–29, 2022

Canada’s Catholic Bishops welcome the June 23 announcement from the Holy See providing further details of the itinerary of Pope Francis’ historic visit to Canada, July 24 – 29, 2022. This will be the fourth papal visit to Canada and the first since Saint John Paul II’s journey in 2002. The Holy Father’s pilgrimage will […]

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Landry: Sharing the Good News

One night in mid-November 2004, the pyramid at Edmonton’s Muttart Conservatory was empty except for myself and my girlfriend. Though there are many different types of plants featured in the arid pyramid, I wasn’t really paying attending to any of it. I had realized that this was the opportune moment I was waiting. It felt […]

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National Indigenous Peoples Day Prayer Intentions

For National Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous elder Fernie Marty, a parishioner at Sacred Heart of the First Peoples, prayed before Mass. Fr. Susai Jesu OMI offered the Mass with the path to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples both in Canada and worldwide as the special intention.

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Pew collections will support Pope’s visit to Canada

We are delighted to share the joy of the upcoming pastoral visit by Pope Francis to Canada on July 24-29, 2022. Today, we are sharing a letter from His Grace. In the letter, he addresses the purpose of the visit, as well as the associated costs. There will be two pew collections within the Archdiocese, […]

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Volunteer for the Papal Visit to Canada

Volunteering for Pope Francis’ pastoral visit to Canada from July 24 to 29, 2022 can be of enormous personal, social and spiritual benefit. If you are 18 or older and willing to share your time and talents, organizers are seeking many volunteers for innumerable tasks during the papal visit, from greeting and directing pilgrims, to […]

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Vatican appoints Canadian bishop to Dicastery for Divine Worship

On Wednesday, 1st June 2022, the Holy See Press Office announced that His Holiness Pope Francis appointed the Most Rev. Douglas Crosby, O.M.I., Bishop of Hamilton, as a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. A total of 22 members were appointed to the aforementioned Congregation.  For a complete […]

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St. Norbert – Rosenheim reaches 100 years

Submitted by Marion Kelch St. Norbert Church, located south of Provost, is Alberta’s largest rural neo-Gothic church. Also known also as Rosenheim church, it was the Catholic focal point of a the district of Rosenheim, which had been settled by mostly German-Americans who had immigrated to this part of Joseph’s Colony beginning in 1906. By […]

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