Quebec

A fire has destroyed the historic former Saint-Paul Church in Montreal’s Sud-Ouest borough.

The Quebec government will be expanding its secularism rules across public institutions in a new bill that is expected to be tabled Thursday.

In this its 25th year, the Christian think-tank Cardus is expanding its reach into Quebec.

What secularists never understand is that human dignity is not centred on our desire to be free from all external constraints. Instead, the great dignity of the human person is about our yearning for truth and our ability to seek and find that truth.

In light of the Quebec government’s threat to ban public prayer, Verbatim reprints “A Note on Prayer” from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Episcopal Commission for Doctrine.

Archbishop Christian Lépine said the “plural dimension of our society must be respected” and it would be “good for the overall health of the country” if there was a conscious rededication to valuing the peaceful coexistence of diverse cultures and belief systems.

Listen to the first episode of The Catholic Register's new weekly podcast: Registered. Take a deeper dive this week into the canonizations of Acutis and Frassati, as well as the news of Quebec's recent efforts to ban public prayer.

Let us pray that at next year’s World Day of Prayer for Creation a mass of committed environmentalists from across Canada gather in Montreal’s Dominion Square to pray for God’s forgiveness of our ecological sins.

By calling for a ban on all public prayer, the Quebec government is raising “serious concerns” about a democratic society’s fundamental freedoms, said Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault is once again promising to introduce a bill banning prayer in public, responding to a recent spate of mass Islamic prayer gatherings in the province.