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  • Post date: 4 - May - 2012
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    The Canadian Religious Conference 2012 General Assembly Body:

     The Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) will hold its 2012 General Assembly May 24-28, 2012. The theme is: What time is it? Imagine!

    The theme has a question mark and an exclamation mark. "What time is it? This is a way, explains the CRC's Executive Director, Yvon Pomerleau, OP, to suggest that our meeting be a place to raise substantive issues on our religious life at this moment our history. But asking this question does not assume a gloomy answer. On the contrary, with an exclamation full of enthusiasm the meeting offers an invitation to creativity, to make something new: Imagine!"

    The two invited keynote speakers are Patricia Wittberg, SC, and Gilles Routhier, a diocesan priest. Patricia Wittberg will invite us to recognise "the time that is ours: a call for intergenerational dialogue" while Gilles Routhier will propose that we live fully today the exhortations of Vatican II.

    The General Assembly will be held at the Sheraton Montreal Airport Hotel, located at 555 McMillan Avenue, Dorval. Close to 300 people will be participating in this event which is held every two years. Here is the Assembly program.

    Biographical notes of the two keynote speakers: Patricia Wittberg and Gilles Routhier

    Here is a preview of their talk: Brief Summary

    The Canadian Religious Conference invites media representatives to attend the morning session of the Assembly on May 25 and 26, from 9:00AM to 11:30AM. You will be able to listen to and meet the two General Assembly keynote speakers, Gilles Routhier and Patricia Wittberg : Media Invitation

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  • Post date: 1 - Apr - 2012
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    The Canadian Religious Conference Assures the LCWR of its Prayerful Support Body:

    The Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) was shocked to learn about the canonical procedures adopted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding the Leadership Conference of Women Religious of the USA (LCWR). We would like to assure this religious conference, which is so close to our own, that we are very attentive to what it is going through and that we will keep it in our prayers while waiting for its response to the Roman document.

    To learn more about this, open these two documents:

    Assessment by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

    Article published by the National Catholic Reporter

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  • Post date: 2 - Apr - 2012
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    The Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph Have Launched a New Website Body:

    The Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph (RHSJ) have recently launched a new version of their website. The overall presentation is quite nice and it is easy and rapid to navigate on the site. Through this website, the RHSJ continue to live their mission of caring for the poor, the sick, the most disadvantaged, and education of youth. They are also faithful in transmitting their spiritual heritage ans the call to love and serve in a spirit of true freedom.

    As you travel through the site, you will find this reality reflected in their history. You will also discover their desire to reach those who are searching for meaning in their spiritual life in our modern world. You will also find health tips, a section on freedom, on the associates and on patrimony.

    The section called FREE offers short reflections on the meaning of freedom. In the section Seekers of meaning young people from different countries share their stories. Together the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph  wish to continue witnessing that loving our brothers and sisters as God loves is a source of hope.

    The website is in three languages: English, French and Spanish. Without delay visit the RHSJ website and discover all its richness: http://www.rhsj.org/en/home.php.

    They look forwar to receiving your comments and suggestions.

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  • Post date: 4 - Mar - 2012
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    Upcoming Chapters of Religious Congregations and New Nominations Body:

    Several catholic congregations of women religious will be holding their chapter during the spring and summer of 2012. Here is a brief overview of the chapters that will be held in the near future.

    Religious of Notre-Dame of the Sacred-Heart
    Election session: April 12 -15, 2012
    Business session: June 25 -30, 2012

    Election Results:
    Sister Agnès Léger, general superior
    Sister Imelda Guignard, general assistant
    Sister Judith Fitzgerald, councillor
    Sister Émilienne Frenette, councillor
    Sister Stella Arsenault, councillor

    Antonian Sisters of Mary
    Chapter: April 16 - 30, 2012
    Theme: "With the Holy Spirit, let us open paths of life"

    Little Sisters of Saint Francis
    General Assembly: April 19 - 21, 2012
    Theme: "Rooted in Christ, let us walk with confidence towards the Life"

    Election Results:
    Sister Carmen Bizier, general superior
    Sister Lisette Thibodeau, general assistant
    Sister Raymonde Coursol, councillor
    Sister Rollande Malo, S.P. elected special councillor to complete the General Council.

    Brothers of the Sacred Heart
    General Chapter: April 25 - May 25, 2012
    Theme: "The Call to a Prophetic Mission"

    Sisters of Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice
    Chapter: May 13 - 24, 2012
    Theme: "Called to be witnesses of trust and of hope between ourselves and in our world"

    Little Franciscans of Mary
    Chapter: June 22 - July 2, 2012
    Theme: "Let us walk together on the Gospel new paths"

    Sisters of Providence
    Chapter: July 8 - 28, 2012
    Theme: "Rooted in the Providence, let us welcome the Future" 

    Sisters of Saint Franis of Assisi of Lyon
    Chapter: July 15 - August 2, 2012
    Theme: "Let us humbly move forward on the path that God is showing us"

    Sisters of Charity of Saint-Hyacinthe
    Chapter: July 22 - August 3, 2012
    Theme: "Go spread tenderness at the heart of our world"

    Sisters of Charity of Saint Louis
    Chapter: July 24 - August 6 2012
    Thème:  "SCSL 'with no frontiers' listen, move forward into the deep"

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  • Post date: 4 - Mar - 2012
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    Connections: CRC-JPIC Ontario Network Body:

    Welcome to the first newsletter of the CRC-JPIC Network. Connections is intended as a way of achieving some of the goals the core committee set for itself.

    There will be regular communication among members of the core committee about priorities and actions to be taken concerning key issues and about the information and suggested actions to be communicated to the wider Ontario network made up of the JPIC contacts from congregations and their co-workers. Connections: CRC-JPIC Ontario Network will offer links to resources (including prayer services) and will communicate notices of upcoming JPIC events. Each issue of Connections will be published on the CRC website under Workshops & Activities/Regional Activities.

    Connections is made availabe in Word format and in PDF format: Connections (WORD) - Connections (PDF)

    Topics in this issue are :

    TRAFFICKING
    INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
    PEACE
    POVERTY
    INTEGRITY OF  CREATION

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  • Post date: 3 - Feb - 2012
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    Sister Angie Martz Receives a Certificate of Honour Body:

    Sister Angie Martz, SCIC, recently received a certificate of honour from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. Based in Saint John, New Brunswick, the Sister of Charity of the Immaculate Conception was recognized for her commitment to social justice and efforts “to improve living conditions for the poorest of the poor in the Global South.” The honour came during a Feb. 4 diocesan Development and Peace meeting in Fredericton, N.B., which Sister Martz was unable to attend. The certificate of honour was signed by Ronald Breau of Fredericton, president of the Development and Peace national council. They express his “heartfelt gratitude” for showing solidarity “with the marginalized and oppressed” and for “work in helping to strengthen” the Development and Peace movement. (SCIC photo).

    Source: http://famvin.org/en/2012/02/27/member-of-vincentian-family-honored-in-canada/

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  • Post date: 1 - Feb - 2012
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    Sisters of Service and Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto Enter Sponsorship Relationship Body:

    After dialogue and consultation, with the approval of Archbishop Thomas Collins, the Sisters of Service and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto entered into a sponsorship relationship on January 25, 2012. The underlying principle of this agreement is that the Sisters of Service will continue as a religious institute until the death of the last member. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto will ensure that the care of the Sisters of Service and stewardship of the corporations and other resources are carried out in a manner that is consistent with the Sisters of Service’s charism, mission, and values. Read the offical announcement

    The Prairie Messenger carried an article about it at: www.prairiemessenger.ca/02_01_2012/SOS_02_01_12.html

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  • Post date: 1 - Jan - 2012
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    Three-year study of U.S. women religious completed; Vatican reviews results Body:

     

    WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A three-year study of U.S. women religious called for by the Vatican has been completed with the final comprehensive report recently sent to Rome.
     
    No details of the findings in what the church calls an apostolic visitation were released by Mother Mary Clare Millea, superior general of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the apostolic visitator appointed by the Vatican to undertake the study.
     
    Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, confirmed Jan. 10 that reports had been received by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life "and is now studying them."
     
    Read the complete story on the Catholic News Service website.
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  • Post date: 4 - Dec - 2011
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    Church Has Responsibility to Creation Body:

     
    WINNIPEG — Society has a moral sense of suicide, homicide and genocide “but no moral sense of biocide or geocide” says a bioethicist and member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peterborough, Ont.
     
    Sister Mary Rowell, CSJ, was quoting the late Thomas Berry, an American Catholic priest and ecologist as she spoke at the Canadian Religious Conference at St. Boniface Pastoral Centre Oct. 29. Rowell said people are well aware of environmental destruction, but few do anything about it.
     
    The conference was entitled A Place at the Table: The Contribution of Christians to the Public Discourse on the Environment. The CRC organized the daylong event “for all who desire to explore more deeply our relationship with creation and our commitment to the integrity of creation.”
     

     

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