In Solidarity with the American Sisters of Religious Apostolic Communities

Montreal, Jun7 7, 2010: Following a resolution of the CRC 2010 General Assembly, the president of CRC, Mary Finlayson, RSCJ, officially conveys to our American Sisters of religious apostolic communities that the women and men religious of Canada stand with you in solidarity and support through continued prayer as you experience the Apostolic Visitation and the Doctrinal Assessment. Open this PDF document.

The Bishops of Jamaica Call for a Genuine National Transformation

The Bishops of Jamaica responds to the recent events that have traumatized the citizens of West Kingston and surrounding Corporate area which threatened the moral and civil order of the nation. In their message, they express their solidarity with the bereaved and underline the 'need to dismantle the culture of death and violence by intentionally creating a culture of LIFE and PEACE'. To read this timely message, open this PDF document.

The InterAmerican Network

The Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) works in solidarity with the religious conferences of the United States and Latin America. The religious conferences in the Americas gather together every five years to share their experiences and develop common strategies to work towards meeting the challenges of living out the Gospel in the modern world.

The Statement of Mission adopted at the May 2005 Assembly gives priority to “uniting to strengthen our bonds, to make our communications more effective and to deepen the collaboration among the women and men religious from the North to the South of the Americas.” - Sao Paolo, May 6, 2005.

Among the short-term objectives established by the InterAmerican Planning Committee was that each Conference web site would:

1. have a separate page devoted to InterAmerican issues;


2. publicize and promote the work of the InterAmerican assembly;


3. post links to each other’s sites;


4. send newsletters, annual reports and periodicals to each Conference.

With the new CRC web site we now have the means of fulfilling some of these objectives. The InterAmerican Committee will be meeting again in mid-March in Bogota. The president, Alain Ambeault. CSV, and executive director, Margaret Toner, SCIC, will be attending. They will be proud to report that our link is now established.

The members of InterAmerican Network represent the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM), the Confederación Latinoamericana de Religiosos y Religiosas (CLAR), and the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC).