News releases

31st General Assembly of the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) Montreal, May 18, 2016 – From May 26-29, 2016, 300 leaders of Catholic religious congregations from across Canada will gather at the Sheraton Montreal Airport Hotel for the 31st General Assembly of the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC). The main theme of this assembly – The mission of congregational leaders: discerning […]

In a letter to the Prime Minister Stephen Harper the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) request that he hold a National Commission of Inquiry into the disappearance of Aboriginal women and girls in our country.

In a letter to the Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Rita Larivée, SSA, the president of the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC), urges the federal government to sign the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the United Nations without delay and begin treaty ratification in Canada as soon as possible.

New Executive Director of the CRC Appointed Montréal, November 5, 2014: Father Timothy Scott, CSB, has been appointed Executive Director of the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) by the president of the CRC, Sister Rita Larivée, SSA, and the members of the Administration Council. His three years term of office begins on January 1, 2015. Fr. Scott comes from […]

Canadian Catholic Congregations of Women Religious provided hundreds of their members to teach and care for First Nations, Métis and Inuit children in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. […] We now know that the residential school system itself, initiated by the Federal Government and in which we participated, was racist and discriminatory. It brought about a form of cultural oppression and personal shame that has had a lasting effect not only on those who attended the schools but also on subsequent generations.