Montreal, March 24, 2017 – As part of a two-year process of identifying our priorities for the future, the Canadian Religious Conference is engaging in a visual transformation and today is unveiling its new look. This identity, including a new logo, communication tools and internet site (crc-canada.org) is designed to update its image and facilitate […]
Read moreNew Administrative Council for the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) Montreal, June 2, 2016 – From May 26-29, 2016, 300 women and men religious, leaders of 90 Catholic religious congregations from across Canada gathered at the Sheraton Montreal Airport Hotel for the 31st General Assembly of the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC). At the conclusion of the four-day […]
Read more31st 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 […]
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreNew 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 […]
Read moreCanadian 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.
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