The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:07:47 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Pope Francis names new nuncio to Canada /item/33188-pope-francis-names-new-nuncio-to-canada /item/33188-pope-francis-names-new-nuncio-to-canada

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis named Slovenia Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic to be the new nuncio to Canada.

]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) Canada Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:25:28 -0400 Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi ends mission as CanadaƵapp apostolic nuncio /item/32489-archbishop-luigi-bonazzi-ends-mission-as-canada-s-apostolic-nuncio /item/32489-archbishop-luigi-bonazzi-ends-mission-as-canada-s-apostolic-nuncio

After seven years as the PopeƵapp diplomatic representative in Canada, Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi is off to Albania.

]]> crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Canada Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:32:19 -0500 Pope ordains three new nuncios, including Canadian /home/international/item/27007-pope-ordains-three-new-nuncios-including-canadian /home/international/item/27007-pope-ordains-three-new-nuncios-including-canadian VATICAN – Celebrating the feast of St. Joseph, Pope Francis ordained three new bishops who will serve as papal nuncios, or ambassadors.
]]> cns@catholicnews.com (Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service) International Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:06:52 -0400 Pope names Ottawa priest Apostolic Nuncio /item/26881-pope-names-ottawa-priest-as-apostolic-nuncio /item/26881-pope-names-ottawa-priest-as-apostolic-nuncio

OTTAWA – Msgr. Jose Bettencourt, an Ottawa priest who has served as Head of Protocol in the Vatican since 2012, has been named an Apostolic Nuncio and appointed as nuncio to Armenia.

]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:36:47 -0500 Nuncio challenges bishops to build on ad limina visits to Rome /item/26072-nuncio-challenges-bishops-to-build-on-ad-limina-visits-to-rome /item/26072-nuncio-challenges-bishops-to-build-on-ad-limina-visits-to-rome

CORNWALL, ONT. – The VaticanƵapp representative in Canada has urged CanadaƵapp bishops to build on the “moment of grace” and “fresh wind” of their ad limina visits to Rome earlier this year.

]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:15:18 -0400 More needs to be done on reconciliation, says Pope's representative in Canada /item/25575-more-needs-to-be-done-on-reconciliation-says-pope-s-representative-in-canada /item/25575-more-needs-to-be-done-on-reconciliation-says-pope-s-representative-in-canada

OTTAWA – Much more needs to be done when it comes to reconciliation with CanadaƵapp Indigenous peoples, said CanadaƵapp Apostolic Nuncio.

]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:50:00 -0400 'Beloved' Syria's new cardinal a sign of the Pope's closeness /home/international/item/23590-beloved-syria-s-new-cardinal-a-sign-of-the-pope-s-closeness /home/international/item/23590-beloved-syria-s-new-cardinal-a-sign-of-the-pope-s-closeness

VATICAN CITY – Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said that Francis’ decision to give a red hat to the longtime papal envoy to Syria is a sign of the PopeƵapp closeness to the Church and people on the ground amid the country's dire situation.

]]> International Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:37:58 -0500 Nuncio exhorts Canadian religious to build vocations culture /item/19286-nuncio-exhorts-canadian-religious-to-build-vocations-culture /item/19286-nuncio-exhorts-canadian-religious-to-build-vocations-culture

OTTAWA - As Pope Francis inaugurated the Year of Consecrated Life Nov. 30, CanadaƵapp Apostolic Nuncio exhorted Canadian religious to build a culture of vocations.

]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:00:00 -0500