A neo-missionary church in Quebec and Canada? The demographic profile of the Catholic Church in Quebec and Canada makes for grim reading. Baptisms and marriages are down sharply, and hundreds of ...

Catholics in Quebec are leaving the church in droves. Can reinventing parish life save it? Dean Dettloff February 25, 2021. Sts. Paul and Peter Catholic Church in Baie-Saint-Paul, near Quebec City.

In the early 1960s, the percentage of Quebec Catholics who attended mass once a month or more was over 80%. By 2007 weekly attendance had dropped to 15%.10 And the damage continues unabated, ...

Quebec's secular charter has not only scored deep political divisions, it is also provoking Quebecers, according to the polls, to want to reaffirm their Catholic heritage. Just one of the many ...

Today, Quebec’s government is staunchly secular, embracing policy and industry that seemingly runs counter to Catholicism’s conservative sexual ethic. In 2004, the province legalized same-sex ...

The share of Catholics age 15 and older in Quebec fell from 87 percent in 1985 to 62 percent from 2017 to 2019, according to Statistics Canada. In 1985, ...

Under François Legault, Quebec’s Catholic past is front and centre again. God help the Quebeckers who don’t fit their Premier’s plan for secularism and national identity.

QUEBEC CITY (AP) — Pope Francis arrived in Quebec on Wednesday at a time when many French Canadians in the province are not only moving away from religion but explicitly rejecting it, embracing ...

QUEBEC CITY (AP) — Pope Francis ... embracing secularization long after their forebears built their identity on the rock of the Catholic Church. Pews these days are rarely filled, hundreds ...

In 2003 there were 2,746 Catholic churches in Quebec. Since then 713 have been closed, demolished or converted, according to the Quebec Religious Heritage Council.