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Quebec French profanities, [1] known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong profanities in Quebec French (the main variety of Canadian French) and in Acadian French (spoken in Maritime Provinces, east of Quebec, and a portion of ...
On February 22, 2011, Vatican Information Service (VIS) and Catholic News Service (CNS), announced that Pope Benedict XVI had named the 53-year-old Bishop Gérald Lacroix, until then an Auxiliary Bishop (assistant bishop) of Quebec (since 2009), as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada.
TODAY with Hoda & Jenna is broadcasting two shows from Québec City, Québec, Thursday, Feb. 2.
The Order of the Magnificat of the Mother of God, (French: L’Ordre du Magnificat de la Mère de Dieu) also known as the Apostles of Infinite Love (French: Apôtres de l'amour infini) is a traditionalist Independent Catholic religious group active in various parts of the world, with its headquarters being near Mont-Tremblant in Quebec.
The Catholic population underwent its first recorded drop between 2001 and 2011. Notable trends include the de-Catholicization of Quebec, a drop in the Catholic population in small provinces with stagnant populations, and a rise in Catholics in the large English-speaking provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta.
The archbishop of Quebec is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs.As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing the north-central part of the province of Quebec, [2] the Archbishop of Quebec also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of ...
The book's introduction argues that certain features of Quebec's history make it have a particularly "favorable ecology" for NRMs, including its status as an open and tolerant society and the vacuum opened by the decline of the Catholic Church in Canada, as well as the liberal immigration policies of the province.
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires was built atop the ruins of Champlain's first outpost. [1] Architect Hilaire Bernard de La Rivière was the builder. Originally dedicated to l'Enfant Jésus, it received the name Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire following the Battle of Quebec of 1690, in which an English expedition commanded by William Phips was forced to retreat.