Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other government officials held bilateral meetings with Pope Francis and Cardinal Pietro Parolin on July 27, 2022, during the pope's trip to that country. / Credit: pool VAMPDenver Newsroom, Oct 27, 2022 / 19:00 pm (CNA).The Catholic population in Canada has declined by almost 2 million people in the last 10 years, the Canadian census has found in a report that indicates the religiously unaffiliated now outnumber Catholics.The latest census figures, compiled in 2021, show the Catholic Canadian population has declined to 10.9 million. Catholics now make up about 29.9% of the country s people. According to the 2011 census, the Catholic population that year was 12.8 million.Just 53.3% of Canadians, 19.3 million people, now identify as Christian, a decline from 67.3% in 2011 and 77.1% in 2001. Statistics Canada, Canada s national statistical office, presented the latest figures in an Oct. 26 report.Catholicism is still the most popula.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other government officials held bilateral meetings with Pope Francis and Cardinal Pietro Parolin on July 27, 2022, during the pope's trip to that country. / Credit: pool VAMPDenver Newsroom, Oct 27, 2022 / 19:00 pm (CNA).The Catholic population in Canada has declined by almost 2 million people in the last 10 years, the Canadian census has found in a report that indicates the religiously unaffiliated now outnumber Catholics.The latest census figures, compiled in 2021, show the Catholic Canadian population has declined to 10.9 million. Catholics now make up about 29.9% of the country s people. According to the 2011 census, the Catholic population that year was 12.8 million.Just 53.3% of Canadians, 19.3 million people, now identify as Christian, a decline from 67.3% in 2011 and 77.1% in 2001. Statistics Canada, Canada s national statistical office, presented the latest figures in an Oct. 26 report.Catholicism is still the most popula.
Pope Francis meets with clerics, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral workers of Canada at the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec in Quebec City, July 28, 2022. / Vatican MediaDenver Newsroom, Sep 30, 2022 / 19:00 pm (CNA).Indigenous issues were at the forefront when about 90 Catholic bishops met in Cornwall, Ontario for the Canadian bishops 2022 plenary assembly."2022 has been a historic year for listening, learning and working to rebuild longstanding relationships that have been profoundly damaged by the legacy of residential schools," Bishop Raymond Poisson, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Sept. 29."Pope Francis apologized on behalf of the Church for the sins of her children, acknowledged the catastrophic impact of the residential school system and called on us to promote the rights of Indigenous Peoples and to favor processes of healing and reconciliation," said Poisson, who heads Quebec s Diocese of Saint-Jérô
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