Archbishop Emeritus Mancini's Letters/Videos to the Faithful

Today Archbishop Mancini releases the new document titled: New Parishes: Stronger Together. This is the next phase of our three year diocesan pastoral plan, Equip the Saints. As part of this document, the Archbishop has included a letter that sets the context for our next steps. The letter dated January 1, 2019 – Feast of Mary the Mother of God, begins:

On Thursday last week, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) released a new document titled: Protecting Minors from Sexual Abuse: A call to the Catholic Faithful for Healing, Reconciliation, and Transformation. The 200 page document issues guidelines that aim to ensure that every Roman Catholic diocese across Canada develops strict protocols to safeguard minors and assist victims that come forward.

In recent days reports of sexual abuse and the misconduct and failure of Church leadership have once again shaken the Catholic Church. Yesterday, Pope Francis released a Letter to the Faithful acknowledging and seeking forgiveness of these failures and asked the faithful to work in solidarity towards change.

                                                  August 20, 2018

To all the faithful,                                      

In the past few days once again, the Catholic Church has been shaken to her foundations by reports of sexual abuse. The extent of the revelations of misconduct, failure of leadership, injustice towards victims, is overwhelming. The reports of such evil; the devastation it has caused in individuals, on their families and on the whole Church, demonstrates that the Church is in crisis.