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Religious heritage must return to the heart of the debate
Over the past ten years or so, the idea of safeguarding religious heritage has gradually faded from public debate in favor of a discourse that has swallowed it up as one element among others of a so-called…
The heritage bill lacks solid foundations, according to Serge Joyal and Phyllis Lambert
"We ask you to intervene so that Bill 69 is fundamentally rewritten, so that it truly becomes the law 101 of our history and our roots. Left as is, this bill will perpetuate the same dynamic that…
A church heated with bitcoins
[Updated Feb. 8, 2021] There is no bingo hall in the basement of Saint-Adrien Church. Rather multiple servers that mine cryptocurrency. Without them, the project of transforming the church into a creative…
Death of architect Frédérick Dawson
As an architect, one of his proudest accomplishments was designing the Notre-Dame-de-Pompei Catholic Church on Sauvé St. Dawson has the distinction of being the only architect to have designed…
Religious archives, "great forgotten ones in the reflection on Quebec's cultural heritage"
Private archives, and more specifically religious archives, are "the great forgotten ones in the reflection on Quebec's cultural heritage", deplores the Canadian Society of the History of…
Ottawa donates $ 1 million to Notre-Dame Basilica
Canada Economic Development is disbursing 1 million to help the basilica get through the health crisis that is shaking up the tourism industry. Notre-Dame Basilica is one of the most frequented sites…
Pandemic and churches: a devastating marriage
The closure of places of worship is another hard blow for the factories of small Catholic parishes, many of which were already struggling with financial difficulties, long before the pandemic. Read the…