Offerings from Catholics in Canada are combined with offerings to the Pontifical Mission Societies from Catholics worldwide.  Mission Dioceses receive regular annual assistance from the funds collected.  In addition, these […]

Forms of direct co-operation between churches, also called ‘twinning’ can be of great benefit to a parish in the developing world and provide parishioners of the ‘sister’ church in Canada […]

Quite often priests and Religious men and women visit Canada to seek prayer and financial support of the world for their dioceses or Religious Communities in the Missions.  The money […]

World Mission Sunday is a day set aside for Catholics worldwide to recommit themselves to the Church’s missionary activity through prayers and sacrifices.  Annually, World Mission Sunday is celebrated on […]

The Pontifical Mission Societies consists of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, the Holy Childhood Association, the Society of St. Peter the Apostle and the Pontifical Missionary Union.

The Pontifical Mission Societies have, as their primary purpose, the promotion of a universal missionary spirit – a spirit of prayer and sacrifice – among all baptized Catholics. The first […]

There are national offices in over 120 countries in the world with central administrative office located in Rome under the direction of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Office […]

According to the teaching of Vatican Council II, the Pontifical Mission Societies are institutions of the Universal Church and of each local church.  Therefore, unlike any other mission organization, the […]

Each of the societies has an annual direct mail appeal. For St. Peter the Apostle, the appeal is in Spring.  The appeal for Society for the Propagation of the Faith […]