New Secularism Law Is Looming Over Way of the Cross Marches on Good Friday in Quebec

New Secularism Law Is Looming Over Way of the Cross Marches on Good Friday in Quebec
A man carries a cross during a Way of the Cross procession in Montreal, on April 3, 2026. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
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Christians across Quebec are about to face a new legal landscape on Good Friday, only a day after the provincial legislature adopted a law that could crack down on their annual Way of the Cross processions.

In Montreal, several hundred people joined Archbishop Christian Lépine in a march of “prayer, reflection and silence” that wound its way through the streets behind a large crucifix, stopping at several historic churches in a commemoration of Jesus’s journey to the cross.