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 HughesChristians 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.