Located in the new Learning Centre, Clement's features coffee beverages (including frappes, lattes, etc.), Mighty Leaf tea, bottled drinks, muffins, sandwiches, and PLBC Wear.

Hours of Operation:
M - F (7:30am - 2:00pm)

Methods of Payment:
Cash, Interac, MasterCard, and VISA

Featuring:

• Leather Couches & Club Chairs (seating for 36)
• Cafe Seating (additional seating for 32)
• Worship music fills the background
• Free highspeed wireless internet

Location:
Lowest floor of the new Learning Centre.  Click here to see a campus map.

Menu:
The Clement's menu features very affordable hot and cold coffee beverages, plus much more. 

A Tribute to Pope Clement VIII
Ippolito Aldobrandini (1536-1605), better remembered in history as Clement VIII, was the son of an Italian lawyer who rose to the position of Pope in 1592. Clement VIII gained a reputation as a man of high character, a remarkable testimony considering that his recent predecessors, Julius II, Leo X and Clement VII, all proved to be incompetent rascals.

Clement was known as the first of a series of “restorer” popes and he had an impressive list of achievements to his credit. Among these was the preparing of the Treaty of Vervins, bringing peace between France and Spain. Just three years later he negotiated the Treaty of Lyons, brokering peace between France and Savoy. Other achievements included a revision of the Vulgate that contained some three thousand corrections. He also ordered the revision of several other service books of the Roman Catholic church. He built a monumental altar within St. Peter's Basilica over what is believed to be the burial site containing the Apostle Peter's body. Only the pope can celebrate mass at this altar.

Clement VIII initiated many other reforms and was incredibly popular. His popularity is demonstrated by the fact that in the year 1600 he was acclaimed by three million pilgrims to Rome.

Among these achievements one papal act set Clement VIII apart from all other popes. The benefits of this act continue to filter through history to bless all Christendom. During this time, Christianity had denounced coffee as “the hellish black brew” and, even worse, as a “Satanic threat to the soul”. However, this peace loving, clear thinking man of high character found coffee to be so delicious that he baptized it and declared it a Christian beverage, saying, “Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious. It would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.” Obviously, the Christian world has grounds to honour Pope Clement VIII.

Sources: P. Van Issaker. Clement VIII. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. F.L. Cross (ed.) Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1978 (reprinted).; Gordon A. Catherall. Clement VIII. The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church. J.D. Douglas (ed.) Grand Rapids, MI.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1978.; Ford, Cathy. The Coffee Lover's Handbook. Vancouver, B.C.: Intermedia Press Ltd., 1979.; Pendergrast, Mark. Uncommon Grounds. Basic Books, June 1, 1999.