Former Denis Morris Catholic Secondary School chaplain Suzanne Aucoin
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Former Denis Morris Catholic Secondary School chaplain Suzanne Aucoin inspired her students during her nine-year battle with colorectal cancer, and she continues to inspire them after her death.
TORONTO - The oldest living Redemptorist in the world has died at the age of 103. Fr. Thomas O’Brien, CSsR, passed away Oct. 23 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto in his 78th year of religious life.
Another Catholic priest has been killed in the ongoing war between Tamil and national Sri Lankan forces near Jaffna. This time, the priest leaves behind a brother and widowed mother living in Toronto’s large Tamil community.
TORONTO - Bishop Robert B. Clune, a retired auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Toronto, passed away in Toronto on Sept. 6, two weeks before his 87th birthday.
TORONTO - The Toronto priestly fraternity lost two members in the last days of August. Fr. Paschal Breau, S.A., passed away on Aug. 29 in his 86th year. The next day, Sacred Heart Father James Cunliffe passed away in Memphis, Tenn. He was 77.
TORONTO - Fr. Norbert Gignac, PP, known to many Catholic Register readers as a faithful friend of long-time former Register columnist Msgr. Tom Raby, passed away at the Houses of Providence in Toronto on Aug. 31. He was 87.
VATICAN CITY - Montreal’s Cardinal Edouard Gagnon, 89, a long-time Vatican official and an outspoken defender of traditional church teaching who frequently found himself in the midst of controversy, died Aug. 25 in Montreal.