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May 2025

May 31

With zealousness, joy, Companions are on the rise

Ottawa-based order adds four new priests in its 40th year

Luke Mandato · May 31, 2025

As other religious societies struggle with an aging membership, the Ottawa-based Companions of the Cross continue to grow and on May 24 welcomed another four priests into the community at Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica in Ottawa.

Fr. Bob Bedard did it God's way

New film documents founder of Companions of the Cross

Quinton Amundson · May 31, 2025

Canadian Catholic filmmaker Kevin Dunn’s new documentary Permission: Fr. Bob Bedard’s Vision for the Church is a superb portrait of a man who exemplified total surrender to the Lord’s will.