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St. Andrew’s Church youth are welcomed to a small rural community in Bolivia with a fiesta at a local community centre.

Society calls on Canadian Catholics to live out the Church's missionary nature

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Everyone is called to mission and this year, the Pontifical Mission Society is calling for Canadian Catholics to answer that call. 

Halloween at the Holy Rosary Residence in 1965. The residence closed in the mid-’80s.

‘Don’t call it an old ladies’ home!’: Catholic home for senior women is re-discovered

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VANCOUVER – Hostelling International boasts some interesting locations for their nightly accommodations. World travellers booking with HI can spend a night in a cell at the Carleton County jail in Ottawa, in old army barracks on Jericho Beach, or inside the former Olympic Village in Whistler.

Ursuline Sister Cecile Dionne speaks to Sister Pauline Duchesne and Sister Celine Bergeron inside Quebec City's Ursuline monastery chapel June 1. In October, the majority of the 50 sisters who live in the monastery, founded by St. Mary of the Incarnation, will head to the borough of Beauport, where a new home for the elderly awaits them.

Quebec Ursulines leave 17th-century monastery, ending a 400-year era

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QUEBEC – Daylight illuminates the monastery's long corridors, seeping through the old windows dotting its thick walls. The floor responds to the slightest step with an enveloping rustle, as today's Ursulines follow the footsteps of their predecessors. But this uninterrupted cycle that dates back to 17th-century New France is coming to an end.
Fr. Joe LeClair's theft was blamed on stress accompanied by a gambling addiction and alcohol problem. In 2016, he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving under the influence, with a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit.

Priest convicted of fraud, theft returns to Ottawa ministry

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OTTAWA – A popular and charismatic priest, Fr. Joe LeClair, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to stealing parish funds to pay for a gambling addiction, has returned to ministry in Ottawa.

In Austin, Manitoba, 139 antique threshing machines set a new world record in support of the Foodgrains Bank in 2016.

Grow Hope banking on ecumenical harvest to provide for the world's hungry

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It’s harvest time across Canada, and the back-breaking labour on some farms will be supporting people around the world with emergency food supplies and long-term food security.

Members of the Women’s Inter-Church Council meet in Toronto in June, one of several events to mark the group’s 100th anniversary.

After 100 years, Women's Inter-Church Council stays true to 'action' motto

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It was 100 years ago, in Lindsay, Ont., when the roots of the Women’s Inter-Church Council were firmly planted. Since then, the ecumenical women’s council has stayed true to its motto: “Rooted in faith, called to action.”

A view of St. Veronica Catholic School from Google Maps.

Toronto Catholic board offers city a school to house refugees

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A Catholic school in downtown Toronto that has set empty for most of the past 15 years has been offered for free to the city, with one caveat: that it be used as a shelter.

Thousands came to St. Philip Neri Parish in Toronto Sept. 18-19 to venerate the relics of tSt. Padre Pio. The saint, pictured above, bore the pain of the stigmata for 50 years.

St. Padre Pio’s story still touching lives as thousands in Toronto venerate his relics

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Fr. Louis Mousseau was a 21-year-old seminarian with the Capuchin Friars when he met 81-year-old St. Padre Pio in 1968, just three months before the death of the legendary priest. 

Diocese of London investigating allegations against Windsor priest

Diocese of London investigating allegations against Windsor priest

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A priest in Windsor, Ont., has been removed from his duties as the Diocese of London investigates  allegations of inappropriate conduct.

A woman holds a rosary with an image of Pope Francis as the Pope delivers his Easter message and blessing "urbi et orbi" from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican 2015.

Canadians called to join Rosary Coast to Coast

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Canadians from coast to coast are being called to take up arms through the Rosary Oct. 7 in a clarion call for peace.

Saint Paul University professor axed after sex abuse complaint

Saint Paul University professor axed after sex abuse complaint

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One of the world’s leading experts in Church law as it applies to the liturgy has been removed as a full professor at Ottawa’s Saint Paul University after a complaint from a man who says he was abused as a teen.

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