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Sr. Lise Munro (left) and Sr. Helen Hayes in the chapel of their Quebec City convent. The complex (right) was built in 1686 and was once home to about 300 nuns.

Ursuline nuns prepare for a fond adieu

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QUEBEC CITY - Thirty-one years after Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City in 1608, three Ursuline sisters arrived in New France packing little more than their simple possessions and their faith. Today the sisters who inherited that founding legacy are set to leave their grand motherhouse in much the same way.

Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Que., is the new president of the Canadian Conference of Bishops.

Gendron elected president of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

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Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil has been elected president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), succeeding Bishop Douglas Crosby of Hamilton.

Br. John Frampton is flanked by volunteers Sonny Doria (left) and Lionel Alleluia at St. Francis Table.

St. Francis Table marks 30 years of service

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Sandwiched between a swanky taqueria and a slew of trendy bars selling $12 cocktails is St. Francis Table — a restaurant for the poor that has been serving $1 meals for 30 years.

The Sistine Chapel choir made its first-ever visit to Canada and St. Michael’s Cathedral on Sept. 27.

Sweet sounds of Sistine Chapel choir fill Toronto cathedral

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It was as if the sounds of Heaven descended upon Toronto when the Sistine Chapel choir performed at St. Michael's Cathedral Sept. 26.

Cardinals (from left) Marc Ouellet, Thomas Collins and Gerald Lacroix read the prayer of consecration on Sept. 27 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa.

A fitting celebration for Our Lady

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OTTAWA – It was the gift to beat all gifts.

Bishop Douglas Crosby

Bishops not ready to invite Pope Francis to Canada

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CORNWALL, Ont. – Canada’s bishops will not be inviting Pope Francis to visit Canada any time soon.

Jo-Ann Davis, trustee for the Toronto Catholic Board and Toronto Mayor John Tory are at the centre of the groundbreaking ceremony for the project at Canoe Landing that will see Catholic and public students share the same space.

Catholic and public elementary schools will share space on Toronto waterfront

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The schoolchildren of Toronto’s condoland, be they in the public or Catholic stream, will soon be sharing an elementary school.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, says the Pope’s 2016 apostolic exhortation on the family must not be misinterpreted as a break with Church tradition.

Cardinal Ouellet warns against “alarmist” interpretations of Amoris Laetitia

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CORNWALL, Ont. – Cardinal Marc Ouellet has denounced the “alarmist” and “unfaithful” interpretations of the Pope Francis’ document Amoris Laetitia.

The Apostolic Nuncio to Canada, Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi, reminded the Canadian bishops of the graces they received on their ad limina visits to Rome last spring. He spoke to the bishops' annual plenary Sept. 25.

Nuncio challenges bishops to build on ad limina visits to Rome

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CORNWALL, ONT. – The Vatican’s representative in Canada has urged Canada’s bishops to build on the “moment of grace” and “fresh wind” of their ad limina visits to Rome earlier this year.

Bishop Vincent Nguyen (left), Imam Hamid Slimi and Rabbi Baruch Frydman- Kohl are dressed for action on the Habitat for Humanity site.

Hard hats, soft hearts

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A bishop, a rabbi and an imam are building a house ….

Teaching resource examines Christian-Jewish relations

Teaching resource examines Christian-Jewish relations

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With people marching through downtown Charlottesville, Va., in crash helmets, carrying shields and truncheons and giving Nazi salutes, there can’t be much question of the need for everybody to review the history of Christian- Jewish relations since the world learned the horrors of Auschwitz in the Second World War, says the director of the Institute for Jewish- Catholic Relations at Philadelphia’s St. Joseph’s University.

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