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Sr. Aileen Gleason, centre, was honoured by Winnipeg community of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions.

Sr. Gleason lauded for changing thousands of refugees' lives

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WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg community of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions honoured Sr. Aileen Gleason for seven decades of a life of service to others and for changing the lives of thousands of refugees.

Oblate Superior General Fr. Louis Lougen, in Ottawa March 15 to receive an honorary doctorate from Saint Paul University.

Oblate superior drawn early to life as a missionary priest

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OTTAWA – In 1976, in preparation for his final vows to become an Oblate priest, Fr. Louis Lougen asked God for “the grace to be a missionary.”

Turkish women try to connect to Twitter at a cafe in Istanbul, Turkey, March 21. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission is trying to decide whether to formulate a new policy for governing access to the Internet.

Cyberspace mined for next generation of religious

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When Sr. Mary Rowell was growing up, religious communities were everywhere. They ran schools, colleges, parish activities, hospitals and day care centres.

American pilgrim Ann Sieben is greeted outside the Basilica-Cathedral Notre-Dame in Quebec City by its rector, Msgr. Denis Belanger, on Holy Thursday, March 24.

There are no dark days for engineer turned pilgrim of faith

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QUEBEC CITY – As a pilgrim, Ann Sieben had just walked 5,000 km from her hometown of Denver to Quebec City, making it just in time for the Easter triduum.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York ordains seminarian Scott Valentyn of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., as a transitional deacon during the ordination of 40 new deacons from the Pontifical North American College in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 1.

Worldwide vocation boom expected to soon bring influx of priests to Canada

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MONTREAL – Vocations to the priesthood may be lagging in North America and Europe, but the ranks of Scalabrinian priests are swelling in other parts of the world, according to Fr. Joseph Fugolo.

Sr. Helen Prejean has been ministering to prison inmates for the past quarter century. She says while many of these people have committed horrific crimes, they too are made in the image of God and deserve dignity.

Sr. Prejean believes in dignity for all

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WINDSOR, ONT. – Sr. Helen Prejean said ministering to inmates on death row, and prisoners in general, is something that takes effort and persistence, but it is mutually beneficial to her in her call as a religious sister.

Dr. Catherine Ferrier

Despite challenges, fight against assisted suicide goes on

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MONTREAL – When Quebec’s doctors were blindsided by their professional association and its support for assisted suicide, Dr. Catherine Ferrier knew she had to spring into action.
“We didn’t see it coming. We knew it was out there but it was on the margins. Three-quarters of the population was against medically assisted suicide. The legislation kept dying” every time a politician would introduce a motion in favour of assisted suicide, said Ferrier, who has been one of the leaders in the fight against medical aid in dying for the past seven years.

Ashley Aperocho, 23, received such a sense of fulfillment from a one-year mission assignment in Guyana that she signed up for another year

Mission program teaches what it’s like to serve

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TORONTO - Giving up the luxuries of North America last year to do mission work in Guyana proved to be a life-giving experience for Ashley Aperocho.

Cheridan Sanders, right, interviews Sr. Helen Prejean of the Sisters of St. Joseph for a Salt + Light docuseries about women religious

In praise of religious women

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TORONTO - During his visit last month to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Pope Francis described women religious as “women of strength” who work on the “frontlines in the proclamation of the Gospel.”

Sr. Helen Rita Lane’s call to serve has taken her from the wilds of Alaska to Toronto and the Daughters of St. Paul

Called from the wild to serve

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Eagle River, Alaska, is a wilderness paradise with a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and clear rivers. In the 1970s it was a remote town where the closest grocery store was an hour’s drive on a partially paved road. It was the ideal location to inspire a young woman to pursue a career in wildlife biology.

Sisters of Providence postulant Mary Truong, left, stands with Srs. Mae Valdez, Germaine Chalifoux and Elizabeth Kaczmarczyk.

A heart that leapt, providence leads sister to her vocation

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EDMONTON - When Mary Truong first met the Sisters of Providence, her heart leapt.

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