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Pre-planning a funeral takes stress off your loved ones.

Planning ahead means peace of mind

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You can’t be prepared for every hurdle in life. But for those things you can anticipate, why not have all your ducks in a row by planning ahead?
Brendan and Anne Clarke met in England before uprooting and coming to Canada. Brendan died recently but not without remembering the Church that gave his life structure.

Church repaid for a life well lived

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Things certainly could have turned out differently for Brendan Clarke had he not been raised in a family well-grounded in the Catholic faith.
Artist’s conceptual rendering of the Crypt Chapel of St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica.

Sacred renewal for St. Michael's chapels

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The restored, glorious, award-winning sanctuary of St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica distracts a little from the unfin-ished business underneath and tucked in back. Though the construction scaffold-ing is gone and the earth movers are no longer parked outside, there’s still work to do on Toronto’s Catholic cathedral, said St. Michael’s Rector Fr. Michael Busch.

A homeless woman sleeps on the floor in 2010 inside a church in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mildred Moy, a member of St. Mary Parish in Vancouver and a former IBM employee, started Catholic Street Ministries after spending 14 years volunteering to serve homeless people in her city.

Former computer professional finds joy serving Vancouver's homeless

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VANCOUVER – Mildred Moy at one time was apprehensive about speaking to homeless people on the street.
Soldiers await chaplain service and free coffee in Arras (near Calais) France, September 1918.

Story of Great War chaplain lives on in Newfoundland

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In the years following World War I, it would not be unusual for a Catholic family in Newfoundland to have three portraits hanging in their home: Pope Benedict XV, Newfoundland Archbishop E.P. Roche … and Fr. Thomas Nangle.

Opponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, in early June 2016. Medical ethicist Fr. Mark Miller recommends adding a line about rejecting the suicide option, just in case.

Assisted suicide raises difficult questions

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Dying is no fun and it never was. But adding doctor-assisted suicide into the mix only seems to have made things more complicated.
"At first glance the coin collection seemed unremarkable. The coins were from random countries all over the world and weren’t old, but neatly organized into coin sleeves."

Coin donation sets off treasure hunt with surprise ending

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“Come down right now and I’ll give you $1,500 an ounce for the gold. Pick up your cash!” said the gold dealer over the phone in an unusually direct manner. His voice reminded me of Danny DeVito from the 1970’s hit TV sitcom, Taxi.
OCY missionaries with their new Ford Focus, donated by Fr. Scott Burchill outside of Serra House. From left, Francis Yoo, Burchill, Veronica Stach and Andre Tyson.

Car donation a 'Godsend', gives mobility to youth missionaries

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Fr. Frank Portelli can attest that God works in mysterious ways. In his case, in the form of a 2007 Ford Focus.
Retired couple Mike and Jeanette Elliot from Toronto have been supporting Jerusalem Students since 2012 and are one of the few individual sponsors in the project. They are sitting in with a class from the Greek Catholic Patriarchate School.

Canadian sponsors reach out to Jerusalem school

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The Greek Catholic Patriarchate School in Jerusalem has been operating on a deficit for a long time. But thanks to a small charity run by Knights of Columbus, the school has a lifeline in Canada. 
The Biblical Archaeology Laboratory at St. Paul’s College, part of the University of Manitoba, is a partner with Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv in the excavation of the ancient city of Gath, the birthplace of the menacing giant from the David and Goliath story.

St. Paul’s has a tall order in Goliath ancient dig project

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For nine years, students from St. Paul’s College have been helping to uncover the life of Goliath, one piece of ancient pottery at a time.
The new centre will be open to all sorts of projects that arise among the students and faculty spread around the Toronto School of Theology.

Regis College to preserve a large part of the Scarboro's work

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Note: An earlier version of this story indicated that the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society would cease to exist by 2020.The article has been modified to more accurately reflect the Scarboro Missions plans for continuing their apostolate.

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