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The Marchands, Joe, Dawn and six-year-old twins Juno, left, and Hayden, at Layla’s cancer awareness marker. Joe donated a kidney to a four-year-old boy in honour of his stepdaughter Layla who died at age 12 from a rare form of cancer.

Organ donation honours late daughter

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After enduring the pain of losing a child to cancer, Joe Marchand was honoured to give the gift of life to another family.

Avelino and Eufemia Maranan will celebrate 67 years of marriage this year.

Faith at core of 66-year marital union

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Avelino Maranan’s courtship of his future wife Eufemia evokes the classic ending to the 1989 romantic comedy Say Anything…

Bill Mahoney, right, with Tom Carty, two former captains of the Peterborough Petes Junior ‘A’ team.

Coach knew what mattered

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Few great men know when to step away from something they love. Few fathers understand when it’s time to change teams and focus on family.

Carl Hetu.

It’s back to future as Hetu returns to Development and Peace

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The man who grew the Catholic Near East Welfare Association in Canada from zero to more than $5 million a year in donations is taking the helm at Canada’s Catholic development agency.

New bill puts conscience rights back in focus

New bill puts conscience rights back in focus

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Cardinal Thomas Collins has added his applause for a federal bill protecting conscience rights of health-care professionals who refuse participation in medically assisted suicide.

Virtual is RCIA’s reality again this year

Virtual is RCIA’s reality again this year

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There was a fleeting moment near the end of last year when Sandy Marshall thought restarting in-person Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) meetings would be possible in 2022.

Bishop Remi J. De Roo, shown speaking at St. Mark’s College in Vancouver in 2016.

Bishop De Roo was ‘a pilgrim of Vatican II’

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Canada’s last surviving Second Vatican Council father has died. Victoria Bishop Emeritus Remi De Roo was 97 years old when he reached his eternal rest on Feb. 1.

The ousting of Erin O’Toole as Conservative Party leader has been applauded by Canadian social conservatives.

Social conservatives cheer O’Toole demise

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While social conservatives crow over the demise of Erin O’Toole and begin trying to draft rookie MP Leslyn Lewis to take another run at the Conservative Party leadership, Liberals and other left-of-centre parties are more quietly smiling, political analysts have told The Catholic Register.

Trucks block a downtown Ottawa road as truckers and supporters take part in a convoy to protest the COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers. The protests led one parish to cancel Masses.

Ottawa basilica cancels Masses due to Freedom Convoy protest

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The Freedom Convoy ensnarling the nations’s capital has led to the cancellation of Masses in churches near downtown Ottawa.

Auxiliary Sister Suzanne Loiselle is pictured in a 2019 photo in Montreal. Sister Loiselle and five other members of the Auxiliary Sisters in Quebec live in a seniors residence that has been purchased and will be remodeled.

Montreal nuns intend to stand up against their eviction

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MONTREAL -- On Jan. 31, a bailiff knocked on the door of the 200-odd units of the Mont-Carmel Residence, a private seniors' residence in Montreal. Auxiliary Sister Suzanne Loiselle, five other of her sisters, and all the residents received a notice of eviction from him.

Diversity on the rise at Winter Olympics

Diversity on the rise at Winter Olympics

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Rudy Sylvan knows first-hand what it feels like to compete on the international stage.

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