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One of the 13 replica statues of the International Pilgrim of Fatima that will be coming to Toronto in October.

Fatima Pilgrim Image coming to Toronto

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TORONTO – Today, millions of pilgrims from around the world travel to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal each year to venerate the statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And in a way, the statue has made its own pilgrimage around the world to meet with the faithful.

Workers lined up to receive a commemorative holy medal from St. Michael’s rector Fr. Michael Busch. A thanksgiving Mass for workers capped off the five-year, $128-million renovation of St. Michael’s Cathedral, Friday, Sept. 30.

Thanksgiving Mass for workers caps off St. Michael's five-year, $128-million renovation

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Derval Edwards started out four years ago on his knees underneath St. Michael’s Cathedral excavating the crawlspace one bucket of dirt and rubble at a time. On Friday, Cardinal Thomas Collins gave him a medal.

Volunteers prepare the Thanksgiving dinners for patrons of the Good Shepherd Centre in downtown Toronto. The Good Shepherd has recently turned to social media in efforts to raise money for its programs. The hashtag #FastTurkey is aiming to raise $10,000.

Good Shepherd makes leap to social media for fundraising

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TORONTO – Come Thanksgiving Day, everybody eats — including the homeless. This year Toronto’s Good Shepherd Centre is asking you to skip lunch for one day and donate what you would have spent so the poor and homeless of Toronto can eat a Thanksgiving Day feast.

In front of a full-house, Cardinal Michael Collins rededicated St. Michael's Cathedral Sept. 30, capping off a five-year, 168-million restoration.

St. Michael’s Cathedral rededicated, declared a basilica

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“This is holy ground,” Cardinal Thomas Collins declared as he rededicated St. Michael’s Cathedral, capping off a five-year, $128 million restoration of the 168-year-old home of Toronto’s Catholics.

The first photo published of the newly reopened St. Michael's Cathedral as seen on Sept. 29.

St. Michael’s Cathedral is back in action

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TORONTO – After six years under construction, St. Michael's Cathedral is once again ready to welcome its flock on a daily basis.

Installing the new roof at St. Elias Ukrainian Catholic Church. The new church was to be consecrated Oct. 1.

Brampton's St. Elias rises out of the ashes

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BRAMPTON, ONT. – The material world is temporary, and the congregation at St. Elias Ukrainian Catholic Church knows this better than most.

After a 6-year $128-million renovation, Toronto's St. Michael's Cathedral finally reopens.

Refurbished St. Michael's Cathedral resumes its place in the heart of Toronto

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TORONTO – Following a six-year, $128-million renovation St. Michael’s Cathedral is finally ready to open its doors, rededicate its altar and give thanks to God for its new life in the heart of Toronto.

Deborah Zago of Burlington, Ont., was on her deathbed but she believes that through faith and the healing powers of a stone from the crypt of Toronto’s first bishop, Michael Power, she was given a new lease on life. She is one of 18 people claiming miraculous cures due to stones from Bishop Power’s crypt.

Cancer patients attribute cures to rocks from St. Michael's founding bishop's crypt

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TORONTO – The statistical probabilities behind praying your way out of stage-four cancer aren’t good. When you’re too skinny, too weak and hallucinating half the time, when friends and family come round to your house and just cry, when unsmiling doctors want to talk to you in the quiet, pastel-coloured room at the end of the hall — you don’t make any long-term plans.

Casandra Diamond, a former sex worker, talks about the importance of having counselling and a safe place to go after leaving the prostitution, Sept. 18.

Covenant House’s safe place for sex trafficked opens

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TORONTO – When Casandra Diamond left “the game” 11 years ago she cried every day for about three months.

John Bentley Mays, a former columnist for The Catholic Register, passed away suddenly on Sept. 19.

Former Register columnist passes away suddenly

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TORONTO – Cultural critic, intellectual pilgrim and fearless explorer of his own soul, John Bentley Mays died suddenly and peacefully while walking with friend and fellow-writer Philip Marchand Sept. 19.

Basilian superior general Fr. George Smith was joined by pastor Fr. Chris Valka and 12 fellow Basilian Fathers at St. Basil's Chuch on Sept. 14 to celebrate the parish's 160th anniversary.

For 160 years, St. Basil’s has bridged two worlds

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TORONTO – For many of its 160 years, St. Basil’s parish has been a meeting place between the financial district represented by Bay Street and the collegiate atmosphere of the University of St. Michael’s College campus at the University of Toronto.

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