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Church mourns loss of ‘a simple priest’

Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:30:00 -0400

MONTREAL - He was a cardinal with a common touch, a street-smart Montrealer who used the media effectively, peppered sermons with references to his beloved Montreal Canadiens, returned his Order of Canada on principle and humbly served his community at soup kitchens and blood donor clinics.

��Ƶapp of clergy, laity mourn Turcotte, 'cardinal of the working people'

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:00:00 -0400

MONTREAL - It was dignified and unpretentious, a funeral fit for Montreal's popular Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte.

Crowd gathers early to pay final respects to Cardinal Turcotte

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:00:00 -0400

MONTREAL - At dawn April 16, before the doors had even opened at 7 a.m., a small crowd and three television crews had already gathered outside Mary Queen of the World Cathedral to pay their respects to Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte.

Cardinal Turcotte remembered for his 'joie de vivre'

jean.kodin@catholicregister.org (Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register) — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:30:00 -0400

Hours after his death April 8, Montreal Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte was praised by Quebec City Cardinal Gérald Cyprian Lacroix and the emeritus archbishop of Quebec, Maurice Couture, for his "joie de vivre" and for a communication style that invited open dialogue.

Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte dead at 78

crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 08:19:47 -0400

MONTREAL - Montreal's cardinal of the people, Archbishop Emeritus Jean-Claude Turcotte, is dead.

The popular cardinal, who served as Montreal's archbishop for 22 years, died April 8 in Montreal��Ƶapp Marie-Clarac Hospital.

Cardinal Turcotte falls gravely ill

crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:20:00 -0400

The people of the Archdiocese of Montreal have been asked to pray for popular Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte as he lies ill in hospital.

Canadian cardinals cite Pope Francis' holiness, concern for poor

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:06:15 -0400

VATICAN CITY - Montreal's Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, speaking of newly elected Pope Francis, said he was "always struck by that man, who is a holy man, a man of prayer."

Could a Canadian be the next pope?

ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:00:00 -0500

Cardinal Ouellet high on many lists to succeed Benedict XVI

Pope knights Canadian Jew and 96-year-old Jesuit

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:50:12 -0400

MONTREAL - It is rare to meet a real-life knight today. It is even rarer to meet someone knighted by the Pope. So it is truly extraordinary to meet a papal knight — who is also Jewish.

Canada can now boast of one Jewish papal knight. Montreal interfaith pioneer Victor Goldbloom was welcomed into the Vatican��Ƶapp Order of St. Sylvester on May 10 at a reception organized by the Canadian Centre for Ecumenism.

Montreal Auxiliary Bishop Christian Lépine succeeds Cardinal Turcotte as archbishop of Montreal

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:30:41 -0400

OTTAWA - Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, who reached retirement age last June, and appointed Christian Lépine to succeed him as Archbishop of Montreal.

Named last July as auxiliary Bishop of Montreal, Lépine, 60, was ordained to the episcopacy last September with auxiliary Bishop Thomas Dowd. His installation will take place on April 27.

The archbishop-elect served as director of the Grand Seminary of Montreal from 2000 until 2006, and since 2006 as pastor for two parishes in the diocese before becoming an auxiliary bishop. With degrees in theology from the University of Montreal, and philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Lépine also served for a year in the Vatican's Secretariat of State and for a year in the Congregation for Divine Worship.