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Robert Brehl is a writer in Port Credit, Ont.

Bob Brehl gets up close with the Honda sports car he won in a raffle at Jays Care.

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One Saturday night years ago, my mother won a trip to Monaco and the French Riviera in a raffle. The next morning, I remember her putting more money in the collection plate than usual.

A portrait of Sister Catherine Cesnik is seen in a still from the Netflix documentary series "The Keepers." As Netflix prepared to release the seven-part documentary about the unsolved 1969 murder of a Baltimore nun, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore reaffirmed that the church did not attempt to interfere in the investigation of the death of Sister Catherine.

Comment: Nun鱿鱼视频app murder filled with unsettling twists in new Netflix series

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As a fan of murder mysteries, I was drawn to a new Netflix series entitled The Keepers, a true-crime story about the murder of a popular young nun who was a high school teacher in Baltimore.

As Mother's Day approaches, Bob Brehl writes about the unique bond between a mother and her child.

Comment: No bond is stronger than mother and child

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This being Mother鱿鱼视频app Day weekend, an editor asked if I鈥檇 like to write about it. Initially, I decided to pass because I鈥檝e written about my wonderful late mother many times.

Pope Francis is taking a lot of risk going to Egypt at a time of heightened violence and threats, writes Bob Brehl.

Comment: With Egypt trip, Pope is taking the risky road to send his message

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Whether opening a in Rome or in the Vatican, Pope Francis knows the power of symbolic messages.

Uncle Bill taught Bob Brehl the importance of family.

Comment: Uncle Bill brought out the best in family

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It鱿鱼视频app been said family can provide us with great strength and expose our greatest weaknesses. Or, as comedian George Burns once said: 鈥淗appiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.鈥�

Bob Brehl writes that the best way to tackle bigotry and the rising Islamophobia.

Comment: Education is the best way to tackle bigotry

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鈥淲hat good can this wretched intolerance and religious bigotry effect?鈥�

Pope Francis' recent discussion about the possibility of ordaining married priests is about math, not doctrine or politics.

Comment: Talk of married priests is all about the math

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The Pope鱿鱼视频app recent musings about the possibility of older, married men someday being ordained as priests is all about math, not theology, doctrine or politics.

Bob Brehl writes about the horrific but inspiring martyr story of Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas, the patron saints of mothers and expectant mothers.

Comment: Sts. Perpetua, Felicitas鈥� martyr story is both horrific, inspiring

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March 7 is the feast day for Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas 鈥� the patron saints of mothers and expectant mothers 鈥� and the story of these two courageous martyrs is appropriate to reflect upon.

People look at a poster expressing criticism of Pope Francis in Rome Feb. 5. Several copies of the poster were placed in the centre of Rome but were quickly covered by city authorities. Several copies of the poster were placed in the center of Rome; some were quickly covered by city authorities.

Comment: Plenty of smoke but no fire at the Vatican

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The headline on the front page of the New York Times last week about Donald Trump鱿鱼视频app key advisor was ominous: 鈥淪teve Bannon Carries Battles to Another Influential Hub: The Vatican.鈥�

Pope Francis talks with Fra Matthew Festing, grand master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 2016. Bob Brehl says there's more to the tension between the Vatican and Malta than meets the eye.

Comment: More to Malta Affair than meets the eye

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One must wonder whether the rather bizarre clash between the Vatican and the Knights of Malta 鈥� a Catholic humanitarian organization with diplomatic ties to more than 100 countries 鈥� is really about distributing condoms as part of an aid project.

A portrait of the Duke of Monmouth. The portrait is said to have been painted after his head was chopped off and sewn back on his body.

Comment: The duke with a detached look on his face

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On a family holiday in London earlier this month, I learned many fascinating stories while wandering the old town, but one involving the last Catholic king of England and his nephew may well have been the most captivating, so to speak.

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