MONTREAL – The Archdioceses of Montreal has confirmed that 78-year-old cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte has been in palliative care for the past 48 hours.
The cardinal was hospitalized at the end of last summer and his health has since deteriorated.
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Turcotte was the Archbishop of Montreal for over two decades from 1990 to 2012.
He was famous for being a charismatic, approachable figure – a man of the people.
He oversaw churches closing, sex abuse scandals and upheavals caused by the population’s growing disaffection with the church.
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