French for ‘Our Lady’, this Catholic cathedral of Montreal called Notre Dame richly deserves the same name as its more famous Parisian cousin. The church was designed in 1824 by an Irish-American Protestant, James O’Donnell.
The exterior facade is Gothic Revival and even though it was done in the early 19th century, it bears all [...]

St. Joseph’s Oratory, a large Catholic church atop Mont Royal in Montreal, is one of the most unusual religious structures in existence. It is so, not only because of the design, but owing to its history, as well.
A work of devotion by Brother Andre, a lay brother in the Holy Cross order, the present church [...]