Editing Catherine Doherty (section)

== Madonna House ==
{{Main|Madonna House Apostolate}}
Catherine's marriage and her broader vision of the apostolate were sources of painful disagreement between the Friendship House staff and its foundress.<ref>Duquin, 199-232</ref> Catherine and Eddie withdrew to Combermere, Ontario, Canada with the intention of retiring, but once again, people came to join her. A new apostolate called Madonna House came into being. It would prove to be the most lasting and most fruitful phase of her work.

The community grew into an apostolic family of laymen, laywomen, and priests, breathing from the "two lungs," East and West, of the Catholic Church<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gugliemi |first=Donald |title=Staritsa: the Spiritual Motherhood of Catherine Doherty |publisher=Pickwick Publications |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-4982-8940-5 |location=Eugene, OR |pages=xiv-xv}}</ref> and offering a vision of the gospel lived out in everyday life. In 2022 the Madonna House Apostolate numbered over 200 members, with foundations in Canada and the United States, Europe, Russia, and the West Indies. At the training center in Combermere, guests share the life of the community, learning a Christian family spirit and to incarnate the gospel in everyday life.<ref>Gugliemi. xvii</ref>

Catherine de Hueck Doherty died in Combermere on December 14, 1985, at the age of 89. The cause for her [[canonization]] has been officially opened in the Catholic Church and she has been given the title Servant of God.