Catholic Register Staff

Catholic Register Staff

DENVER - The Catholic Register has won the prestigious John P. Foley Award for excellence in Catholic journalism.

CHARLOTTETOWN - Bishop J. Vernon Fougere, the former bishop of the Prince Edward Island diocese of Charlottetown, passed away in a Charlottetown hospital June 18. He was 71.

More than 5,000 people in Toronto on an average night sleep outdoors, in church basements, on buses, in shelters and in coffee shops. But staff at St. Michael’s Hospital didn’t have to go that far to find the homeless.

Every life is sacred and Catholics should pray that God is merciful to Henry Morgentaler, said a statement from Canada's bishops conference.

TORONTO - An attempt to ban gay-straight alliances in Toronto Catholic schools has failed.

Updated 05/27/13

TORONTO - The Catholic Civil Rights League has chosen pro-life activist, writer and editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk, CSB, as winner of this year’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life.

OTTAWA - Canada's Catholic bishops have joined with leaders from the 23 other members of the Canadian Council of Churches in writing the Prime Minister to express concerns about the "humanitarian tragedy" in Syria and other Mideast issues.

A Marian order priest on the cusp of returning to Canada within a week was shot and killed in Haiti's capital April 25.

OAKVILLE, ONT. - Two years after Rogers Sportsnet fired anchor Damian Goddard after he penned a tweet in support of traditional marriage, he says the incident has made him the man he is today, and he’s launching a new online venture to prove it.