Ontario Vincentians have sent more than their sympathy to citizens of Lac Mégantic, Que.

TORONTO - In Toronto and around the world people commemorated the 68th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons ever used against a civilian population — the atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945.

OTTAWA - Bishop Charles Valois, Bishop emeritus of Saint-Jérôme, died on Aug. 4 at the age of 89.

Below is the homily of Pope Francis during Mass July 24 at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida. 

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.

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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.