TORONTO - St. Michael’s Hospital doesn’t want people to inject street drugs. But Toronto’s largest Catholic hospital believes some addicts should have access to a community-based safe injection site.

Ottawa, Ontario - Pope Francis offered prayers for the people touched by the tragic July 6 train derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, said the Vatican secretary of state.

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has launched a petition in support of a bill now before the Senate to create Pope John Paul II Day.

MONTREAL - Quebec must "rise again" and recover its traditional faith, Pope Francis told Quebec Archbishop Gerald Lacroix, who recently visited Rome.

TORONTO - As ShareLife's 2013 parish campaign rounds the final bend, parishioners are being asked to dig as deep as they can to help reach the $12.3 million goal.

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

OTTAWA - The Canadian government has condemned recent sectarian violence targeting Christians in Syria.

HAMILTON, ONT. - Although the wheels of administration are known to often turn slowly at the Vatican, all involved acknowledge that it was a particularly long process when, more than 80 years after the subject was first broached, the Cathedral of Christ the King in Hamilton finally received its designation as a minor basilica on Feb. 25 this year.

OTTAWA - After languishing a year in the Senate and a last ditch effort by prominent Liberal Senators to kill it, a bill to axe Section 13 from the Canadian Human Rights Act has received royal assent.

TORONTO - Although school's out for the summer the Toronto Catholic school board didn't miss the opportunity to celebrate Canada Day with its students, albeit a little early.