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.

Members of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress are demanding that the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights more fully recognize abuses suffered by Ukrainians in Canada and in the former Soviet Union.

TORONTO - Ellen McIntrye fell in love with Holy Name Catholic School after she enrolled her daughter for kindergarten there in the 1980s. Today she’s teaching Grade 8 at Holy Name and looking forward to the east-end school’s 100th anniversary.

TORONTO - Though it took a few hours longer than expected, six members of the Makhoo family — Iraqi refugees sponsored by Toronto's Cardinal Thomas Collins — finally arrived in Canada May 23.

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

TORONTO - Three years ago, Rami Kaai took his family from Toronto to visit relatives in his Syrian birthplace of Al Hamidiya in the city of Homs.

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.

TORONTO - Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto officially turned 100 at a May 16 banquet that was a celebration of a century of helping the needy through its many agencies and volunteers.

QUEBEC CITY - More than 400 people, including Archbishops Gérald Lacroix of Quebec City and Christian Lépine of Montreal, marched peacefully to the Quebec National Assembly on May 18 to oppose government plans to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide.

TORONTO - Our Lady of Good Counsel parishioners came together over nine days of prayer to pay homage to the sometimes forgotten side of the Holy Trinity.