EDMONTON – The Phoenix Multi-Faith Society for Harmony has won the Edmonton City Police's first annual award for contributions in combating hate in Edmonton and Alberta.

A modest, shy man, Oblate Brother Anthony Kowalczyk must be puzzled by all the fuss the Church and the faithful are making about him.

Following an extensive review of the operations of Camp Encounter and Our Lady of Victory Camp, the two archdiocesan summer camps are now under the jurisdiction of the Edmonton Archdiocese through the office of Youth Evangelization.

OTTAWA – A new study on income-splitting shows how different family types can achieve tax fairness – so families with dual-income earners or a single-income will pay the same amount of tax.

VATICAN CITY – Amid widespread speculation about a complete and quick reorganization of Vatican departments and rumours in the Italian media that Pope Francis was going to close the Vatican bank, a top Vatican official told everyone to calm down.

Susan Griffiths' highly-publicized assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic April 25 should not prompt Canada to change its laws, says Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

Perhaps the most important traditional Catholic teaching that received new life at the Second Vatican Council was that of the hierarchy of truths. The Decree on Ecumenism, no. 11, presented the notion that some truths are more central than others.

Bishop Angelo Spina of Sulmona-Valva, Italy, holds snakes used to cover a wooden statue of St. Dominic, before a procession of the statue in Cocullo May 1.

People are courageous in pursuing their careers, personal ambitions and jealousies, but they really should be using that courage to believe in the resurrected Christ, pray to him and spread the Gospel, Pope Francis said.

Meeting at the Vatican May 3, Pope Francis and Lebanese President Michel Sleiman called on the international community to offer concrete aid to Lebanon and other countries hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria.