PETERBOROUGH, Ontario, June 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Peterborough Bishop Nicola De Angelis urged his priests during their annual retreat last Friday to inform the Catholics of the diocese of “the importance of supporting candidates in the upcoming federal election who declare themselves to be pro-life and in favour of the traditional family”. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com today Bishop de Angelis confirmed that his use of the term “supporting candidates”“means more than voting” and involves “many things” such as “campaigning and so on”.
There are 100 active priests in the Peterborough diocese which consists of 41 parishes and 30 mission churches.