Funding cuts threaten Montreal Catholic newspaper's future

Montreal’s only English-language Catholic newspaper will cease monthly publication immediately and may close entirely next year due to funding cuts.

Catholic Times Editor Eric Durocher told The Catholic Register it’s been an “extremely difficult year” managing the paper after being hit with a $30,000 cut in funding from Pillars Trust Fund, which provides about half of the newspaper’s operating capital.
Losing the Times would lead to a “huge gap for English-speaking Catholics,” Durocher said, adding it would create a void for the rest of Canada without a Montreal-based Catholic newspaper.

“Newspapers report history in our times,” he said. “We lose the historical record” of Montreal’s Catholic community.

Read the full report in the Catholic Register