Telling Truth in Charity:

Barb Fraze has been on both sides of story pitches. For years she was receiving them, when she served as international editor of the now-closed Catholic News Service in Washington. Today, as a freelance journalist, she sends pitches to editors. She is the 2023 recipient of the Catholic Media Association’s St. Francis de Sales Award, which recognizes “outstanding contributions to Catholic journalism.”

Laura Ieraci is editor of ONE magazine. Previously, she worked at Catholic News Service and Vatican Radio in Rome, Horizons of the Eparchy of Parma in the U.S., the Archdiocese of Montreal and the Catholic Times in Canada. She has freelanced widely and has won multiple journalism awards. She serves on the board of Canadian Catholic News and is the founder of The Religion & Journalism Project.

Paul Schratz has over 40 years’ experience in journalism, having worked as a reporter, photographer, editorial page editor, columnist, and editor at daily and weekly newspapers in Ontario and British Columbia. He started with the Archdiocese of Vancouver in 1997, serving at various times as communications director and editor of The B.C. Catholic, his current position. He is also editorial and outreach manager for Canadian Catholic News, overseeing news and social media strategies, fundraising, and outreach initiatives.

Joseph Sinasac, recently retired as publishing director of Novalis Publishing, has had a career in journalism and religious publishing spanning 45 years. He worked as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers before joining The Catholic Register in Toronto in 1995, where he was the publisher and editor until joining Novalis in 2009. He has authored three books and has served for many years in various roles on the board of the Catholic Media Association. He was inducted this year into the Association of Catholic Publishers’ Hall of Fame.

Peter Stockland has been the publisher and editor of The Catholic Register in Canada’s largest Catholic newspaper, since January 2022. He assumed direction of the Register, where he had been a freelance columnist for 12 years, after more than 40 years in newspapers and magazines across Canada. He is a former editor-in-chief of The Montreal Gazette, vice-president of English-language magazines for Reader’s Digest Canada, and co-founded Convivium magazine in 2011. He has published books of fiction and photo essays.