Winnipeg Statement Turcotte later announced that he was returning his award of the same order over the affair. Moreover, the bishops generally advocate pro-life views through the Catholic Organization for Life and Family, the official episcopal agency dedicated to life issues. Winnipeg Statement The Winnipeg Statement is the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops' statement on the encyclical "Humanae vitae" from a plenary assembly held at Saint Boniface in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Published on September 27, 1968, it is the Canadian bishops' controversial document about Pope Paul VI's July 1968 encyclical on human life and the regulation of birth. Some bishops within the Catholic
Winnipeg Statement gained and much lost by an attempt to rephrase what we have said in Winnipeg. We stand squarely behind our position but we feel it is our duty to insist on a proper interpretation of that position." They added: In 1998, the Canadian bishops voted by secret ballot on a resolution to retract the Winnipeg Statement. It did not pass. Calls for retraction continue, though some see the Canadian bishops' December 1, 1973, document, "Statement on the Formation of Conscience", as evidence that they were trying to distance themselves from the Winnipeg Statement. In 2008, the Canadian bishops issued a