One of the greatest heroes in the Catholic Church in Canada is without doubt Monsignor Vincent N. Foy.

Monsignor Foy is a priest and canon lawyer of the Archdiocese of Toronto, a one-time head of the archdiocesan marriage tribunal, and a founder and Honorary Member of the Canadian Canon Law Society. He is the oldest priest in his Archdiocese and the only surviving priest of the class of 1939 of St. Augustine's Seminary.

For more than forty years, Monsignor Foy has fearlessly promoted and defended the teachings of the Church's Magisterium in a time of moral and doctrinal chaos in the Church in Canada. In particular, in the face of numerous obstacles and persecutions, Monsignor Foy has promoted and defended the teachings of the encyclical Humanae Vitae, teachings absolutely critical the "creation of a truly human civilization" (Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, 18). In carrying out this task, Monsignor Foy has been the number one voice in Canada calling for the revocal of the erroneous Winnipeg Statement, the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops' response to Humanae Vitae, which said that the Successor of St. Peter was wrong about the regulation of birth and that Catholics could practice contraception if their consciences told them so.