Feature Series Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:05:33 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Public education should respect all religions /item/12680-public-education-should-respect-all-religions /item/12680-public-education-should-respect-all-religions

{mosimage}EditorƵapp note: With the growth of ethnic and religious diversity in Canada, there is a growing debate over religious education and whether it should be supported with tax dollars. In this essay, Peter Lauwers analyses the debate and offers a cogent argument for state funding of religious education.

]]> Features Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:13:37 -0500 Report sets stage for closer relations between Catholics, Anglicans /item/12679-report-sets-stage-for-closer-relations-between-catholics-anglicans /item/12679-report-sets-stage-for-closer-relations-between-catholics-anglicans

TORONTO - Church unity hasn’t happened yet, but Catholics and Anglicans have a new list of concrete suggestions for ways to bring the two churches closer.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:11:16 -0500 Private health a question of ethics /item/12678-private-health-a-question-of-ethics /item/12678-private-health-a-question-of-ethics

{mosimage}The market won’t save Canadian medicine, and leaders who are suggesting private health insurance and a parallel system of private clinics and hospitals are ignoring the scientific evidence, said a Catholic doctor.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:19:34 -0400 St. MikeƵapp grad ‘honoured’ by 9/11 memorial /item/12677-st-mike%E2%80%99s-grad-%E2%80%98honoured%E2%80%99-by-9/11-memorial /item/12677-st-mike%E2%80%99s-grad-%E2%80%98honoured%E2%80%99-by-9/11-memorial

{mosimage}On June 10, 2006, the unveiling of the who had given their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Centre disaster took place. The New York Times described the memorial as “ bold, literal, almost neo-classical.” One important onlooker was University of St. MichaelƵapp College graduate, , a liturgical artist and restoration specialist whose firm created the memorial.

]]> Features Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:53:12 -0400 An election guide for Catholic voters /item/12676-an-election-guide-for-catholic-voters /item/12676-an-election-guide-for-catholic-voters

{mosimage}EditorƵapp note: On Oct. 10, Ontario voters will return to the polls to choose a provincial government. In the run-up to the election, there will be numerous “election guides” issued by many different interest groups to highlight their particular concerns. While they all have their importance, The Catholic Register is using this opportunity to highlight the 2007 Election Guide issued by Catholic Charities of the archdiocese of Toronto.

]]> Features Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:10:42 -0400 Safe injection sites may fall to ideology /item/12675-safe-injection-sites-may-fall-to-ideology /item/12675-safe-injection-sites-may-fall-to-ideology {mosimage}An Evangelical Christian scientist, with the support of 134 scientists and public health officials, has challenged the federal government to either continue funding a safe injection site for drug addicts in Vancouver or admit ideology and not science is behind its decision to close down the three-year old .

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:37:52 -0400 Leadership needed /item/12674-leadership-needed /item/12674-leadership-needed {mosimage} There is a powerful moral imperative for politicians of this generation when it comes to the environment. It is a call for leadership, for a consequential change in the way our society relates to nature — for a society that may not yet want it.

]]> Features Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:12:38 -0400 Spirituality connected to the Earth /item/12672-spirituality-connected-to-the-earth /item/12672-spirituality-connected-to-the-earth {mosimage}Ecotheology, a spirituality deeply connected to nature, reverence for the Earth, a strong conviction that the environmental crisis is a religious crisis of faith and morals — none of this should seem exotic, revolutionary or unorthodox to practising Catholics, according to University of St. MichaelƵapp College liturgy professor Chris McConnell. In fact, it should be as familiar as the Mass.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:30:05 -0400 Forest project keeps space green /item/12671-forest-project-keeps-space-green /item/12671-forest-project-keeps-space-green {mosimage} The resurrection of an old-growth forest is growing one square metre at a time.

The Jesuit Collaborative for Ecology, Agriculture and Forestry started fund-raising for the Old Growth Forest Project in November 2006 and has raised $70,000, half in the $20 for a square metre donation. One anonymous donor sponsored $35,000 worth of square metres.

]]> Features Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:26:02 -0400 Spiritual journey includes love of the land /item/12670-spiritual-journey-includes-love-of-the-land /item/12670-spiritual-journey-includes-love-of-the-land {mosimage}GUELPH, Ont. - In a recent Ignatius Loyola News newsletter, Fr. Jim Profit, S.J., wrote, “After working in the garden all day, I felt tired, stiff and sore, yet completely revived and bore my dirty fingernails with pride. Working with soil is an experience of the soul for me…. There is something about this land that invites the experience of community, life and God.”

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