Feature Series Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:01:50 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Di Caprio takes us to environmental hell /item/12664-di-caprio-takes-us-to-environmental-hell /item/12664-di-caprio-takes-us-to-environmental-hell

{mosimage}The Redemptorist Fathers used to be famous for three-day parish retreats. Many of the older men in the order can tell stories of years they spent driving town to town, spending a week in each parish they visited concluding with a marathon of preaching.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:50:05 -0400 Northern culture threatened by melting ice caps /item/12663-northern-culture-threatened-by-melting-ice-caps /item/12663-northern-culture-threatened-by-melting-ice-caps

{mosimage}An ice-fisher from Sachs Harbour, NWT, and a sugar-cane farmer from the Fiji Islands have more in common than some may think.

]]> crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Features Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:45:05 -0400 Cap-and-trade system keeps markets honest /item/12662-cap-and-trade-system-keeps-markets-honest /item/12662-cap-and-trade-system-keeps-markets-honest

{mosimage}If capitalism can save the planet, itƵapp running out of time in Canada where market-based approaches to greenhouse gas reduction have yet to be tried.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:05:40 -0400 Kairos conference to tackle climate change /item/12661-kairos-conference-to-tackle-climate-change /item/12661-kairos-conference-to-tackle-climate-change

{mosimage}As — CanadaƵapp national, ecumenical social justice coalition — rolls out its newest campaign, suburbanite and activist Dorothy Wilson is excited.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:49:39 -0400 D&P: environmentalists from day one /item/12660-dp-environmentalists-from-day-one /item/12660-dp-environmentalists-from-day-one {mosimage}The has helped finance 49 projects or organizations around the world with an environmental focus between 2002 and 2007. ]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:11:24 -0400 St. StephenƵapp aims for zero waste /item/12659-st-stephen%E2%80%99s-aims-for-zero-waste /item/12659-st-stephen%E2%80%99s-aims-for-zero-waste

{mosimage}TORONTO - Wearing plastic gloves, Carolyn Tran remembers rooting through her schoolƵapp garbage with her classmates taking an inventory of all the discarded recyclables.

]]> crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Features Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:01:13 -0400 HPV vaccine could encourage sexual activity /item/12658-hpv-vaccine-could-encourage-sexual-activity /item/12658-hpv-vaccine-could-encourage-sexual-activity HPV.jpgOTTAWA - This fall, Catholic parents of girls from 10 to 13 years of age may face a quandary when schools in several provinces start offering a new vaccination program against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer. ]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Features Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:13:11 -0400 WorldƵapp poor feeling effects of climate change /item/12657-world%E2%80%99s-poor-feeling-effects-of-climate-change /item/12657-world%E2%80%99s-poor-feeling-effects-of-climate-change

{mosimage}ROCHESTER, N.Y. - When Hippolyt Pul was a young boy, farmers in his home country of Ghana often referred to the feast of the Ascension as “the feast of the bean leaf.”

]]> Features Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:26:13 -0400 Bible no source of scientific knowledge /item/12656-bible-no-source-of-scientific-knowledge /item/12656-bible-no-source-of-scientific-knowledge WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Intelligent Design reduces and belittles GodƵapp power and might, according to the director of the Vatican Observatory.

Science is and should be seen as “completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results, said Fr. George V. Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory, while noting that “science and religion are totally separate pursuits." ]]> Features Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:00:00 -0400 A truly dignified way to die /item/12655-a-truly-dignified-way-to-die /item/12655-a-truly-dignified-way-to-die When Marlene West faced her family to tell them about her plans regarding her death she got a surprise — tears and grasping for words that just wouldn’t come. ]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Features Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0500