{mosimage}Editor鱿鱼视频app 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.
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Report sets stage for closer relations between Catholics, Anglicans
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Church unity hasn鈥檛 happened yet, but Catholics and Anglicans have a new list of concrete suggestions for ways to bring the two churches closer.
{mosimage}The market won鈥檛 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.
St. Mike鱿鱼视频app grad 鈥榟onoured鈥� by 9/11 memorial
By Lorraine M. Williams, Catholic Register Special{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 鈥� bold, literal, almost neo-classical.鈥� One important onlooker was University of St. Michael鱿鱼视频app College graduate, , a liturgical artist and restoration specialist whose firm created the memorial.
{mosimage}Editor鱿鱼视频app 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 鈥渆lection guides鈥� 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.
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.
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Editor's note: As concern for the environment raises new heights, it's worth exploring what Christians are doing about the crisis, and what Christian theology has to say. This package of stories highlights some of the ways Christians, particularly Roman Catholics, are grappling with the issue.