{mosimage} When Fr. Eugene Funken was faced with 10 orphans whose homes had burned down in St. Agatha, Ont., in 1858, he started a charity.
When Sonya Pouyat took over leadership of Funken鱿鱼视频app charity in the midst of 鈥渟lash and burn鈥� Ontario government policies in the 1990s, she started a business.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush June 20 vetoed a bill to expand federal funding for medical research on human embryonic stem cells, saying it 鈥渨ould compel American taxpayers, for the first time in our history, to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos.鈥�
The state of our environment has captured the attention of Canadian investors.
A Harris/Decima poll of more than 2,000 Canadians for found 56 per cent thought environmental considerations are an important part of socially responsible investment decisions. Environment out-polled such traditional ethical investment factors as alcohol and tobacco at 43 per cent, and weapons at 53 per cent. Only substandard human rights practices at 70 per cent and child labour named by 79 per cent were more likely to determine ethical investment decisions.
TORONTO - Grade 9 students at Pope John Paul II Catholic Secondary School probably won鈥檛 learn anything about Bali in their geography class this week. The Indonesian island might get a passing mention from their science teacher, but it鱿鱼视频app not on the exam. But in religion class, Bali will definitely be a focus.
When the news broke early in 2007 that a new vaccine (Gardasil) was available that would protect young girls from the effects of the human papillomavirus (HPV), the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute issued a press report outlining our objections to the way in which this vaccine was being promoted. In the United States, some states had urged mandatory vaccination for girls from Grade 6 onwards. The main reason given was that HPV has been shown to be one of the causes of cervical cancer in women.
It鱿鱼视频app 93 years since the first apparition of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children, Jacinta, Lucia and Francisco, at Fatima, Portugal. Mary appeared six times entrusting to the youngsters three 鈥渟ecrets.鈥� The first two, when revealed, urged the necessity of prayer and sacrifice so that Russia and the forces of atheism could be converted. At the last apparition, thousands witnessed the miracle promised to the three children: the sun, resembling a silver disc, could be gazed at without difficulty and, whirling on itself like a wheel of fire, seemed about to fall upon the Earth. Since that time pilgrims, now up to seven million per year, have thronged to Fatima for prayers of petition and seeking miracles. Pope Benedict XVI will be one of them, making his first visit to Fatima May 13.
{mosimage}MONTREAL - What kind of society won鈥檛 admit religion? Apparently Canada.
Douglas Farrow believes Canada鱿鱼视频app grand experiment in multiculturalism is doomed. Or rather that it dooms its citizens to cultural relativism, a moral quagmire and the absence of true community.
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TORONTO - It appears most Catholic school boards in Ontario are on board with the province's plans to vaccinate girls against the HPV virus. It's predicted the vaccine will reduce cervical cancer rates by 70 per cent.
{mosimage}Editor鱿鱼视频app note: The following is an excerpt from the article, 鈥淎 Peace to Keep in Afghanistan,鈥� by Ernie Regehr, a senior policy advisor for Project Ploughshares, an ecumenical advocacy group for peace and disarmament. It is a response to the Manley Report on the future of Canada鱿鱼视频app military involvement in Afghanistan. The entire article can be found on the organization鱿鱼视频app web site, .
The final report of the Independent Panel on Canada鱿鱼视频app Future Role in Afghanistan (Manley Panel, 2008) reinforced a prominent misperception in the current debate over the role of Canadian forces in Afghanistan, namely that 鈥渢here is not yet a peace to keep in Afghanistan.鈥� In large areas of the country, essentially the northern half, there is indeed a peace to keep. To be sure, it is a fragile peace, but if it is not protected, built upon and genuinely nurtured it will yet be lost.
{mosimage}TORONTO - When Michael Schmidt and Vanessa Nicholas got engaged they decided they wanted to symbolize their commitment ethically 鈥� with a socially and ecologically just ring.
TROMSO, Norway - Norway鱿鱼视频app Catholic parish of Var Frue Kirke (The Church of Our Lady) in Tromso may well be the most northerly Catholic church and most northerly Catholic cathedral in the world. It鱿鱼视频app located 400 kilometres inside the Arctic Circle, at a latitude of almost 70 degrees, similar to Siberia. (There鱿鱼视频app a Catholic mission house in the Canadian hamlet of Arctic Bay, Nunavut, at a latitude of over 73 degrees, but technically it鱿鱼视频app not a church).