The winner is... Twelve-year old Agustin Andres Villegas is undecided if he should be an artist or an archeologist when he grows up. Meantime, we sure do dig his drawing.
Villegas鈥� portrait of the Resurrection is the colourful image we selected to grace the cover of The Register鱿鱼视频app 2011 Easter edition.
It was one of 370 entries submitted to the children鱿鱼视频app Easter drawing contest conducted by The Register and Joseph鱿鱼视频app Inspirational Inc.
TORONTO - Ann Perron, the Toronto Catholic District School Board鱿鱼视频app director of education, announced her retirement on April 14.During her tenure, Perron鱿鱼视频app accomplishments have included the 鈥渋mplementation of a balanced and sustainable multi-year budget plan, a review of school board governance and the initiation of a three-year pastoral plan to 鈥楴urture our Catholic Community Through Word, Worship and Witness,鈥� 鈥� the TCDSB said in a statement.
Perron began her career as a teacher with the board in 1983. She taught in elementary and high schools and also worked as an elementary school principal. She has served as the provincial co-ordinator for the Institute for Catholic Education. From there, she became a superintendent with the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario.
Perron also served as strategic advisor to the deputy minister of education in 2008. Perron returned to the Toronto board to take on the director of education role in March 2009.
The board is seeking a new director of education for September.
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TORONTO - The next generation of Canadian rabbis will be able to point to the Catholic roots of their training 鈥� or at least of their school. The Canadian Yeshiva and Rabbinical School will begin offering classes this fall in a classroom at the University of St. Michael鱿鱼视频app College Faculty of Theology, part of the Toronto School of Theology.Canada鱿鱼视频app future imams will have a similar story. A master鱿鱼视频app program in Muslim studies is taking shape at the United Church of Canada鱿鱼视频app seminary, Emmanuel College.
The Toronto School of Theology is reconsidering its mission statement so the consortium of seven Christian theological schools can accommodate the emerging interfaith reality.
The expansion beyond the boundaries of Christian faith is 鈥渢he right move at the right time,鈥� said TST director Alan Hayes.
SIAULIA, LITHUANIA - The Hill of Crosses in Lithuania is a unique travel destination, especially at Easter time.Three-and-a-half hours drive north from the capital Vilnus takes you to Siaulia. The pastoral scenery along the way is peacefully soothing. A little further turning left at a sign to Kryziu Kalnas, a country road will take you two kilometres to an unusual sight.
A hill, which in the past served as a military stronghold, is now a haven of peace. It strikes a musical chord of sad and happy sounds like a giant harp as the听 northeast wind blows. Thousands of small crosses rub the bases of big crosses, like plucking the strings of a harp. The sad sounds are a reminder of 1831-1863 when crosses were installed in memory of those who were exiled and murdered in Siberia for opposing Russia鱿鱼视频app Tsarist rule. These sounds continued loudly during the time of the Soviet regime, 1917-1990.
During the Soviet era, the crosses served as symbols against atheism. At the same time they spoke strongly for the sentiments of Lithuanian nationalism.
TORONTO - The Catholic Board Council of the Ontario Student Trustees鈥� Association has released a new social justice report urging Catholic students to become active in organizations promoting justice and service to marginalized groups.鈥�(The report) is trying to get the message across that social justice is such an integral way of making Catholic education come alive,鈥� said Olivia Suppa, president of the Catholic Board Council.
鈥淟et us live as Jesus wanted though nurturing the growth of Catholic leadership, and through opening our eyes and hearts to serve the victims of injustices in our communities, our country and our world,鈥� according to the online report entitled 鈥淪ocial Justice: Inspiring Active Citizenship in Catholic Education.鈥�
Members of the Catholic Board Council prepared the report over two years, with input from Catholic student trustees from across the province. The trustees call for an 鈥渁ctive鈥� component in the religion curriculum based 鈥渙n our call to act as responsible stewards of humanity.鈥� It also 鈥渆ncourages that local and global initiatives, outreach programs and positions related to social justice be included in religious education in the classroom, as well as integrated into the cultural life of the school community.鈥�
LONDON, Ont. - Sauro Camiletti has been appointed the new academic dean at King鱿鱼视频app University College at the University of Western Ontario. Effective July 1, the appointment follows an intense international search and a broad consultative process within the King鱿鱼视频app community.
鈥淚t is a great privilege to serve as a leader in an academic community that is recognized for the quality of its degree programs, the teaching ability and scholarship of its faculty, its Christian values and the services it provides its students,鈥� said Camiletti.
Human beings can鈥檛 choose to be political. We鈥檙e born that way. Politics is how we act together and human beings are fundamentally social. 鈥淭he political community and public authority are based on human nature,鈥� said the Second Vatican Council in its Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes). 鈥淎nd therefore they need belong to an order established by God. Nevertheless, the choice of the political regime and the appointment of rulers are left to the free decision of the citizens.鈥�
Those free decisions are supposed to bring us closer to justice, according to Pope Benedict XVI.
鈥淛ustice is both the aim and the intrinsic criterion of all politics,鈥� the Pope wrote in the 2005 encyclical Deus Caritas Est. 鈥淧olitics is more than a mere mechanism for defining the rules of public life. Its origin and its goal are found in justice.鈥�
TORONTO - A vocal group of Catholics loudly expressed its concerns that the Toronto Catholic school board鱿鱼视频app draft equity policy could undermine Catholic teachings on same-sex relationships.鱿鱼视频app 120 people attended the first equity policy public consultation at St. Mary鱿鱼视频app Catholic High School April 18 and heard four panellists speak on the equity policy, including Chris D鈥橲ouza, a former equity and diversity officer with the Dufferin Peel Catholic School Board.
The McGuinty government introduced its equity and inclusive education strategy prohibiting discrimination based upon race, religion, gender and sexual orientation in 2008. Boards are expected to implement equity policies this school year.
The Toronto Catholic District School Board鱿鱼视频app draft policy states that the board 鈥済ives pre-eminence to the tenets of the Catholic faith鈥� which are 鈥渃ongruent and compatible with the protections entrenched in the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Constitution Act 1982 and confirmed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.鈥�
Jesuit Fr. Gilles Mongeau has been cultivating an occassional community of artists who gather once or twice a year for an artists' liturgy. On the feast of St. Joseph, March 26, the artists' liturgy took the form of morning prayer from the Divine Office.
The singers contributing to this liturgy, and singing as you view these photographs, are the 46-member Cantores Celestes.
The amatuer women's choir has been singing together for 22 years, and over those years has raised more than $30,000 for charity. Singing for a liturgy rather than a concert allows the choir to connect with its repertoire of religious music in a very different way, said conductor Kelly Galbraith.
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Who would want to choose between the morality of indecision and fear versus the morality of blind, reckless gambles imposed on future generations? Whether we want it or not, the nuclear question awaits.
Canada鱿鱼视频app Nuclear Safety Commission began three weeks of hearings March 21 at Hope Fellowship Church in Courtice, Ont., on future plans for the Darlington Nuclear Station near Bowmanville, Ont., about 50 km east of Toronto. There are plans for four new nuclear reactors at the station on the shores of Lake Ontario.
鱿鱼视频app of written submissions were already before the nuclear regulator before the world was riveted to its television screens, watching Japan鱿鱼视频app Fukushima 50 (in fact, about 200 technicians and engineers) fight to keep their crippled nuclear power plant from killing hundreds of thousands of people in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunamis that struck Japan March 11.
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Who would want to choose between the morality of indecision and fear versus the morality of blind, reckless gambles imposed on future generations? Whether we want it or not, the nuclear question awaits.
Canada鱿鱼视频app Nuclear Safety Commission began three weeks of hearings March 21 at Hope Fellowship Church in Courtice, Ont., on future plans for the Darlington Nuclear Station near Bowmanville, Ont., about 50 km east of Toronto. There are plans for four new nuclear reactors at the station on the shores of Lake Ontario.
鱿鱼视频app of written submissions were already before the nuclear regulator before the world was riveted to its television screens, watching Japan鱿鱼视频app Fukushima 50 (in fact, about 200 technicians and engineers) fight to keep their crippled nuclear power plant from killing hundreds of thousands of people in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunamis that struck Japan March 11.
It鱿鱼视频app hard to know what will be decided in the May 2 election, but it鱿鱼视频app just as hard to imagine that Canadians will decide well unless we inject respect, sincerity, honesty and a few high-minded ideals into our political culture.
We can鈥檛 run a country on vitriolic rhetoric, political tactics and cheap-shot ads, said Christian think-tank director Peter Stockland. Looking at the latest attack ads turned Stockland鱿鱼视频app stomach.
鈥淚 was absolutely appalled that a government and a lot of people in that government would unleash something like that,鈥� said the director of the Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal. 鈥淲here鱿鱼视频app the charity?鈥�
The Conservative ads claim Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is dangerously soft on crime, and a Liberal government would make people unsafe in their homes and neighbourhoods.
St. Jerome鱿鱼视频app University took two steps toward peace between professors and administrators March 24 as a first contract between the faculty鱿鱼视频app union and the university and a plan to set up a senate-like body to oversee academic matters by May 2012 were ratified by the university鱿鱼视频app board of governors.The union contract will see St. Jerome鱿鱼视频app faculty keep pace with colleagues at the University of Waterloo in terms of salary and benefits. St. Jerome鱿鱼视频app is the Catholic college federated with the University of Waterloo.
It was how the school is governed, rather than money, that inspired the professors and librarians to seek union protection. But in the end, governance issues were not part of union negotiations.
A separate working group with representatives from the board of governors, administration and academic staff was struck to report on possible reforms to how St. Jerome鱿鱼视频app runs itself.
TORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board has cancelled its upcoming symposium on the province鱿鱼视频app equity policy, which was set to begin on March 26, with some hinting that it was because of a controversial keynote speaker.Board chair Ann Andrachuk denied that was the case, saying the cancellation was 鈥渁n issue with aligning panelists鈥� and that it would be rescheduled.
鈥淓verybody鱿鱼视频app got other commitments,鈥� she said.
But trustee John del Grande, in a March 23 newsletter to constituents, said that in addition to the scheduling conflict of panelists, some parents had raised concerns about a speaker, Chris D鈥橲ouza, a course director at the York University Faculty of Education. D鈥橲ouza is also a former equity and diversity officer with the Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board.