Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:56:06 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb /features/catholic-education/item/11833-prairie-school-leads-student-on-path-to-holiness /features/catholic-education/item/11833-prairie-school-leads-student-on-path-to-holiness Bruno, Sask. - Nestled in the prairie community of Bruno, the , which offers a nine-month Catholic formation program for adults, is proving to be one of the first fruits of the new evangelization as it brings its students into a deep relationship with God.

Sylvie Quiring, a recent alumnus of St. Therese, said the schoolöÏÓãÊÓƵapp unique programming, with a strong emphasis on both personal sanctity and the duties of the apostolate as an outflow of this, has been an experience of total love and acceptance. ]]> Education Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:28:03 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11832-university-of-victoria-pro-life-group-wins-partial-victory-in-battle-with-student-union /features/catholic-education/item/11832-university-of-victoria-pro-life-group-wins-partial-victory-in-battle-with-student-union , the student pro-life organization at the University of Victoria, has regained its status as an official school club after being denied funding and recognition for the past two years.

The club filed a petition to the British Columbia Supreme Court against the University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS), which had withheld the cluböÏÓãÊÓƵapp grants, on May 3. In the petition, it requested its club status and funding be reinstated and that the Students’ Society declare the previous actions of denying it the same rights as other clubs illegal. The UVSS had been retaining grants to Youth Protecting Youth that all university clubs are entitled to on the grounds that the club violated the schoolöÏÓãÊÓƵapp regulations against harassment. ]]> Education Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:14:32 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11831-sr-prejean-says-compassion-must-go-to-guilty-as-well /features/catholic-education/item/11831-sr-prejean-says-compassion-must-go-to-guilty-as-well TORONTO - Sr. Helen Prejean, the American nun renowned for her opposition to the death penalty and for accompanying those about to die in their final steps, captivated a Toronto audience April 20 with the story of her continuing journey.

PrejeanöÏÓãÊÓƵapp first experience spiritually accompanying a convicted killer, Patrick Sonnier, was chronicled in a book and made into the 1995 feature film Dead Man Walking. ]]> carolyng@catholicregister.org (Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register) Education Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:07:46 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11830-university-pro-lifers-face-misconduct-charges /features/catholic-education/item/11830-university-pro-lifers-face-misconduct-charges CALGARY - Just five months after trespassing charges were stayed for members of a pro-life club at the University of Calgary, eight student members are now facing charges of non-academic misconduct.

The charges resulted from a Genocide Awareness Project display the group hosted April 8 and 9. Its display, which compares abortion to atrocities such as the Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust, had been hosted without incident eight times since 2006. On April 8, campus security allegedly asked the students to turn their signs inward or leave the campus grounds. They refused. ]]> crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Education Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:06:15 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11829-sr-helen-prejean-to-lecture-at-regis-college /features/catholic-education/item/11829-sr-helen-prejean-to-lecture-at-regis-college TORONTO - Well-known capital punishment opponent Sr. Helen Prejean, C.S.J., will be giving the inaugural lecture honouring the prison ministry of the late Fr. Martin Royackers, who was murdered in Jamaica nine years ago.

Royackers was 41 when he was gunned down in front of his parish in Annotto Bay, Jamaica. ]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:18:54 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11828-kings-college-opens-catholic-jewish-centre /features/catholic-education/item/11828-kings-college-opens-catholic-jewish-centre Dialogue interruptus may be the norm in a world crammed with distractions, but this interruption was 40 years.

]]> Education Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:18:41 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11827-st-jeromes-does-e-mail-fast /features/catholic-education/item/11827-st-jeromes-does-e-mail-fast {mosimage}On the campus of the university that helps fuel the world's instant communication addiction - e-mail all the time and everywhere courtesy of Blackberry phones - it might be something like heresy. But for staffer Jim Robson, giving up internal e-mails for a day is actually a spiritual exercise.

St. Jerome's had its first No E-mail Day Feb. 11 and held another March 11. The idea is that by fasting from internal e-mails, workers will be encouraged to actually talk to one another, said Robson.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Education Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:10:12 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11826-new-chancellor-at-st-jerome%E2%80%99s /features/catholic-education/item/11826-new-chancellor-at-st-jerome%E2%80%99s St. JeromeöÏÓãÊÓƵapp University has appointed Dr. Peter Naus as its next chancellor.
]]> Education Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:15:06 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11825-carleton-pro-life-group-is-granted-club-status /features/catholic-education/item/11825-carleton-pro-life-group-is-granted-club-status OTTAWA - Carleton Lifeline, a pro-life group at Ottawa's Carleton University, has been granted club status on campus despite a constitutional amendment banning "anti-choice" groups and actions approved by the student union in December.

]]> Education Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:55:28 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11824-protests-shut-down-lecture-series-on-muslim-threat /features/catholic-education/item/11824-protests-shut-down-lecture-series-on-muslim-threat WINDSOR, Ont. - A professor at Assumption University here was among those leading opposition to a controversial lecture series at Windsor's Campbell Baptist Church which depicted Islam as a religion of evil and a threat to Canadian values.

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