The Catholic Register - Guest Columns Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:17:20 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Let parents make religious decision for kids /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10210-let-parents-make-religious-decision-for-kids /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10210-let-parents-make-religious-decision-for-kids EditorƵapp note: In September 2008 the Quebec government will replace the options in religious and moral education in public schools by the imposition of a single multi-religious course of ethics and religious culture along with the forbiddance, in public but not private schools, of all confessional religious education. This commentary on the issue is written by Jean Morse-Chevrier, president of the Catholic Parents Association of Quebec and first published in Le Devoir on June 4 in French. The author provided this English translation to The Catholic Register.
 ]]> Guest Columns Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:11:32 -0400 We must do more to share the wealth /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10209-we-must-do-more-to-share-the-wealth /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10209-we-must-do-more-to-share-the-wealth Forget not the widow, the orphan, and slave
O God please remember the helpless today
Call on Your children repairing the breach
There is no place too far that Your mercy can’t reach.
                           - , recording artist

This weekƵapp mail brought the annual status report on the child we support through . She lives in Haiti, the poorest and most densely populated country in the Western Hemisphere.
]]> Guest Columns Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:09:15 -0400 Another sacrament for todayƵapp youth? /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10208-another-sacrament-for-today%E2%80%99s-youth%3F /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10208-another-sacrament-for-today%E2%80%99s-youth%3F Having taken the current set of Grade 8 students from my parish through Confirmation some insights on the process came to light. I suppose this could be considered a good news/bad news account.
]]> Guest Columns Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:28:52 -0400 LetƵapp try to get it right /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10207-let%E2%80%99s-try-to-get-it-right /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10207-let%E2%80%99s-try-to-get-it-right It seems increasingly odd that we should have difficulty getting informed news reports and commentary on religion in the mainstream media. After all, as virtually everyone concedes, religion is news, although largely bad news it would seem.
]]> Guest Columns Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:01:48 -0400 Joseph: an unsung superhero /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10231-joseph-an-unsung-superhero /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10231-joseph-an-unsung-superhero {mosimage}What qualities constitute a real man in the early 21st century? What model could a modern dad look to for inspiration and guidance to get him through challenging times? These are meaningful questions in Canada 2007, amid the ongoing attacks on the traditional family, and we need to look no further for our model than St. Joseph, foster father to Our Lord.
]]> Guest Columns Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:02:02 -0400 ThereƵapp nothing God can’t use /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10206-there%E2%80%99s-nothing-god-can%E2%80%99t-use /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10206-there%E2%80%99s-nothing-god-can%E2%80%99t-use {mosimage}“One is closer to God in a garden than anywhere else on earth” goes the old saying. I have always known this. But I hadn’t particularly thought of the divine in connection with compost until I read God of Surprises.
]]> Guest Columns Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:53:09 -0400 TurkeyƵapp reality check: the true Islam /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10205-turkey%E2%80%99s-reality-check-the-true-islam /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10205-turkey%E2%80%99s-reality-check-the-true-islam {mosimage}Current events in a country bridging Europe and Asia are offering an important object lesson about the Muslim world: it is not monolithic and there are significant forces for religious pluralism and democracy within it.
]]> Guest Columns Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:49:12 -0400 Time to end discrimination against educational minorities /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10204-time-to-end-discrimination-against-educational-minorities /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10204-time-to-end-discrimination-against-educational-minorities The Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats are in agreement on maintaining OntarioƵapp public funding for two education systems: public and Catholic.  One key question I still have today: why should Catholics get full funding and no other religious groups get any public support?
]]> Guest Columns Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:09:18 -0400 Miracles really do happen every day /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10203-miracles-really-do-happen-every-day /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10203-miracles-really-do-happen-every-day Nobody likes to wait. Especially for a medical diagnosis and treatment.

ThatƵapp what my husband and I were doing this past month.
]]> Guest Columns Fri, 25 May 2007 01:08:52 -0400 Priestly fiction /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10202-priestly-fiction /opinion/guest-columnists/item/10202-priestly-fiction If you want to find a cipher for societyƵapp attitude toward the Roman Catholic priest, look to the priest figure in fiction and popular culture. ]]> Guest Columns Tue, 22 May 2007 02:57:09 -0400