Religious Education
Written on 19 Sep, 2018 at 8:23 in
John Carpay, Religious Education, Society & Culture | Author:
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Canada in 2018 is still a relatively safe space for practicing Christians. Especially when compared to Pakistan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, where churches are burned, bombed or banned. Or China, which persecutes believers who attend authentic Christian churches free from government control.
Canada’s velvet totalitarianism is such that the British Columbia government did not resort to dungeon, fire, or sword to shut down a ... (Continue reading)
The background
Pope Paul VI
There was a great deal of moral tumult in 1968. The sexual revolution was in full swing, with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner declaring the year before, “I am in the center of the world.” Canada legalized divorce and was on the verge of legalizing contraception and homosexual acts, and permitting abortion-on-demand. Three years earlier, in the Griswold decision, the United ... (Continue reading)
Editors’ note: These are excerpts from the encyclical Humane Vitae.
God’s Loving Design
Married love particularly reveals its true nature and nobility when we realize that it takes its origin from God, who “is love,” the Father “from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.”
Marriage, then, is far from being the effect of chance or the result of the blind evolution of natural forces. It is in reality ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Jun, 2018 at 9:16 in
Pro-Life, Religious Education, Sex Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns Trustee Helena Karabela
The Halton Catholic District School Board suspended its sanctity of life policy which prohibits student organizations and its 50 schools from fundraising for “any charities or non-profits that publicly support, either directly or indirectly, abortion, contraception, sterilization, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell research,” following pressure from the Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne and student protests against the pro-life requirement.
In February, the HCDSB voted 5-4 to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Sep, 2017 at 11:32 in
Religion, Religious Education | Author:
Joe Bissonnette Like the still, small, voice beyond the raging storm, the Wojtyla Summer Institute for Teachers, at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in Barry’s Bay, Ont., did not set out to dazzle or even impress, but rather, quietly resonate. Every year in mid-August, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College hosts a three-day seminar for Catholic teachers as nourishment and fortification for the coming school year. This year, more than 50 teachers gathered to consider the importance of beauty in forming ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Sep, 2017 at 11:07 in
Human rights, Religious Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Lianne Laurence Special to The Interim Supreme Court Justice Richard Wagner says he didn’t mean to exclude LGBTQ groups when he culled the list of associations wanting to intervene in a pivotal religious freedom case that Canada’s top court will hear at the end of the year.
That case concerns Trinity Western University’s proposed law school, which allegedly would discriminate against homosexuals because it requires its students sign a community covenant that includes agreeing to refrain from any sexual relationship “that violates the sacredness of marriage between ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Aug, 2017 at 14:46 in
Issues, Religious Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Dan Di Rocco For the past 16 years The Interim has been fighting climate change; not the fake kind allegedly impacting our planet, but rather the genuine intellectual pollution that brings on confusion and undermines true education, so crucial to the formation of an informed and honest citizenry.
Our secular state, in the name of tolerance and modernization demands a secular approach toå education for its citizens in a pluralistic and democratic Canada. At the same time, the role of the classroom teachers is ... (Continue reading)
Dr. Scott Masson
Dr. Scott Masson is an associate professor of English at Tyndale University College in Toronto. He was the founding chairman of the Westminster Classical Christian Academy. His articles and commentary have been published in numerous journals, newspapers and magazines. Dr. Masson will soon be launching a news aggregator website at www.veracrux.com
He is a husband and father of two.
Campaign Life Coalition interviewed him in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Dec, 2016 at 18:23 in
Religion, Religious Education, Sex Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Analysis Dan Di Rocco Limited space permits just a brief consideration in these pages of the Institute for Catholic Education’s Catholic lens of the controversial 2015 Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum document for Ontario schools. For a detailed treatment visit www.theinterim.com.
When the controversial 2015 HPE curriculum for Ontario schools was released, parents with children in the Catholic school system were reassured by bishops, trustees, and education leaders that the document’s learning expectations ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Dec, 2016 at 17:49 in
Announcements, Features, Religion, Religious Education | Author:
Michael Taube Christmas is upon us. We’ll be trimming our trees, putting wreaths on doors, eating sumptuous meals, singing carols (or having them sung to us) and opening presents.
I’ve recommended Christmas-themed books, animated specials, and DVDs to Interim readers in the past. This year, my focus will be on a talented cartoonist with strong Christian principles, Johnny Hart.
Hart’s work was published in the Saturday Evening Post, Stars and Stripes, and Collier’s ... (Continue reading)
University of Western Ontario
Early this summer I attended a graduation party for a small, private Catholic high school where the children of several friends were saying farewell to classmates and teachers they had known for years – some of them since kindergarten. Many of these young men and women were babies when I first met them, so this pleasant evening was tinged with melancholy thoughts about ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Aug, 2016 at 7:08 in
Marriage and Family, Religious Education, Sex Education | Author:
Lianne Laurence Special to The Interim Hamilton father Steve Tourloukis is suing the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board in order to be informed about what his children will be learning in class.
If anyone doubts that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government will overrule parental rights in favour of its inclusivity agenda on behalf of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Aug, 2016 at 12:18 in
Religious Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Peter Corkery In June, the Fraser Institute’s Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education released a study – the first of its kind in Canada – on the country’s current independent (private) schools, finding that that they are not the elitist institutions of popular imagination. The Fraser Institute study says they are diverse schools, represented by religious and specialty learning methods that many Canadian parents feel is best for their children.
The study found that there are 1,935 independent schools here in Canada ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Jan, 2016 at 13:32 in
Religion, Religious Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns On Dec. 10, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that the B.C. Law Society violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when they rejected in advance graduates of Trinity Western University law school.
Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson ruled, “The evidence in this case and the relevant precedents conclusively establish that the decision does infringe the petitioners’ Charter right to freedom of religion.” Last January, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court nullified a ... (Continue reading)
Freedom fighter Ezra Levant will talk about religious freedom and parental rights at a parental rights defence fundraising dinner.
Sun News personality Ezra Levant will headline the Parental Rights in Education Defense Fund fundraising dinner on May 24 at Canada Christian College in Toronto to raise money for the organization as it ... (Continue reading)