The Toronto Catholic District School Board is piloting a new religious knowledge test for fourth grade students in order to assess the effectiveness of the religious education program delivery. This is not a test of students, but a test for the board. Yet, the Toronto Star thinks it’s controversial. I […]
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Sen. Arlen Specter has proposed copyright leglislation in the United States in an attempt to provide an exemption for places of worship to broadcast NFL games. Bars and restaurants currently have this exemption, but the NFL has been busy sending nastygrams to churches using big screen televisions. Patry thinks the […]
Wait, so, Catholic schools are the devil but black schools make sense?
(This post originally appeared in the University of Toronto Students for Life blog.) The recent murder of a pregnant Toronto woman has got MPs talking about a fetal murder law. In Canada, since the unborn has no rights and is not recognized as a person in any sense of the […]
Sister Judith Zoebelein is the nun who launched the Vatican website, and has been working on it since 1995 (read more here). I found this interview on Robert Scoble’s blog and thought it was quite interesting. I think that even the slightly absurd questions provide her with an interesting opportunity […]