A letter to the Minister of Education on the Ethics and Religious Culture Program The following is a translation of a letter sent by Bishop Martin Veillette, president of the Assembly of Québec Catholic Bishops, to Madame Michelle Courchesne, Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports, on the Ethics and Religious Culture program. The letter was sent to the Minister on September 15, 2009. This English version was prepared subsequently for release at the September 23 press conference. • • • Madame la Ministre, Eighteen months have passed since we wrote to you concerning the new Ethics and Religious Culture program (ERC). We had thoroughly studied the program, acknowledged the importance of its two main objectives - the recognition of others and the pursuit of the common good – and concluded that, while the new program had certain positive features, it also had serious limitations. Read the rest of the letter
God our Father, through Jesus Christ you founded your Church on the rock of the Apostles, that, guided by the Holy Spirit she may be a sign and instrument of your love and mercy in the world: we thank you for the gifts you have bestowed upon our Church in Lima. that, guided by the […]
These lands have the flavour of the Gospel. Everything around us, against the backdrop of this immense sea, helps us better to understand the experience that the apostles had with Jesus and that today we too are invited to relive. I am happy to know that you have come from different parts of northern Peru […]
Popes Speech at the Hogar Principito Children’s Home: Full Text Dear Brothers and Sisters, Dear Children, Thank you very much for this lovely reception and for your words of welcome. Seeing you dance makes me very happy. I could not leave Puerto Maldonado before coming to visit you. You wanted to come from various homes […]
In anticipation of the National March for Life to take place on Capitol Hill on Friday, January 22, 2016, despite the impending winter storm, the Knights of Columbus released a video highlighting various Marches for Life from all across the globe. See the video below for glimpses of the Pro-Life movement from the United States, […]
On this week’s Vatican Connections, we look at the long-awaited beatification decree for Archbishop Oscar Romero. We talk to Father Frank Desiderio, a Paulist priest who worked with the producer of the 1989 film about the martyr, and we look at the reaction of Salvadoreans who have long referred to their slain archbishop as “el […]