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Toronto CWL aims to bring prayer back into schools |
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Written by Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
 TORONTO - The Toronto archdiocesan council of the Catholic Women’s League of Canada passed a resolution calling for the restoration of prayer in all schools at its 86th annual convention held May 8 and 9.
Members also passed a resolution to improve education about the effects of impaired driving at the convention, held under the theme “Love One Another... As the Father Loves You.”
Restoring school prayer has been around as a resolution for a few years but the CWL has not passed it until now.
“If (students) felt they could talk to God, whichever God was in their lives, if they knew that someone was listening it might help them,” said Patricia Cross, president of the Toronto Archdiocesan Council.
The resolutions will be passed on to the Ontario Provincial Council and if approved will be presented at the Ontario Provincial annual convention in July. That will be held in Windsor.
Members put the resolutions in motion by having speakers present the issues in parishes.
Also at the convention, Cheryl Perera, founder and president of One Child, a group working to eliminate the global sex trade of children, addressed the convention as keynote speaker.
A number of youth awards were also presented to Grade 7 and 8 students at the closing banquet.
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Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register |
| About the author: |
| Sara Loftson is a freelance writer based in Calgary, Alberta. She holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Winnipeg and a bachelor of journalism from the University of King's College in Halifax. She has written for The Catholic Register, worked for CBC Radio and her work has appeared in Catholic newspapers across Canada. |
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