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August 2007

August 13

Digging into a cutter’s mind

August 13, 2007

Inside A Cutter’s Mind: Understanding And Help Those Who Self Injure by Jerusha Clark and Dr. Earl Henslin (NavPress, paperback, 233 pages, $12.05). Inside a Cutter’s Mind is a book for those who either injure themselves or know others who harm themselves and want to help them.

Beware of Coehlo’s ‘feminine face’ of God

August 13, 2007

The Witch of Portobello by Paolo Coelho, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. (HarperCollins, softcover, $29.95 list). The blurb on the Advance Reader’s Edition of The Witch of Portobello invited me to “discover why Paolo Coelho ranks with J.K. Rowling and John Grisham as one of the world’s most successful writers.” I thought that was a good clue to what was between the covers: magic and suspense, soon to be sold in an airport near you. The kind of work that, when Graham Greene wrote it, he dismissed as “an entertainment.” Meanwhile, Greene’s “entertainments” are studied in English literature classes, and John Grisham’s are not and probably never will be.

August 14

Catholics called to aid flood victims

August 14, 2007

TORONTO - Catholic emergency relief dollars are once again headed out to help victims of extreme weather associated with global warming.

August 15

Man held in Montreal nun's murder

August 15, 2007

MONTREAL - A man with a history of psychological problems is being held in the brutal beating death of an 80-year-old Montreal nun.

August 16

Ouellet hopes congress will revive Christian roots

August 16, 2007

MONTREAL - Cardinal Marc Ouellet hopes the 2008 Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City next June will revive Canada’s Christian roots and reverse the effects of secularization.

August 20

World’s poor feeling effects of climate change

August 20, 2007

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - When Hippolyt Pul was a young boy, farmers in his home country of Ghana often referred to the feast of the Ascension as “the feast of the bean leaf.”

August 21

D&P organizes aid for Peru quake victims

August 21, 2007

As Peruvians punch their way out of the rubble left by an 8.0 Richter Scale earthquake that struck the nation Aug. 15, the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace is collecting money the South American nation will need to rebuild.

August 22

Catholic bishops don't sign on to Afghanistan letter

August 22, 2007

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has declined an invitation to sign a letter from faith leaders to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Afghanistan because it doesn’t go far enough. The letter from a dozen church leaders asks Harper’s government to engage in negotiations with willing representatives of the Taliban and change the focus of Canadian operations in Afghanistan to diplomacy and aid.

August 27

HPV vaccine could encourage sexual activity

August 27, 2007

HPV.jpg [images/stories/bioethics/HPV.jpg]OTTAWA - This fall, Catholic parents of girls from 10 to 13 years of age may face a quandary when schools in several provinces start offering a new vaccination program against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.

Abortion images hit Calgary streets

August 27, 2007

CALGARY - The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform is sponsoring an 11-metre-long box-bodied truck with billboards showing aborted fetuses that began cruising the streets of Calgary on Aug. 8.

50th anniversary for St. Gregory’s

August 27, 2007

TORONTO - St. Gregory’s Church in Etobicoke is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a parish on Sept. 16 with a 3 p.m. Mass

Loyola conference at Regis

August 27, 2007

TORONTO - What was St. Ignatius of Loyola talking about in the 16th century, and why does it matter now?

Sisters aid theology students

August 27, 2007

TORONTO - You can count on the sisters, especially if you’re studying theology with the Jesuits in Toronto.

Called to serve St. Mike’s for 45 years

August 27, 2007

TORONTO - When Chuckie Shevlen graduated after three years of nursing school at St. Michael’s Hospital in 1965, she decided to stay on and work at the hospital for a few years because “it seemed like the logical thing to do.”

Saturday school helps reconnect with church

August 27, 2007

TORONTO - The last place you might expect to find school-aged children on a Saturday morning would be, well, at school. But at St. Andrew’s Catholic School in Toronto, 150 children, youth and parents attended sacramental preparation classes every Saturday morning for nine months last year.

Kayley Collum, Catholic Register Special

August 27, 2007

Every few years I get the opportunity to visit my grandparents’ cabin in the small town of Hope, B.C. Just a few hours from Vancouver, the cabin itself may not seem like much to the average citizen, but to my relatives and myself it is a reflection of hard work, perseverance, fond memories and family.

St. Stephen’s aims for zero waste

August 27, 2007

TORONTO - Wearing plastic gloves, Carolyn Tran remembers rooting through her school’s garbage with her classmates taking an inventory of all the discarded recyclables.

D&P: environmentalists from day one

August 27, 2007

The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace has helped finance 49 projects or organizations around the world with an environmental focus between 2002 and 2007.

Kairos conference to tackle climate change

August 27, 2007

As Kairos — Canada’s national, ecumenical social justice coalition — rolls out its newest campaign, suburbanite and activist Dorothy Wilson is excited.

Cap-and-trade system keeps markets honest

August 27, 2007

If capitalism can save the planet, it’s running out of time in Canada where market-based approaches to greenhouse gas reduction have yet to be tried.