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By Patrick B. Craine
QUEBEC, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Quebec Bishops Assembly has applauded the province’s Superior Court’s June 18 ruling upholding the right of a Catholic private school to teach religion and morality within a Catholic context.
In a Monday letter, Bishop Martin Veillette of Trois-Rivières praised Justice Gerard Dugré’s decision to allow Loyola High School, a Catholic boys’ school in the Jesuit tradition, to offer Quebec’s highly controversial and rigorously secular ethics and religious culture program from a faith perspective.
“This ruling sheds new light on a very complex issue and opens new avenues for those interested in establishing, in our schools, a true formation in pluralism and religious diversity,” wrote the assembly president on Monday.
Loyola High School launched their case against the Quebec government in June 2009 after the ministry refused to bend on the mandatory and secular nature of the course. The school, which has taught world religions for decades, did not seek an exemption, but merely to be able to teach the course from a Catholic perspective. The ministry refused, however, maintaining that such an approach would represent a religious bias.
Justice Dugré wrote that the ministry’s efforts to impose the course on Loyola assumed “a totalitarian character essentially equivalent to Galileo’s being ordered by the Inquisition to deny the Copernican universe
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By Patrick B. Craine
QUEBEC, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Quebec Bishops Assembly has applauded the province’s Superior Court’s June 18 ruling upholding the right of a Catholic private school to teach religion and morality within a Catholic context.
In a Monday letter, Bishop Martin Veillette of Trois-Rivières praised Justice Gerard Dugré’s decision to allow Loyola High School, a Catholic boys’ school in the Jesuit tradition, to offer Quebec’s highly controversial and rigorously secular ethics and religious culture program from a faith perspective.
“This ruling sheds new light on a very complex issue and opens new avenues for those interested in establishing, in our schools, a true formation in pluralism and religious diversity,” wrote the assembly president on Monday.
Loyola High School launched their case against the Quebec government in June 2009 after the ministry refused to bend on the mandatory and secular nature of the course. The school, which has taught world religions for decades, did not seek an exemption, but merely to be able to teach the course from a Catholic perspective. The ministry refused, however, maintaining that such an approach would represent a religious bias.
Justice Dugré wrote that the ministry’s efforts to impose the course on Loyola assumed “a totalitarian character essentially equivalent to Galileo’s being ordered by the Inquisition to deny the Copernican universe
lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10062911.html