OTTAWA - On June 1, Pope Benedict XVI made three Episcopal appointments in Canada and accepted two resignations, close on the heels of recent appointments to Ottawa, Edmonton and Saint John, N.B.
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The Catholic Register - Pope makes flurry of episcopal appointments
On May 1st, 2007, International Workers’ Day, the Social Affairs Committee of the Assembly of Québec Catholic Bishops (AQCB)proposes a reflection on finding a balance between the value of our work and the demands of new technologies. Read Article:
AECQ : Life-Work Balance in a Digital Era
Why do we go to church? Bishop Paul-André Durocher has an answer: Read answer
(blog post of Marie-Linda Boghdady at www.adventus.org)
In a recent post I raised the issue of the ‘mining practices’ of Canadian Companies in other Countries, especially the third world, and was informed (shortly after posting) that in the Province of Mindanao in the Philippines (area of our sister parish) that this was becoming a major problem. The CCCB has just issued a letter to our Government on this issue. It states:
His Eminence affirms
We must move towards a vision of Corporate Social Responsibility, which cannot be reduced to corporate voluntarism alone but must be complemented by a social responsibility regulated by the state and national organizations.
It is, as you know, a foundational principle of international law that human rights are in no sense voluntary; the protection of human rights is in no sense optional. The mandatory nature of human rights must continue to be a cornerstone of Canada’s presence in the world, and it must govern the actions of Canadian corporations worldwide, particularly those engaged in resource extraction.
At another place in the text, His Eminence affirms:
We cannot continue with ambivalent policies where what we build with one hand, we destroy immediately with the other. It is time to review market and trade rules and to complement them with values of solidarity, justice, subsidiarity, and shared responsibility in our actions and in the future of humanity.
Read full letter at link below:
CECC / CCCB - Practices by Canadian mining companies in other countries raise concerns
Not often that an American Publication focuses on the Canadian Church, but this past December John L. Allen wrote this article on Bishop Thomas Collins - the new Archbishop of Toronto. In his artcle he states: “In tandem with his May 16 appointment of Archbishop Donald Wuerl to Washington, D.C., the Pope’s choice of Collins suggests the prototype of a Benedict XVI bishop in a major see: A leader with rock-solid credentials on Catholic identity, yet personally gracious and pastoral, for whom conflict is the court of last resport:
The Ottawa Citizen of January 11, 2007 published an article on how bishops are selected. You might want to explore the process, and how it sometimes goes wrong, as it did in Poland recently. Should this process be reviewed? Updated? Changed? Read full article at link below:
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