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MONTREAL, December 7, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Quebec ’s Court of Appeal has ruled that a private Catholic high school in Montreal must cease teaching a Catholic course on religion and morality and switch to the “secular” and “neutral” Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) course provided by the province’s government. The judges  ruled  on Tuesday that “exposing students to the global study of religions in a neutral perspective without requiring them to adhere to it, is not an infringement of freedom of religion”. Quebec's Court of Appeal. Patrick Andries, secretary of the Coalition for Freedom in Education, told LifeSiteNews.com that he was “surprised” that three Quebec judges found it to be “perfectly reasonable” to “secularize the education provided in a Catholic private school.” He pointed out that the move is an “oxymoron at the very least.” The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) called the ruling “a grand social experiment” that raised the “legitimate object

TORONTO, Ontario , December 21, 2011 - Despite strong concerns by Catholic parents and groups, Ontario ’s Catholic leaders are backing Premier Dalton McGuinty ’s controversial anti-bullying bill that seeks to require all publicly-funded schools to set up student-run homosexual anti-bullying clubs. Nancy Kirby, president of the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association (OCSTA), says the province’s Catholic school boards “welcome” the legislation.  Kirby co-signed the April 15th memo with Archbishop Thomas Collins of Toronto that announced the province’s Catholic schools would be working to develop a network of homosexual anti-bullying clubs.  They are expected to release their framework for the clubs early in the new year.  The office of Archbishop Collins also informed LifeSiteNews that he will be speaking to the matter early in the new year. OCSTA President Nancy Kirby (l) with Minister Laurel Broten (r) after Broten's press conference on the anti-bullying bill at Queen'