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Italian gvmt investigating Catholic school after it removed lesbian teacher

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The building housing the most important Italian newspaper, "Corriere della sera" in via Solferino in Milan (Italy). It was projected by Luca Beltrami in 1904. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, January 20 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In a case that is rapidly gaining national attention, the Italian government ’s education ministry has threatened a “severe” response to a Catholic school in northern Italy that sacked a teacher believed to be a lesbian. Education Minister Stefania Giannini told  La Repubblica  that her office has started an investigation into the decision of the school’s headmistress not to renew the contract of a female teacher out of a need to protect the “moral ethics” of “the school’s  environment.” Mother Eugenia Libratore, a religious sister of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the headmistress of Sacro Cuore school in Trent, said the teacher, who has not been named in the press, was “adequate and professional.” She added, how

Ontario Premier denies accused child-porn maker had role in explicit sex-ed curriculum

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TORONTO, July 23, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – While Ontario ’s premier, an open lesbian, has denied that accused child-porn maker and former Deputy Minister of Education had a role in formulating the controversial “sexual diversity” sex-ed curriculum that was temporarily scrapped after an outcry from parents, critics are not buying her arguments and presenting evidence to the contrary. Dr. Charles McVety of Canada Christian College called Premier Kathleen Wynne ’s statement on Levin’s involvement in the curriculum “just a parsing of words”.  Wynne told reporters last week at Queen’s Park that “Ministers and deputy ministers do not write curriculum.”  Dr. Benjamin Levin “Any suggestion that there was that kind of interference, it just demonstrates a lack of understanding of how curriculum actually is written,” she said, adding, “Curriculum is written by subject experts in conversation and in consultation with a wide array of people — and curriculum is reviewed and written

Quebec court forces Catholic school to teach 'neutral' course on religion and morality

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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