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MONTREAL, Quebec , January 10, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Quebec’s Catholic bishops have taken issue with a court decision that would force a Montreal private Catholic high school to cease teaching its Catholic course on religion and morality and switch to the “secular” and “neutral” Ethics and Religious Culture course (ERC) provided by the province’s government. “For our part, we believe that the minister could have used [ministerial] discretion to recognize the value of the approach adopted by Loyola High School in its program,” stated Archbishop Pierre-André Fournier, president of the Quebec Catholic Bishops ’ Assembly (AECQ) in a December 21  press release . Loyola Principal Paul Donovan. The Quebec Court of Appeal   overturned  a lower court which had ruled that any attempt to force Loyola High School to teach the strictly secular religion and morality course would be a violation of their freedom of religion under the Quebec Charter of Rights . The...

OTTAWA, October 8, 2012,  (LifeSiteNews.com)  - In a landmark decision last Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that people who are HIV -positive do not need to tell their sex partners they have the disease, as long as they have low levels of the virus and use a condom during sexual intercourse . The 9-0 ruling says that the “realistic possibility of transmission of HIV is negated” if the infected person has a “low viral load and uses a condom”, superseding a 1998 decision. Under the previous law, HIV-positive people who did not tell partners they had the virus could be charged with aggravated sexual assault , with a maximum penalty is life in jail. According to a Canadian  Press report , Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin , well known for activism on Canadian social issues, questioned prosecutors whether a requirement to disclose the disease to sex partners places too onerous a burden on HIV-positive people in light of medical advances in treatment of the i...