Rebuilding Babel in Quebec City: La Belle Province substitutes ideology for religion in the classroom.
Catholic Insight › Vol. 16 Nbr. 3, March 2008
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Rebuilding Babel in Quebec City: La Belle Province substitutes ideology for religion in the classroom.
The sound of Pope Benedict's Easter greetings will soon ring out from St Peter's Square. There are more than a billion Catholics in the world, from almost every tribe and tongue, and Urbi et Orbi addresses include an impressive effort to deliver a common message of peace in at least a few of those tongues--a symbolic redemption both from Babel and from the curse of Babel, where linguistic confusion shattered a monolithic and tyrannical culture at the cost of cultural unity as such.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Here in Quebec, however, the Ca...See the full content of this document
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