catholic schools
The catholic archbishop of Edmonton, Richard Smith has issued orders to catholic schools and youth organizations to stop relying on income from casinos and the gambling industry in general from next month.
Archbishop Richard Smith said it’s morally not correct for Christian organization to support the promotion of the gambling industry.
A representative of the Catholic school board in the Canadian city, Lori Nagy stated that the board needs about $3 million more generated from casinos to sponsor other activities in their school without which those activities will collapse.
Nagy revealed that the gambling funds are used to sponsor educational excursions, technology as well as meals for other programs that will collapse without the financial backing they are receiving now.
Nagy said the archbishop’s new instructions to the board and school heads were totally unexpected. She revealed that even though they understood his concerns, the orders were too quick and will bring a lot of hardships.
She however stated they will look at other ways to raise income and will have a meeting with the archbishop on October 5 to discuss on other ways to generate revenue and ask for his permission for fund raisers already scheduled in advance.
The archbishop of Calgary gave the same orders three years ago but took two years of planning before they hit off.
