University distances itself from controversial support group

The University of Toronto has distanced itself from a controversial programme, dubbed ‘Courage’, that is described as an anonymous support group to help young adults struggling to resist homosexual urges and recently launched at the Catholic parish based on the school’s main campus, writes James Bradshaw for The Globe and Mail.

The Courage group – one of several such support gatherings that has sprung up within the Catholic Church since the 1980s – started in October at the Newman Centre, an independent parish and meeting place.

The Courage programme is an official “pastoral partner” of Toronto’s archdiocese, meaning it has the church’s explicit support. But it has caused a rift at the Newman Centre, which at least a dozen parishioners have stopped attending because they oppose the programme and its principles, while the University of Toronto has urged the centre’s leaders to discontinue it.
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