40 Days for Life Ottawa - Couples for Christ - October 25, 2026,

Couples for Christ

I took this photo on my way to the 12:15 mass at Saint Patrick Basilica 

And the one below on my way back to the OTrain after mass

 

Run With Life: Finance committee parrots pro-abortion advocates' ...

Run With Life: Finance committee parrots pro-abortion advocates' ...:  RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE STANDING...

Dear members of the Finance Committee,

I have a question for all of you regarding Recommendation 65 of your RECOMMENDATIONS OF THESTANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE FOR THE 2026 BUDGET:

"... Budget 2026 should also introduce amendments to the Income Tax Act to require greater transparency from anti-abortion pregnancy centres in order to mitigate harm to clients and prevent the misuse of charitable status."

I understand from the extensive research I have done on Pregnancy Care Centres, including numerous Access to Information requests I submitted, that the government of Canada bases these allegations of "harm to clients" and "the misuse of charitable status" on the say-so of the Abortion Rights coalition of Canada. (Note that none of these ATIPs I received revealed any evidence of these allegations outside of ARCC's allegations). 

In other words, it appears that the government of Canada is biased and is basing important decisions that affect these charities on a group whose mission is, to repeatedly attack and libel these charities. ARCC has attacked these centres since at least since 2009 where Joyce Arthur (executive director of both groups) received $27,400 in government funding to kick off her initial blitzkrieg on these centres (using Arthur's previous organization the Pro-choice-Action Network). I, and others, have repeatedly rebutted these false claims (see links below). 

Have any of you actually investigated and researched these centres yourself to corroborate that these centres harm clients and misuse their charitable status?

Because if you have not, and are taking ARCC's word for these allegations, with all due respect, you are agreeing to something very serious and not based on the truth.

I have a second question for you. I noticed that absent from your recommendations are recommendations from three Christian charities on the same subject. Why are their recommendations not included when you do include the scurrilous recommendations from ARCC? This looks like anti-Christian discrimination.

As ARPA stated in their submission to the committee:

"Previous calls to revoke the charitable tax status of pregnancy care centres ignore the benefits that these centres provide to women. At root, calls to revoke their charitable status are ideologically motivated attempts to marginalize a pro-life view with which they disagree." (emphasis added)

Here are the two extensively researched reports refuting the two "studies" Abortion Rights Coalition wrote attacking Pregnancy Care Centres:

(From Pregnancy Care Canada. Note that this rebuttal is based on the Pro-Choice Action Network's report which is the previous name for the Abortion Rights Coalition and headed by the same person) :
Crisis Pregnancy Centres In British Columbia A Respectful Rebuttal to a Disrespectful Report
My rebuttal to a subsequent ARCC report on these centres.
ABORTION RIGHTS COALITION OF CANADA DECEITFUL ON CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRES

Here are the three recommendations from the three Christian charities that you chose not to include in your recommendations, in favour of ARCC's ideologically motivated attempt to marginalize a pro-life view with which they disagree. 

ARPA
https://arpacanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-Federal-Budget-Consultation.pdf

Christian Legal Fellowship

https://www.christianlegalfellowship.org/blog/2026charityupdate

Canadian Centre for Christian Charities    

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/451/FINA/Brief/BR14102560/br-external/CanadianCentreForChristianCharities-e.pdf

A recent example of Joyce Arthur's ongoing witch hunt against these clinics where she recycles her untruths about these centres. Just have a look at the title of her article:

Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency UPCs cause harm through deception, disinformation, and other traumatizing strategies meant to turn people away from abortion

I look forward to hearing back from the committee soon with answers to my questions.

Sincerely,

Patricia Maloney 

Ottawa

I Warned Canada This Would Happen

 

Our Little Pilgrimage, October 29th, 2025 - Holy Mass at Saint Patrick Basilica and Praying at the Corner of Bank and Queen Streets for an end to abortion

Mass at 7:30 - Saint Patrick Basilica

Pat drove us to Saint Patrick Basilica for mass at 7:30 

Father Amesse gave a homily on 

"entering through the narrow gate" 

Thank You, Father Amesse

Saint Carlo Acutis, pray for us

After mass and after first stopping at the Rectory for a parking permit, we headed to Bank and Queen, where we met 21-year-old Nick parishioner of https://sagradafamilia.ca/ We prayed the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary together 

 Pat, Nick and Maureen

Know the truth of live birth abortions By Andrea Mrozek

 https://www.catholicregister.org/opinion/columnists/item/37233-know-the-truth-of-live-birth-abortions

Know the truth of live birth abortions

By  Andrea Mrozek

• October 11, 2024

Infants born alive after abortion has come up recently. JD Vance asserted on October 1, 2024 that Tim Walz signed a statute in Minnesota, whereby doctors would no longer be required to provide life-saving care to a baby born alive after an abortion. 

But why discuss this most electric of third rail issues? The politics gloss over the point. The real answer is laid bare in a June 2024 study that received no attention, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Our leaders should address issues before them, and infants born alive after abortion is clearly one of them. Babies born alive after an abortion in the second trimester, the authors assert, is “common.” 

In resolutely academic language, the study says on average, eleven percent of abortions in the second trimester result in a live birth. 40 percent of these abortions are done between 20 and 24 weeks gestation (where over a quarter, one in four, resulted in a live birth). The reasons for the abortions are not fetal abnormality or maternal emergency, but rather in the majority “other personal factors.” This points to these abortions being done for social reasons. The mean survival time of the babies “is 110 minutes, with a range of 1 minute to 1 day.” The result of infants born alive after abortion is so common that the study authors advise “mothers be counseled on the risk of live birth.” 

That’s an awkward counseling session. 

The kicker for Canadians is that the study sample was 13,777 abortions done between 1989 and 2021 in Quebec.  This means that over 32 years, about 430 abortions resulted in live births every single year in that province.   

A couple of observations:

First, most will say this doesn’t happen in Canada. It is called propaganda when (always) pro-life people bring it up. 

Second, pro-life people ought to raise this. The weird twilight zone of transitioning from deliberately killing the fetus in utero to placing the baby in a neonatal ward or palliative care puts pro-choice people in, ahem, an uncomfortable position. 

The authors speak of “feticidal injection” as “protective.” It means an injection will ensure the fetus emerges dead. “Live birth,” they tell us, “is less common after surgical abortion because the fetus is rarely intact.” Translation: Dismembering the fetus inside the womb better guarantees a dead baby. 

Those who stridently defend this should be on the defensive. 

An Austrian study in 2018 found fully 50% of abortions done between 20 and 24 weeks resulted in a live birth. There’s a global cadre of medical professionals who either rush to take an aborted baby to the neonatal unit, or witness the baby dying. They must watch signs of life disappear—“including breathing, heartbeat, umbilical cord pulsation, or muscle movement,” whether it takes one minute or one day. 

The Mayo Clinic says a fetus at 20 weeks “might be awakened by noises or your movements.” 

A doctor friend who delivers babies affirms this is a study about more effectively killing babies in utero. He points out a morally defensible scenario: “A woman at 22 weeks gestation with skyrocketing blood pressure, kidneys shutting down, liver enzymes through the roof, where the enemy is the placenta and that needs to be removed as soon as possible.”

Maternal emergency is the reason for these abortions in just five percent of cases. 

So here we are, living comfortably sedated in relative peace and prosperity while we kill our children, only to have them live but then die. Whether uttered by Melania Trump or Kamala Harris, “reproductive freedom” must be one of the most malicious, nefarious terms the world has known. 

Now more than ever, babies are unseen. The baby in utero: she’s rarely present. Today, fertility rates are so low we barely see born children in our daily lives. 

This summer, I watched caterpillars and snails die in habitats we lovingly created for them. I felt bad. I began encouraging my kid to leave the caterpillars in the woods. It must be truly terrible to witness a baby emerge alive, who is supposed to be dead. Much worse is not finding it terrible at all. 

This study doesn’t find it terrible. It simply documents. That’s a service to pro-lifers, and that’s why no one knows about the study. 

But I can’t un-know what I just read, and now, dear reader, neither can you. 

Andrea Mrozek is Senior Fellow at Cardus Family. 

Let's Talk About Abortion - Deacon Isaac Longworth C.C.

Worse than Roe / National Catholic Register

 https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/worse-than-roe

A NOTE FROM OUR PUBLISHER: Congress must reject the Orwellian ‘Women’s Health Protection Act.’

Michael Warsaw is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the EWTN Global Catholic Network, and the Publisher of the National Catholic Register.

Michael Warsaw Publisher's Note February 25, 2022

With the demise of Roe v. Wade — the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy nearly 50 years ago — seemingly within reach, efforts are underway by both the pro-life community and the radical abortion lobby to prepare for a post-Roe world.  

While much of the action being taken so far is at the state level, the U.S. Senate is poised to vote on the misleadingly named “Women’s Health Protection Act.” If truth in advertising was a requirement in naming bills, it would be called “The Abortion On Demand Until Birth Act.” 

Supporters of this legislation have characterized it as an attempt to simply enshrine Roe into federal law. As tragic as that would be, the stark reality is that this bill would go way beyond that, gutting even the most basic protections for women and their unborn babies.  

Bluntly, this is far worse than Roe.  

This is the most extreme piece of abortion legislation to ever receive a vote in the U.S. Senate.  

What would it do? This bill would nullify every single state law regulating abortion. That includes state laws that limit painful late-term abortions and laws that prohibit abortions from being performed because of the race, sex or condition of the child. It would even end basic informed-consent laws that ensure that mothers have all the relevant information before choosing an abortion.  

Despite public polls consistently showing strong support — 71% of Americans and nearly half of Democrats — for limits on abortion, particularly during the second and third trimesters, the Senate is moving full steam ahead.  

But the truth about the grave evil of abortion and the consequences for both the child and the mother are undeniable. Every abortion ends at least one life and wounds another.  

Catholic politicians who willingly and enthusiastically champion the availability and practice of abortion are living contrary to the teaching of the Church.  

The Catechism of the Catholic Church is clear about the necessity to preserve the dignity of life (2270): “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person — among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.” 

The Catechism later describes that it is not just the procurement of abortion that is a grave offense, but, indeed, as explained in 2273, “[t]he inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation. … The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being’s right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death.”  

Could it be any clearer? Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has been unequivocal about the evil of abortion, likening it to the “white-glove” equivalent of Nazi eugenics programs and to people who hire a hitman “in order to solve a problem.” It couldn’t be clearer. 

Yet, despite strong rebukes of the “throwaway culture” by Pope Francis himself, far too many Catholic politicians — and others — continue to pursue policy and political agendas that offend the basic dignity of the human person.  

In a stirring message to the United Nations less than two years ago, Pope Francis said that, “[a]t the origin of this ‘throwaway culture’ is a gross lack of respect for human dignity, the promotion of ideologies with reductive understandings of the human person, a denial of the universality of fundamental human rights, and a craving for absolute power and control that is widespread in today’s society. Let us name this for what it is: an attack against humanity itself.” Amen.  

The crux of the abortion lobby’s agenda is not just a total devaluation of the dignity of every human life, it is the pitting of mothers against their children — flipping the understanding of the most fundamental human relationship on its head. It is utterly false to claim that children are an impediment to women’s flourishing, that the only solution to an unexpected pregnancy is abortion, and that “unwanted” babies are better off dead. Catholics and pro-life people must unite to forcefully dispel these myths.   

So where do we go from here? For starters, we must resist this specific bill and any of its subsequent iterations, and we must hold politicians accountable when they claim to be Catholic but then support such horrific legislation.  

But building a culture of life is not just about opposing deadly policies. It’s about showing how the Church supports women and their babies from conception with the resources and tools needed to help mothers take care of their babies — and thrive.  

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee for Religious Liberty, and Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the USCCB’s Pro-Life Activities Committee, sent a letter to senators this week ahead of the vote that I believe provides a road map for American Catholics looking for bold leadership. 

In one particularly memorable section, they write, “Answering the needs of women by promoting taxpayer-funded elective abortion, as this bill would do, is a failure to love and serve women. Offering free or low-cost abortions, instead of the resources needed to care for her child, is not ‘choice’ but coercion. It communicates to a mother in need that there is no hope for her or her child and perpetuates injustices that drive mothers to end the lives of their children. As a nation built on the recognition that every human being is endowed by its Creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we must reject this bill and embrace public policy that fully respects and facilitates these rights and needs of both mother and child.” Again, I say amen.  

We are at a critical turning point in our struggle to protect life. We cannot falter. We cannot allow all our progress to be wiped out. This legislation must be defeated — for the good of humanity.

More from Laura Klassen on the Pfizer Vaccine

 

Run With Life: We know the world is upside down when this happens...

Run With Life: We know the world is upside down when this happens...: The Coronavirus is here. We have people dying all over the world from this horrible pandemic. The world is shut down because of it. Financial markets are in free fall. People have lost their jobs. People of faith are prevented from attending their Church services, their Mosques and their Synagogues. Catholic Christians are prevented from receiving the sacraments including reconciliation, baptisms and the sacraments of the sick for the dying. We can't even enter our churches for private prayer, even if we follow all the social distancing rules.

So what are the pro-abortions up to here in Canada? Unlike many US states, Canada is pathetically still performing abortions. None of the rules the rest of us have to follow apply to killing babies.

In fact the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada has put out a fundraising call for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights.

Faith in Action

Jennifer and Mary visiting Father Tony Van Hee on Wednesday  

Father Tony is a true Canadian hero  and an inspiration to all of us

Growing Violence Against Pro-Lifers - Fr. Shenan J. Boquet HLI

Thank you to Human Life International for permission to post this article on my blog.

https://www.hli.org/2019/05/violence-against-pro-lifers/

Pro-Life Assault -by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet HLI

Human Life International 

I am troubled by what appears to be a growing trend of violent attacks on peaceful pro-life activists.  Perhaps the most famous recent instance was caught in a dramatic video last fall. The video shows a twenty-something-year-old man wearing a purple sweater, with a pentagram (a pagan symbol) on a necklace around his neck. He asks the pro-life woman behind the camera what should happen if a 16-year-old gets pregnant by rape. From his tone, it is clear that he doesn’t really want an answer. Still, the woman begins to explain that the child is still a child, and should not be murdered, regardless of how the baby is conceived. Before she can finish, however, the young man sticks out his tongue, winds up, and kicks her. The camera falls and clatters on the ground. 

A female voice is heard crying, “Someone call the cops!”

The woman who was assaulted, Marie-Claire Bissonnette, described in a written account the astonishing indifference of the Toronto police who arrived on the scene. Eventually, however, the attacker was identified, and charges were filed. As it turns out, the same man was responsible for another violent assault on a pro-life activist some months before.

As Bissonnette points out, the attack on her is far from an isolated incident. And while the video of the assault against her was viewed millions of times, most of these assaults receive little to no public attention. On the very same day that Bissonnette was attacked, for instance, a woman walked up to a pro-life man who was silently praying at a location just West of Toronto and poured paint down his back. This was mild in comparison to what happened just days before, also in Toronto, when Gabby Skwarko, a member of the Ryerson Reproductive Justice Collective, walked up to pro-life activist Blaise Alleyne and proceeded to repeatedly punch her, attempted to grab her bag, and threw a metal dolly at her.

One elderly woman recently had her leg broken when she was assaulted outside Kentucky’s only abortion facility, in Louisville. Another elderly man, participating in the recent Lenten 40 Days for Life campaign, was thrown to the ground and viciously and repeatedly kicked. Then there’s the woman who was left bruised after being punched outside a clinic in Alabama. Or the young man who was repeatedly punched by a pro-abortion woman during a pro-life demonstration at the University of North Carolina.

As a life-long pro-lifer, Bissonnette has participated in pro-life demonstrations for years. She says she has repeatedly suffered physical and verbal assault. “Rocks have been thrown at me,” she writes. “I’ve been spat upon multiple times and pushed. Men have aggressively asked how I would like it if they raped me and forced me to have an abortion.”

Brian Sims’ Contemptible Attack

Thankfully the issue of aggression and violence against peaceful pro-life activists is receiving some (but still shockingly limited) media attention right now, thanks to the contemptible antics of Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Brian Sims. Earlier this month Sims posted a video of himself harassing a pro-life woman who was praying the rosary outside an abortion facility, calling her “shameful,” “disgusting,” “racist,” as well as “old white lady.”

Even worse, he also filmed himself approaching two young girls (aged 13 and 15), calling them “a bunch of pseudo-Christian protesters who’ve been out here shaming young girls for being here.” Sims then offers $100 to anybody who can identify the girls. This is called “doxing” – that is, publicly identifying ordinary citizens in order to subject them to systematic shame and harassment. It’s a terrible practice. Coming from an elected politician, aimed at young, minor girls, it’s downright evil.

Ironically, in posting the footage of his harassment of the girls, Sims accused the pro-life activists of “prey[ing] on young women.” People who protest Planned Parenthood” use white privilege, & shame,” he claimed. “They’re racist, classist, bigots who NEED & DESERVE our righteous opposition.”

Got that? According to Sims, young pro-life girls “need” to be harassed by grown men such as himself. Astonishingly, at the time of this writing, Sims has neither resigned, nor been dismissed from office, though he did record and release a video apology. If instead of a pro-abortion Democrat, it had been a pro-life Republican who berated and doxed young teen girls I think this story would have ended quite differently.

Canada’s Maxime Bernier on abortion: “This issue is not settled” - NRL News Today

Canada’s Maxime Bernier on abortion: “This issue is not settled” - NRL News Today:

By We Need a Law

Maxime Bernier, leader of the upstart People’s Party of Canada, has issued some strong statements in support of advancing abortion regulations in Canada. In a series of tweets, Maxime Bernier responded to a report in La Presse newspaper that the Ministry of Health in Quebec was looking into ensuring late-term abortion services were provided within the province instead of sending women to United States “specialty clinics.”Please send a note of thanks to Mr. Bernier for his clear stance and suggest that he take an even stronger position by promising to initiate an abortion bill himself if he is elected this fall! You can call his office at 613-992-8053 or email him at maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca.Bernier is the latest high-profile politician in the past few weeks to outline their perspectives on the legality of abortion.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has never missed an opportunity to reiterate his pro-abortion stance, initiated much of the current national conversation with a fundraising letter in response to the participation of a dozen Conservative MPs in the National March for Life in Ottawa.Speaking of those Conservative MPs, we thank them as well for publicly taking a stand in support of pre-born human rights! Their courage is not without opposition – both from within and outside of their political party.And let’s not forget the three MPPs who spoke at the March for Life in Toronto! They incurred the wrath of abortion fanatics, with two having their offices targeted by protestors. We encourage you to send Christina Mitas, Willem Bouma, and Sam Oosterhoff a note of encouragement to stand strong for the pro-life cause.

The abortion debate continues, further than ever from being a closed issue!