Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Elementary teachers told to “decolonize minds” in anti-white seminar
Elementary teachers told to “decolonize minds” in anti-white seminar: Educators attending an anti-racism conference were told by a Toronto District School Board employee to view “whiteness” as a destructive force controlling what people wear to what they eat.
School board trains staff that the term ‘family’ is harmful, racist: Waterloo Region District School Board staff are being trained that the word “family” is a harmful concept rooted in white supremacy.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
"Gender Affirming Care?" There is nothing affirming about it.
Our Children are being abused, Sexually, Physically, Spiritually,
Emotionally, Psychologically.....
How did we get to this level of depravity?
Traditionally minded Catholics everywhere are swelling in numbers
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
Catholic Register - Alberta scrutinizes library books for illicit content
https://www.catholicregister.org/item/2316-alberta-scrutinizes-library-books-for-illicit-content
Parent groups are among those applauding the Alberta government’s newly announced efforts to scrutinize the books appearing on library shelves in the province's schools.
Responding to the discovery of sexual content contained in numerous books in K-12 school libraries, Alberta's Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides unveiled a new online survey on May 26 to enable Albertans to share input on potential new standards in selecting and managing written materials. The public had until June 6 to participate.
“As a parent, it is extremely concerning to me to find out that books explicitly depicting sexual acts are available to students in some school libraries,” said Nicolaides. “We are going to do something about this serious issue by consulting Albertans and creating standards to ensure students do not have access to age-inappropriate materials in school libraries.”
School boards will be expected to implement the new standards by the start of the 2025-26 school year. The new criteria will apply to public, separate, francophone, charter and independent schools.
Among the groups praising the plan is Parents for Choice in Education (PCE) John Hilton-O’Brien, the executive director of PCE, said his organization has been collaborating with concerned parents on this issue for multiple years. Information was sent to the provincial government last fall, igniting an investigation.
Hilton-O’Brien said “unlike passive media influences, school libraries are spaces that children are taught to trust. Material on those shelves carries the weight of authority. When you put it in the library, it's not just a book. It’s a message that the school endorses.”
He said the “consultation process is a crucial opportunity — but only if families make their voices heard over the paid activists.”
Action4Canada, a Christian grassroots movement striving to defend faith, family and freedom, characterized the public consultation as “a positive step toward restoring morality and common sense in education.”
Action4Canada had communicated with government officials for months leading up to the announcement and provided examples of some of the books being featured on library shelves. The group also provided information about the potential harms of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) 123 tools and resources for cultivating inclusive schools for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Several titles deemed as inappropriate — and some the explicit passages — were spotlighted, including Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel about an odyssey towards choosing to be identified as non-binary, that was found on K-9 shelves within the Calgary Board of Education and the Edmonton Public School Board. And Flamer, a semi-autobiographical novel by children’s author and illustrator Mike Curato containing “sexual activity, nudity, self-harm, violence, profanity and derogatory terms,” according to the government, is being found in elementary schools despite a 14+ recommended reading age.
Jack Fonseca, director of political operations at Campaign Life Coalition, said Nicolaides’ press conference “was an answer to prayer” and a credit to all the pro-family activists working with the United Conservative Party.
“It's also a testament to the parents who are making their voices heard to the minister, as he admitted that this information was unknown to him,” said Fonseca. “He didn't know that (there were) pornographic books in (the) schools until parents showed him the pages and he could see it for himself.”
Yet others responded cautiously to the news, including Dennis MacNeil, the president of the Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta.
“While this is a very contentious issue, we are pleased that the government is consulting with Albertans prior to deciding any course of action,” stated MacNeil.
Lori Sigurdson, an Edmonton-based NDP MLA, denounced the initiative in an X post.
“Make no mistake — this actually IS about banning books — and Smith’s administration is not the first in history to target and ban books seen as contrary to its ideology in order to control public discourse,” wrote Sigurdson.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Pope Leo XIV clarifies Church teaching on marriage and family
(LifeSiteNews) — On this episode of Faith and Reason, Catholic political activist and former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine Deal Hudson joins John-Henry Westen and Deacon Keith Fournier once again to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s re-affirming of Catholic teaching on marriage and family. The trio also discusses the pontiff’s controversial bishops’ appointments, the election of Catholic Karol Nowrocki as Poland’s next president, and more.
The panel opened the episode by looking at Pope Leo XIV’s most recent Sunday homily for a Mass celebrating a Jubilee event for “Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly.” In his sermon, Leo praised marriage and the family.
Hudson emphasized how Leo seemed to indirectly denounce abortion while also praising charity.
“(Pope Leo XIV) said people are using the principle of human kindness, which we could call love or friendship, and they are using it to do evil. They are using it to abort. He didn’t say abort, but that’s clearly what he (meant),” Hudson said. “He put his finger on something that only someone well-trained in moral philosophy and theology would do. And I think that’s a real sign of hope for all of us.”
READ: Pope Leo XIV begins month of Sacred Heart by praising marriage and family
Deacon Keith echoed those sentiments, noting that the pontiff’s homily reminded him of the words of Pope John Paul II and Sacred Scripture.
“(The homily) was just wonderful. He spoke to families, children, grandparents, and the elderly, and it was so filled with hope and clear teaching on the sanctity of marriage and family and conjugal love and the importance of parents… It was so solid, and it was so (uplifting),” he said.
Deacon Keith continued: “It really seemed like I was listening to John Paul II, whose apostolic exhortation on the role of the Christian family in the modern world is still such a treasure.” Leo “seemed to be speaking right out of that beautiful tradition of the Church and the teaching of the … 2,000 years of teaching on the Christian family.”
Later in their discussion, the panel examined remarks Leo made about cohabitation and marriage during a recent seminar organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life. His comments appeared to correct previous statements made by Pope Francis about how cohabitation was “real marriage.”
Pope Leo XIV had described sacramental marriage as “not an ideal but the canon of true love between man and woman, total, faithful, fruitful love.”
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Message on the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus His Eminence Frank Cardinal Leo Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto 1 June 2025
Message on the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
His Eminence Frank Cardinal Leo
Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto
1 June 2025
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
May Jesus and Mary be in your hearts.
Among the Christian People, it is our privilege and delight to honour in a very special way the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. I earnestly invite therefore all the faithful of the Archdiocese of Toronto this June to join in celebrating Jesus in the reality of his loving, burning, sacrificial and life-giving Heart. This year the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart is commemorated on June 27th though the entire month is dedicated to this long-standing and much appreciated devotion in the Church. As Pilgrims of Hope during the Jubilee Holy Year we recall the words of Pope Francis, “Hope is born of love and based on the love springing from the pierced heart of Jesus upon the cross” (Spes non Confundit, 3).
The Sacred Heart is one of the most profound and enduring symbols in Catholic devotional life as it encapsulates the depth of Christ’s love for humanity, his freely chosen passion, and his ongoing intercession for the world as our Mediator and Eternal High Priest. When viewed through the lens of hope, this timeless devotion takes on a new depth of transformative power. It is important for us to remember that the Sacred Heart does not merely refer to Jesus’ physical heart, but to his entire interior life—his will, emotions, thoughts, desires, and love. It signifies the love that motivated the Incarnation, Our Lord’s earthly ministry, his Passion, and ultimately the offering of himself on the Cross for the redemption of the world (cf. Dilexit Nos, 3-8). In this way the Sacred Heart becomes not just a symbol of the greatest love that ever existed, but also a wellspring of hope and endurance in the face of suffering, sin, and uncertainty for all those who approach the Sacred Heart with faith, humility and trust.
While hope anchors us in the love of God amidst the turbulent seas of life, it is fundamentally oriented towards our future glory with God in His Kingdom (cf. CCC, 1820). Simply put, whereas faith believes in God and charity loves him, hope longs for union with him and trusts that, despite our human frailty and suffering, such union is truly possible (cf. Rm 8:31-19). We have a foretaste of this union in the Eucharist, and we recognise that in the Divine Person of Jesus Christ, God and humanity are forever united, accomplishing the union we hope for and making Jesus Christ the revelation of hope incarnate (cf. Dilexit Nos, 65-70).
In meditating on the Sacred Heart, we are drawn into the discovery of the personal face of God. For men and women of faith, God is more than a concept, an ideal, the divine law-giver or the mysterious “Someone up there, somewhere”. He is the God who has revealed himself, his very life and his plan for us; he is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the living and not of the dead. He is the God who knows, listens, cares for, loves, gives of himself and saves. He is the God of Jesus – the only God.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus, understood as a source of new life, helps us to avoid divinizing anything in this world since there is only the one true God and idolatry is a one-way boulevard to spiritual slavery. The danger is to put our faith in an impersonal and distant God, one who does not care or have any interest in our lives. The result of this false credence is that we allow ourselves to live any which way because it does not matter in the end. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Jesus’ Sacred Heart is a reminder that no one can replace God; nothing is more important than to know, love and serve him, and that the choices and decisions we make, as well as the lifestyle we lead, do matter, they matter to God. Jesus’ Sacred Heart points to his nature as both God and man: as God we are to glorify and praise him; as man, he understands our human condition. Jesus’ Heart retells us the sacred truth that God does very much care about everything in our life, because he loves us; God does have a plan for our life and wants us to be holy, because he loves us. God is interested in what we think, say and do because he loves us; God is a close, caring, just and compassionate God who sees us and wants us to grow spiritually and humanly, because he loves us. And God will never abandon us to our woes and difficulties, because he loves us.
The Sacred Heart which depicts Christ’s physical heart, pierced and surrounded by thorns calling to mind his suffering and imbued with the inextinguishable flame of his love, is ultimately the only symbol we really need which underscores our human dignity, our call to holiness of life, Jesus’ sacrificial love for humanity, how precious we are to him and how ugly sin is as an offence to him. We should all honour the Sacred Heart in every home, parish, school, convent, hospital and Catholic institution. Symbols are important as they convey meanings in what they represent, and they point beyond their own reality to something else, someone else. Our very own Catholic symbols help us to deepen our faith and shape our prayer life, not to mention the lives we lead and the choices we make. They are like bridges joining together the material and spiritual worlds, and reveal to us the Gospel truths. They showcase what our values are, what is important to us and how we intend to live our faith. We need to make sure that the symbols we use are consistent with our Catholic faith and not borrowed from ideological fora, promoted by lobby groups and endorsed by political movements. We ought to honour and respect our traditions and not compromise the integrity of the faith by using symbols that are contrary to God’s divine revelation. We do good to use our own symbols to tell our own story without resorting to trendy, misguided and inadequate symbols that do not represent us as Catholics but rather contribute to confusion, distortions and ambiguities about what the Catholic faith truly teaches regarding the human person, human nature, and natural moral law.
Finally, during this month of June, I would encourage you to take time to renew your consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. If you haven’t already consecrated yourself, your family and household to the most Sacred Heart, please consider doing so. In addition, I recommend you take up Pope Francis’ Encyclical, Dilexit Nos, which is dedicated to this wonderful devotion and spirituality.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.