March 18th, 2025, Mass for the Holy Face:

Fr. Shroff will be offering a special Mass as follows:

Tues Mar 18 at 7 pm at St. Peter's Parish (1640 Heatherington Road, Ottawa, ON). Holy Face Chaplet begins at 6:45 pm.  There will also be Adoration of the Holy Face Image prior to Mass dismissal.  Following that, a couple additional reparation prayers will be prayed, and then a light reception will be offered.

Once the details for the reception are settled, we will pass them along.  We would be most appreciative of food contributions. Since, we are in the great season of Lent, the fare will be kept simple & appropriate.  

Please share this information with the folks you know who would appreciate Fr. Shroff's efforts to offer a Novus Ordo Mass with chant, graduals, tracts & propers from the traditional liturgy in Latin, & would be interested in attending. 

The date of this special Mass is significant, due to a triple conjuncture:

1) It is the Vigil of the Solemnity of good St. Joseph, the patron saint of the Universal Church, of Canada & of our own little apostolate here in Ottawa - St. Joseph's Missionaries of the Holy Face!

2) It is the 149th anniversary of the passing of Venerable Leo DuPont - the Holy Man of Tours!

3) This Mass is being offered on a Tuesday - commemorating the feast day of the Holy Face on Shrove Tuesday!

Lord willing, see you there!

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One of the easiest ways to tell you’re dealing with an honest person is seeing how they react when some of their most basic, fundamental assumptions are proven to be completely wrong. A few weeks ago, for example, we talked about how some Flat-Earthers responded when they went on a trip to Antarctica that debunked their entire belief system. They sat there and watched 24 hours of sunlight, and they realized that the Earth has to be rotating in space. And to their credit, a few of these Flat-Earthers admitted their mistake, on-camera. They said that, from that moment forward, they would be whatever the opposite of a Flat-Earther is. Sphere-earthers, I guess.

On the other hand, malevolent liars will never admit that they’re wrong. Even when they’re confronted with the reality of the situation — which is that everything they’ve been saying for years was actually wrong — they’ll find some way to deny it. They’ll absolve themselves of any responsibility for their deception. And if they can, they’ll blame you for challenging them. These are people who are not interested in the truth. They have no integrity whatsoever. And therefore they have no business being in any position of power or authority. Trustworthy leaders will admit their mistakes. Corrupt and incompetent leaders will obfuscate, deny, and double down.

With that distinction in mind, recent events have made it abundantly clear that our neighbors to the north in Canada are ruled by the latter group of people. These are people who have no interest in the truth. They are driven entirely by an ideology that, it just so happens, is explicitly anti-Christian and anti-American. And as I’ll explain in a moment, that has significant implications for the United States, as Canada becomes increasingly hostile towards our country.

But before I get into those implications, I need to explain what exactly the Canadian government has just done. As you may remember, for several years, Canada’s government, along with the country’s state media, has been advancing an extraordinary claim as if it’s the truth. They’ve said, again and again, that unmarked mass graves had been found at Canada’s “residential schools” — which were boarding schools for Indian children that existed for around 100 years, peaking in the early 20th century. And the discovery of these unmarked mass graves was significant, Canadians were told, because Christian churches were running these residential schools.

In other words, for years, the dominant narrative in Canada has been that Christian schools were so horrific that Indian children died all the time, and they were just tossed in unmarked graves when they expired. Therefore, Canadians were told that Canada is a genocidal state, and Christianity is bad. So predictably, dozens of Christian churches burned. And in response, the country’s outgoing prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said the arson was “understandable.” They only made one arrest in the wake of those arson attacks on churches, by the way — some of which were within a few miles of the U.S. border. Canadians, for the most part, stopped celebrating their independence day, out of shame over this story. Canadian secondary schools put images like this one up on the wall:

As you can see, it tells students that nearly 2,000 “unmarked graves” have been found. This has been an all-out, all-encompassing narrative in Canada. But to be clear, this narrative about the residential schools was not simply pushed by Canadian state media. In fact, the narrative actually had its origins in U.S.media — including in outlets that, we now know, were taking money from the Biden administration.

The New York Times, for instance, was one of the first outlets to report back in 2021 that “unmarked graves” had been discovered in Canada. They did a whole series of reports on the topic over the summer, all of which were premised on the idea that “ground-penetrating radar” had discovered evidence of grave sites. 

Then “60 Minutes” joined in, with reports like this one. Watch:

So Anderson Cooper is very concerned about the hundreds of unmarked graves that have supposedly been discovered. He specifically mentioned the hundreds of graves that were allegedly discovered at a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. And Canada’s state media said much the same thing. The CBC for example reported: “Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said Thursday.”

When you see television segments and news articles like this, you might assume — naturally — that some amount of vetting has been done to ensure that these claims are at least potentially accurate. These are obviously incendiary claims that are being made, so presumably, you might think that someone would have looked into them before publishing. But that was never true in this case. More than three years later, not a single body has been found in an unmarked grave at any residential school in Canada. And they certainly haven’t been uncovered in Kamloops. It turns out that, in fact, the alleged “unmarked grave site” in Kamloops was, in reality, a 2,000-foot long, 3-foot deep trench that was established in 1924 as a septic field to store sewage from the school. As the Dorchester Review reported, “Ground penetrating radar cannot distinguish between a trench lined with clay tiles and a putative child’s grave.”

This is the kind of information that, if you’re dealing with honest people, would lead to mass resignations and terminations, for starters. Obviously, no one with any self-respect in the Canadian media or in the Canadian government should keep their job after spreading an anti-Christian lie that caused dozens of churches to go up in flames. But instead of admitting they were wrong, Canada’s government is of course taking the dishonorable approach. They’re slowly slinking away like the cowards they are.

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The Daily Wire reports that:

Canada is pulling funds from groups still searching for alleged bodies buried at Indigenous residential schools funded by Catholics and other Christians. An organization and a committee of experts formed to search for the elusive remains have both lost funding in the past month, following four years of searches that have found zero remains.

We’re talking about organizations that have received millions of dollars from Canada’s massive, 300 million-dollar “Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund.” These nonprofits have fancy names like “Survivors’ Secretariat” and the “National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials.” And now, after collecting millions of dollars in taxpayer money, they’re finally getting cut off, because it turns out that the entire animating idea behind their “nonprofit” was in fact a scam. The Canadian government is now rolling back its financial investments in this deranged and destructive lie. For all intents and purposes, the residential schools hoax is finally dead.

But that does not mean that the Canadian government is admitting, outright, that it was wrong. That would take an ounce of integrity that they simply do not have. So instead, both political parties in Canada are now rallying around the idea that no one should be able to question the narrative that they’re now retreating from. In other words, Canada has now entered a kind of reality distortion field, where everyone knows the government was wrong for the last several years, but no one can admit it.

This is footage from just a couple of days ago. It aired on CBC. Watch:

Those were conservative politicians in that clip. That’s Canada’s conservative party — supposedly the opposition to the liberals. They’re telling this politician to retract her factually accurate statement about unmarked gravesites in Canada. No one in that clip actually refutes anything she said. Instead, they just tell her that it’s inappropriate to state the truth about these unmarked graves, because it contradicts a broader narrative they want to establish.

As tempting as it may be to think that nothing in Canada affects us here in the United States, the truth is that we can’t ignore what’s happening there. And that’s not just because of the cruelty that’s been inflicted on Christian Canadians in recent years. That’s because, at the same moment that Canada is uniting behind malicious, anti-Christian defamation, the country’s leaders are desperately seeking to expand their power globally.

In particular, some of Canada’s most prominent politicians — like Chrystia Freeland, who could be the country’s next prime minister — are openly suggesting that Canada should join a nuclear alliance to handle the “threat” that, in her view, is posed by the United States. Watch:

 

This is the same woman who gleefully froze truckers’ bank accounts when they committed the crime of peacefully protesting her government’s unlawful COVID mandates. She cheered as journalists were arrested and elderly women were trampled with horses in Ottawa’s downtown core, as a result of her declaration of martial law. She was one of the leading proponents of the mass-graves hoax. And she’s never apologized for any of it. Instead, now she wants Canada to join a hostile military alliance with foreign powers, while she’s contemplating the use of nuclear weapons against the United States. And at the moment, it’s not a stretch to say that she could replace Justin Trudeau as the leader of Canada’s liberal party — a party that, as we just saw, isn’t much different from the conservatives.

What this means is that, while the conclusion of the mass-graves hoax was anticlimactic at best, Canadian leaders actually see it as a springboard for more authoritarian crackdowns and more overt anti-Christian, anti-American hostility. Whatever credibility Canada had as a staunch American ally, or a legitimately Christian nation, is now completely gone. Canadian leaders would rather lie than admit the truth that everyone can clearly see. No country can survive for long when it’s committed, to such a great extent, to the denial of reality. And though they don’t seem interested in admitting it, that is the commitment Canadian politicians have now made.

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Ford has kept the entire Kathleen Wynne SEX ED AGENDA!

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Under Wynne, there was no OPT-OUT of the Ontario sex ed curriculum; under Ford, there is a bogus and false opt-out for one particular sex ed class, but now teachers can—and do!—teach “sex ed” and “gender ideology” in whatever class they like, and not only in the official “sex ed” class. The same holds for other Marxist indoctrination such as Critical Race Theory (CRT) and anti-colonialism.

Doug Ford’s government continues with “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” (DEI)

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attacks on Catholic churches have been widespread across US and Canada since 2020

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Tracker: Over 400 Attacks on U.S. Catholic Churches Since May 2020

Last Updated March 6, 2025

Attacks on Catholic Churches Since May 2020:
489

Attacks on Catholic Churches Since Supreme Court Leak:
324

Attacks on Catholic Churches in 2025:
10

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CV NEWS FEED // As civil unrest gripped the country in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in May 2020, Catholic churches were not exempt from mobs that destroyed property in cities across America. But while the riots and looting mostly died down in the summer of 2020, the attacks on Catholic churches have continued and escalated. 

Since civil unrest began on May 28, 2020, there have been at least 489 attacks against Catholic churches in the United States, including acts of arson which damaged or destroyed historic churches; spray-painting and graffiti of satanic messages; rocks and bricks thrown through windows; statues destroyed (often with heads cut off); and illegal disruptions of Mass. Attacks spiked dramatically after the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked in May 2022. At least 324 attacks have been perpetrated against Catholic churches since the Supreme Court leak, with many including graffiti with pro-abortion messages. Crucially, while a handful of the attacks have included thefts, the vast majority have only involved property destruction, indicating that the primary motive is not material gain.

Click/tap on the icons on the map to view the locations, photos, and details of each attack.

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The attacks on Catholic churches have been widespread across the country, affecting 43 states plus DC. The top ten states with the most attacks are California (66), New York (55), Pennsylvania (30), Florida (23), Texas (22), New Jersey (19), Ohio (18), Colorado (17), Oregon (17), and Massachusetts (16).

Hotspots with large clusters of attacks include New York City (45) and the metro areas of Los Angeles (26); Philadelphia (16); Denver (15); San Francisco/Bay Area (14); Portland, Oregon (14); Boston (11); Washington, D.C. (11); Seattle (8); Miami/Fort Lauderdale (8); Chicago (8); Omaha (7); Cincinnati (6); Louisville (6); San Antonio (6); and Houston (5). Some of the churches have been attacked multiple times. 

CatholicVote has found evidence of an arrest in connection with an attack against a church in only about 25% of cases.

The Biden administration has thus far refused to act to protect Catholic churches and stop these acts of domestic terrorism. In December 2021, CatholicVote sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice (DOJ) calling on them to act, pointing to a federal statute which requires the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute such crimes.

“The vandalism we are seeing today is quickly rising to levels that haven’t been seen since the late 1800’s and early 1900’s from organized groups such as the Know-Nothings and the Ku Klux Klan,” CatholicVote president Brian Burch wrote. Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta replied in a January 2022 letter promising a “15-day review to ensure that all appropriate resources are being deployed to protect houses of worship,” but since then, there has been no evidence of specific action taken by DOJ, and the attacks have continued.

A new wave of attacks against Catholic churches began in the wake of the Supreme Court opinion leak in May 2022. Burch renewed his call to Garland and DOJ to enforce federal law and prosecute the attacks. Neither Garland nor the DOJ appear to have taken any specific action, and there have been no federal prosecutions in any of the cases, even though attacking a place of worship is a federal crime.

According to a report in June 2022, the Department of Homeland Security has privately warned the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops of “credible threats” against Catholic churches and clergy after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. A bulletin from the National Terrorism Advisory System issued in June 2022 warned that it expects the “the threat environment to become more dynamic as several high-profile events could be exploited to justify acts of violence against a range of possible targets”, including “faith-based institutions” and “houses of worship”. The attacks accelerated after the Supreme Court issued its final ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

In January 2023, CatholicVote sent a letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) urging him to use the committee’s powers to open an investigation into the Biden Department of Justice’s failure to act against these acts of hatred. 

In June 2024, CatholicVote sent another letter to the Biden administration’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights begging for action, but received no response.

The attacks have continued unabated, with no signs of slowing down.

2020 (May 28 and later): 60 attacks on Catholic churches
2021: 82 attacks on Catholic churches
2022: 143 attacks on Catholic churches
2023: 108 attacks on Catholic churches
2024: 85 attacks on Catholic churches
2025: 10 attacks on Catholic churches

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State	Attacks
Alabama	0
Alaska	4
Arizona	4
Arkansas	6
California	66
Colorado	17
Connecticut	4
Delaware	0
District of Columbia	10
Florida	23
Georgia	5
Hawaii	0
Idaho	0
Illinois	10
Indiana	13
Iowa	3
Kansas	10
Kentucky	7
Louisiana	12
Maine	5
Maryland	8
Massachusetts	16
Michigan	12
Minnesota	8
Mississippi	2
Missouri	8
Montana	2
Nebraska	10
Nevada	0
New Hampshire	0
New Jersey	19
New Mexico	3
New York	55
North Carolina	6
North Dakota	4
Ohio	18
Oklahoma	3
Oregon	17
Pennsylvania	30
Rhode Island	2
South Carolina	1
South Dakota	3
Tennessee	2
Texas	22
Utah	5
Vermont	1
Virginia	2
Washington	15
West Virginia	7
Wisconsin	8
Wyoming	0

The full spreadsheet database of the attacks may be viewed here.

Notes: This tracker includes all reported acts of vandalism and violence against churches since May 28, 2020. Nearly all reports are sourced from news agencies, while a handful have been reported directly to CatholicVote, with documentation, via email. Thefts of holy objects including tabernacles and statues are included, but thefts of cash, copper, electronics, etc., and other cases where the motive appears to be purely material gain, are not included.

This post will be updated as news develops. If you are aware of an attack not found in the map, please email details and any photos to info@catholicvote.org.

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