The Secret of Therese and the source of Her Sanctity

Life Chain - Vanier Ontario - October 5, 2025 - corner of Montreal Road and the Vanier Parkway

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Annual Day of Public Witness for Children Killed by Abortion

Pro-lifers defended life in the womb along roadways and intersections at the National Life Chain today

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Patricia Maloney, Ottawa, ON

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Endorsements

“It is our responsibility as people of faith to bear witness to the sanctity of human life, and to support those who have been affected by abortion.” ~Most Reverend Donald Bolen, Archbishop of Regina

“As the culture of death around us spreads inexorably, it is more important than ever that those 'with eyes to see' offer a reminder to the wider society that life is a gift to cherish and defend at every stage." ~Most Reverend Stephen Jensen, Bishop of Prince George

The following individuals and organizations have endorsed the 2025 Life Chain. If your group is not listed, please contact us to communicate your endorsement. 

 Angelina Steenstra, National Coordinator of Silent No More Awareness Campaign Canada
Tanya Gaw, Founder of Action4Canada
Jessica Spackman, President & Founder of Latter-day Saints for Life
Jill Mowser, President of Latter-day Saints for Life - Canada
Pastor Richard Juritsch, President of Lutherans for Life - Canada
Dr. David Guretzki, President of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
David Gelinas, Ontario State Deputy for the Knights of Columbus
His Eminence Sotirios Athanassoulas, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Canada
Most Reverend Michael Kwiatkowski, Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster
Most Reverend Richard Smith, Archbishop of Vancouver
Most Reverend Gérard Pettipas, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan
Most Reverend Donald Bolen, Archbishop of Regina
Most Reverend Albert LeGatt, Archbishop of Saint Boniface
Most Reverend Michael Mulhall, Archbishop of Kingston
Most Reverend Marcel Damphousse, Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall
Most Reverend Brian Dunn, Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth
Most Reverend Héctor Vila, Bishop of Whitehorse
Most Reverend Gary Gordon, Bishop of Victoria
Most Reverend Stephen Jensen, Bishop of Prince George
Most Reverend William Terrence McGrattan, Bishop of Calgary
Most Reverend Gary Franken, Bishop of Saint Paul
Most Reverend Mark Hagemoen, Bishop of Saskatoon
Most Reverend Stephen Hero, Bishop of Prince Albert
Most Reverend Alan Campeau, Bishop of Thunder Bay
Most Reverend Thomas Dowd, Bishop of Sault Ste. Marie
Most Reverend Ronald Fabbro, C.S.B., Bishop of London
Most Reverend Douglas Crosby, O.M.I., D.D., Bishop of Hamilton
Most Reverend Gerard Bergie, D.D., J.C.L., Bishop of St. Catharines
Most Reverend Daniel Miehm, D.D., Bishop of Peterborough
Most Reverend Wayne Kirkpatrick, Bishop of Antigonish
Most Reverend Joseph Dabrowski, C.S.M.A., Bishop of Charlottetown
Most Reverend Bart van Roijen, Bishop of Corner Brook and Labrador

How the miraculous survival of a Polish crucifix urges us to forgive others

 https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/how-the-miraculous-survival-of-a-polish-crucifix-urges-us-to-forgive-others/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=canada

How the miraculous survival of a Polish crucifix urges us to forgive others

The Baryczka Crucifix is united with Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko, who was confronted with the abyss of human malice yet remained a steadfast exemplar of evangelical forgiveness.

40 Days for Life - Ottawa Ontario - October 1, 2025 - Assumption Parish, Vanier

Praying to our Blessed Mother 

Praying to our Guardian Angels

Top U.S. political satirist draws attention to plight of Christians in Nigeria - CNA

 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266839/top-us-political-satirist-draws-attention-to-plight-of-christians-in-nigeria

CNA Staff, Sep 30, 2025 / 06:00 am

Political satirist Bill Maher, who has often been a vocal critic of Christianity, recently called attention to the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, calling the ongoing violence a “genocide attempt.”

“I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria,” he said during the Sept. 26 episode of his HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

“They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches,” Maher said, referring to violent Islamists in Nigeria such as Boko Haram.

“This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza,” he continued. “They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.”

“Where are the kids protesting this?” Maher asked.

The violent persecution of Christians in Nigeria “is underreported in Western media,” Religious Freedom Institute President David Trimble told CNA.

Trimble, commending Maher for raising the issue “to his mass audience, which may otherwise have very little exposure to such weighty issues,” noted that the “atrocities committed against Nigerian Christians can rightly be labeled as genocide.” 

“Nigeria is the most dangerous place in the world to be a follower of Jesus,” Trimble said. “Over the last decade, Islamist extremists have killed approximately 4,000 Christians there annually.”

Since July 2009, more than 19,000 Christian churches have been destroyed or looted, while hundreds of clergy, including Catholic priests, have been kidnapped or attacked. Less than two weeks ago, a Catholic priest named Father Matthew Eya was murdered while returning from his ministry.  

Edward Clancy, outreach director of Aid to the Church in Need USA, said that Christian persecution is at its height in Nigeria.

“It’s the area in the world where more Christians are killed for their faith than anywhere else,” Clancy told CNA.

“It’s amazing that it takes Bill Maher to become the voice of Christian persecution in the United States,” Clancy added.

Experts call the persecution a genocide

Christians make up about half of Nigerians, but they live in fear of persecution. 

“Shocking levels of violence have persisted for years,” Trimble said.

Christians experience frequent violent attacks, especially those living on farms in small towns on the outskirts of the north central state of Benue, which is predominantly Christian. Their farms are often burned to the ground during these attacks, destroying their livelihoods.

“They attack small towns and devastate them to the point that people need to abandon their homes, and then they’ll destroy and burn what’s remaining,” Clancy said. “It just demolishes the whole community.” 

Because of the destruction, many parishes have been forced to close. In the Diocese of Makurdi in Benue, at least 16 parishes have been abandoned due to the violence, according to Clancy. As each parish has multiple locations, this translates to roughly 40 churches. 

The violence in Nigeria has “a lot of the elements of a genocide,” Clancy said.

The violence began in 2009 with the Boko Haram insurgency, which aimed to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state. Since then, the group has been orchestrating terrorist attacks on civilians and targeting Christians. 

But militant Fulani herdsmen contribute to a majority of the violence, sowing fear in Nigeria’s Middle Belt communities.  

“These Fulani militants account for more attacks against Christians (and Muslims) than either of the more prominent Boko Haram and ISWAP [Islamic State West Africa Province],” Trimble said.

The violence is now growing in the south, according to Trimble. 

“Violence against Christians, once confined predominantly to the north and Middle Belt, is now also spreading further south, where the majority of Nigerian Christians reside,” Trimble said. 

Persecution is enshrined in Nigerian law, with blasphemy laws, sharia codes, and sharia courts in more than a dozen provinces “that oppose equal rights and due process for religious minorities,” according to Trimble.

“Atrocities committed against Nigerian Christians can rightly be labeled as genocide in terms both of how that term is used in popular discourse as well as its more precise usage in international law,” Trimble added.

Clancy noted that declarations of genocide are often “after the fact.”

“By the time someone says it, it’s history,” Clancy said. “We’ve got to stop it beforehand.”

Vocations thrive amid persecution 

Though priests are being kidnapped and even killed, vocations thrive in Nigeria.

“Believe it or not, it’s inspiring vocations,” Clancy said. “You would think that Tertullian was a lunatic when he said, ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the faith.’ But there’s been so many young men who’ve been emboldened.”

“The seminaries are full,” he said. 

When asked how Catholics can support their fellow Christians in Nigeria, Clancy said that “we should always start with prayer because it guides us, but it also helps to strengthen us.”

But also, Clancy encouraged Christians in the U.S. to “build awareness” as the topic of Christian persecution often “becomes cloistered in the confines of worship space” but “it doesn’t break out.”

“The Church is being very faithful and serving the people around the world in the harshest places,” Clancy said. “Let people know that our brothers and sisters in places like Nigeria are suffering.”

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40 Days for Life - Wednesday, September 24, 2025

I arrived at the Prayer site shortly before 7. 

Shawna and Autumn from Blessed Sacrament Parish arrived shortly after, and Deacon David was on his way. We prayed the Holy Rosary (Joyful, Luminous and Sorrowful Mysteries). Thank you, Mother Mary, for hearing our prayers.

God bless Blessed Sacrament Parish. Shawna told me that most of the hours were covered. The weather was beautiful, sunny, and relatively warm. Thank you, Jesus!!!