‘Intergenerational healing’ has no basis in Catholic doctrine, Spanish bishops affirm

 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/260752/intergenerational-healing-has-no-basis-in-catholic-doctrine-spanish-bishops-affirm

A message to Justin Trudeau from Pierre Poilievre in response to the events on the streets of Montreal

Sign your name at the link below if you agree with Pierre:

 https://www.conservative.ca/open-letter22/

November 23, 2024

Prime Minister Trudeau,

We are reaping what you sowed.

This is what happens when a Prime Minister spends nine years pushing toxic woke identity politics, dividing and subdividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion, region, age, wealth, and more.

On top of driving people apart, you systematically break what used to bring us together, declaring Canada a “post-national state” with “no core identity.”

You erased our veterans and military, the Famous Five, and even Terry Fox from our passport, replacing them with meaningless squirrels, snowflakes, and a drawing of yourself swimming as a boy.

You opened the borders to terrorists and lawbreakers and called anyone who questioned it racist.

You send out your MPs to say one thing in a mosque and the opposite in a synagogue, one thing in a mandir and the opposite in a gurdwara.

You have made Canada a playground for foreign interference. You allowed Iran’s IRGC terrorists to legally operate here for four years after they murdered 55 of our citizens in a major unprovoked attack.

You passed laws that release rampant offenders from prison within hours of their 80th arrest.

And what is the result? Assassinations on Canadian soil, firebombings of synagogues, extremist violence against mandirs and gurdwaras, over 100 churches burned or vandalized (with barely any condemnation from you), all for a total 251% more hate crime.

And, while you were dancing, Montreal was burning.

We won’t let you divide us anymore. Call an election now.

We will fire you and reclaim our citizenship, our values, our lives, our freedom, and, most of all, our country.

Hon. Pierre Poilievre, MP Leader of the Official Opposition

CNEWA Canada - their Mission

https://cnewa.org/ca/

Across the Middle East, Northeast Africa, India and Eastern Europe, Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) works in places where poverty, war and displacement shatter innocent lives.

Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) has been a lifeline for the poor throughout the Middle East, Northeast Africa, India and Eastern Europe for 90 years.

Founded by Pope Pius XI in 1926, and under the guidance of Pope Francis, CNEWA works for, through and with the Eastern Catholic churches to identify needs and implement solutions.

From forming priests to serve the people of God in Egypt to providing irrigation to farmers in southern Lebanon — from teaching needy children in Ethiopia to educating sisters in India — from providing emergency relief to Syrian Christian refugees to counseling for war-scarred children in Gaza, CNEWA connects you to your brothers and sisters in need.

November 7, 2024 Christianity is Not a “Respectable” Religion Matthew McKenna

This is really good, 
https://catholicexchange.com/christianity-is-not-a-respectable-religion/

French Teacher Bids Adieu to Trans Ideology, Wins $575,000 in Lawsuit

Trump Reveals His Plan for Trans Surgeries!

This is great news!!!!!!!!!!!

Trump's Win & What It Means | Jonathan Cahn Prophetic

Conservatives Finally Stand Up to the LGBT+ Mob

Jonathon Van Maren discusses the response of Canadian conservatives to gender ideology in Canada. Leaders discussed include Premier Blaine Higgs, Premier Danielle Smith, Premier Scott Moe, and the Conservative Leader of the Opposition Pierre Poilievre. You can find “The Bridgehead with Jonathon Van Maren” podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Rumble, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Donald Trump's Landslide Elxn Victory: Comeback of Our Time! | Stand on ...

🇺🇸TRUMP VICTORY: A New Beginning🇺🇸 - Fr. Mark Goring, CC

40 Days for Life, November 3, 2024 Closing Rally

 (A few short videos )

Wanda

Sisters Singing

Deacon Chuck

Candelight Processuion

Blessing from Bishop Mathieu

Homily 

Leaving for Saint Patrick Basilica

 

The Moral Responsibility of a Catholic in This Historic Election

Christian pregnancy counselling under fire - National Post - TERRY NEWMAN Comment · 31 Oct 2024

 National Post Thu, 31 Oct 2024

Christian pregnancy counselling under fire

TERRY NEWMAN Comment · 31 Oct 2024

http://epaper.nationalpost.com/article/281509346687779

WEBSITE LETS VISITORS KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT A MEDICAL CLINIC.
The Liberals are playing wedge politics again. They’ve released yet another in a long line of official attempts-tosave-their-arse announcements. This time, they’re letting Canadians know that they’ve had enough of pregnancy counselling centres that provide information about abortion — regardless of their faith — but do not offer referrals for the procedure or disclose that fact. No more charitable tax status for you!, the Liberals announced. Unless these clinics give in and go against their religious beliefs, or advertise openly that they won’t.

The announcement from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was so strange that when I first read about it, I had no idea what they were talking about.

The issue she described sounded so pervasive, so serious and important. The truth of the matter, as is often the case with the Liberals, is entirely different.

Yet, the background of the official statement makes the situation sound dire: “Concerns have been raised that some registered charities that offer reproductive health services to women, including pregnancy options counselling, may be spreading misinformation by presenting themselves as neutral, full-service pregnancy support service organizations when they are in fact anti-choice organizations that push women away from accessing the reproductive care of their choice.”

The Liberals are suggesting that this is happening to women, yet this serious announcement was not accompanied by facts or figures about the severity of this problem that supposedly requires the revocation of charitable status. And, as we all know, the Liberals are great at proposing answers to problems that don’t actually exist.

So, what are these faith based clinics like, anyway? Since the Liberal government did not provide a list of serious offenders and offences, I went looking myself.

I found Pregnancy Care Centre, whose website says they have served over 15,000 women over 40 years, assumedly without issue. It mentions Christ, and its stated mission is to “provide compassionate community support to women and families facing an unexpected pregnancy so that they can thrive without seeing abortion as their only option.” What absolute monsters!

Right away, their website lets visitors know that they are not a medical clinic, and that they do not provide or assist in arranging abortions. Well then, that would save someone who was actually looking for an abortion some time, it would seem.

While I haven’t investigated all clinics, this one certainly isn’t representing itself as neutral. Despite the site’s faith-based declaration, the clinic does provide information and counselling about abortion, but does not specifically offer referrals for abortions. The Liberals are likely not impressed, though, because, let’s face it, this clinic’s approach is Christian. The Liberals don’t seem to care much for their churches either. Coincidence? I think not.

I’m not convinced that the alleged shadowy cabal of anti-choice pregnancy centres that spurred Tuesday’s government announcement even exists.

Here’s the thing. There are obviously women out there who can read websites, are Christian, and want this kind of approach. What does it say about this Liberal government that they would like to take faith-based pregnancy counselling away from them?


http://epaper.nationalpost.com/article/281509346687779

Mass at Saint Patrick Basilica and 40 Days for Life, October 30, 2024

Pat and I went to mass at beautiful Saint Patrick Basilica this morning before going to pray at the at the abortion site. After mass Dennis and Angelina installed the International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of the Cape

See video below

 

I received this photo from Lois later on

Doug Ford Continues to Perpetuate DEI

From PAFE https://www.pafe.ca/

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are three words that should send shivers down your spine. While individuals and families in Ontario are waking up to the damage inflicted by DEI, Doug Ford’s government continues to double down and barrel forward.

We’d like to point your attention back to the tragic story of former Toronto District School Board (TDSB) principal Richard Bilkszto who committed suicide in 2021 after being bullied by TDSB’s contracted DEI and anti-racism initiatives, and was publicly humiliated and bullied for two long years in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. A formal review of the circumstances leading up to his death was never performed.

Do you recall the controversial TDSB field trip-turned-political-protest? Parents were told their children (some as young as eight years old) were going to witness (and not engage with) a “community event” that was meant to bring awareness to the mercury poisoning on Grassy Narrows Indigenous community. Instead, students were encouraged by their teachers to participate in a pro-Palestine protest which included anti-Semitic chanting “From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime.” Some students were told to wear blue shirts to identify them as colonizers, and others came home with “Zionist Kills” stickers.  In the TDSB there have been several complaints of anti-Semitism within the school board in the name of DEI. This specific incident, certainly wouldn’t have helped matters, seeing as many of the Jewish children on this field trip expressed feeling unsafe and uncomfortable.

Parents of the students on this field trip were rightfully upset, however no teachers were disciplined, and the TDSB trustees were hesitant to allow a review of this incident.

We acknowledge that these are two very different issues, but the root is the same pervasive rot: the radical agenda of DEI. Wherever it goes, discrimination, racism, and bullying seem to follow. Is this a coincidence or is this one of the fundamental issues with DEI?

Where does Doug Ford fit into all of this? The examples above are just a couple of many DEI-induced issues within TDSB. The Ford government continues to have the opportunity to reform DEI’s deep-rooted toxicity, but they choose to continue to perpetuate it instead. Why is it allowed to still wreak havoc on Ontario’s schools?

Patrick Case, former Minister of Education Chief Equity Officer for Kathleen Wynne was the man hired by the Ford government, to conduct a review of the TDSB field trip incident. He had a hand in introducing critical race theory and DEI ideology into Ontario’s curriculum. Patrick Case works closely with Colleen Russell-Rawlins, the TDSB education director who signed off on hiring Kike Ojo-Thompson, the race activist who bullied Richard Bilkszto in two separate anti-racism sessions in the spring before his death. Why is Doug Ford recycling Kathleen Wynne’s henchmen to fix an issue started by her?

Quite frankly – Doug Ford needs to fix his government’s mess. He needs to repeal the woke sex-ed, gender theory, and DEI that his government perpetuates in our schools. It’s absurd and careless to appoint someone like Patrick Case, to solve an issue that he directly helped to cause in the first place.

When will Doug Ford stop pandering to the far-left ideologies and start putting Ontario’s families first?

40 Days for Life, Ottawa - October 25, 2024

Pat and I joined Parishioners from St. Leonard Parish in Manotick

Doneen and Jane

 

Five Lessons to Learn from the African Church

Kamloops 'Mass Graves' Controversy: Indigenous Catholic Priest Responds

Kamala Harris Mocks Christian Who Shouted “Jesus is Lord” While She Promoted Abortion

 https://www.lifenews.com/2024/10/18/kamala-harris-mocks-christian-who-shouted-jesus-is-lord-while-she-promoted-abortion/

from the article

The Christian “bravely stood up and proclaimed, ‘Jesus is Lord.'” Only to be mocked by Harris: “I think you’re at the wrong rally.” She added. “Try the smaller one down the street.”

The documentation came from Jennifer McKinney, a Wisconsin resident who attended both the Trump rally in late August and the Harris event.

She explained the “smaller” Trump rally had about 7,000 attending, while Harris had perhaps a reported 2,500.

40 Days for Life 2024 - Friday, October 18, 2024

 Annunciation of the Lord and Saint John the Apostle Parishes

We pray for the babies that will die today, for the mothers and fathers and all their family members. We pray for mothers greiving an abortion, for the women considering abortion that they have a change of heart and that the Lord will send them the help they need in their hours of distress. We pray for abortionists and all Abortion Supporters. supporters. We Pray for Crisis Pregnancy Centers. 

It was pretty dark when I arrived at the corner of Queen and Bank. Of course, I had to go to the washroom. I shouldn't drink so much coffee I guess. But that will never happen. The building across the street has a washroom and a food court, so that helps

Anyway, shortly after beginning my prayers, Pat came by. I saw her coming out of the corner of my eye but since she was coming from a different direction I didn't notice her at first. I gave her instructions on how to find the corner but she couldn't follow them so she ended up coming out of the Train station across the Street. ( probably my fault although Pat is directionally challenged too) 

A little while later James Larivierre who is the Pro-Life Rep from Saint John the Apostle came. We all prayed together. I thought that it was really neat that Saint John the Apostle Parish had signed up for the same day we did. I joined Saint John the Apostle Parishioners for Life Chain two weeks ago. 

James and Pat

Maureen and Pat

Pat and I left at 8 for a coffee across the street. I was kind of cold although I shouldn't have been with all the heavy winter clothing I was wearing.

After our coffee, we took the train back to Blair. Pat drove me the rest of the way home.  

I took these 2 photos below after our coffee break. I was glad to see that there was another Saint John the Apostle parishioner with James when we left; Pat and I are parishioners of the Annunciation of the Lord Parish in Ottawa. 

James and James 

Father Rob and Father Kevin were there between 1 and 2, as well as Janet, Ken, Gord and Lois, Luzia  arrived at 2 and Lois stayed with her until 3pm. Margaret and four Sisters from the Queenship of Mary came for 1 hour in the afternoon as well 

Thank you, God, for all those praying today for the 40 Days for Life Intentions.  

Thank you, God, for Hearing our Prayers!

Thy Will Be Done!