Official Satement by Archbishop Michael Miller, CSB, Archbishop of Vancouver, regarding the morality of support for ‘gestational’ legislation.

Statement on Catholics Who Support Gestational Legislation

The Archdiocese of Vancouver strongly supports the prolife movement in Canada. We encourage prolife legislators, activists and groups to work cooperatively towards achieving recognition in Canadian law of the right to life of every person from conception to natural death. Cooperation does not always mean unanimity regarding a given strategy; open and civil debate about the wisdom of any specific strategy is healthy. We affirm the freedom of each member of the movement to discern the Wisdom of proposing and following a particular plan of action. In every instance, it is necessary to be guided by a well­ informed conscience regarding the moral liceity of an initiative.
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Homily - Father Yves Marchildon -Sunday September 2, 2012

An author, Sister Ruth Burrows, from England, wrote this about faith:

“Faith is not a thing of the mind, it is not an intellectual certainty or a felt conviction of the heart. It is a sustained decision to take God with utter seriousness as the God of my life. It is to live out each hour in a practical, concrete affirmation that God is Father and he is “in heaven.” It is a decision to shift the center of our lives from ourselves to him, to forego self- interest and make his interests, his will, our sole concern …”

Run With Life: Everything you wanted to know about Canada's abortion law but were afraid to ask

Run With Life: Everything you wanted to know about Canada's abort...: There's a really good debate going on over at LifeSiteNews on abortion incrementalism. It is in response to two articles posted there:
Permissions Evangelical College Prof: Biblically speaking, gestational approach unsupportable
To the gestational approach and back - a top pro-life leader’s journey

Bless Our God, composed and sung by John Foley - Saint Louis Jesuits - w...

Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.
Pope Benedict XVI

Former Planned Parenthood Manager Leads 40 Days for Life, Abortion Clinic Closes

Crossroads Canada Walkers Come to Ottawa

Eleven young adults from Crossroads Canada, a cross-Canada pro-life walk in which two of our parishioners ( Annunciation of the Lord, Ottawa) have been participating, will be completing their journey on Saturday, August 11th in Ottawa. There will be a welcome rally at noon on Parliament Hill folowed by an informal luncheon at St. Theresa Roman Catholic Church, 95 Somerset St. West, at 1pm. All are welcome to attend. A pair of walkers will be speaking at the end of Mass in a few east-end churches Saturday evening and Sunday morning, including Annunciation of the Lord, giving a brief synopsis of their summer journey.

It's Time for an Abortion Law in Canada!

Run With Life: Priests for Life Canada and what they support

Run With Life: Priests for Life Canada and what they support: This is what Priests for Life Canada support regarding incremental abortion legislation. This statement is dated July 12, 2012 and is on the...

Pope John Paul II said

 Pope John Paul II said :

“A particular problem of conscience can arise in cases where a legislative vote would be decisive for the passage of a more restrictive law, aimed at limiting the number of authorized abortions, in place of a more permissive law already passed or ready to be voted on. Such cases are not infrequent. It is a fact that while in some parts of the world there continue to be campaigns to introduce laws favouring abortion, often supported by powerful international organizations, in other nations-particularly those which have already experienced the bitter fruits of such permissive legislation-there are growing signs of a rethinking in this matter. In a case like the one just mentioned, when it is not possible to overturn or completely abrogate a pro-abortion law, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality. This does not in fact represent an illicit cooperation with an unjust law, but rather a legitimate and proper attempt to limit its evil aspects.” (Evangelium Vitae, 73).