The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att...
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
And where is that usless body of Bishops in the Province of Ontario?
ReplyDeleteThe silence is deafening.
As usual, they will wait too long, until the game is over. Then they will again claim they did their best.
What a sick joke they are!
Greg: In most cases in the past, you are absolutely correct. But be assured that this was not the case this time. The Bishop lobbied HARD with the government and had reached an agreement which would have permitted the Catholic schools to set up anti-bullying groups. Alas, the government withdrew that concession literally at the last minute possible and the Bishops were caught flat-footed. If they made a mistake, it was in trusting a politicans promise.
ReplyDeleteI wish that they would have learned the lesson of their Quebec brothers who were similarly sandbagged by that provincial government when they gave up the rights to confessional schools. They trusted the government of the day when they said that the schools could still teach Catholic catechism - a 'privilege' that was taken away within two years in the name of creating an 'equal' system for people of all or no beliefs.
Government promises are not worth the paper that they are written on! You'd think that men as intelligent as Bishops would know that... but they don't seem to have yet gotten the message!
Fr. Tim
A writer from Rome on what is happening in the Vatican these days explains that today's ordinandi are not the brightest of the lot and are poorly taught whether in Rome or elsewhere. The Ontario bishops are, for the most part, an ex ample of this malaise in educational matters.There is an archbishop in Ontario who loves to have his picture in every blog in full regalia and seems more interested in travel and in a certain religious order than in running a diocese.It will take time to sort this all out.Time that the church may not have before it truly does become 'a remnant'
ReplyDeleteFather, who told you Bishops are intelligent?
ReplyDeleteThey are in place more for coverup and show than for their adherence to the teachings of Jesus, and intelligence which would flow from their adherence.
They are mostly mental midgets.
Hi Tim and Greg,
ReplyDeleteTry as I might, I am at a loss to understand why the Bishops and some Catholics object to allowing students to name their anti-gay bullying clubs "GSA".
The standard objection appears to be that by naming the clubs "GSA" - we are somehow telegraphing our implicit support of the "gay lifestyle".
In response to that concern, I note that there really is no such thing as a "gay lifestyle". There are however gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered students. To deny them the ability to identify as LGBT, are we not enforcing the "closet", i.e. forcing them to remain invisible? Doesn't the project of creating tolerant and safe spaces for LGBT students within our schools involve creating some awareness among all staff and students that LGBT students are not invisible and that it is OK for them to be "out"?
Would appreciate your perspective on this aspect of the issue.
50 years ago the priests used to force us to attend catechism. I think this caused more of my age mates to reject Catholicism in early adolescence than anything else. Most never reconciled with the church and remain at best estranged. Clearly a bad idea by the priests.
ReplyDeleteAll of these measures that denigrate and marginalize Gays, women and set up priests as somehow more in touch with God than and superior to others put the Catholic church in a bad light. Women and Gays are some of the strongest and most active participants in the life of the church. Priests are the ones that end up being exposed by their bad behavior as morally weak. They steal money, they coerce sex, they are not part of and do not empathize with the communities they serve.
Any lengths gone to before they call things what they really are. For the last 100 years they should have been calling the Catholic priesthood what it really is, a branch of the organization, NAMBLA.
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