---

6 Bishops Participate In Mass Supporting Feminist March

Pro-Abortion Feminists Speak, Lobby Prime Minister

OTTAWA, Oct 16 (LSN.ca) - Sunday was the first of the final three days of the infamous World March of Women 2000, a feminist propaganda measure that has split the Catholic Church in Canada. The Canadian effort saw women marching to the Parliament buildings in Ottawa waving feminist logos such as "Vagina Power" and "We Are Women Hear Us Roar." Reports on the number of women in Ottawa vary wildly with the Globe and Mail reporting 3,000, the Ottawa Citizen 15,000 and the women's march coordinators claiming an enormous 50,000. Seven women represented the group in a meeting with the Prime Minister. Of these seven, the top five came from overtly pro-abortion, pro-lesbian groups. They were Terri Brown, president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Nancy Riche of the Canadian Labour Congress, Jen Anthony of the Canadian Federation of Students, Vivian Barbot-Limburger of the Federation des Femmes du Quebec, and Andree Cote of the Nat'l Assoc. of Women and the Law.

Bob Harvey of the Ottawa Citizen reports that six Catholic Bishops participated in a Mass for the feminist march at Notre Dame Cathedral. The bishops included Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais, Calgary Bishop Fred Henry, London Bishop John Sherlock, Moncton's Bishop Ernest Leger, Edmonston NB's Bishop Francois Thibodeau, and Sault Ste Marie's Paul-Andre Durocher. The Citizen reports that Bishop Gervais had intended to join in the march but police warned him that it would be unsafe.

Outside the cathedral a few Catholic pro-life protesters held signs reading "Reject Feminist Supremacy." During his remarks in the church, the Citizen reports that Gervais told the packed audience to "smile at their fellow Catholics as they ran the gauntlet of anti-march protesters." A group of seven from a local area parish held a pro-life banner in the march and also proclaimed the same message in the air with a plane flying overhead carrying the banner, "Stop violence from womb to tomb."

Lobbying in Ottawa will continue tomorrow. Meanwhile, in New York a petition with some 4 million signatures will be handed to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan demanding that the concerns of the Women's March movement (which include support for abortion and lesbianism) be addressed. In Washington March participants were led by Patricia Ireland of the National Organization for Women who, according to the Washington Post, decried efforts to limit abortion. Feminist gatherings such as this occurred in major cities the world over, with 30,000 gathering in Brussels.

For media reports see:
http://www.southam.com/ottawacitizen/newsnow/cpfs/national/001015/n101552.html
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13614-2000Oct15.html

For all the March of Women coverage go to:
http://www.lifesite.net/clc/womens_march/

 Back to Top

---

MORE NEWS: LifeSiteNews.com Home Page  Last 10 Days   Archives   Special Reports

Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.