I don't understand some of our Canadian Bishops at all. I can't believe they are villifying your work. I understand they are embarrased, but surely the lives of unborn children and the money given to them in trust by faithful catholics matter more than their pride. Kudos to Bishop Thomas in Toronto for his position on this matter, but given the response of some of the other Bishops it is not enough to restore our family's confidence in the CCCB that the truth will be persued and justice done.
For years my family has given a lot of money to Share Life. We gave none this year and will not give a penny more until the matter is sorted out properly—in fact I'm not sure we ever will again. Other groups who keep to their Catholic madate will suffer, I understand but we are sickened that we may have inadvertantly paid to have childern aborted. From now on we will be giving money directly to specific catholic charities whom we trust.
The Bishops whatever they may believe are NOT creating an atmosphere of increased trust through their response to this affair. In fact I feel as though I am dealing with smarmy politicians who are just trying to spin their way out of a bad situation.
It's heart breaking !
Blossom Sanders
Ontario, Canada
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Dear Brothers over the sea …
In France we have our D&P which is CCFD (comité catholique contre la faim et pour le développement). During the cold war they finance communist revolution in Latin América, South Africa and Philippines and now they advocate for abortion and contraception. But they don't say what they are doing really to people to continue to take the money. I give evidence of these facts in my last book “Le terrorisme pastoral” (Pastoral terrorism) available in Canada.
Dieu vous bénisse !
Jean-Pierre Moreau (France)
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Re: Best Pro-Life Quotes from Pope Benedict XVI's New Encyclical
73. [The media] need to focus on promoting the dignity of persons and peoples, they need to be clearly inspired by charity and placed at the service of truth, of the good, and of natural and supernatural fraternity. … The media can make an important contribution towards the growth in communion of the human family and the ethos of society when they are used to promote universal participation in the common search for what is just. 74. A particularly crucial battleground in today's cultural struggle between the supremacy of technology and human moral responsibility is the field of bioethics….
If you all at LSN are too modest to see yourselves and your work endorsed in these words from Benedict's Caritas in Veritate, take it from me: this exactly describes what you are doing and the spirit in which you do it.
Robert C. Gordon PhD MBA
London ON Canada
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Praise for LifeSiteNews
Dear All at LifeSitre News,
I am a retired Anglican Priest living in Canberra Australia… I look forward to your news every day, pray for you and your work and pass on to a prayer List I facilitate and though much is not pertinent to Australia, the essence is, that is the Gospel, and I circulate it wide and far.
Blessings,
FR BRIAN HATHERLY
CANBERRA
Australia
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Re: Catholics for Kerry Leader Pleads Guilty to Prostituting 17-Year-Old
I have always been convinced that leftist Catholics, advocates for Church reform of moral standards, are themselves participating in some form of immorality. They despise the Church that will not concede to the cultural pressures and provide justification for their evils. I just pray that the secret deeds of these people are more often exposed to the public such as in this case.
“And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. (John3:19-20)
L. Keess
Calgary, Alberta
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Re: Letter to the editor (last one)
Dear editor,
I'm not sure why you published the above commentary by Nick Sutherby, as it is the typical feedback Christians receive for standing up for the Culture of Life. His article is about as sarcastic as can be, and once again, presents the so-called “rights of women over their own bodies” (meaning the 'right' to kill a living child), over the right to continued living for the child. Once again, everyone's rights are clamored for, except for those little people, the silent unborn people.
Of course, the usual words “bigot,” and “homophobe” are hurled, and he implies that the “true” God of the Bible tolerates his ideals, and that we, meaning Christians, have twisted God's true identity.
Then, he tries to use the argument that people younger than 45 are open-minded, as opposed to those older, such as myself (46). It is not the demographic that determines what is right and wrong, it is God, regardless of how few of us follow.
I thank LSN for defending the Culture of Life. It is attacked for it. I support it with prayers and financial backing.
Vincent Scott
Prince George, BC
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Dear Editor:
The criticism leveled against LSN by Nick Sutherby is typical of the diatribes of the sexual-deviant, pro-abortion, anti-life crowd. It provides all the more evidence of how much they need our prayers.
You have obviously noted that Mr. Sutherby did not append any locale to his letter and also that he advanced no rational argument in response to a specific LSN article, but merely descended to name-calling. Once again, this is typical of the aforementioned “crowd”. They simply lack the intellectual and moral ammunition.
Robert Dyment
St. Catharines, ON