Everyday For Life Canada: September 2012

Lily of the Mohawks: another holy gift from God

We have a special event to pray for and to rejoice about as the Year Of Faith, Porta Fidei, approaches. She was known for her chastity and her purity. Our young people will soon have another saint as the perfect model for their lives in serving Christ. In less than two months, Canada and the Unites States will be able to call the first Native American not just Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha but, Saint Keteri Tekakwitha. Alleluia! Alleluia! The canonization will take in Rome on October 21, 2012. The celebrant will be Pope Benedict XVI.

Kateri was the daughter of a Mohawk warrior. Her mother died from smallpox when Katerina was only four years old. The sickness took her father's life. She too got sick with the deadly virus and it distorted her looks.

Sep

Equity education may now be promoting polygamy

The situation at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) in promoting equity and inclusive education has really gone off the moral rails. The board has produced a series of posters to create so-called "Safe and Positive Spaces", but in doing so has it has also possibly crossed the line into promoting the acceptance, along with a dozen different sexual orietations, the practice of polygamy.

Sep

An election video not afraid to consider the truth

Americans in a couple of months, on November 2, 2012, will vote to choose a president and a new government. As in most elections, in Canada, the United States and the entire West, the Republicans and the Democrats are talking about the usual issues: the economy, unemployment, education, the environment, social security and health care.

Sep

OECTA's letter to teachers less than truthful

This September Catholic teachers received a letter from their President, Kevin O'Dwyer emplaning why OECTA, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association, had signed a contract with the Liberal government.

Sep

On modernizing childcare in Ontario

Recently, The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, published an Open Letter to the Minister of Education on the issue of modernizing childcare. Everyday for Life Canada fully supports the letter because policy changes that are being made to childcare are not always in the best interests of children and families. To provide a more balanced and truly constructive view of the issue we need to move beyond government bureaucratic talk, and so we post the letter in its entirety.

Sep

Giving the voiceless a voice

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on September 18, 2012, released a Statement on Motion 312. As Catholics, we believe that life begins at conception and ends with natural death. Canadian law presently states that we are not human beings until birth. We know that this is morally wrong, and it's this "legal lie" that allows and pays with tax money for over 100,000 thousand abortions a year in Canada.

Sep

The intolerance of inclusive education

There are recent Toronto media reports that "land mines are being planted" in our schools. It's all coming from "extremist parents" also referred to as Christian conservatives. The same article says it's "a weird cabal consisting of extreme religionists and troubled people is attempting to subvert our public school system". To defend parental rights in Ontario, has become a "sinister plot".

Sep

The Exaltation of the Cross

Last Friday, September 14, the Church celebrated the feast as it does each year of the Exaltation of the Cross. The cross reminds us of the Resurrection. It's the ultimate and perfect example of the gift of life. From the cross, comes life's true significance and perfect happiness. Through the cross, we were all freely given the ultimate example of love and sacrifice.

The meaning of the cross that began nearly two thousand years has withstood the test of time.

Sep

Court action taken against the HWDSB in defence of parental rights

A court case was filed recently against the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board by a father who claims that his parental rights have been suppressed in the name of “Equity”. It's now three years that many Ontario parents have been battling to protect their children from the Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy and Bill 13. Given the government's unyielding stand, it has now ended in legal proceedings.

Sep

Parental warning: they're not just harmless video games

Video games started as a novelty in the early seventies with the first commercially successful products called Pong and Computer Space. In 1979, Pac-Man was released and Centipede in 1980. Today's manipulative and sophisticated video games are no longer something new or mere amusement. These games continue to play a part in shaping and defining our culture; they have also become big business. And where huge profits are at stake you can be sure that morals and truth are sacrificed.