In light of my recent
experience yesterday with a local priest who protested my presence and my
abortion signage outside his parish, my thoughts have flashed back to this item from 2007:
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PRESS RELEASE
Vote Life, Canada!
Welcomes New Archbishop of St. John’s NL and Calls for Rebirth of Catholic
Leadership in the Province Accompanied by Vigorous Defense of Unborn Children
Contact: Eric Alcock, President, Vote Life, Canada!
St. John’s, NL October 18/Christian Newswire—Vote Life, Canada! congratulates St.
John’s newest Archbishop, Most Rev. Martin William Currie and strongly appeals
for a new era of authentic Catholic leadership and a ray of hope for the Unborn
of NL.
“For too long,” says Eric Alcock, President and NL
Provincial Director of Vote Life, Canada,
“womb children in this province have been denied the human rights bestowed upon
them by their Creator. As a result, an estimated 30,000 have perished in NL
since child-killing was legalized in Canada.”
Alcock notes very sadly that for at least the last four
decades, under the nurture of Catholic Bishops in his home province of
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), “the rise of a pseudo-Catholic
culture has had devastating consequences for both the practice of a genuine
Catholic faith and a successful opposition to the culture of death.”
Despite the daily slaughter of nearly 300 of Canada’s
Unborns, Alcock says the Bishops of St. John’s, like those in other parts of
Canada, nevertheless busy themselves with, and boast of, their strong social
justice initiatives focusing on such issues as drinking water supplies and
immigration.
“Our previous Archbishop,” reports Alcock, “was involved in
advancing recommendations to government concerning immigrants and refugee
claimants, claiming that laws and politics place national interests before
human dignity.” News media at the time
quoted the Archbishop as saying that “it's part of our Christian ethic to
welcome the stranger," and that “we need to recognize that migrants enrich
our Canadian life.”
But, Alcock asks, “When have we seen such concern for the
human dignity of the Unborn? Do they not ‘enrich our Canadian life?’ Is it not
‘part of our Christian ethic’ to prevent unprovoked, murderous attacks upon the
innocent?”
Alcock claims the rarity of pro-life appeals in parishes
along with “virtual silence on the subject of abortion in homilies and prayers
at Masses throughout the province insulates Catholics from any reminders of the
child-killing taking place around them. It also serves to marginalize advocates
of unborn children and distances them from the Christian community, portraying
them as extremists.”
Vote Life, Canada!
says to the new St. John’s Archbishop: Rise up and do the work of a true
Catholic Bishop. Vigorously proclaim the Catholic faith and refuse to pander to
a pseudo-Catholic religion that breeds for our society the true extremists:
anti-life and anti-family renegades who call themselves “Catholic.” Lead this
province in a campaign of justice for the Unborn.
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