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was talking to my brother who is up near the border last night about the woes of the Canadian Church. I had never heard about what he had to say before. I don’t want to make this sound like a “they’re getting what they deserve thread” but I think it is going to. Perhaps that does not bode well for our future becase, while the US Catholic Church wasn’t so blatant about it, there was much undermining of Humanae Vitae in the states as well. I just have to think that this statement and the weakness that it showed among their Bishops at a time when strength would have done so much good, is bearing fruit today. The year following Humanae Vitae’s release a statement that garnered the approval of 100 out of 106 Canadian Bishops was realeased. It essentially said to go with your conscience on the matter of contraception. I can’t find the original statement. But this article has many choice excerpts. It is right out of Fr. Wilhelm’s “Christ Among Us”. Gasp.
Today I found this article. Looks like I am not the only one raising this conclusion. This article about sums it up.
catholicinsight.com/online/church/h…/1968wpeg.shtml
Calgary—Reginald Bibby, Canada’s leading observer of religious trends, has found in a recent study that acceptance of homosexuality in Canada runs parallel to the general abandonment of religious practice, particularly among Catholics. Bob Harvey of CanWest News Service reported in the Calgary Herald (April 17, 2004) that the University of Lethbridge sociologist was to present a paper to the Pacific Sociological Association in San Francisco on April 23 that finds a link to lack of religious education and awareness and sympathy with the homosexual agenda. Bibby points out that although a mere 25% of the U.S. population is Catholic compared to Canada’s nearly 50%, the opposition to the gay movement against the traditional family is much stronger in the U.S. than here.
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In 1968, Msgr. Foy predicted, “… to permit such dissent will in the end produce more defecting priests, laity to support them, contempt for the Church, contempt for authority, situation ethics, proud subjectivism, and a marxist-like existentialism.” Since 1968, most of these predictions of Catholic behaviour have come true. In an October 2003 article in Catholic Insight magazine, Msgr. Foy confirms, “largely as a result of the Winnipeg permissiveness, Canadian theologians and others have felt free to dissent from the Church’s teaching not only on contraception but on a wide spectrum of magisterial teaching s; e.g., on homosexuality, the ordination of women, on the fundamental option, even on abortion.”
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Today I found this article. Looks like I am not the only one raising this conclusion. This article about sums it up.
catholicinsight.com/online/church/h…/1968wpeg.shtml
Calgary—Reginald Bibby, Canada’s leading observer of religious trends, has found in a recent study that acceptance of homosexuality in Canada runs parallel to the general abandonment of religious practice, particularly among Catholics. Bob Harvey of CanWest News Service reported in the Calgary Herald (April 17, 2004) that the University of Lethbridge sociologist was to present a paper to the Pacific Sociological Association in San Francisco on April 23 that finds a link to lack of religious education and awareness and sympathy with the homosexual agenda. Bibby points out that although a mere 25% of the U.S. population is Catholic compared to Canada’s nearly 50%, the opposition to the gay movement against the traditional family is much stronger in the U.S. than here.
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In 1968, Msgr. Foy predicted, “… to permit such dissent will in the end produce more defecting priests, laity to support them, contempt for the Church, contempt for authority, situation ethics, proud subjectivism, and a marxist-like existentialism.” Since 1968, most of these predictions of Catholic behaviour have come true. In an October 2003 article in Catholic Insight magazine, Msgr. Foy confirms, “largely as a result of the Winnipeg permissiveness, Canadian theologians and others have felt free to dissent from the Church’s teaching not only on contraception but on a wide spectrum of magisterial teaching s; e.g., on homosexuality, the ordination of women, on the fundamental option, even on abortion.”
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