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Church Funds went to Abortion Supporters
An apparent split has developed among Canadian Catholic bishops over the Canadian Church’s overseas development arm “Development and Peace.” D&P is the Canadian version of the US bishops’ Catholic Relief Services.
On March 12, 2009, the online newspaper LifeSiteNews ran the first of a series of stories which included documentary evidence showing D&P’s funding of organizations supporting abortion and contraception. On April 17, LifeSite detailed D&P funding extending to at least 17 organizations in 10 countries: Benin, Brazil, East Timor, Guinea, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, and Togo. The article named each organization and specified their activities. The series produced a negative response from some Canadian bishops. In a March 23 letter, James Weisgerber, archbishop of Winnipeg and the current president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the accusations against D&P were “untrue.” Also on March 23, Archbishop Daniel Bohan of Regina, called the reports both “false” and “malicious.” But the evidence LifeSite compiled was compelling enough to provoke an extraordinary May 28, 2009 letter from the bishops of Peru to the Canadian bishops, formally requesting the Canadian bishops to cease funding groups in Peru which support contraception/abortion:
“Each (funded) group either explicitly endorses abortion, and/or contraception, either by name or by its various euphemisms like ‘sexual and reproductive rights’ or some derivation thereof,” wrote the Peruvian bishops. “In that sense, we respectfully would like to formally request that the funding for the pro-abortion groups in Peru by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace be halted.”
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An apparent split has developed among Canadian Catholic bishops over the Canadian Church’s overseas development arm “Development and Peace.” D&P is the Canadian version of the US bishops’ Catholic Relief Services.
On March 12, 2009, the online newspaper LifeSiteNews ran the first of a series of stories which included documentary evidence showing D&P’s funding of organizations supporting abortion and contraception. On April 17, LifeSite detailed D&P funding extending to at least 17 organizations in 10 countries: Benin, Brazil, East Timor, Guinea, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, and Togo. The article named each organization and specified their activities. The series produced a negative response from some Canadian bishops. In a March 23 letter, James Weisgerber, archbishop of Winnipeg and the current president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the accusations against D&P were “untrue.” Also on March 23, Archbishop Daniel Bohan of Regina, called the reports both “false” and “malicious.” But the evidence LifeSite compiled was compelling enough to provoke an extraordinary May 28, 2009 letter from the bishops of Peru to the Canadian bishops, formally requesting the Canadian bishops to cease funding groups in Peru which support contraception/abortion:
“Each (funded) group either explicitly endorses abortion, and/or contraception, either by name or by its various euphemisms like ‘sexual and reproductive rights’ or some derivation thereof,” wrote the Peruvian bishops. “In that sense, we respectfully would like to formally request that the funding for the pro-abortion groups in Peru by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace be halted.”
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