Ontario Catholic conf. drops pro-abort Stephen Lewis for two top dissidents

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Ontario Catholic conf. drops pro-abort Stephen Lewis for two top dissidents
BY PATRICK B. CRAINE
Tue May 31, 2011 13:55 ESTComments (2)
TORONTO, Ontario, May 31, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The organizers of a major conference for Catholic educators in Ontario have cancelled a keynote address by long-time abortion advocate Stephen Lewis, but are now set to welcome two top dissidents from the Church’s teaching on human sexuality instead.

LifeSiteNews reported last month that Lewis, who has become infamous for his public denunciations of the Catholic Church and its effort to end abortion, was scheduled to speak at the When Faith Meets Pedagogy (WFMP) Conference in Toronto from October 27-29.

But organizer Michael Bator, executive director of the Catholic Curriculum Corporation, told LifeSiteNews Tuesday that Lewis will not speak. He confirmed that they have chosen Professors Thomas Groome of Boston College and Mary Jo Leddy of Regis College as keynote speakers instead.

Groome, a laicized priest who serves as professor of theology and religious education at Boston College, is an advocate of contraception, and has advanced views at odds with Church teaching on a range of issues, including female ordination.

A featured speaker at the WFMP conference in 1999 and 2003, Groome has also served as a member of the speaker’s bureau for Voice of the Faithful, a dissident group that numerous bishops have denounced and forbidden from meeting on Church property.

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Just a thought…
Why not get speakers that actually evangelize the Catholicism that finds unity with the Church and the Saints throughout the ages?
 
Darryl1958 said:
Just a thought…
Why not get speakers that actually evangelize the Catholicism that finds unity with the Church and the Saints throughout the ages?
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Because these are Catholic Teachers a good per cent who aren’t Catholic,a good per cent who are heterodox,a good per cent who are CINOs and with every union,dominated by leftist pinko anti-religious communists(I was a Fed Govt union member for 35 years)
 
I guess they think they will have a better more enlightening discussion with these two men rather than the first man they turned down.
 
The problem in Ontario is that the Catholic Schools are publicly funded. Meaning that the government has a say on how they are run. So more often than not, they are not as Catholic as we hope them to be.
 
valentino said:
I guess they think they will have a better more enlightening discussion with these two men rather than the first man they turned down.
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One is named Mary Jo Leddy a renegade former nun completely at odds with the teaching authority of the Catholic Church.
 
ConstantineTG said:
The problem in Ontario is that the Catholic Schools are publicly funded. Meaning that the government has a say on how they are run. So more often than not, they are not as Catholic as we hope them to be.
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100 per cent correct.
 
I don’t see how this can be labeled a Catholic conference.Is it mandatory that all Catholic teachers attend even if they know in advance its just too convince true Catholic teachers to change their positions.Shouldn’t it be called the Heretical Catholic conference?It seems more appropiate to me.
 
valentino said:
I don’t see how this can be labeled a Catholic conference.Is it mandatory that all Catholic teachers attend even if they know in advance its just too convince true Catholic teachers to change their positions.Shouldn’t it be called the Heretical Catholic conference?It seems more appropiate to me.
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It is a teachers union conference of Catholic Teachers.We have two school systems in Ontario.One Public (Secular) one Separate (Catholic) both funded by the taxpayer.The teachers in the Catholic system belong to one union as above but they are just like the regular population-80 per cent non-practicing and not in tune with Church teaching or authority.There have been articles on non-Catholics and stone atheists faking Catholicity and even converting to get teaching jobs.
 
valentino said:
I don’t see how this can be labeled a Catholic conference.Is it mandatory that all Catholic teachers attend even if they know in advance its just too convince true Catholic teachers to change their positions.Shouldn’t it be called the Heretical Catholic conference?It seems more appropiate to me.
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It is not mandatory for teachers to attend. It is actually held during class time. I was on a field trip to attend in 2001, and we heard Neil MacCarthy, who is now the Director of Public relations and communications for the Archdiocese of Toronto. He was quite good.
 
ConstantineTG said:
The problem in Ontario is that the Catholic Schools are publicly funded. Meaning that the government has a say on how they are run. So more often than not, they are not as Catholic as we hope them to be.
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The Catholic Church in British Columbia refuses full government control of funding. As long as the Church(through parental tuition) foots the larger part of the bill, then the Church is in control of the decisions. The current liberal government would be willing to pay even more, simply because it is cheaper for them than funding children in the public system, but the bishops has so far refused.
From a point of view of Catholic teaching and morality, it is nominally better here, I think, than in Ontario where government is in a position to force the Catholic school to allow two boys to go to the prom as ‘dates’, for example. It is not as if leftist moral indoctrination into the modern cultural sexual norms are totally absent in the Catholic culture here either, but the teachings of the Church at least have a part in the decision making. The government is not yet in a position to dictate their morality into the Catholic school system.
 
Darryl1958 said:
The Catholic Church in British Columbia refuses full government control of funding. As long as the Church(through parental tuition) foots the larger part of the bill, then the Church is in control of the decisions. The current liberal government would be willing to pay even more, simply because it is cheaper for them than funding children in the public system, but the bishops has so far refused.
From a point of view of Catholic teaching and morality, it is nominally better here, I think, than in Ontario where government is in a position to force the Catholic school to allow two boys to go to the prom as ‘dates’, for example. It is not as if leftist moral indoctrination into the modern cultural sexual norms are totally absent in the Catholic culture here either, but the teachings of the Church at least have a part in the decision making. The government is not yet in a position to dictate their morality into the Catholic school system.
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Keep it that way for the sake of your children.
 
ConstantineTG said:
The problem in Ontario is that the Catholic Schools are publicly funded. Meaning that the government has a say on how they are run. So more often than not, they are not as Catholic as we hope them to be.
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Food for thought: Judas Iscariot was the first Catholic Bishop to accept a government grant.
 
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