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December
17, 2008
There
is indeed the enemy within the Catholic Church. There
are so-called Catholic groups like "Catholics
for Free Choice" that actually are not Catholic
at all except in name, since they oppose Church values
and teachings, and they are committed to undermining
the Church from within. Then there are Catholic hospitals
such as St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto that also
are against Catholic teachings, in this case, actively
and openly supporting the gay movement. And then again
there are the avowed Catholics who are openly for
abortion or euphemistically, for reproductive rights.
Such include Speaker of the House Pelosi, Vice-President-elect
Biden, Senator Kennedy, Governor Schwarzenneger, Cherie
Blair, and many others.
St.
Michael's has been lauded "as an example of a
Catholic institution that had turned its back on Catholic
moral teaching in the name of a greater public good.”
Now one of the greater public goods that is often
cited is the fight against poverty. Rightly so. But
in the name of fighting poverty, what is proposed,
among other things, is population control, which means
contraceptives, which means ultimately the whole range
of options available, certainly including abortion.
GK
started out as a Catholic work, but has veered away
and now oppose Catholic values in its partnerships
with pharmaceuticals producing or marketing contraceptives.
Now GK has strongly tied up with Canadian provincial
governments that are very pro-choice, with former
President Fidel Ramos who is a strong proponent of
population control and contraceptives, with the Catholic
Ateneo University whose professors (14 of them) openly
and publicly endorsed HB5043 and were not rebuked
by the school administration, and with a major corporation
whose principals are deeply involved in an NGO that
promotes population control and reproductive rights.
Is GK under its leadership going the way of St. Michael's,
in the name of "a greater public good"?
In
this fight for life, we who are Catholics should be
fully and truly Catholics, certainly not in name only.
Let us know what pro-life is all about, and let us
commit ourselves to God's righteousness in the defense
of life.
God
bless.
frank
St.
Michael’s Catholic Hospital in Toronto Flying
Gay Pride Flag in Lobby
Hospital has history of supporting the gay pride agenda
By
John Jalsevac
December
9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – St. Michael’s
Hospital in Toronto, a Catholic hospital, is flying
the gay pride flag in its lobby, LifeSiteNews.com
has discovered.
The
Toronto Catholic hospital has a history of supporting
the gay pride agenda. In 1999 it was revealed that
the hospital was listed as a “bronze”
level sponsor of Gay Pride Week in Toronto, having
donated a significant sum of money to the event. The
week’s activities included a homosexual men’s
picnic at Toronto Island’s nude beach, and a
“dyke striptease unlike any you've seen before,”
amongst other similar events,
Recently,
in comments made to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal
(OHRT), prominent homosexualist activist Rev. Brent
Hawkes lauded St. Michael’s Hospital as an example
of a Catholic institution that had turned its back
on Catholic moral teaching in the name “a greater
public good.”
Hawkes
was quoted in an OHRT decision, as its “theological
expert,” as saying that the Canadian Christian
charity, Christian Horizons, could be expected to
follow the example of St. Michael’s Hospital
in renouncing its Christian identity in the name of
“a greater common good.” The Tribunal
invoked Hawkes’ testimony about the hospital
in its decision to force Christian Horizons to no
longer require its employees to sign an agreement
to hold to core Christian teachings.
Hawkes
described how he approached St. Michael's Catholic
Hospital in Toronto with concerns about their treatment
of homosexuals. The Catholic hospital, said Hawkes,
responded in a way that he did not expect. They immediately
"educated their staff on gay and lesbian issues,
they started to treat gay and lesbian couples as full
couples before the law required them." He added:
"They put a rainbow flag into the foyer, they
put signs up for Pride Day."
The
flag which Hawkes referred to in his statements appears
to be the same flag that is currently flying in the
lobby.
Suresh
Dominic of Campaign Life Catholic responded to the
recent revelation about the hospital, saying, “It
is sad to see St. Michael's hospital promoting the
homosexual agenda. In the past the same hospital has
funded the 'Gay Pride' parade. A Catholic institution
should know well that promoting such a destructive
lifestyle is against Christian charity. The idea behind
such a decision is gravely malformed.
“While
trying to be positive and welcoming, the Catholic
hospital is in fact encouraging people in a lifestyle
which is hurtful physically, psychologically and,
most importantly, spiritually.”
Repeated
attempts to contact representatives of St. Michael’s
Hospital were not returned by press time.
To
contact St. Michael’s Hospital:
Jeffrey
C. Lozon
President & Chief Executive Officer
St. Michael's Hospital
30 Bond Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1W8, Canada
Phone: 416-360-4000
E-mail:
To
contact the Toronto archdiocese:
Archbishop
Thomas Collins
Catholic Pastoral Centre
1155 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M4T 1W2
Telephone: (416) 934-0606
e-mail:
To
contact the Toronto Archdiocese
See
related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Catholic
Toronto Hospital Sponsors Gay Pride Week
Catholic
Hospital Compromised on Moral Principles, Therefore
So Should Evangelical Christians Says 'Expert'
"For to me life is Christ, and death is gain."
(Phil 1:21)
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