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Re: Catholic News
By: Beverly Date: April 27, 2023, 10:16 am
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I agree, Leslie, that Catholic schools should not be forced to
teach something that goes against its religion. Even Protestant
schools shouldn't have to. But, public funding should only go to
public schools where religious restrictions should be
prohibited. Here, especially in Florida right now, the governor
is reallocating public school funds to private-school vouchers.
Doing so has dealt another blow to public education which is
already suffering from lack of public funding.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: April 27, 2023, 10:42 am
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[quote author=Beverly link=topic=50.msg4425#msg4425
date=1682608578]
I agree, Leslie, that Catholic schools should not be forced to
teach something that goes against its religion. Even Protestant
schools shouldn't have to. But, public funding should only go to
public schools where religious restrictions should be
prohibited. Here, especially in Florida right now, the governor
is reallocating public school funds to private-school vouchers.
Doing so has dealt another blow to public education which is
already suffering from lack of public funding.
[/quote]
Catholics pay taxes too into Public funds and it is right that
they get Catholic education from public funds because all pay
into public funds, not just non-Christian or Protestant.
In Ontario and other parts of Canada we mark our property tax
papers Public or Separate (Catholic) and we get treated fairly
in this regard, education.
In fact because of Canada's complicated religious history and
the French language issue. The government cannot change this as
it is enshrined in the 1867 British North American Act.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: May 17, 2023, 12:03 pm
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Few if any Catholic school boards in Ontario wanted to send
their students to Ottawa to take part in the Pro Life March
earlier this month. The reason being that too many of our school
trustees don't care and fewer are 'woke' . Our church in general
has not shown leadership here. I haven't heard a peep out of the
new Archbishop Leo of Toronto supporting the Pro Life movement.
Last Sunday's Mother Day Masses , was the ideal time to talk
about how important the stop abortion movement is. Nothing
happened , meanwhile abortions continue, we have no rules about
timing of an abortion. A pill called 'mife..' Something causing
a chemical abortion that has been on the market for over ten
years at least. Not a word from the pulpit either, although it
does cause harm to women, sometimes resulting in death.
Nevertheless, thousands did attend the Ottawa Pro Life March,
although it was ignored by the secular TV media.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Lyn Date: May 17, 2023, 3:17 pm
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It was far from ignored.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/march-for-life-2022-1.6450633
HTML https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/thousands-attend-march-for-life-pro-choice-demonstrations-on-parliament-hill-1.5899264
HTML https://ottawasun.com/gallery/thousands-gather-for-pro-life-march/wcm/350af676-2d26-406d-a615-35927180ed71
I'm not keen on the idea of impressionable schoolchildren taking
part in that sort of demo and don't blame the school boards for
not pushing the idea. Parents don't send their kids to school
for that.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: May 17, 2023, 4:08 pm
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[quote author=Lyn link=topic=50.msg5343#msg5343 date=1684354654]
It was far from ignored.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/march-for-life-2022-1.6450633
HTML https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/thousands-attend-march-for-life-pro-choice-demonstrations-on-parliament-hill-1.5899264
HTML https://ottawasun.com/gallery/thousands-gather-for-pro-life-march/wcm/350af676-2d26-406d-a615-35927180ed71
I'm not keen on the idea of impressionable schoolchildren taking
part in that sort of demo and don't blame the school boards for
not pushing the idea. Parents don't send their kids to school
for that.
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The quotes you gave are for 2022, not the May 11, 2023 March for
life in Ottawa.
I am very keen on having schoolchildren taking a day off from
their academic studies to watch, or if old enough, to take part
under parent/teacher supervision in the March for Life. Parents
do send their children to Catholic school for a good Catholic
education .
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Re: Catholic News
By: Lyn Date: May 17, 2023, 7:31 pm
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D'oh, I didn't notice the dates. Obviously it was not top of the
news this year, hardly surprising.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: May 21, 2023, 11:00 am
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I recently came across this miracle, oh ye of little faith.
HTML https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-jesuit-priests-who-survived-hiroshima
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Re: Catholic News
By: Lyn Date: May 21, 2023, 11:13 am
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I read about that before, it's marvellous they survived.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Gregory Date: May 21, 2023, 12:45 pm
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From an article on the subject:
"While their survival was uncommon, it was not exceptional.
Thirteen percent of the 31,200 people living within one
kilometer of ground zero survived the blast.* (Computed from
data in A. W. Oughterson and S. Warren (Editors), "Medical
Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan," McGraw-Hill Book Co.,
Inc., Chapter 4, 1956). From 1.0 to 2.5 kilometers, 73% survive;
from 2.5 to 5 kilometers, 98% survive.
[* That's just over 4,000 people.]
From the site Leslie linked to:
"We believe that we survived because we were living the message
of Fatima. We lived and prayed the Rosary daily in that home."
But the 13% of the population who survived within the same
distance of ground zero weren't praying the Rosary. There are
many instances of people surviving would-be fatal circumstances
with no religious background.
As for their not suffering after effects (from another article):
"Kleinsorge (one of the four priests) suffered terribly.
Reporter John Hersey, who later wrote a book on Hiroshima,
relates the story of what happened to the priest, dating it to
about three weeks after the explosion as he was walking back
from an errand:
'His knees grew weak. He felt excruciatingly tired. He did not
think his weakness was worth mentioning to the other Jesuits.
But a couple of days later, while attempting to say Mass, he had
an onset of faintness and even after three attempts was unable
to go through with the service, and the next morning the rector,
who had examined Father Kleinsorge’s apparently negligible but
unhealed cuts daily, asked in surprise, “What have you done to
your wounds?” They had suddenly opened wider and were swollen
and inflamed.'
These four [Kleinsorge and three other survivors] did not
realize it, but they were coming down with the strange,
capricious disease which came later to be known as radiation
sickness. Kleinsorge would be hospitalized in Tokyo for four
months and was back in the hospital a year later. Suffering from
fever, diarrhea and utter exhaustion, [Kleinsorge's] was a
classic case history of A-bomb sickness."
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: May 21, 2023, 2:09 pm
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Believe what you like Greg.
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