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Bishops encourage action at CWL conventions.


Halifax -- The president of the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops encouraged Catholic women to take political action to protect marriage, when he addressed the 86national convention of the Catholic Women's League The Catholic Women's League (CWL) is a Roman Catholic lay organisation aimed at women in England and Wales. Through emigration in the past, the CWL may be found in some Commonwealth countries. It is especially flourishing in Canada, Australia, and Hong Kong.  in Halifax on August 15.

Bishop Richard Smith Richard Smith is the name of:
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 of Pembroke told the 800 delegates he believed he was speaking for all of Canada's bishops when it came to the 'incredibly important issue' of preserving marriage as the lifelong bond between one man and one woman, where children may best know and be raised by their biological parents." He "urged the League's members to mobilize their 99,000 associates in a grassroots campaign to contact their members of Parliament and vocalize their support for traditional marriage (LSN LSN Learning and Skills Network (UK)
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, Aug. 25, 2006)."

Dignitaries present at the convention included MP Peter Stoffer Peter Arend Stoffer (born January 6, 1956 in Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands) is a Canadian politician.

Stoffer is currently a member of the New Democratic Party caucus in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Sackville—Eastern Shore.
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, Sackville-Eastern Shore) (New Freeman, Aug. 25 & Sept. 1, 2006). Stoffer is pro-abortion, pro-same-sex "marriage," and pro-euthanasia.

Lindsay, ON -- Likewise at the July provincial convention in Lindsay, ON, "Provincial Spiritual Advisor Bishop Anthony Daniels
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 urged Catholic Women's League members to be vocal in their concerns about euthanasia and the definition of marriage" (Cath. Reg., Aug. 5, 2006).

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 Ontario convention did come under criticism when a Muslim woman invited as a speaker ridiculed Catholic teaching on the Trinity. Dr. Alexandra Bain, a former Catholic but now a Muslim, said that she could not understand how she was taught in Grade 4 or 5 that 1+1+1=3 and that in Religion 3=1.

Mrs. Dureen Coade, an executive member of the Ottawa Council of the CWL, wrote a letter of protest, saying that the choice of Dr. Bain as a speaker was completely inappropriate, since this was an attack on the Blessed Trinity, one of the essentials of the Catholic Faith.

LifeSiteNews.com published a clarification of the incident, that Dr. Bain "was invited to speak on an unrelated topic and then asked why she had left Catholicism. Her remarks on the Trinity were made in that context, according to CWL (July 21, 2006)."

Editor: The invitation of an apostized Catholic as speaker is itself inappropriate.
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