From Lorene Collins re Celina Ling. (Letters to the Editor).Celina Ling, the young woman who works as a Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood A service mark used for an organization that provides family planning services. representative in Medicine Hat, Alberta Medicine Hat, known to locals as "The Hat", is a city located in the southeastern part of the province of Alberta, Canada. It is situated on the Trans-Canada Highway, the eastern terminus of the Crowsnest Highway, and the South Saskatchewan River. , and who wanted to be married in St. Patrick's Catholic Church St. Patrick's Catholic Church can refer to any of the following sites listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places:
The term disallow is applied to such things as an insurance company's refusal to pay a claim. a Church marriage to be "shocking." She says, "I don't think it's sunk in that I'm not Catholic anymore, even though that's the box I've checked since I was seven-years-old." Has it occurred to Bishop Henry, or any of the other Canadian bishops, that the reason Miss Ling is "shocked" is that she is a member of the age group that has been subjected to Come to the Father/Born of the Spirit catechisms? Nothing she learned in those catechism catechism (kăt`əkĭzəm) [Gr.,=oral instruction], originally oral instruction in religion, later written instruction. Catechisms are usually written in the form of questions and answers. programs, or in the Catholic schools' Fully Alive sex education program, would have indicated that she should not check off "Catholic" as her religion. Because of the inconsistency of bishops who abandon Catholic children to the influence of the Canadian Catechism, while attempting to publicly defend the teachings of the Magisterium mag·is·te·ri·um n. Roman Catholic Church The authority to teach religious doctrine. [Latin, the office of a teacher or other person in authority, from magister, master; see , it is entirely understandable that people such as Miss Ling will consider decisions such as Bishop Henry's to be nothing more than what the feminists call "patriarchal tyranny." It is hardly surprising that Miss Ling says, "I don't want to belong to a Church that does this anyway," because the Canadian Catechism's definition of Church--which has been spread abroad through two successive generations of Canadians--does not give children the slightest conception of the meaning of objective truth, or of sin, or of the Magisterium of the Church as a gift of God. No doubt, as Bishop Henry says, Miss Ling "has got to resolve the conflict she's in right now, and part of that is she's got to walk away from Planned Parenthood." At the same time, it is glaringly apparent to parents and grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl of Catholic children that the bishops themselves have a lot of conflict of their own that must be resolved, namely the bishops cannot expect young adults to understand an episcopal defence of the Church's moral teaching while Born of the Spirit and Fully Alive continue to be imposed throughout Canada with the full weight of that same episcopal authority. Sarnia, ON |
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