Henry Morgentaler has been awarded the Order of Canada.  A man whose life was devoted to killing innocent babies is now given the highest award this country has to offer.  This is one of the lowest days in Canadian history.  How can he get this award after being responsible for the deaths of the most innocent citizens of this country. 

He says he is proud of his work, he is proud of giving women safe abortions.  Safe for who?  He doesn't even acknowledge the kids he rips apart, burns with chemicals and kills in a most inhuman ways.  

Archbishop Collins has issued a statement about the matter, full text can be found here (note: pdf file)

Canada's highest honour has been debased. Henry Morgentaler has been awarded the Order of Canada. We are all diminished.

A community's worth is measured by the way it treats the most vulnerable, and no one is more vulnerable than in the first nine months of life's journey. No person may presume to judge the soul of Henry Morgentaler, but it cannot be denied that the effect of his life's work has been a deadly assault upon the most helpless amongst us.

Canada glories in the names of Banting and Best, and the other medical heroes who selflessly brought healing where there was disease and suffering. Now it honours with the Order of Canada a medical man who has brought not healing, but the destruction of the defenseless and immeasurable grief. This award must not stand.

More information on how to contact the PM and other members of the government.

Let us begin at the point where God himself began.  He calls himself Father.  Human fatherhood can give us an inkling of what God is; but where fatherhood no longer exists, where genuine fatherhood is no longer experienced as a phenomenon that goes beyond the biological dimension to embrace a human and intellectual sphere as well, it becomes meaningless to speak of God the Father.  Where human fatherhood disappears, it is no longer possible to speak and think of God.  It is not God who is dead; what is dead (at least to a large extent) is the precondition in man that makes it possible for God to live in the world.  The crisis of fatherhood that we are experiencing today is a basic aspect of the crisis that threatens mankind as a whole.  Where fatherhood is perceived only as a biological accident on which no genuinely human claims may be based, or the father is seen as a tyrant whose yoke must be thrown off, something in the basic structure of human existence has been damaged.  If human existence is to be complete, we need a father, in the true meaning of fatherhood that our faith discloses, namely, a responsibility for one's child that does not dominate him but permits him to become his own self.

The God of Jesus Christ - Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

Very cool video

Madrid, Mar 3, 2008 / 02:29 pm (CNA)

The Mensajeros de la Paz (Messengers of Peace) foundation is reporting that the captors of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul are demanding $1.8 million in ransom money to free the Iraqi prelate who was kidnapped last Friday.

Baghdad, Feb 29, 2008 / 05:00 pm (CNA)

The Vatican responded to the violent kidnapping with a statement that condemned the act as premeditated since the gunmen knew Rahho would be celebrating the Way of the Cross.

Pope Benedict XVI appealed to the whole Catholic Church "to unite in fervent prayer so that reason and humanity prevail among the authors of the kidnapping, and that Monsignor Rahho is returned quickly to the care of his flock," according to the statement.

The Holy Father also expressed his spiritual closeness to the Iraqi people, particularly the minority Christians, and offered his prayers that the whole country could find the path to reconciliation and peace.

Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Iraqi Christians have been targeted by Islamic extremists who label them "crusaders" loyal to U.S. troops. These radical Muslims are able to use this strategy to recruit other extremists, raise terror funds, and force Christians to flee the country forfeiting their homes and property to extremists. The property is then sold or used to fund insurgency strikes against coalition forces.

Churches, priests and businesses owned by Christians have been systematically attacked by Islamic militants forcing most Christians to flee the country. Without any protection and indifference by the Iraqi government, Christians in Iraq remain easy targets for their attempts to destabilize the government.

Missionary News Agency (MISNA) reported in November that Rahho said the situation in Mosul was not improving and "religious persecution is more noticeable than elsewhere because the city is split along religious lines."

"Everyone is suffering from this war irrespective of religious affiliation, but in Mosul Christians face starker choices," he told MISNA.

Let us pray for the Archbishop and all the suffering Christians in Iraq

Similar thing has happened in Ryerson University when I was a student there.

We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another — that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

Michelle Obama

There is something off about Obama. He wants to measure the greatness of the society by the least of its members. The most innocent and defenceless I would guess, yet at the same time he wants to allow those stronger members of society to kill them. Something is not adding up. He is supposed to understand that we have to sacrifice ourselves for one another to get things done, yet, except for when it comes to sacrificing nine months of "inconvenience" to save a child. Interesting.

Inspirational mambo jumbo to cover his true self.

I found this quote on The Cafeteria is Closed blog