The other day on Vatican Radio I listened to the Pope’s address to the new Canadian Ambassador and have been waiting to see it in print. It starts out with some praise for Canadian culture and then comes to this:
“Nevertheless, profound changes can be noticed today, which are seen in different sectors and at times cause concern to the point of asking ourselves if it does not mean a regression in the understanding of the human being,” he said. “These changes mainly concern the areas of defense and the promotion of life and the family based on natural marriage.”
“In this context,” said the Pope, “I would like to encourage all Canadians to reflect deeply on the path that Christ calls us to follow.” That path, he said “is bright and full of truth.” Speaking of turning to a culture of life, Benedict XVI said, “I know it is possible and that your country is capable.” He said, “A culture of life can nourish anew the personal and social existence of Canada as a whole.”
“To help,” said the Holy Father, “it seems necessary to redefine the meaning of freedom of expression too often invoked to justify certain excesses.” He noted that freedom is often wrongly perceived as an absolute value, disregarding its divine origin and its communal dimension. In such an interpretation of freedom, he suggested, “only the individual can decide and choose the form, characteristics, and ends of life, death, and marriage.”
“True freedom,” he observed, “is ultimately based on and develops in God.” He added: “It is a gift that can be accepted as the seed from which the person and society can grow responsibly and be enriched. The exercise of this freedom implies reference to a natural moral law that is universal, which precedes and unifies all rights and duties. In this perspective, I would like to show my support to all the Canadian Bishops’ initiatives in favor of family life and thus of the dignity of the human being.”
Hat tip to the excellent InForum blog.
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Sadly, much of what concerns the Holy Father and all faithful Catholics is damage wrought by dissenting Catholics, liberal Catholics who are/were quite simply heretics: Trudeau, Martin, Chrétien, et al. These same Catholics-in-name-only have promoted the “personally opposed but pro-abortion” hypocrisy among other serious errors. Many people have been led astray by their shoddy example. In a country with a majority Catholic population, why is it that a culture of death persists? We Canadians, non-offending docile tolerant socialists that we are, have allowed HRCs to flourish, those guilty-until-proven-innocent Human “Rights” Tribunals practically unmatched by any other institution in terms of violations of freedom of speech.
Thank God we have bishops and a pope who are calling us to our senses, calling us to counter dissent by employing reason while being faithful to Christ and his Church. Trudeau and his ilk may have been afraid to admit to the implications of the Catholic faith, but a younger generation is rising that is free of the propaganda and timidity of the lukewarm aged hippies.
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