Tony Blair (pictured) has now teamed up with one of Canada’s best-known pro-abortion figures. Belinda Stronach (also pictured), a prominent businesswoman and former MP, has joined her foundation with Mr Blair’s Faith Foundation in order to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The British government under Tony Blair interpreted the MDGs as including a universal right to abortion on demand. When an MP, Belinda Stronach said that women’s groups should only receive government funding if they are pro-abortion. The Blair-Stronach partnership will also promote the Faith Acts Fellowship, which the Tony Blair Faith Foundation runs in partnership with the InterFaith Youth Core. The InterFaith Youth Core is bankrolled by major pro-abortion foundations.
How much more evidence do religious leaders need about the close-knit ties of Mr & Mrs Blair to the culture of death before they realise they must act to block the Blairs’ infiltration of faith communities? [source]
No surprises here for this recent Catholic “convert”.
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I thought it would be sporting to give Tony the benefit of the doubt when I learned of his conversion, but it looks like his true interests are showing themselves. I’m awfully disappointed but not very surprised. if he wanted all the fancy vestments and liberal ideology he should’ve stayed with the Anglicans he came from.
Belinda just wants to bake a bigger economic pie…for Planned Parenthood.
I wish this was one of your jests but I know it isn’t. Sometimes I want to punch my country in the head.
Why would someone convert if they really weren’t going to convert? One wonders if his pastor has had any frank talks with him?
One gets the feeling from reports from England that the place is pure fraud. Perhaps Henrys ‘I can create my own religion’ coupled with the trickle down theory? Evil, the fruits of protestantism.
Well if catechesis is as bad in the UK as it is here in the US, I wouldn’t be surprised if Blair thinks he’s doing the right thing.
Although I knew about the abortion issue when I converted and had already come around on it there were a number of things I was quite ignorant about. My catechesis involved silly things like meditating and talking about your feelings and so on. So things of actually great importance were still coming to my attention years later.
I’m not trying to make excuses for the man. But the culture is so liberal down to its very core, and catechesis so very poor in some places, that I wouldn’t be surprised if a given person didn’t know a given thing. I even heard of a ‘Catholic’ who hadn’t heard of the Real Presence.
I would agree that the recent incidents of Blair, Biden, Pelosi, etc… show how we are reaping the fruits of poor catechesis.
I have had conversations with Catholics who went to mass weekly with me, were genuinely unaware of a real change at the consecration, and also convinced that the Catholic Church had changed to permit the use of contraceptives.
I really couldn’t fault them for their ignorance even after I informed them. They both said “if that were the case, I would have heard something at Sunday Mass”.
My catechesis wasn’t much better. It was so inundated with liberal nonsense that I left the Church thinking it had fallen into error. It’s hard to take the infallibility of the Magisterial teachings seriously when the teachings include dismissal of the miracles in the book of Acts as enthusiastic exaggerations by a communities with more allegiance to their reputation than to the truth.
I’m now beginning to think that when I joined a Protestant community, I was in some sense getting closer to the true Catholic teachings (the authority of scripture, our inability to earn heaven, the importance of tithing, logical reasons to believe the gospel).
The last person the Catholic Church needed was Tony Blair. Suppose the Anglicans were glad to get rid of him – – a bit like the country really!
Maybe things are different in the UK, but at my Confirmation, after we all said the Creed, I had to clearly, loudly proclaim, “I believe and profess everthing the Holy Catholic Church teaches, believes, and claims to be revealed by God.”
There aren’t too many loopholes in that one. But then, maybe they do things differently across the pond.
@Burnt Marshwiggle:
I know what you mean about dismissals of miracles, etc. I’ve taken to referring to the NAB as the New Atheist Bible… the notes assume that prophecies were cleverly written after the fact and are quite dismissive not only of St. Jerome (whom they must presume to have been a dolt, given what they say in their introductions) but also of the Scripture itself.
In the New Atheist Bible, after God goes into a long and colorful description of the entity called Leviathan, shooting lighting out of his snout and whatnot, the notes blankly state “a crocodile”.
Pretty much only the Da Vinci Code makes Christianity out to be more a pack of lies than do the notes of the New American Bible, which is being used to teach our catechumens and youth.
Not to mention the ‘homilies’ I’ve heard dismissing miracles as mere outpourings of human kindness and insisting that the Bible contradicts itself.
At least I was raised Baptist, where (despite their numerous failings) at least they believe in the truth of the Scripture as God’s Word.
You keep him, we don’t want him!
The Blair Foundation fortunately appears not to have any direct or indirect links to providing abortion services (some of the readers may have more information). But it is still troubling that his foundations and the Faith Acts Fellowship (which I have no information about) are associated with abortion providers and supporters. Prayer is needed.
When phoney Tony was put forward as the Labour Candidate for the Sedgefield constituency, he was questioned about abortion in our parish hall. He stated that he would always defend the right for a women to have an abortion. During his time as my member of Parliament, he has wilfully and consistently voted for and supported all acts of Parliment that are in line with his non Catholic beliefs on abortion and homosexuality. I followed his career through reading Hansard, the published proceedings of Government.
He was wheeled out at Westminster Cathedral as Cardinal O’Connor guest speeker and spoke about his idea of a more elastic (“inclusive”) alphabet soup world religion, the false ecumenism Popes have warned against. The very next day as a slander to the Catholic Faith he seamlessly moved from the role Cardinal’s Guest Speaker to that of ‘Sodomites’ Guest of Honour by attending a fund raising event held by the viciously anti-Catholic “Stonewall” organisation.
A week before Tony was received into the Catholic Church, Cherie had an audiance with Pope Benedict. I have no doubt that she donned her Lawyer’s wig and gave Benedic an earful of where he is going wrong by sticking to those old fashioned Catholic teachings that are well past there sell by date.
In July 2003 Cherie Blair was photographed at a Downing Street reception she hosted for the IPPF condom-peddling Lust for Life project. Gleefully waving condoms at photographers.
She falsely informed one Muslim group that her “own religion” had faild women and “sadly” is “not in the forefront of women’s rights”
Need more be said?
I’ve stated previously, that the good Cardinal’s silence (since he personally received Tony into the Church) is a form of consent.
Now we find out that it isn’t just consent, it’s assent and pandering for a nice job.
The man should be deposed.