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Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
Shocking - New Liberal MAID bill would allow MAID/euthanasia to be administered in certain circumstances WITHOUT informing the patient of what is about to happen.
If someone signs an advance request, the practitioner would NOT be required to even talk to them before ending their life.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
A chi gli chiese perché non abbandonasse la Chiesa cattolica per passare all Riforma, Erasmo da Rotterdam rispose:
“Sopporto questa Chiesa, in attesa che divenga migliore, dal momento che anch'essa per prima è costretta a sopportare me, in attesa che io divenga migliore."
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” - C.S. Lewis
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
You never know you were asleep until you wake…you never know the horror of sin until you get out of sin…
Bl. Fulton J. Sheen.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
EXCELLENT! Colombia Becomes 47th Nation to Declare There’s No Right to Abortion buff.ly/EZ6pb8K
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
Ethiopia: At least 47 Ethiopian Christians were killed, and another 18 hospitalized, in coordinated attacks targeting them in the Oromia region.
Surviving witnesses claimed regional authorities collaborated with Islamist militias to carry out the massacre.
Church leaders have repeatedly warned local authorities about armed groups entering the area, but received no serious response.
This is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a pattern of targeted attacks against Ethiopian Christians, who militants conflate with Amhara ethnicity.
This fusion of religious and ethnic violence against innocent Christians and their churches must not be tolerated.
We condemn these evil acts and call for the protection of Ethiopia’s Christians.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
Friends, in just two days, Christians were murdered on two continents.
On Friday, gunmen opened fire on a funeral at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Karak, Jordan, and killed nine people. On Saturday, armed men attacked Orthodox churches and homes in Oromia, Ethiopia, and killed more than forty.
These are not statistics. They are our brothers and sisters, members of the mystical Body of Christ. When Saul set out to destroy the Church, the risen Jesus asked him, “Why are you persecuting me?” The Lord is still being persecuted in these victims of anti-Christian violence.
Christianity is by far the most persecuted religion in the world today. Those of us who worship in comfort have to ask what the deaths of these martyrs demand of us. At the very least, they demand that we pray for them, learn their names, press our leaders to act, and refuse to look away.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
The hand of a 22-week-old baby holding her parent’s finger.
In some states, a child at this age can be dehumanized and aborted.
She is not a clump of cells.
She is a human being worthy of life.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
I sure hope that the PM performed a land acknowledgment honouring that this mosque was originally a church on the traditional territory of the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire
PM Carney tours Kariye Mosque in Istanbul before departing Turkiye ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
Friends, the modern conception of the self is built on autonomous choice: “This is my life; these are my choices; don’t tell me what to do.”
That’s legitimate—up to a point.
In Catholic thought, the self isn’t the sheerly autonomous, self-reliant individual of modernity. There is also the reality of participation: “I’m me, but I belong to something bigger than myself: a family, a community, a faith.”
Paul Tillich spoke of a polarity between individualization and participation. These two poles of the self should live in a creative, healthy tension.
But we’ve lost sight of the second, and it’s the side we need more of today.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
Jan Paweł II wobec religii świata: to Jezus, Zbawiciel wszystkich, jest prawdziwym pokojem (Asyż, 27.10.86)
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
“True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel
in everyday life,
in the family,
at school and at work,
and in social and political involvement.”
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
“Nunca renuncies a la esperanza, nunca dudes, nunca te canses y nunca te desanimes. No tengas miedo”. San Juan Pablo II
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
Arguably the 20th Century's two most influential Catholics, Pope John Paul II and Padre Pio, not only met one another but established a spiritual bond that culminated with the former canonising the latter in 2002
A young Karol Wojtyła attended Pio's Mass in 1948 and also confession with the famous friar
In 1962, Bishop Wojtyła attended the Second Vatican Council
He had received word of a mother of four from Poland, a concentration camp survivor, who had cancer
Wojtyła had a letter hand delivered to Pio, asking for him to pray for the woman to have healing
Pio said 'I cannot say not to this one. Keep this letter' to Angelo Battisti, who had delivered the letter
At a scan a few days later, it was revealed that her tumour had completely disappeared
Wojtyła wrote again to Pio and thanked him a few weeks later:
We give thanks to God and also to you, Venerable Father.
'I express my sincere thanks on behalf of the lady, her husband and the whole family. In Christ, Karol Wojtyla, Capitular Bishop of Krakow'
Pope John Paul II canonised Padre Pio in 2002
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”🙏🏻
