Pregnancy care centres exist to support women. Whether they are facing an unwanted pregnancy, or finances are tight in the early years of parenting, women can go to these centres for free access to peer counseling, prenatal classes, baby supplies, toddler clothes, and more.
Thousands of women every year are helped by pregnancy centres, which are run mainly with volunteers and donations. They are a great way for a community to support women facing an unexpected pregnancy or facing financial struggles in the early parenting years. Practical help and emotional support are both available for free.
These centres show a woman that she is not alone, that there is a community of people who care about her and her baby.
The federal Liberal government is looking for ways to remove charitable status from pregnancy care centres. They have accused them of offering dishonest counselling, simply because they do not counsel women to have abortions.
Women choose to go to these centres for help; they are never forced. But removing charitable status could force some of these centres to close, leaving women with fewer options for help and support.
Please stand up for women by standing up for these organizations designed specifically to support them.
Dean Clark
Langley
Now that we know the COVID-19 vaccines neither prevent getting the illness or spread it, and that the higher the vaccination rate the higher the cases of COVID illness, there is no reason whatsoever for Church leaders to be saying that these aborted baby -tainted -19 vaccines ought to be taken for any reason whatsoever.
Jerome Desilets
Powell River
I want to acknowledge my gratitude to The B.C. Catholic and the generosity of Deacon Richard Chau who arranged for my receipt of the paper. The first issue arrived this week and I’ve read it completely. I must confess at the outset that I’m not a member of any RC parish and my connection with Deacon Chau happens because of our common engagement in the Multi Faith Summit Council of BC (MFSC). My membership and involvement in the MFSC comes by way of my appointment to serve on it from the regional body of the United Church of Canada (BC). However, I don’t see myself an interloper, but as a fellow-companion with all followers of Jesus of Nazareth, whom we call the Christ.
May I offer a few reflections on the content of the March 21 issue.
Thanks to the editor and staff at the paper we read several articles concerning the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. I have a simple but specific criterion vis a vis that invasion and war and its moral legitimacy: how many civilians (and not military personnel) in Russia have been killed in comparison to the number of Ukraine civilians killed?
Once we know that then we know and understand which country is the monster/perpetrator. I find all the other issues raised extraneous and irrelevant. And nowhere in my explorations of the Gospels and letters of the New Testament is there any mention of Jesus talking about a “just war.”
Please awaken to the radical love imperative that motivated and led Jesus throughout his life; that’s what we desperately need to hear and adopt now.
Dale Perkins
Nanaimo
Thank you for Ida Gazzola’s excellent March 28 article on wokeism in schools.
This ideology, more commonly referred to as “Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity” or Critical Social Justice Theory, has deceived a lot of good Catholics into supporting its initiatives and thereby unintentionally undermining the genuine social doctrine of the Church.
For those who are interested in understanding where this ideology comes from, how it has so successfully infiltrated all the social institutions of the Western world without most of us knowing about it, as well as learning how to use the Catholic Voices Method to talk about these controversial issues in a way that “sheds light and avoids generating heat,” we offer two Zoom presentations every month.
You can check the topics and register at https://catholicvoices.ca/catholic-voices-presentations/
Peter Nation MRE
Founding Coordinator
Catholic Voices Canada
North Vancouver
