Catholics have every right to speak up against restrictions denying many of us access to Holy Mass and the sacraments and the ability to worship together. Shoppers are free to gather at a mall food court, Costco, Walmart, Canadian Tire, a liquor store, etc., yet we are supposed to meekly accept unfair treatment denying us a charter right?
Limiting numbers at Mass may be reasonable, but overly harsh restrictions and conditions forced on churchgoers are anything but and can easily be interpreted as abusive and targeted.
Silence can be interpreted as compliance and acquiescence, which, in the face of injustice, would be wrong and empower the wrongdoers. Catholics must speak up like the woman appealing to the unjust judge in Luke 18.
Geoff Moeller
Vancouver
None of the experimental COVID vaccines could have existed without the use of experimentally harvested dismembered bodies of aborted children.
In light of St. John Paul II’s Evangelium Vitae, I am certain that willingly presenting my arm for vaccination places me face to face with a child, an eternal person, known and named by God, who was brutally murdered for this purpose. As St. John Paul II states in Evangelium Vitae, “We have been sent as a people. Everyone has an obligation to be at the service of life.” Read in particular Sections 62 and 63.
Willfully accepting any one of these abortion-tainted vaccines would make me complicit in the slaughter of innocent individual persons, images of God. God knows I am a sinner but this sin I will not submit to committing under any circumstances.
I beg Catholic leaders and Catholic media to consider the stance you are taking at this very critical time in the history of the world. In your position of leadership and influence on this matter, if you have either been swimming with the world current or sitting on what you think is a fence but is actually a raft, please re-evaluate your choice. God will be looking out for each of us in the place we have chosen – either standing against the current for him or drifting with the current.
Please, give all Catholics and people of the world, particularly those for whom you have responsibility or leadership positions, your clear support for standing against a current that is becoming a tidal wave of sewage rising up against our most pure, loving, and merciful Lord Jesus Christ.
Mary Moreau
Sidney
Re Jenna McDonald’s May 3 column, “Do Christianity like a popstar”:
Most people would be surprised to see a picture of Justin Bieber in a Catholic newspaper, but I was not.
In 2012, when Justin was 17 years old and the most popular popstar on the planet, Oprah Winfrey interviewed him on TV. She asked him an interesting, if not surprising, question: What do you believe in? He answered without hesitation, “I believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour.”
I discovered that his mother and grandparents brought him up in a faith-filled environment, so he had a foundation built on Christ.
From that day on I decided to start praying that he would always feel that way, that Holy Spirit would guide him in all his actions.
I’ve followed his career and his personal life, praying more fervently when he was experiencing challenging temptations and situations.
Even though at times he seemed to have lost his way, the Holy Spirit was there to guide him.
I praise God that Justin has rediscovered the path God has chosen for him, and thank you to Jenna McDonald for sharing such an inspiring and relevant story.
Rhonda Madaski
Port Coquitlam
