Canadian National Public Radio Broadcasts Call for State Control of Religion

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | 20 July 2005

[Siobhan]

It is worse in Canada but it is coming to the US. Cardinal George spoke of an underground future for the Catholic Church in the United States on several occasions in the last year.

[GipperGal]

Cardinal George spoke of an underground future for the Catholic Church in the United States on several occasions in the last year.

Do you have a link to those speeches?

[Siobhan]

I've been looking. That's why I tagged NWU ARMY ROTC to the post. He would know I'm sure. I'll keep looking.

[RKBA Democrat]

"It is worse in Canada but it is coming to the US. Cardinal George spoke of an underground future for the Catholic Church in the United States on several occasions in the last year."

Interesting. A link perhaps?

I can't say I'm surprised or shocked to see this article. This was predictable. The culture of death knows who it's enemies are. So Canada is drawing up it's blueprints for sort of kinder, gentler supression of religion. No surprises there. We'll see this sort of "discussion" (read: planning) in the U.S. within 5 years. If not sooner.

Christians need to start thinking about the future.

[GrannyML]

My thoughts exactly. Michael O'Brian's novels seem more and more prescient as the months go on.

[Right in Wisconsin]

Liberals are blind to religion...probably by design. He treats religion as an extracurricular activity like biking. Sad. They will never understand that the essence of religion is life and that our temporary existence here is just that, temporary. Any prohibitions they put on it will only make the faithful that much more fervent. We keep the eye on the prize, so to speak.

[stocksthatgoup]

Bend over and grab your ankles... Your In Canada, Big Boy.

[jmq]

I have always enjoyed the notion that Canada would be slightly easier than a National Guard training exercise as far as taking over. Except for Quebec. I think it should be left alone for all to see years after .....

[dfwgator]

Obviously the purpose would be to force the churches to perform gay weddings, now that they are legal in Canada.

[Aussie Dasher]

The liberal sewer rats will know their job is done when Churches support sodomy and killing babies.

[x]

How can Canada have so many people willing to present such unrealistic views of human nature?

As nations go, Canada is pretty artificial. The British and French came together simply to keep the US out. They didn't much like each other. Indeed, the English, Scots, and Irish weren't necessarily friendly towards each other.

The French didn't particularly share English Canada's affection for the British royal family, and the English didn't care about the equivalent institution for the French -- the Roman Catholic Church.

Then over the last forty years or so, it all fell apart. If the Americans weren't there already, they weren't coming. Love of England's royal family and traditions came to look fusty and old-fashioned. Quebec gradually rejected its Catholic traditions.

Everybody wanted to be truly "Canadian," but it wasn't at all clear what it meant. Except perhaps that a Canadian had to be different from US Americans, and was also expected to be different from the old school England-loving colonial Tories or pious and obedient Quebec Catholics.

So you have a vacuum into which any professor or bureaucrat with a "bright idea" can step into -- so long as it makes Canada less, rather than more, American. Canada more or less gave the world "multiculturalism," another brainstorm by academics with too much time on their hands.

[Aquinasfan]

This legislation would never have had a hope if the Catholic Church in Canada hadn't sold its birthright for a mess of pottage.

Yeah, but here we are. Now what do we do?

I'm reminded of a quote of Mother Angelica's, where she said she wouldn't want to live in a different age. She said we all have a great opportunity to defend the faith in this new Dark Age.

It's exciting, and terrifying. I can't imagine what my children will be facing in the coming decades.

[Siobhan]

I'm reminded of a quote of Mother Angelica's, where she said she wouldn't want to live in a different age. She said we all have a great opportunity to defend the faith in this new Dark Age.

Mother Angelica was and is spot on.

[MACVSOG68]

I do it because I am worried that the separation between church and state is under threat. Religion is important in our lives, but it can become a danger to society when people claim that the unalterable will of God is the basis for their opinions and actions. Yes religion can be a comfort and a guide, but we cannot take rules from our holy books and apply them to the modern world without democratic debate and due regard for the law."

MACVSOG68, you have a disciple in Canada.

Hmmm. Maybe he's on to something. No, actually he should drop such ridiculous ideas. The government's job should be to protect religious rights, not regulate them.

OTOH, I think the government can and should step in when any religious group advocates the infringment on the rights of others. I'm thinking of the madrasas openly preaching the murder of innocent people, and the occasional priest advocating the bombing of an abortion clinic. But the rest of this guy's rants are just garbage.

Edmund Burke, not particularly known for his religious leanings always believed that religion helped keep the population calm and was good and necessary for civilized societies.

[castlebrew]

and/or Henry Bowman...

[castlebrew]

Yep. "Have faith in God, but put your trust in the Mauser" - Boer saying

[castlebrew]

Yep. "Have faith in God, but put your trust in the Mauser" - Boer saying