[Aliska]

Today's photo of the day at Steve's is Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal. It is well worth a look, transcending beauty:

Click here as I don't think these can be linked into FR

Could you ping the other catholics, please?

[m4629]

The ND Basilica in Montreal is very beautiful, a replica of ND in Paris. I had been there myself.

But the Catholic Church in Quebec is in shambles, unfortunately. Quebec, being 95% catholic on paper at least, was the first Canadian province to de-criminalize abortion in 1969 under justice minister Pierre Trudeau, a catholic, who later became the Prime Minister of Canada.

The Canadian bishops are worse than the american ones, being that they are very sneaky. Back in 1984, when the Pope visited Canada, they tried to push him to go along with allowing married clergy, using the lame excuse of Native Indian culture respect their leaders who are mostly married men. Barf ... !!!