Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 2:02am
Catholic group slams Canada bishops
A group of Catholics is challenging Canada's Catholic bishops to revisit the Winnipeg Statement written on Sept. 27, 1968, which is the Canadian bishops' dissent against Rome's absolute prohibition on contraception. Pope Paul VI's July 25, 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae wrote of the Church's prohibition on contraception, predicting accurately that it would lead to treatment of women as objects of use, but was at the time rejected by many within the Catholic Church, LifeSiteNews.com reported Wednesday.
The Rosarium of the Blessed Virgin Mary collected approximately 1000 signatures on a petition to formally ask the Canadian Catholic Bishops to retract the Winnipeg Statement. The letter accompanying the petition challenges the bishops to reflect on their own role in the complete moral and social collapse besetting Canada.
"Once contraceptive sex was accepted in principle, it led the way to all of the other sexual abominations our country is currently experiencing, not the least of which is same-sex 'marriage' - which, at its core, is merely contraception in its final form," the letter said.
In addition to calling for the retraction of the Winnipeg Statement, the group is asking the Bishops to strongly re-affirm Humanae Vitae on its 40th anniversary July 27 and encourages the bishops to become more involved in active opposition to abortion.
The Rosarium of the Blessed Virgin Mary collected approximately 1000 signatures on a petition to formally ask the Canadian Catholic Bishops to retract the Winnipeg Statement. The letter accompanying the petition challenges the bishops to reflect on their own role in the complete moral and social collapse besetting Canada.
"Once contraceptive sex was accepted in principle, it led the way to all of the other sexual abominations our country is currently experiencing, not the least of which is same-sex 'marriage' - which, at its core, is merely contraception in its final form," the letter said.
In addition to calling for the retraction of the Winnipeg Statement, the group is asking the Bishops to strongly re-affirm Humanae Vitae on its 40th anniversary July 27 and encourages the bishops to become more involved in active opposition to abortion.