thecatholicthing.org

On Words - The Catholic Thing

To recall an old rhyme: “Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.” In today’s world, it will have to be recast to read: “Sticks and stones can only break my bones, words alone can harm me.” Business Insider gives a list of fourteen words that people “consider are fine to use at the office but are actually racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive.”
We are confronted with an ever-changing legal or customary list of “hate” words. Newly forbidden words are added every day to an already long list of what we cannot say in polite or any other company. Even words we used twenty and forty years ago may be held against us. We cannot even whisper them to ourselves.
We are rapidly passing from a world of “free speech” to a world of “no speech.” The pope himself seems to have decided that silence is the best policy even when it comes to issues that we need clarified. We spend half of our lives trying to read between the lines to see what the speaker is talking about. …

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myunkie

I reflected, some time ago, that when I pray for a person's salvation, I am praying for pain. People don't change when all is well. I have seen my prayers have effect in life changing pain which has led or deepened my loved one's faith.
The same can be said of communication. If what you say never makes me uncomfortable, it can add no value. We talk because we don't want to hit. Blocking uncomfortable speech leaves only violence as a means of coming to a common view, and we have seen just that.
Good article on an important topic.

lifesitenews.com

Man jumps into icy Lake Michigan to rescue 8-month-old baby - LifeSite

Mon Feb 23, 2026 - 2:29 pm ESTTue Feb 24, 2026 - 6:31 am EST
CHICAGO (
LifeSiteNews) — A man saved an eight-month-old baby girl from drowning in Lake Michigan after he jumped into its icy waters.
Lio Cundiff, 30, was taking a walk along Belmont Harbor in Chicago while wishing a happy belated birthday to his aunt on the phone when he heard a woman scream and saw a stroller with a baby inside swept into Lake Michigan by a strong gust of wind.
“I wasn’t going to let that baby die,” Cundiff, who reportedly does not swim, told Fox10 from a nearby hospital, where his heart was being monitored after the rescue.
“I immediately dropped my phone, threw my jacket off,” Cundiff told Block Club Chicago. “I realized the woman was in too much shock to do anything, which is more than understandable. So I thought, ‘I guess I’m going in.’”
Cundiff jumped into the water and grabbed ahold of the stroller, with the baby still strapped in.
“I just held the stroller up,” Cundiff said. “I was thinking …

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Everyday for Life Canada

Wonderful story. What a great world this would be if we all helped each other like Cundiff did to save that baby’s life. God bless everyone who helped!

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Prisoners who have spent time in Canada's federal jails can teach us much about the importance of family life

Much can be learned from Blacklock Reporter's review the book, On The Outside: From Lengthy Imprisonment To Lasting Freedom, by Melissa Munn and Chris Bruckert. The authors are interested in the lives of to those who serve time in federal prisons and never come back. It's the 74% of inmates. The review gives the reader a small window into the prisoners' world and what got them in jail:
Twenty-six percent of all new federal prisoners have already served time, which begs the question: Whatever happened to the other 74 percent who served time and never returned? On The Outside looks for answers. The result is fresh and compelling research on life after prison.
The authors interview longtime inmates including those jailed for serious violent crimes that once earned the death penalty. One hides his past from his children and 'aspires to a simple life filled with laughter.' Another complains he must learn how to buy groceries: 'People have been cooking my meals for twenty-two years and …

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Canadian ‘Human Rights’ Tribunal Reveals the Insidious Threat of Transgender Ideology

A Canadian “human rights” tribunal just exposed the Orwellian strategy of the transgender movement—it seeks to weaponize “empathy” to demand allegiance to the absurd and dangerous idea that men can become women and vice versa.
Barry Neufeld, a brave school board member in the city of Chilliwack, British Columbia, dared to speak out against a school program encouraging sexual orientation and gender identity called SOGI 1 2 3.
Two teachers unions, the British Columbia Teachers Federation and the Chilliwack Teachers Association, sued Neufeld on behalf of members who identify as two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer for statements he made from 2017 to 2022.
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal found Neufeld liable for “hate speech” and discrimination in a ruling Wednesday. The tribunal ordered him to pay 750,000 Canadian dollars for violating the Human Rights Code, and it ordered him to pay another CA$10,000 in damages for violating the tribunal’s rules during …

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Everyday for Life Canada

This latest terrible British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal decision is an attack on Christian belief. It discriminates against Christians because bad policies and laws have empowered those with mental illusions. Tell the truth in Canada about gender and be fined $750,000. Don’t be Canada.

everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.com

Canada's new religion of woke gender fluidity: heretics will be severely punished

For a number of years, British Columbia School Trustee Barry Neufeld dared to question Canada's new religion of gender ideology by saying there are only two sexes. Biology means something. He opposed the school sex-curriculum of SOGI, sexual orientation and gender identity. He thought that Canada is a democracy, with religious freedom and freedom of speech. He made a mistake.
The SOGI
creed is this:
Schools have the responsibility to proactively create safe, inclusive learning environments for all students—including students who identify as Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or something different.
Believe or risk persecution. It's no surprise then that the Human Rights Tribunal found Neufled guilty of "hate speech" and fined him $750,000. The Tribunal can make any decision and overrule the law because they can just claim to be following as with this case the Human Rights Codes. The Code is the new secular Bible. Everyone must believe in gender fluidity and expression …

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Tri štvrte milióna: USD: správca školy v Britskej Kolumbii Barry Neufeld sa postavil proti kanadským školským osnovám SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) a verejne vyhlásil, že biologické pohlavie je obmedzené na dve pohlavia. V dôsledku toho ho tribunál pre ľudské práva uznal vinným z "nenávistných prejavov" a uložil mu pokutu 750 000 dolárov. Tribunál rozhodol, že odmietanie akceptovať ideologický koncept "rodovej identity" odlišnej od pohlavia prideleného pri narodení predstavuje "existenčné popieranie" "transrodových ľudí".

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Três quartos de milhão: Barry Neufeld, administrador de uma escola da Colúmbia Britânica, opôs-se ao currículo escolar SOGI (Orientação Sexual e Identidade de Género) do Canadá e declarou publicamente que o sexo biológico se limita a dois sexos. Como resultado, o Tribunal dos Direitos Humanos considerou-o culpado de "discurso de ódio" e multou-o em 750.000 dólares. O Tribunal determinou que a recusa em aceitar o conceito ideológico de "identidade de género" como distinto do sexo atribuído à nascença constitui uma "negação existencial" das "pessoas transgénero".

lifesitenews.com

'Transgender' lawmaker says 'queer' children need access to pornography for 'educational' reasons - LifeSite

Fri Feb 20, 2026 - 4:49 pm EST
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (
LifeSiteNews) — A gender-confused Minnesota state legislator objected to a state bill that would require age verification for access to online pornography on the grounds that such obscene content could be “educational” for queer kids.
“Leigh” Finke, a “transgender” man, argued Thursday that access to pornographic content is not only important for minors, but even essential for the very “existence” of “transgender kids.”
Finke lamented during the Minnesota House hearing of HF 1434 that attorneys general are “almost jubilant about being able to use these laws to ban young people from accessing content that could be educational if they are queer.”
The bill in question considers “harmful to minors” content that depicts sexual acts and is deemed “designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest.”
INSANE. Trans identified Minnesota congressman “Leigh” Finke said that queer kids need access to adult websites for “educational …

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Father Karl A Claver

More satanic garbage.

everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.com

Chief Rosanne Casimir needs to tell the truth to Canadians about the mass grave of 215 children

Back in May 2021, Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tkʼemlups te Secwepemc went public about a mass grave discovered of 215 children at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Some of the chidren were as young as three. Was it an act of genocide? The whole country was in shock. In the aftermath of the news, over 100 Christian churches across Canada were vandalized, desecrated and even burned the ground. PM Justin Trudeau at time said the violent reaction was understandable.
However, over five years later, no real evidence has been found to support the mass grave claim of 215 children killed and buried at the school. Any one who has dared question the claims risks criticism, cancellation and even job loss. Just ask Professor Frances Widdowson.
This past Tuesday Chief Casimir issued another statement, but this time she doesn't mention anything about how many children, the mass grave found, and there is no confirmation of the original claim. There is no admission …

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spinmeister

They have had 5 years and every piece of scientific equipment that exists to locate a body. They haven't come up with anything yet.

giveusthisday

They are still claiming we white people killed hundreds, if not thousands of Native Children. It is worth big time money to them, thanks to the generous Federal Government, and the Catholic Church. Thank you very much, everydayforlife canada, for the update.

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The sickening hypocrisy of Canada's political leaders

In the small town of Tumbler Ridge British Columbia at a secondary school a transgender young man killed 5 students, a teacher, after he had killed his mother and brother and finally took his own life. The Canadian MSM, in reporting about the tragedy, have gone out of their way, including the RCMP, saying the killer was a women.
A week later the town held a
memorial for the victims. All the federal political party leaders went to pay their respects. They can be seen crying. Prime Minister Mark Carney, together with other party leaders including Pierre Poilievre, Yves-François Blanchet, Don Davies, and Elizabeth May, were all there.
These are the politicians that tell Canadians they want to keep children safe. However, they are the ones who support the idea that children even in kindergarten be allowed to transgender. In fact, PM Carney has a transgender child. They have all voted for legislation to push and protect transgenderism. So, their words of support and sympathy after this mass …

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liveaction.org

Groups claim abortion is 'the ultimate form of love' on Valentine's Day

The abortion industry celebrated Valentine's Day by sharing its deep love and devotion to killing preborn children, calling induced abortion the "ultimate form of love."
Key Takeaways:
Abortion groups took to social media on Saturday to celebrate Valentine's Day with their love for abortion.
The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, Jane's Due Process, and Medical Students for Choice all shared posts celebrating abortion as "self-love" and "freedom."
Such posts prove that these organizations love abortion and turn to social media as a powerful form of marketing.
The Details:
Pro-life activist and founder of the
Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative, Mark Lee Dickson, shared some examples of Valentine's Day posts from popular pro-abortion groups on Facebook. The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, Jane's Due Process, and Medical Students for Choice all spoke of their devotion to abortion.
Warning: Graphic images below.
The Lilith Fund
"Happy Valentine's Day," wrote The Lilith Fund …

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Everyday for Life Canada

Once the culture logically and morally corrupts its language, then, thought becomes corrupt too, and finally behaviour. Just consider the deceptive claim: “abortion is the ultimate form if love.” Repeat the deceptive idea, legislate it and it becomes normalized. Some even push the evil as a human “right”.

redstate.com

Is Canada Set to Legalize Post-Birth Euthanasia?

When Canada passed their "Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAiD) law, a lot of people thought that they were perched on the edge of a very slippery slope indeed. The MAiD law provides for doctor-assisted suicide for certain classes of patients, such as those with painful terminal diseases. But critics of the law, pointing to that slippery slope, warned that MAiD would be perverted, would be expanded, would eventually be foisted upon people who can't ask for it.
They were right. Now people are claiming that MAiD may well be extended to include infants.
Yes, really.
Canadian doctors are considering euthanizing newborns under certain circumstances as a form of “healthcare.” When Dr. Louis Roy advocated for this in 2022, it sparked widespread outrage and the proposal appeared to be dead. It wasn’t. When the Daily Mail pressed the CMQ last year, it confirmed it still endorses the recommendation. It recently stated that euthanasia for babies with “severe deformations” or “extreme pain” may …

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Everyday for Life Canada

It’s already done in Canada with cases where the aborted baby is born alive but left to die. Nobody has ever been charged with a crime. Canada has no law whatsoever restricting abortion. It’s just not called euthanasia.

bustedhalo.com

25 Great Things You Can Do for Lent - Busted Halo

February 18, 2026
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of
Lent, the 40 days of preparation for the Easter season when Christians are called to deepen their spiritual lives through the practices of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. The belief is that our consistent participation in these practices — like exercise we do for our physical health — improves our spiritual well-being by stripping away all that is unnecessary and becoming more mindful of how God is working in our lives. Challenge yourself this year, and go beyond the usual practice of “giving up” something. Now is a great time to take stock of your spiritual life and to grow in it. Not sure where to start? Check out these 25 ideas:
Make a commitment to read the Sunday scriptures before Sunday Mass. In the same way that reading up on football players, opposing teams, and coaching strategies will help you experience a game more fully, familiarizing yourself with the readings ahead of time will help you experience them in a deeper …

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Instructive words from Pope Leo XIII to begin Lent

As we begin the season of Lent, we post the prophetic words from the encyclical of Pope Leo XIII titled,
The Latin words mean, "although looking forward to the future." The faithful ought to pay serious attention to his words and our very sick moral nation of Canada. We need to listen to this Christ based wisdom. The document came out on November 1, 1900 and is just as relevant today.
We quote paragraphs 7 and 8:
From this it may clearly be seen what consequences are to be expected from that false pride which, rejecting our Saviour's Kingship, places man at the summit of all things and declares that human nature must rule supreme. And yet, this supreme rule can neither be attained nor even defined. The rule of Jesus Christ derives its form and its power from Divine Love: a holy and orderly charity is both its foundation and its crown. Its necessary consequences are the strict fulfilment of duty, respect of mutual rights, the estimation of the things of heaven above those of earth, the …

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Bank of England now allows ‘genderfluid’ men to wear eyeshadow and heels
Under the leaked guidance trans women are allowed to maintain facial hair if they choose to do so

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Father Karl A Claver

The devil is having a field day with all these satanic practices happening daily.

Everyday for Life Canada

Banks should be dealing with money issues, not pushing an indoctrinating ideology about transgenderism. We don’t use banks to learn how decision people can dress.

quillette.com

Tumbler Ridge Killer Jesse Van Rootselaar Was a Man, Not a Woman

Canada
Stop Pretending the Tumbler Ridge Killer Was Female
The sight of Canadian police and journalists extending fraudulent courtesies to a trans-identified mass-murderer may prove to be a clarifying moment.
Floral memorial near the Tumbler Ridge school following the 12 February 2026 mass shooting. Credit: The Canadian Press/Alamy Live News
On 10 February, Jesse Van Rootselaar (also known as Jesse Strang) killed eight people in the remote British Columbia mining town of Tumbler Ridge. The first two victims were the killer’s mother and half-brother, whom Van Rootselaar shot at home. Van Rootselaar then went to a local secondary school and murdered six more people—five of whom were twelve- or thirteen-year-old students—before committing suicide. Twenty-seven others were injured. It was the deadliest Canadian school shooting in almost four decades, and the highest-casualty mass-shooting event in the nation’s history.
Nothing I write here can properly convey the anguish that surviving …

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Everyday for Life Canada

The MSM and the police have gone out of their way to make sure Canadians believe the killer was a “woman.” He wasn’t. One television station even doctored an old photo to him look more feminine. The killer was a delusional young man and the product of a dysfunctional family supported by a morally dysfunctional nation. We can never build good character and the common good on lies. Don’t be Canada.

breachmedia.ca

Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying ⋆ The Breach

When the United Nations released a scathing report on Canada’s treatment of disabled people last spring—calling out inadequate financial supports and urging Ottawa to halt the expansion of medical assistance in dying—the federal government was silent.
Nearly a year later, it still is.
Internal government emails obtained by The Breach suggest officials anticipated little public scrutiny of the report, even as they acknowledged mounting anger from disability advocates, particularly over the federal government’s decision to eliminate a dedicated minister for disability.
The UN report and its recommendations weren’t “surprising to anyone listening to the disabled community,” said Gabrielle Peters, a disabled writer and policy analyst and co-founder of the Disability Filibuster. Disabled Canadians, she said, expressed the same concerns in government testimony, to the media, and to “anyone who would listen.”
Canada is not mandated to formally respond to the report; instead, it is …

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everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.com

Family Day in Ontario and the importance of family

Today is Family Day in Ontario. Since 2008, it's been a statutory holiday to provide a long weekend for workers in February. Most families will take the time to do recreational things, watch television and pay video games. However, as Catholics it's a great opportunity for parents spend the extra free time directly with their children. Good enough families are the building blocks of society and the common good. The vocation of marriage and family calls parents to live their baptismal promises. They have the responsibility to create a family centred on Christ.
Here's a good article about The Importance of Family from the Catholic Education Resources Center. Parents why not read it as a reminder of the central and irreplaceable role mothers and fathers play in shaping the moral character of their children. So, intentionally spend the day together as a family. Parents know that secular governments and even Catholic schools can't do this vital work for them. The abundant good fruits of …

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The mob silencing of Professor Widdowson at Canadian universities is a total disgrace

Professor Frances Widdowson has peacefully visited a number of Canadian universities trying to debate and dialogue with students and teaching staff about the residential school issue. She maintains the evidence about the government funded schools doesn't support the accepted politically correct narrative that it was an act of cultural genocide. Moreover, the claim made over four years ago about 215 mass graves discovered at one school in Kamploops, British Columbia, has not been backed by any proof. Not one grave has been found. Why are woke universities so afraid of the truth?
Widdowson has a valid point but can't civilly express her views when she is met by mobs at the universities. She has gone to university campuses trying engage in uncovering the facts. Every time she tries to do so, she's shut down.
Widdowson is well qualified to speak on the matter. She held the position of associate professor in the department of economics, justice and policy studies at Mount Royal University …

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Profesorka Frances Widdowsonová, ktorá sa vo svojej vedeckej práci venuje domorodému obyvateľstvu a kanadskej verejnej politike, sa opakovane stretáva s odporom kanadských univerzít, keď sa snaží hovoriť o rezidenčných školách. Spochybňuje nepravdivé tvrdenia o "neoznačených hroboch" v Kamloops. Jej vystúpenia na univerzitách boli prerušované protestmi. Vedenia niektorých univerzít vrátane Mount Royal University a University of Lethbridge zrušili jej podujatia s odvolaním sa na obavy o "bezpečnosť komunity" a "potenciálnu škodu".

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A professora Frances Widdowson, cujo trabalho académico se centra nos indígenas e nas políticas públicas canadianas, tem encontrado repetida oposição das universidades canadianas quando tenta falar sobre as escolas residenciais. Contesta falsas alegações sobre "sepulturas não marcadas" em Kamloops. As suas aparições em universidades foram interrompidas por protestos. Algumas administrações universitárias, incluindo as da Universidade de Mount Royal e da Universidade de Lethbridge, cancelaram os seus eventos, alegando preocupações com a "segurança da comunidade" e "potenciais danos".