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Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 21-Nov-2020 to 27-Nov-2020.
Tag Archives: Thomas Collins
God’s Closet documentary exposes the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church’s stance on homosexuality
The Catholic Church is a hive of hypocrisy. And the sky is blue.
Grumpy Old Men
The grumpy looking old man wearing the symbol of persecution around his neck is Thomas Cardinal Collins, the archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto and the primary authority over publicly-funded Catholic separate schools in Ontario. As a Cardinal, Collins is a member of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, an institution that is… Read more »
Twenty Fifteen
George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published in 1949; the year 1984 has come and gone, but the culturally literate recognize references to words and phrases from the novel: Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, and Newspeak. Although there is no expectation that this post will be as popular as Nineteen Eighty-Four or will coin as… Read more »
Mike Del Grande: Keeping the Faith
LifeSiteNews.com appears to be applauding Toronto Catholic District School Board’s new chair, Mike Del Grande’s refusal to “take marching orders from the state” when it comes to crucial moral issues like the awaited explicit sex ed program from the Wynne government. In fact, Del Grande should invoke his constitutional right to silence instead of shooting… Read more »
“You Know the Story”
In today’s post on The Inside Agenda Blog, Steve Paikin asks, “Would the Ontario Government Ever Consider De-Funding the Catholic School System?” Paikin begins his article by providing some familiar background about public funding of Catholic schools in Ontario: You know the story. Nearly 150 years ago, the Fathers of Confederation made a grand compromise… Read more »