State funeral for John Turner in Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 6, 2020.
Posted on 10/07/2020 11:19:37 AM PDT by ebb tide
State funeral for John Turner in Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 6, 2020.
TORONTO, October 7, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins granted a Catholic state-funeral, amidst fanfare and accolades, to former prime minister of Canada John Turner who oversaw the passage of a 1969 bill that, in effect, brought abortion to the country and opened the floodgates to the slaughter of some 100,000 preborn children annually.
Turner’s funeral took place on Tuesday at St. Michael’s Cathedral, where Collins, who attended the event, serves as Archbishop. Turner died at home September 19 at age 91.
State funeral for John Turner in Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 6, 2020. SOURCE: CTV News / video screen grab
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation live-streamed the event, which included four eulogies before the Mass, the first delivered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, arguably Canada’s most pro-abortion prime minister.
“John shared a vision with my father, and that is what led him to completely transform the Criminal Code,” said Trudeau. This may have been an oblique reference to the infamous Omnibus Bill that Turner tabled as justice minister in 1969 under Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
Passed on May 14, 1969, the bill kept abortion in the Criminal Code but permitted it under certain circumstances, thus opening the doors to abortion on demand, and resulting in an estimated five million Canadian children killed in the womb since then. The bill also decriminalized homosexuality and contraception. The Supreme Court struck the law down as unconstitutional in 1988, and Parliament has since passed no legislation on abortion, which is currently allowed during all nine months of pregnancy in Canada.
That Cardinal Collins allowed Turner’s state funeral to take place at the Cathedral is a “scandal” but not unexpected, said Jim Hughes, retired president of Campaign Life Coalition, Canada’s national pro-life political lobbying group.
“We could say we’re not surprised. Nothing surprises us in regard to this,” given the history of the bishops and the Liberal Party, he said.
John Turner announcing Liberal candidacy c. 1968. SOURCE: Library and Archives Canada
That history known to pro-life advocates has been documented in Paul Litt’s 2012 biography of Turner “Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner.”
In 1969 Turner met with the executive of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) to obtain advice on the Omnibus Bill, and he told the bishops that the law was the best his Liberal Party could do, Litt wrote.
According to Litt, then-CCCB president Bishop Alexander Carter responded, “Gentlemen, I think John has convinced us. Let’s have a drink.”
Turner also consulted St. Michael’s University College theological faculty members, including Rev. Robert W. Crooker, who advised that while a Catholic should oppose the abortion bill, Turner also had responsibilities to his government, relates a review of Litt’s book by Interim editor Paul Tuns.
Turner received a similar opinion from an unnamed “Dominican theologian from Universities Laval” in Montreal, who also said that Catholic legislators must not impose their morals on others.
But while Litt cast Turner as struggling with his conscience, Tuns suggested that the justice minister might well have “cherry-picked” theologians to get the answer he wanted.
What Turner believed, or thought, or was given to believe, “the bottom line is, there is right, and there is wrong,” pointed out Hughes.
Ping
“The road to hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their signposts.”
St. John Chrysostom
After a short interval, some pranksters could go to his gravesite late at night, put on robes as a disguise, and conduct an old style “Bell, book and candle” excommunication *in Latin* on his grave. And maybe burn a small amount of sulfur to give the place a lingering odor.
Make a low quality video of it, with little more than his headstone recognizable. Then put it on the Internet with a false title, like “Satanic ritual”. It will be quickly recognized as not Satanic, but Catholic, and the ritual of excommunication. Finally someone will ID the headstone.
And that is where the fun begins.
The “Catholic Church” lost all moral authority so long ago I can’t hardly remember. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I did not leave the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church left me !!
Wasnt Reagan Protestant ? I thought he was Presbyterian.....
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don’t remember much hubbub about him being Catholic during his elections... although he did enjoy the Pope....
Okay, I looked it up, and Nelle Reagan was “Disciples of Christ”, not “Church of the Nazarene”.
For it is exactly what The Church does as the Body of Christ - and what it has always been tasked to do - Gather into its world those who seek Truth - and is much more the than the occasional Priest/Bishop gone bad gotcha headline(s) of the day. In fact one of the main purposes of the Church is to fight the heresies of the day against the Church - which it has constantly done over the centuries...
And without that authority to suppress the radical notions against Church teaching or Doctrine- the Church would have ceased to exist long ago.
Its in the DNA of the Church to engage the untruthful. Those who seek out the devil will be very surprised when they actually do get to meet him....
Just another confirmation the institution historically known as the Catholic Church is no longer Catholic.
It's certainly not in the DNA of Jorge Bergoglio. He warmly embraces, with open arms: abortionists, homosexuals and and the murderous muslims because "proselytism is a sin".
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