Priests For Life Canada 2019, Issue 6 Working to support, inform, and empower Catholic clergy to build a culture of life

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Take-Aways from the 2019 Federal Election This wasn’t an “election about nothing” as many meant that decisions could not be properly made as commentators repeatedly said. Instead, it marked the to the issues and the parties putting them forward in first time that people of faith were terms of actual votes. seriously being attacked for their values, beliefs and principles. The next election is coming Whether it was the weasely, soon. Let’s be prepared to allow deafening silence on Quebec’s groups such as RightNow to help Bill 21 religious symbols law educate and activate our people or the open attack on Andrew in a non-partisan but effective Scheer’s Catholic beliefs, open way to participate as believers in season has been declared on the public square. We can make religious beliefs in Canada. a crucial difference! Fr. Thomas Lynch, President Being a Catholic seems to mean that “I can claim Priests For Life Canada membership in the Church and its institutions such as the Knights of Columbus,” but be completely, publicly 2019 Charitable Tax Receipts at odds with the Church’s moral teachings. This was seen not only by the federal party leaders, four of We are most grateful to our supporting partners for your whom are Catholics, but also by the spokesperson overwhelming generocity in prayer and donations! We chosen by the Liberal Party to speak for them at the could not provide this newsletter and our programming Catholic Issues debate in Toronto. This stance has to without your contributions to this great mission! be called out for the sin of scandal that it is. As 2019 draws to a close, we remind all who have The large crowds for the Toronto Archdiocese donated or will be donating before year-end that we will Catholic Issues Debate, both in person and also be issuing annual charitable tax receipts for donations online, shows that the Catholic Church does have a made directly to us during 2019. You should receive role in the public square and should be an example your charitable tax receipt by mid-February 2020. for other dioceses as to how to actively participate during future elections. If you have a change of address please contact our office or visit our website’s Contact page to submit The issues brought before Catholics in the election your change of address as soon as possible. Thank guide were too many and equally weighted, which you again for your generous support!

(continued on page 2) Post Election Placeholder 1 Holy Mother of God and of the 2019 Charitable Tax Receipts 1 Church, our Lady of Guadalupe, you were chosen by the Father for the Son through the National Pro-Life Conference 2 Holy Spirit. We beg you to protect all mothers Secret Treasure of Bethlehem 3 and pre-born children within their wombs. We plead with you for your help to end the Statement of Financial Position 4 In This Issue holocaust of abortion. Melt hearts so that life PFLC’s New Website National Pro-Life Conference A snowy weekend could not keep spirits down at the 2019 National Pro-life Conference in Calgary, November 8 – 9, 2019. Our president, Fr. Tom Lynch attended to share in the theme,”Change is in the Air”. Over 200 attendees heard of amazing new approaches in the field of euthanasia and This Fall we introduced our newly designed website. abortion apologetics The new platform is more user friendly and is linked from Blaise Alleyne, the to our Social Media accounts to keep everyone up to head of Toronto Right date on the latest pro-life issues and events. to Life and long-time Our new website is packed with resources on all street activist Justina Van Manen of Canadian aspects of the pro-life culture. With greater functionality Enza Rattenni, Alex Ogrodnick, Fr. Tom Lynch you can now easily read and subscribe to our bi- Centre for Bio-Ethical monthly newsletter and become a supporting partner. Reform (CCBR). You can also access our Clergy e-Notes, Fr. Tom’s Workshops were held on Dying Healed – the new blog articles, submit a change of address, request initiatives from Life Canada, Amplifying Your Message information on Just for Life kits, listen to The Pro-Life with Social Media Hour podcasts, watch one of our YouTube videos and by Alex Ogrodnick even make an online donation. and Laura Klassen We hope you will take a moment and check it out at (Look them up!), www.priestsforlifecanada.com! as well as new documentaries. Also in attendance were Members of Parliament Garnett Genuis and Arnold Viersen, along with several Members of the Conference attendees with Fr. Tom Lynch Alberta Legislative Assembly such as Dan Williams (who recently put forward the Respect of Conscience Bill) in Edmonton, and many more offerings made for a packed and networking filled weekend!

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@PriestsForLifeCanada @PFL_Canada Secret Treasure of Bethlehem

St. Teresa of Avila, wrote, “I often felt like someone PFLC wants to connect pastors with health care who is in charge of a great treasure and desires that professionals in their parishes. We are working with all should benefit by it.” It’s interesting that she talks Catholic Nurses for Life and other medical personnel about this great treasure of Jesus Christ. That same to resist pro-death forces and work for conscience great treasure was in Bethlehem. We read that Mary rights. Your donations make this possible. treasured all these things in her heart. When we hear the phenomenal and wonderous message given by Whether it is plane tickets, office supplies, summer the angel to the shepherds, they went back home after seminarian intern wages, or internet costs – your going to the stable, glorifying and praising God for all generosity pays for this work. I would like to thank you they had heard and seen. I wonder if that was it, and and ask you to please continue it. The treasure of that they never talked of this again? Surely, they did! Did small manger in Bethlehem was not only meant for a the Wise Men, who went home by another way, never few - shepherds or Wise Men but was meant to be like speak of the wondrous acceptance of their gifts at the “gifts pressed down in your lap and flowing over.” And manger? by your help, the gift of the truth of human life will be the same. All of us have been given a special treasure – the awareness of the astonishing gift and the treasure of life itself. Sometimes, we may think that either this is just for us, or conversely that everyone has the same. But look around in our world. Many of you reading this have increasingly had to argue with people not to have their mother or father killed by euthanasia in the Palliative Care Units. You have increasingly seen the devastating effects of abortion in the lives of couples. You may have had to speak the truth of prolife in a homily and not had it well received. This is a treasure that has been given to us, and like St. Teresa of Avila we are called to bring that treasure out to the world. Here at Priests For Life Canada (PFLC), that mission is being accomplished in several ways. We are having He was created of a mother whom He initiatives in several main areas to particularly carry out created. He was carried by hands that He our charism. It’s by your assistance that members of formed. He cried in the manger in wordless our executive can go out to the seminaries throughout infancy, He the Word, without whom all our country and speak to these young men to equip human eloquence is mute. them for the work. They are eager and ready to be ~St. Augustine of Hippo the new workers in the vineyard, to speak the truth in season and out. It is our job to equip them to do that. We have identified the need to reach out to the growing Buying or selling numbers of new foreign priests coming to serve in our Canadian Church. These men are filled with the a home or commercial missionary zeal. With your financial assistance, we property? want to give them the tools to preach the gospel of life in this land. We are working to identify them wherever You can support Priests For Life Canada they are, to connect with them, and connect them to at no cost to you by taking advantage of the the prolife movement. Real Estate for Life program. Permanent Deacons have increasing administrative Call 1.877.543.3871 or e-mail [email protected] roles but are also preaching and teaching. Your for more information financial aid is helping us to reach them diocese by diocese, and formation program by formation program Visit www.realestateforlife.org to find a to form them in the gospel of life so that they can be Prolife Realtor near you! strong preachers and leaders. Priests For Life Canada - Statement of Financial Position Year End Priests For Life Canada June 30, 2018 June 30, 2019 PO Box 37031 REVENUES LaSalle, ON N9H 2N8 Donations and Memberships 132,932 151,483 1.888.300.2007 Investment Income 10,584 7,155 [email protected] Bank Interest 875 2,160 www.priestsforlifecanada.com Event Fees 6,320 0 Promotional Sales/Other 112 0 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Student Employment Grants 3,424 0 Rev. Fr. Thomas A. Lynch President 154,247 160,798 Rev. Fr. John A. Lemire Unrealized (loss) gain on investments 15,238 6,624 Chairman TOTAL 169,485 167,422 Rev. Fr. Matthew R. Kucharski EXPENSES Secretary Treasurer Consulting Fees 36,680 34,065 ADVISORY BOARD Conventions & Meetings, Travel 23,856 7,506 His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins Donations 30,000 0 Insurance 1,341 1,345 Most Rev. Terrence Prendergast, S.J. Office Expenses and Administration 2,603 6,446 Postage and Shipping 14,226 16,109 Make an Online donation Professional Fees 2,988 3,066 to Priests For Life Canada Publications, Promotional Materials, Program 10,345 24,864 and receive an Expenses immediate income tax receipt at Telephone 687 644 www.priestsforlifecanada.com Wage and Benefits 4,306 8,075 TOTAL 127,032 102,120 Please support the life-saving efforts of EXCESS OF REVENUES OVER EXPENSES 42,453 65,302 Priests For Life Canada CURRENT ASSETS Cash 264,768 326,357 I would like to make a donation Harmonized Sales Tax Rebate Receivable 3,370 4,523 to help Priests For Life Canada and its life-saving work. Student Employment Grants Receivable 0 0 268,138 330,880 I would like to become a supporter of Priests For Life INVESTMENTS (1) 589,950 594,761 Canada ($25/year). 858,088 925,641 I would like to donate: CURRENT LIABILITIES $25 $50 $100 Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities 5,405 7,656 Other: $______Government Remittances Payable 0 0 Deferred Contributions (2) 0 0 Please send me an annual income-tax receipt 5,405 7,656 NET ASSETS Name:______Net assets restricted for endowment purposes (3) 119,000 119,000 Address:______Unrestricted net assets 733,683 798,985 ______852,683 917,985 City:______Province:______$858,088 $925,641 Postal Code:______(1) Investments are stated at market value Telephone:______(2) Deferred contributions consist of amounts received for specific purposes for which expenditures have not yet been incurred Email:______(3) Funds received from the former HLI Canada organization are to be permanently invested