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Tragedy at Winnipeg Part II: The Consequences

Preface

The Winnipeg Statement tainted many subsequent statements of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.  It was also quoted in many texts and marriage preparation courses.   The present article was printed in Challenge magazine for December, 1989, under the title “Tragedy at Winnipeg, Part II”.  It attempted to trace the malign spread of the Winnipeg Statement errors throughout the English-speaking world.

Tragedy at Winnipeg Part II: The Consequences

 By Msgr. Vincent Foy


Did Pope Paul VI Approve the Winnipeg Statement? A Search for the Truth by Monsignor Vincent Foy

Preface
Many errors circulate intimating that the Winnipeg Statement of the Canadian Bishops was approved by Pope Paul VI. In a recent work “Faith and Freedom, The Life and Times of Bill Ryan, S.J.” (Bob Chodos and Jamie Swift, Novalis, 2002) we read that the Canadian bishops at Winnipeg reaffirmed the encyclical’s teaching and that Pope Paul VI expressed his approval of the Winnipeg Statement “in communications with several Canadian bishops” (p.90). Both these statements are erroneous. The present booklet was published by the Life Ethics Information Centre in 1997. It attempted to show that Pope Paul VI did not approve the Winnipeg Statement.

Did Pope Paul VI Approve the Winnipeg Statement? A Search for the Truth. by Msgr. Vincent Foy

From Winnipeg to Fully Alive

Preface
Sex education, under the euphemism of Family Life Education, was advocated for Canada by the Winnipeg Statement.  The fruit of the advocacy was the “Fully Alive” sex education course.  It has become a major factor in the destruction of Christian moral values in Canadian Catholic children.  The present article was published in Challenge magazine, 1992, and then reprinted in booklet form by St. Joseph’s Workers for Life and Family.  It was written shortly before the publication of the Grade 8 texts of “Fully Alive” which instruct children in all the ways of illicit contraception. (Note: the introduction to the teacher’s manual of Fully Alive, p vii, mentions Fr. LaFreniere’s involvement. He was a supporter of SEICUS.)

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