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Catholic Women's League Speaker, Former Catholic Muslim, Mocks Trinity
Clarification added July 21, 2006: CWL leadership, which did not return calls by press time on the day of the story, has noted that the speaker's remarks should be placed in context. The context, according to CWL leadership, is that the speaker was invited to speak on an unrelated topic and then asked why she had left Catholicism. Her remarks on the Trinity were made in that context, according to CWL.
By Hilary White
OTTAWA, July 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Women’s’ League (CWL) has come under criticism from one of its own executive after a Muslim woman invited as a speaker ridiculed Christianity at the group’s 2006 Provincial Convention on July 11.
Mrs. Dureen Coade, Diocesan Chairman of Education and Health for the Ottawa Council has written a letter of protest to the provincial head of the CWL. Mrs. Coade wrote that the choice of a former Catholic, now Muslim, guest speaker, Dr. Alexandra Bain, was inappropriate for an organization that is meant to promote and defend the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Mrs. Coade forwarded a copy of her email to LifeSiteNews.com in which she writes that Dr. Bain mocked the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity and urged the attendees to abandon Catholicism. According to Mrs. Coade, Dr. Bain, referring to the doctrine of the Trinity, “mentioned the fact that she could not understand how she was taught in grade 4 or 5 that one + one + one = 3 and then in Religion was taught that 3 = 1.”
“This was an attack on the Blessed Trinity that is a basic tenet of Catholicism,” Mrs. Coade wrote. “When I attend a Catholic Women's League Convention I expect to be exposed to talks that are going to increase the knowledge of my faith and inspire me to be better. I do not expect to have to be guarded in my listening,” she added.
The Catholic Women’s League Website says the purpose of the League is “to promote the teachings of the Catholic church (sic).” The CWL’s motto is “For God and Canada.”
Mrs. Coade called for the resignation of the Provincial head of the CWL.
This is not the first time the CWL has been revealed as being less than enthusiastic about some teachings of the Catholic faith, not to mention basic tenets of natural law morality common to nearly all Christian sects. Most recently, the CWL has found itself at odds with the Church, supporting civil unions as an option for legalizing homosexual partnerings.
In defiance of the Vatican’s specific direction forbidding any support for any kind of legal recognition of homosexual unions, the CWL’s statement to Parliament in 2003, read, “Parliament can best act to support marriage by enacting a statute that allows for civil unions to be registered between heterosexual couples and same-sex couples, with all legal implications and responsibilities including separation, divorce, maintenance, etc.”
Previously, the CWL had supported the pro-abortion World March of Women, a feminist initiative that was part of a larger effort at the United Nations to establish abortion as an international human right.
Calls to the head of the Ottawa Archdiocesan CWL were not returned by press time.
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