Article by The Hon. Joe Volpe — Video: CNMNG Staff

TORONTO – I am at a loss as to how acts of arson against icons of religious affiliation are supposed to gain sympathy or tug at anyone’s sense of guilt for perceived wrongs committed in the past.

It does not help that the brush of guilt by association is tarring everyone and all things Catholic. Maybe that is the intended outcome.

A two-thousand-year-old Christian movement is seemingly the whipping boy for all self-declared marginalized, oppressed and “offended” minority communities – the so-called “great reset” movement. So, one religion may be torn down, and along with it the ideologies and tenets that form the bases of the cultural-legal concepts guiding the Western Civilization that we call our own.

You know, the one that says: “love your neighbour as you love yourself and God above all others”; Or, in more secular terms, “egalite’, fraternite’, liberte’” that emerged from one of the more violent “great resets” in one of the world’s biggest colonizer-countries (Revolutionary France).

Which set of values and philosophies do we o‹er up as substitutes? How do we ensure that a monitoring, enforcement system will work more efficiently and
effectively than the one we tear down? Has anyone heard it yet? What has whipped up the “public outrage” against Catholics, Catholicism and the Church?