"Just one good man..."

"We church-going Roman Catholics participate in a pattern of discrimination against women that is illegal everywhere except in the church.   The federal and provincial governments ~ which rightly insist other Canadian institutions address gender issues in hiring, promotion, and pay equity ~ say nothing to the Church, whose discrimination is the most blatant."

~ Philip Milner, author and academic, The Yankee Professor's Guide to Life in Nova Scotia (1993)

Source:  Famous Lasting Words/ Great Canadian Quotations,  J. R. Colombo, Douglas & McIntyre, 2000.

Toronto Star Headline Monday, March 11 ~ VATICAN CONCLAVE:  New pope requires Church to find just one good man by Rosie DiManno.

The world awaits either black or white smoke signals ...
On birth-control ~
"Therese Dion was none too pleased about becoming a mother for the fourteenth time at the same time as she became a grandmother.  She had asked her Priest if she could stop having children, but when he strongly suggested that using contraceptives was an insult to God, she listened.  With eight girls and five boys, the Dion family was already far overcrowded in a small house on Notre-Dame Street in the Quebec village of Charlemagne when Therese gave birth to Celine Marie Claudette on March 30, 1968, at Le Gardeur Hospital in Repentigny."

Source:  CELINE DION FOR KEEPS, Jennaa Glatzer, Andrew McMeel Publishing, 2005.