We Say, “No” to the Anniversary Breakfast at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto

An alum explains why he will not be attending the anniversary banquet at a formerly Catholic college which supports the LGBTQXYZ+∞ agenda.

From Everyday For Life Canada

We received this week an invitation to attend the "50th Anniversary Breakfast" at the Omni King Edward Hotel this fall. We graduated from St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto.

The event is to congratulate the graduates and celebrate the milestone. Not sure what the milestone is, except that we just got older. It's advertised as an opportunity to reconnect with fellow alumni and share a celebratory breakfast. Although guests are not told this, it's a way for the College to ask for donations from its graduates. No doubt, it's an opportunity to fund-raise.

We will be telling the organizers of the program that we won't attend. St. Michael College is no longer the place we graduated from the early 1970s. It has progressed to the point that it no longer offers religious courses. All religion courses are now administered by the University of Toronto. 

St. Michael College is now woke. It works with New Ways Ministry to push the message of lgbtq inclusion and love. The College does this through what it calls, Catholic Ministries run by the Edmundite Center for Peace and Justice.

Last April Frank DeBernardo from New Ways Ministry was invited to speak at St. Michael's College on behalf of lgbtq people. His main point was that Pope Francis calls us to love everyone regardless of their sexual identities. To love everyone, yes, is hardly a new idea. The two great commandments, to love God and neighbour, have always challenged the believer to love others. The College should strive to have its students and professors live the faith rather than adopt politically correct politics. 

DeBernardo supports his views by referring to recent documents issued by the Church such as Fratelli Tutti and Dignitas Infinita. He argues “When we talk about lgbtq issues in the Catholic Church, it is easy to get sidetracked into issues of sexual ethics, human anthropology, church doctrine, sacramental theology, canon law, and many other abstract ways of describing who lgbtq people are and what is the meaning and purpose of their identities and relationships. But I want to stress today that, as Catholics, when we talk about lgbtq people, we are first and foremost talking about love.” 

Does he mean that believers must accept sodomy and trans-humanism? Loving everyone sounds good but nobody in his right mind can love without evaluating who and what they are loving. God gave us a brain, we must use it. We must reject the Humpty Dumpty approach to the meaning of the word love.

New Ways Ministry goes further and has even urged the present pontificate to be more "loving." They want the Church to accept "gender theory," and thus non-binary and the trans-gendered people must be embraced. Fiducia Supplicans isn't enough. They are pushing for a total Church acceptance and blessing for whatever the lgbtq community chooses to do. Where is the hope for future of society and the Church with this kind of "love"?

Don't look for New Ways Ministry to remind us that Genesis in 1:27 teaches, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

Jesus never tells anyone that the are called to love all those who identify with one or more of the sexual letters of the alphabet. We can't create our own identity at will and expect others to go along with whatever choice we make. This would make the difference between what is morally right and wrong, evil and good, sin and virtue totally meaningless.

Anyway, these are some of my reasons for not attending the 50th Anniversary Breakfast. St. Michael's College is longer the Catholic College that we knew. It wasn't perfect then, but things have only gotten worse. In its new mission to accommodate the temporal, it is losing its Catholic identity. So, not thank you. We will have breakfast at home.