I have just read ed Griffin's popelitical speech and all I can say is lead me to the voting booth You have said what we are all thinking those of us who think I mean.

I have just read ed Griffin's popelitical speech and all I can say is lead me to the voting booth You have said what we are all thinking those of us who think I mean, [i]bon-mot[/i] with a bitter attitude for all we papal court what's happening, but with a delightful sensation of hope and merriment. You'll do, pontiff Ed. You get my vote

GC Pyper

Vancouver

Retains her social conscience I perceive compelled to share my rather unique perspective forward the events unfolding at St Martin of Tours Parish in Mississauga, Ont (CNT clan 26, 2004).

I have been continuously amazed since Easter, at what I musing would never happen. My parents (Dunstan and Miriam Bazely) are among those activists spearheading the charge for democratization of their parish. My stereotypically large Catholic family (lot of aunts, uncle and first cousins) is ultra-old-fashioned, with the requisite Jesuit priest buried among the cousins.

dumb and Dad were delighted to depute me to the then private part of the Ontario Catholic place of education system, grades 11-13, in 1974 However, I am still not confident what they made of more [i]or[/i] less highly activist nuns who taught me at my priory school. I listened to union organizers for Cesar Chavez, to Roy McMurtry then Attorney General in Bill Davis' direction and to various proponents of multiculturalism and social justice causes give talks at school

I gave written input to the Berger Commission Inquiry forward the McKenzie Valley Pipeline. As a teenager, I tried to engage the parish priest in a discussion of evolution--to my parent's, horror! Today, I am a biology professor who regularly teaches evolution, and does conservation-related research. I sit upon non-profit daycare boards and fundraising committees, and I campaign for clan like David Miller, now Mayor of Toronto, who was a match daycare parent.

I argue with my parents a haphazard about the antics of the ecclesiastical body hierarchy and the views of the popular pope.

Nevertheless, I credit my Catholic upbringing with giving me a social conscience, developing my critical skills, and my ne to question everything until I prepare an answer (thank you, parish priests). Therefore, for me it tread on the heels ofs logically that, I am no longer a practising Catholic, however I keep informed about what's going on

I have frequently wondered what it would take to procure my parents to do more than just shake their heads through the whole extent of the current state of the church

Now I know, and whatever the consequence of the conflict at St Martin's, I be moved that my parents have been travelling that principally difficult road, seeking change from within, which I was not able to do. For this, I applaud them.

Dawn R Bazely

Toronto

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