BREAKING NEWS; MARY WAGNER ARRESTED AT TORONTO ABORTUARY

Mary Wagner has been arrested. The Canadian pro-life missionary entered an abortuary this morning in Toronto's west end at Jane Street and Bloor Street to pass out roses to the women there and to speak to them about their baby and letting it live.

There is no law in Canada against abortion. Under the current government, there is no hope for there to be one as it is aggressively pro-abortion, notwithstanding the Prime Minister being a baptised Catholic. Mary was arrested last December at the same clinic for the same action on behalf of the unborn. 

Barona was there and has the full report.

BREAKING NEWS: Mary Wagner was arrested this morning at a Toronto abortion facility

A killing factory in an innocuous looking medical building

This morning, on December 12th, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, our dear sister in Christ, Mary Wagner, was arrested by Toronto Police for entering the Bloor West Village Women's Clinic - an abortion facility -and gently suggesting to expectant mothers to opt for life, rather than go through with killing their baby.

Mary Wagner convicted

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Mary Wagner was "convicted": a sentencing hearing will be held on May 5th

Fr. Piotr Bałtarowicz

Mary Wagner's trial for "probation violation", and "interfering with a business" was held this Thursday at 10 a.m., at the College Park Courts (444 Yonge St; at the corner of Yonge and Dundas). It is important to note, that while Mary's trial ensued, her dear friend, Linda Gibbons, will be sitting in prison at Vanier, 60 kms away, awaiting her upcoming trial (probably in June).

At the trial, this time, finally - thanks be to God - a Catholic priest was  present, Fr. Piotr Bałtarowicz; in Canada - from far off Poland - for a pilgrimage of solidarity with Mary and Linda - to the "Sanctuary behind bars".

Please visit Toronto Catholic Witness for Barona's full report!

BREAKING: -- LINDA GIBBONS ARRESTED OUTSIDE MORGENTALER ABORTUARY

Linda Gibbons has been arrested!

At 11:34 this morning on the public sidewalk outside of the Morgenthaler abortuary, Linda Gibbons, a heroine in the defense of the unborn in Canada was arrested for violating the decades old "temporary injunction" barring protests, even silent ones, outside abortion mills.

Linda was carrying her usual sign "Why Mom, when I have so much love to give." She had been there since 9:00AM and was later visited by Sheriffs before the Toronto Police Force was sent to arrest her. 

At this point, I refer you to Toronto Catholic Witness blog who last night posted an interview with Linda. Barona was there to witness her silent protest and arrest and has the full story including photographs.

Linda will now join Mary Wagner in prison.

We await the outpouring anger at this injustice and that of abortion in the main-stream and Catholic media

Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner: Two Victim Souls for the Unborn

Canada's two warriors for the life of the unborn have a story to tell. A story about the crime of murder and dismemberment of the millions of unborn babies in Canada and the indifference of Canadians to the holocaust taking place in our land. It is also a story of unjust persecution under archaic injunctions that trample upon the rights of Canadians to express themselves in opposition to the horror of abortion.

Mary Wagner is in a jail cell in Milton, Ontario. She is there and has followed the example of Linda Gibbons.

Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness has an exclusive interview with the woman he calls the "Archangel for Life."

Let us pray for these two witnesses for life and for Christ.

Monday, March 23, 2015

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Linda Gibbons speaks with Toronto Catholic Witness

Linda Gibbons, with dear friends

"I lift up my eyes, to you who sit enthroned in heaven..."

Psalm 123 "A Song of Ascent"

           

This interview with Canada's "Archangel for Life", Linda Gibbons, took place the week of March 16th. I thank Linda deeply for her graciousness in taking the time to answer these questions, which, I hope, will lead readers into a deeper appreciation of Linda's Christian witness for those who have no voice, no face: the forgotten unborn, the babies. 

This week, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II's great encyclical, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), a prophetic work, even more relevant today when we are are surrounded by an ever expanding "culture" that promotes and glorifies death. Please pray for Linda Gibbons.

http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.ca/2015/03/exclusive-interview-linda-gibbons.html

Mary Wagner's bravery

After the hit-and-run by Michael Coren in the Catholic Register on Mary Wagner, the Catholic Register responded with a guest column by Alissa Golob of Campaign Life. Of course it still begs the question as to why was Coren's column published in the first place. 

When one looks at the photo below it can be clearly seen that Coren's hit and the letter to the editor in the CR by a dyspeptic mutterer supporting him and criticizing two bloggers for leading with this news for a month until the Catholic press caught up is even more disgraceful. Mary is a humble and holy woman that would put both of these people to shame. 

I would like both Coren and the mutterer. once again barking up the wrong tree, to comment here about what they have done recently to match the humility, bravery and holiness of this woman and her fight to awake the consciousnesses of Canadians?

Mary Wagner with His Excellency Archbishop Depo of Czetochowa
Photo courtesy of Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness

Below is a an excerpt from Dorothy Cummings Mclean's column. Read all of at the Catholic Register.

Mary Wagner’s bravery is in not minding her own business

BY  DOROTHY CUMMINGS MCLEAN

• January 29, 2015

On Dec. 27, 1989, I was arrested outside a Toronto abortion business, thrown into a police van and locked in a cell for hours. So were about 74 other people, including at least one priest. The CBC reported 80.

Twenty-five years have passed, so readers may not remember that in the 1980s Catholics and evangelicals protested the horror of abortion outside Toronto’s hospitals and its four abortion businesses almost weekly. Back in 1989, only one of the “temporary bubble zones” had been created, and that was around Henry Morgentaler’s business on Harbord Street.

...

I could hold up a sign and take the verbal abuse, and I could even sit where the police said not to sit and get locked in a cell, but I never had the guts or the truly self-sacrificing love to approach abortion-bound women and say, “Please, won’t you reconsider? There is help for women who choose to keep their babies.” It was just too hard — the words choked in my throat.

Breaking the law of “mind your own business” can be harder than breaking the Criminal Code. For breaking that law — for having the courage and love to engage pregnant strangers face to face — I believe Mary Wagner deserves the honour those like her so rarely get.

(Cummings McLean is a Canadian writer and author of Ceremony of Innocence.)

Focus on the issue

Some would like to distract from the issue. Michael Coren has done it. There are some others that have criticized Barona and myself for our campaign. They can hold their perverted views, we prefer to speak the truth with clarity and support those who do brave work; the work of Christ and first in our minds in this regard is Mary Wagner and her sacrifice and her own mother whose heart bears its own spear. We will never forget the reason why she does it.

Those such as Coren who would undermine her character and those others out there, barking up the wrong tree and brought to my attention today [you know who you are] that would impute motive to us and to her, need to consider their consciences. Instead of focussing on the truth and the reality of Mary's imprisonment,  you have perverted our motives.  What have you done brother? What have you done about this but reveal your own inadequacies. 

The pressure  by this blog and Barona will continue until Catholics wake up and consider the evil before us. 

Here is the open letter from Jane Wagner to the Editor of the Catholic Register who has this week printed a guest column by Alissa Golob (below) to challenge Coren's mutterings.

An Open Letter to "The Catholic Register", by Jane Wagner ~ "this is a story worthy of publication, but you have been silent..."

Dear Editor

I had not intended to write to you after Michael Coren's scathing indictment of my daughter, Mary Wagner. I do not believe he is deserving of a reply; his "opinion" was both spiteful and childish. Beyond that, to continue to discuss the topic of Mary's incarceration, in the way that he does, makes it about Mary, and that is something she clearly never wanted. Her focus has always been, and will always be, the babies, who lives are being taken every day at the abortion mills in cities all over our country. We Canadians, we Catholics, have become numb to the killings and have demonstrated daily that we don't care, at least not enough to do something about it. 

I am writing to you, not to convince you of my daughter's purity of motives, because she doesn't need defending. You need only to meet her to know that she is real, that she lives and breathes the Gospel of Life with all of her being. I am writing to let you know that I am greatly disappointed in your paper, one which ought to herald a story that affirms so deeply the value of human life in the womb. That one person would renounce her freedom, her youth, and her own future, speaks clearly of the value of these little ones. She has raised them up for our collective consciousness by her willing sacrifice. It really is about these precious babies. Mary has taken to her heart the words of our great St John Paul II to "be not afraid", and to follow his lead in disobeying an illicit law that permits abortion. 

“Abortion and euthanasia are crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize.... In the         case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is never licit to obey it..."  St John Paul's exhortation in The Gospel of Life.

This is a story worthy of publication, but you have been silent about it. 

So, why does The Catholic Register stoop to publish absurdity such as Coren has penned? As an editor of a Catholic newspaper you should uphold the Teachings and the Truth given to us by of our Catholic leaders, our saints, our Popes. Instead, you publish a deplorable article from a man who has never spoken to or met the woman he is vilifying. Clearly, you have failed in your duty to write the Truth in a Catholic manner this time around. 

God bless you. I hope you do better next time.

Sincerely,

Jane Wagner

Mary Wagner's arrest: Two journalistic approaches

The issue of Mary Wagner's arrest before Christmas is starting to be reported in the Catholic press in Canada -- albeit from two different angles.

Here, on line, is an exceptional report from Deborah Guyapong in the BC Catholic. Deborah spent the time to interview and research the story. It is a thorough and sensitive report.

Yet, we have another Catholic journalist in another Catholic paper that takes a completely different approach and a sad one at that.

Michael Coren criticised Mary quite harshly on his cable show on SUN TV. He writes this week on Mary in the Catholic Register, the column is on the web page. It takes a different approach than Deborah's work and is more in keeping with his television comments. Tim Haines at Vericast does a good job dissecting the interview with Alissa Golob of Campaign Life starting at 33:13.

As someone who was once his friend, who had coffee in his home; as someone who paid him to speak before a Catholic group and arranged another group to do the same and to sell his books, I regret very much his more recent positions and cannot explain how this man who once did good work and could do so much more could have betrayed the truth to this extent:

"Could there be something personal, even needy, about all this? I know Mary Wagner’s supporters will react strongly to what I have said and I have already been rudely condemned for gently questioning her stance on my television show, but the question has to be asked: is this about the unborn or about Mary Wagner?"

The issue is about the unborn as the letter from Mary's mother testifies; I am shocked that Coren would even question her motives. He clearly does not know her and has never spoken with her. The issue is also about Mary Wagner and Linda Gibbons and others who risked everything for the truth. 

Michael, You are upset at me and you're upset at Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness because we have refused to be silent on this matter and we have both challenged your previous comments on other issues - why have you taken your anger at us out on Mary Wagner? 

Go and read it all there. I will refrain from any further comments, I am too disgusted to formulate anything coherent, you are welcome to do that in the combox.

Meanwhile, in Poland!

Polish Bishop defends Mary Wagner

At Toronto Catholic Witness:

"Her voice is just a sign of freedom. She harms no one, only demonstrating her belief; drawing attention to the value of human life". 

Where are our bishops?

Mother of Mary Wagner responds to Michael Coren

Broadcaster Michael Coren, a Catholic has publicly and harshly criticized Mary Wagner as described in the blog below. 

Jane Wagner, Mary's mother has written a response to Mr. Coren; it deserves to be read and with her permission it is posted below:

Michael, you have missed the point entirely. You said that Mary went to the abortion clinic to be arrested. Wrong. Mary goes to the abortion clinic in an eleventh hour attempt to save the life of a baby who is being carried to his appointment with death. She knows that it is likely that she will be arrested, but she never gives up hope that other pro-lifers will join her there and make it impossible for the judicial system to handle the crowd. You said that she is breaking the law. Yes, a law that is wrong. In the same way that good Germans broke the law in hiding Jews from the Nazi exterminators in the great war. You made other personal disparaging remarks about Mary while defending the indefensible, our Justice system. It is easy for us on the outside, who lead banal and pseudo peaceful lives, to consider the actions of Mary to be reprehensible. So were the acts of Christ, so much so that the political powers of that day had to crucify Him to silence him. I hope this isn't what has to happen to Mary to get you on side. Or maybe you will think she brought it on herself. You resent the Poles for calling us a Fascist country, which by our very actions define us to be. How can you be a proud Canadian when you know that our government supports the wholesale slaughter of innocents, and has a law in place to protect them from public outcry? I wonder which side you really sit on Michael. As Mary's mother, I am deeply ashamed of you and those who share your thinking. Jane Wagner.

Treated as a Catholic heroine in Poland and a pariah by our own as Barona reports.

Coren's confusion over papal authority -

In a recent quote on Facebook referring to his most recent Sun Newspaper article, journalist and "Catholic" author Michael Coren wrote the following:

What I didn't say in my column today was that many right-wing Catholics are so angry with Pope Francis that they are - implicitly and often explicitly - questioning Papal authority; without that, of course, Roman Catholicism has no distinct meaning. Not that right-wing Catholics are alone in this; liberals exhibited the same attitude about John Paul and Benedict. All of which leads us to ask just how many Catholics actually believe that the Pope is the direct descendant of Peter and has exclusive authority. In a world of open debate, encouraged dissent and fierce social media this presents a profound problem for Roman Catholicism. It's going to be an interesting 2015.

Fellow journalist Deborah Guyapong left a comment challenging Coren's statement:

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote: “After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything … especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council … In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope’s authority is bound to the Tradition of faith … The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition.”

And this is what Vatican I had defined: “The Holy Spirit was not promised to Peter’s successors so that by its revelation they might disclose new doctrine, but, so that, by its assistance, they might devoutly guard and faithfully set forth the revelation handed down through the Apostles.

Deborah has done us a favour by citing the quote above and links the whole article to Father Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment which addresses a statement by Cardinal Marx of Germany.

What is a "right-wing Catholic" Michael? Is it someone that accepts what the Church has taught down the centuries? Is that a bad thing? I watched your recent interview with Alissa Golub where you showed disdain for the sacrifice Mary Wagner is making and I am saddened by it - though at least you featured it and for that at least, I applaud you. However, the fact remains; as Barona so rightly testifies, her imprisonment, whilst according to the law, is a mark of fascism which has slowly been creeping into our beloved Canada quoting Bishop Johannes Maria Gföllner; “The nation is not the highest power, nor may the state be idolized; The highest power for each nation is and remains religion.” False religion and error has no rights.

These neo-caths (he uses labels so let us use them too) such as Coren, Mark Shea and a host of others are displaying papolatry and that is not Catholic. They and many since the Second Vatican Council have betrayed Our Blessed Lord and His Social Kingship and are Judases, many of them, clerical Judases!

If Pope Francis stood up tomorrow and said "I solemnly proclaim that the moon is made of cream cheese and I bind the belief on all Catholics" would you rush to the store to buy bagels and smoked salmon to celebrate and hire Virgin Airlines to take you there to shovel it up?

Soon, the Pope is expected to issue an Encyclical on the environment. Rumour has it that he will release it at the United Nations. This is appalling and has the credibility of the moon made of green cheese. What does the Pope know of the environment and so-called "global-warming?"

Good grief, climate changes why do you think that there are fossils of ferns and palms in Greenland! 

I will reserve judgement until I see that encyclical but if it trumpets the usual left-wing, Al Gore poppycock of man being responsible for climate change, I will put it in the same category as the moon being made of cream cheese. Stewardship is one thing, a political agenda based on junk-science is something else entirely and not befitting the Vicar of Christ or the Holy Catholic Church.

Now, before one says that we "trads" and "right-wing Catholics" are creating confusion, read the two statements below by Pope Francis : 

“She, during her earthly life, knew no small difficulties, joined to the daily fatigue of existence,” he said. “But she never lost peace of heart, the fruit of trustful abandonment to the mercy of God. Let us ask Mary, our tender Mother, to show to the whole world the sure path of love and of peace.”

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"The Gospel does not tell us anything: if she spoke a word or not… She was silent, but in her heart, how many things told the Lord! ‘You, that day, this and the other that we read, you had told me that he would be great, you had told me that you would have given him the throne of David, his forefather, that he would have reigned forever and now I see him there!’ Our Lady was human! And perhaps she even had the desire to say: ‘Lies! I was deceived!’"

Seriously Michael, Mark and the rest of you, stop misinterpreting the First Vatican Council on the authority of the Pope ; you display ignorance that I find incredulous, particularly as Catholic writers. 

A letter from a mother: Mary Wagner's mother to the people of Poland -- and Canada!

On this day when the Church honours Mary, the Mother of God, with the kind permission of Mr. Jacek Kotula at the page Mary Wagner W Polsce, let us reflect on a letter from a mother, that being Jane Wagner, mother of Mary Wagner.

Dear Jacek, and all of you good people in Poland. 

I thank you from the deepest places in my heart for your love and support of my daughter, Mary. I think that you, as a nation, truly understand what Mary is doing, and because of this, and because of your greatness of heart, Mary has had more support from you than anywhere else in the world combined. I can see why the great St John Paul came from amongst you! Indeed, you are truly a blessing to Mary and to the babies she speaks for. 

In Canada, there is very little support for Mary, even amongst Catholics. Mary spent 3 months at home with us, which was such a gift. But not once was she asked to speak at our Church or at any parish on Vancouver Island. When she arrived in Poland, she was constantly invited to speak for Life. 

I think that Canadians are blinded by the idea of the Law, a law that is clearly wrong, and yet it seems that they see only the law. They fear anarchy, if one can break the law to win an argument. There is a real spiritual death in our country, even if I may dare say so, amongst the clergy. I have almost never heard words from the pulpit condemning abortion or abortifacient contraceptives. It is no wonder that Canadian Catholics have abortions almost as often as other Canadians. Our priests are strangely silent, for the most part. Our Bishops are no different.They love peace: they don't want confrontation, they don't want change, they don't want to be uncomfortable. They are willing to compromise with evil just to keep people happy and quiet. For Canadian people the status quo is something they are comfortable with and they chose not to consider what abortion is, beyond a woman's right to chose. They don't ever want to rock the boat, in case they get wet. 

Peace and joy abound in Mary. She understands that true peace cannot be wrought by complacency with evil, and that without the Truth, we are all empty pots. She knows that her worth is in Christ, and that she is simply His servant. She does whatever He tells her to do, and so she has peace and joy in abundance. Sometimes Christ comes to us in other people; in Mary's case, He came to her through your people in Poland, and through the hand full of people she has here. Her time with you prepared her for the wasteland of her fight in Canada. Her love for Mother Theresa and for St John Paul, have shaped her life, and your people continue to give her hope and support as she goes forward. 

Mary is not unhappy in prison. I know that she would prefer to be free, but she is wise enough to know that wherever God leads her, He has work for her to do that will satisfy her soul. I also know that she does suffer in prison, as do all prisoners: they are not often treated with the dignity due to them as part of the human family, they suffer from lack of privacy, lack of freedom, constant noise, and sometimes from the elements of cold and hunger as well. But Mary is there with hope, because this life is finite, and God sees and knows all things. She brings Him to others through her gentle and prayerful presence. She is a small beacon of light behind the bars. When I told her that I was worried about her going back to prison, that she is small and there are some dangerous people there, she smiled and said: "don't worry, Mama. They love me in there". I keep these words in my heart and hope they remain true.

God bless Poland! Thank you for being there for Mary. Don't give up your efforts!

Love,

Jane Wagner

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Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness and this blogger have been reporting regularly on the matter of Mary Wagner and her arrest just prior to Christmas. We have yet to read anything in our Catholic press.

I personally challenge Thomas Rosica, CSB, who stops by here regularly, to put this letter on his Twitter feed.

I personally challenge Jim O"Leary, editor of the Catholic Register to make this a priority for the next issue and to raise awareness of Mary's plight across the country.

Do you need to be shamed because frankly, your silence is doing it.

If the people of Poland can rise to her defense and offer prayers for her, what on earth is wrong with our own?

Where is Salt + Light - where is the Catholic Register with regards to Mary Wagner

Mary Wagner sits in prison in Milton, Ontario for counselling women about to have their babies murdered in their wombs under the eyes of the Province of Ontario and our nation, Canada. She sits there because of an unjust law - a 35 year old "temporary injunction" preventing protests, prayers, vigils or sidewalk counselling outside an abortuary. 

Mary made her choice. She new the consequences of her actions. She is a prisoner of conscience in our Canada.

In Poland, it is all over the Catholic media. She is a heroine there and a petition is circulating and a demonstration is scheduled at the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw.

Now an American blog, Christ's Faithful Witness, has picked up the ball.

Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness has posted consistently on Mary Wagner and in particular, has been responsible for getting us the news from Poland.

I have written twice to the Editor of Toronto's Catholic Register and still there is nothing on their web page to indicate that they have even noticed. Will there be anything in their print edition later this week?

We still await a Tweet from Father Tom Rosica or Salt + Light.

Nothing, not a word.

But when Francis issues an encylical on the false science of man-caused global warming and climate change and the absurd proposition that we can actually control the climate for good or ill, well; these modernists will be all over that.

Yes. Our Church leaders have fallen for the secular liars and the god of environmentalism 

Happy New Year to all you sour-faced, Promethean, neo-Pelagian, rosary prayers trying to save babies.

Mary Wagner - Poland taking up her cause to Canadian Ambassador

The Instytut Ordo Caritatis in Poland has established an online petition to the Canadian Ambassador to Poland to protest the jailing of Mary Wagner.

How embarrassing for our once glorious land and how edifying that the people of Poland know what truth and human rights are. Perhaps it is because they suffered the loss of both so often and faced murder and persecution by various tyrannies the most recent being National Socialism and Soviet Bolshevism.

As of this writing, there are nearly 27,000 signatures.

You can sign the petition here. Please spread it around your social media. The boxes you need to fill in are first name, family name, email, pull down box to Kanada and add postal code where it says "kod pocztowy."

Thanks to Barona for finding this gem and clearly stating that her imprisonment, not for trespassing, but for violating an unjust injunction, is against the United Nations Charter of Human Rights, something the Poles clearly understand.

Petycja do Premiera Rządu Kanady

Wolność dla Mary Wagner

   

Canadian Catholic sentenced to prison for saving lives of unborn children
Do you know who is Mary Wagner? The 38-year-old Catholic from Canada, for many years, is committed to protecting the lives of unborn children. For this conviction she has been arrested and is in prison in Canada.

Although it seems unbelievable that in Canada there is sentenced to prison someone for Catholic beliefs, it has unfortunately happened. On the one hand, Canada gives citizens the "freedom" to kill unborn children, on the other ties the hands of those who want to use peaceful means to dissuade women from abortion.

Mary Wagner has for many years prayed at abortion clinics, talking to women who intend to have an abortion, many handed white roses and some of the women and their children were rescued.

The presence of Mary at an "abortuary business" caused her arrest and imprisonment as a symbol that would discourage other pro-life people to commit similar acts.

Mary, however, does not give in and announced that after release will continue trying to save the lives of unborn children and their mothers. As she wrote in her letter during a recent visit to Poland, "my visit to Poland also led me to Auschwitz. I would not go there alone, but did not want to deny my friends. This is what we saw shocked me to the core. Reading the guest book call: "Let this crime will never happen again", I realized that "this" happens again, just before our eyes in another place, in Toronto it is happening now in Canada and around the world.

Let us show our solidarity to this lonely Mary, who struggles with wicked system and use all available means fighting for her release.

Signatures go to the Prime Minister of Canada by email (sign the petition is to send such a message).

Those who have already signed the petition are:

Michael Baran, a board member of the Foundation ONE OF US
Gortych Bartholomew, president of the Catholic Association of Academic SALT DEO
Marek Jurek
Ks. Thomas Kancelarczyk, Brotherhood of small feet
Lech Łuczyński, Institute of Ordo Caritatis
Prof. Ryszard Legutko
Prof. Mirosław Piotrowski
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski
Dr. Paul Wosicki, president of the Polish Federation of Pro-Life Movements
Dr. Eng. Antoni Zieba, president of the Polish Association for the Protection of Human Life.

Mary Wagner - Heroine for Christmas, heroine for Christ!

While we are busy preparing all our Christmas treats and gifts, yesterday on December 23, someone else prepared some gifts. Her name is Mary Wagner and she is a heroine for life. In the early hours of the morning, Mary prepared roses and little cards which she would give as gifts to women causing her to be placed under arrest for violating a 35 year-old "temporary injunction" against the civil right of standing in front of an abortuary. Mary crossed into the so-called "bubble-zone" and entered within its doors. The zone is to keep any person from counselling or praying or quietly standing within it away from any abortion mill in Ontario. Three burly officers "as cold as December" to quote Father Paul Nicholson, arrested Mary and led her away.

This is not the first time, Mary has spent time in jail before for protecting children, aiding women and trying to force the courts to overturn this unjust injunction. She is a champion of human and civil rights and lawful civil disobedience.

Mary has chosen the better part. She has chosen to spend her Christmas in jail from where she does her best work counselling and praying for the women there and helping them resist the temptation to kill their babies.

While many of our priests and bishops refuse to speak of this evil from the pulpit; whilst many have made compromises with the state and continue to provide Holy Communion to Catholic politicians who advocate for the killing of babies in contravention of Canon Law; while our Church experts and even some of Her "loyal sons of the Church" mock those who stand out in front of abortion mills because of their "sour faces," and their "rosaries" -- this woman, Mary Wagner puts them all to shame! 

Mary Wagner confounds the Province of Ontario, Mary Wagner confounds every priest, every bishop, every cardinal, she confounds all of us who have not an ounce of the courage that this woman possesses.

You and I will sit in our warm homes this Christmas. Mary is in jail.

The paragraph below is from the Facebook page of Father Paul Nicholson.

Early this morning, I was with the remarkable Mary Wagner, as she prepared to rescue mothers from committing the abomination of abortion. She enters the abortion mill and presents each tragic mother with a rose, gently admonishing her to think over her scheduled abortion. She is direct, but she is very gentle. We were only a small little group, as we went out to support Mary. She was eventually arrested and taken into custody. The three big police officers, who came to collect, seemed to be as cold as a day in December. But I am sure something inside them felt, that this was no ordinary prisoner. She, like the unborn child, was an intruder. She, like the unborn child, had to be removed. Mary expressed the radical form of solidarity. She will be spending Christmas in prison, as a prisoner of conscience. Will you spread the news that Mary has made herself a victim with all the little victims of abortion? Or are you too concerned about what people will think of your Facebook posts? Look, we all are subject to human respect, but at least we should be brave enough to publicly praise such a modern day hero. Think of Mary Wagner when you are with family and friends this Christmas. She deserves your respect!Remember the babies who have no one to speak for them.

Let us remember Mary Wagner this Christmas in our prayers that God will protect her and comfort her and aid her in her every need. Let us also thank Our Blessed Lord that He has given to our city and to our province and country someone of such courage and fortitude for the truth and who shames the rest of us in her faith and bravery.

God bless you Mary Wagner; and Merry Christmas to you.

Mary Wagner, as a previous guest of the Province of Ontario