Pro-life campaign in Quebec seeks financial aid to spread the culture of life, family, and faith
by David McLoone
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QUEBEC (LifeSiteNews) – As the Catholic heritage of Quebec quickly becomes forgotten and buried, one brave young woman from the province has set out to restore the culture of faith, family, and life in the region.
Geneviève De Vriendt, a 16-year-old girl with a passion for life and faith, is a member of Quebec’s Christian pro-life group Campagne Québec-vie, whose mission it is “to establish a Christian society that protects faith, family and life, from conception to natural death.”
To this end, De Vriendt told LifeSiteNews that she has undertaken to create a “permanent faith, life and family office in Quebec City,” complete with the staff and materials necessary to promote the cause throughout the province.
“Our plan is to promote a return to Faith and Life for Quebec, starting in its capital,” she added.
Campagne Québec-vie President Georges Buscemi recently interviewed with Dr. Thomas Ward of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and Family. Buscemi explained in the interview that Quebec once had a unique place in North American history as a “microcosm of Christendom in a sea of Protestantism.”
“Men and women religious ran hospitals and schools. The overwhelming majority of the population regularly attended mass. Large families of 8, 9, 12 children … were not at all rare,” Buscemi said.
However, from the early 1960s, Catholic education took a huge blow from the incoming Liberal government, which stripped the school system from the Church, completely secularizing the system, Buscemi explained. “Meanwhile, the media-fuelled zeitgeist was dictating that ‘Quebec was behind’ economically, due to its Catholic/Classical style of education. Quebecers were to meet ‘the needs of today’ by becoming more liberal and economically astute.”