Canada has a good record for religious tolerance; however, there is always   
   room for improvement. New Year resolutions present the perfect opportunity to   
   re-align our values and practices so that the whole will be a better and more   
   enlightened community.    
      
   With this in mind, I would like to propose that Canadians try to be more   
   religious tolerant during 2015. Some may say, "Is this really necessary? After   
   all, Canada is such a great place already." The following are two incidents   
   from my life, which I'm    
   sure are not isolated in time or space.   
      
   I am a Roman Catholic and I lived in Quebec City for 11 years. During that   
   time I moved several times and so changed my parish several times.    
      
   For a while I attended a parish called The Oblates. One year I attended an   
   evening service on Holy Thursday. It was warm in the Church and the ushers had   
   opened the tops of long narrow windows, using long poles. Half way through the   
   service a gang of    
   youths climbed up into the trees adjacent to the Church and began yelling in   
   English through the open windows, "Hey, what are you Catholics doing in there?   
   Are you communication with the Holy Ghost? Are you having a séance?"   
      
   For a while I attended another parish called Montmartre. As the Priest started   
   to give his sermon, one very cold Sunday morning in January, a gang of youths   
   started yelling outside the Church in English, "Hey, what are you Catholics   
   doing in there? Why    
   are you listening to that Priest? Don't you know that all Priests are   
   homosexuals?"   
      
   Today these youths are grown men; however, opinions don't tend to change that   
   much from youth, so we can use New Year resolutions to help us stay on track!   
      
   JL 01-04-2015   
      
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