Michael Del Grande is a Catholic school trustee in Toronto. He s been targeted by LGBTQ activists and their allies on the Catholic School Board in Toronto since November 7, 2019, when he proposed a motion opposing the addition of terms like family, marital status, gender expression, and gender identity as protected categories under the Catholic Board s code of conduct.
00:00:00.000Today, I'm going to give you a chance to meet and to help a Catholic hero.
00:00:04.840Michael Del Grande is a Catholic school trustee in Toronto.
00:00:08.560He's been targeted by LGBTQ activists and their allies on the Catholic school board in Toronto since November 7th, 2019,
00:00:16.960when he tabled a motion opposing the addition of terms like family and marital status, gender expression, gender identity,
00:00:24.360as protected categories under the Catholic school board's code of conduct.
00:00:28.160He wanted to protect the right of Catholic schools to forbid things like men dressed as women from teaching Catholic students.
00:00:35.320His motion suggested that trustees consider what would happen if they added other sexually aberrant categories of behavior,
00:00:42.520such as pedophilia or cannibalism, as protected categories.
00:00:46.800It was, of course, an attempt to illustrate that the Catholic board was on a slippery slope by adding gender terms to the code in contradiction of Catholic teaching.
00:00:56.060The motion sparked outrage, as well as the number of complaints against Del Grande for allegedly violating the trustee code of conduct.
00:01:05.180He was cleared at first by an independent review, but as the left always does, they try and try again with bullying in between to get their wish.
00:01:14.000And sure enough, one of the trustees switched their votes, and now Del Grande is lawyered up and fighting.
00:01:20.140Not so much for his rights as for Catholic students and parents who deserve to have a Catholic education.
00:02:09.820Not only a Catholic hero for the faith, but also for moms and dads of Catholic parents who send their children to Catholic schools for a Catholic education.
00:02:21.780Mike, if you could tell us a little bit about yourself, about your position right now, and we'll start there.
00:02:27.220Well, I'm retired, and I got elected to an official position to be on the board of trustees for the Catholic school board in the city of Toronto.
00:02:37.340My previous background had been as a chartered accountant, or as you would say in the States, a CPA in Canadian terms.
00:02:47.040I've got a Master's of Theological degree.
00:02:49.820I have a Bachelor of Education for teaching purposes, and I have a Bachelor of Commerce.
00:02:56.560And I worked for 20 years with a drug retailer in Canada, known as Shoppers Drug Mart, who used to own people's drugs in the States.
00:03:07.200I also became a City of Toronto councillor for 11 years, after I finished my professional work with Shoppers Drug Mart.
00:03:17.380And so I've had about 27 years of public service, elected public service, but prior to that, I was also involved in other local volunteer activities.
00:03:33.820And one thing to understand, I think everyone needs to understand about this, is that in Canada, the Catholic schools are actually publicly funded.
00:03:42.800So it's basically they're like public schools, but because of our agreements in our charter and so on, we have funding for Catholic schools that comes out of the public purse, as it were.
00:03:53.860So it's basically just like public schools, but they are Catholic ostensibly under the charge of the Bishop of the Diocese, but it's run by a trustees board.
00:04:04.280Explain that a little bit, if you will, and your position there.
00:04:07.440First of all, in Canada, not all the provinces fund Catholic schools.
00:04:13.720Some of them fund up to 50%, some fund 100%, and some fund absolutely zero.
00:04:20.560So as part of the Confederation of Canada, the Building of Canada, the Constitution allowed for education for French Catholics and English Protestants, basically, in order to form our perfect union,
00:04:38.900that there would be an understanding that schools would be recognized under our constitution, and that the issue of education would become a provincial jurisdiction.
00:04:55.080And we, at the time, didn't have all 10 provinces in 1867.
00:05:01.880So in some provinces, for example, in Quebec, French majority, their schools were basically background in French Catholic.
00:05:13.540In Ontario, the province that I am from, it basically was English Protestant.
00:05:20.300And so there was recognition that English Protestants in Quebec would be recognized,
00:05:26.060and French Catholics in Ontario would be recognized primarily.
00:05:30.980But the French part got dropped, and the English part got dropped.
00:05:35.140So it became Catholic and Protestant with respect to the two major provinces in Canada.
00:05:41.000And the governance of those schools were with ratepayers who elected officials to represent them on the schools in order to determine the budget for the school, the taxation.
00:05:55.760At one point, the taxation for Catholic schools was being taxed on your property tax.
00:06:01.840So you had to declare, if you were Catholic, your taxes were directed to the Catholic system.
00:06:06.280If you were public, by default, everything went to the public school system.
00:06:11.780And up until about 1985, that system was in place when the government came out and said that they were going to now fund per student.
00:06:21.720They were going to fund each student, depending on where they wanted to go, and to either a public school or a Catholic school.
00:06:30.060And people sometimes confuse the fact that because we're publicly funded that somehow we owe a specific allegiance to the government because we're publicly funded.
00:06:40.340But in 1847, when our first school was in place, the ratepayers paid directly to support the schools, I guess, in the same ways parochial schools, until such time as an act was passed in 1863 called the Scott Act.
00:06:57.700And it then recognized that the state would help to fund, to an extent, Catholic schools in Ontario.
00:07:05.760So that's where we find ourselves in with representation, I guess, of our Catholic schools.
00:07:12.740We have to follow curriculum set up by the province.
00:07:16.820We have to follow various rules and regulations.
00:07:19.480But we have constitutionally embedded a right of denominational rights to teach in our schools our faith.
00:07:28.680Right. So the school system in Ontario, at least most of the school boards, seem to have gotten out of the practice of Catholicism.
00:07:39.180One of the things that we've seen that's been very much of concern to Catholic parents who want the real faith is that the Catholic teachers union is pushing all sorts of anti-Catholic agendas, particularly the LGBT agenda.
00:07:57.700How does that figure for Catholic trustees such as yourself?
00:08:03.540And what have you seen of that debate?
00:08:05.080Well, first of all, we need to understand what constitutes a Catholic school.
00:08:10.520And a Supreme Court decision in Canada established that a Catholic school is only Catholic with respect to the teacher in the classroom.
00:08:19.100So that means whether I'm a trustee or the principal of the school or a superintendent, that does not define a Catholic school, nor does the name on the school define a Catholic school.
00:08:30.420The Catholic school is defined by the Catholic teacher in the classroom.
00:09:00.940They're there for their union members.
00:09:05.540I've never really heard them claim that they're there for the kids, although they say, well, we're doing this for the kids.
00:09:10.600We're going on strike because of the kids.
00:09:12.760But at the end of the day, they have their own concerns, which are basically their members, which is, in my opinion, somewhat different than my responsibility, which is the children directly and their parents basically indirectly.
00:09:29.600In the school board, as you've been representing Catholic parents and Catholic students, you have been attacked quite vehemently for your Catholic beliefs, trying to represent the Catholic faith.
00:10:19.500And there's a difference between Roman Catholic and faithful Catholic.
00:10:22.540So the situation here that I've been attacked on is that with the concept of the Catholic teacher being in the Catholic school, the board has taken on the position that the government, through its human rights branch, has mandated that certain protected rights be given to various groups.
00:10:49.360And they have indicated that we have to adopt gender identity, we have to adopt gender expression, we have to adopt marital status, and we have to adopt family status in our system.
00:11:07.240Now, the danger with that is that if you adopt that in what is called our code of conduct, I personally felt that that was an infringement upon our denominational rights.
00:11:21.260And I was concerned about the concept of that if the teacher is no longer Catholic, the classroom, the school can no longer be Catholic.
00:11:31.320If scandal is caused in our church, in our schools, which have the nomenclature of Catholic, then it's something that needs to be addressed.
00:11:41.580You can't just sweep that under the carpet.
00:11:58.740So if we adopt, for example, marital status, if there's a problem now that our teachers are no longer married, they're divorced, their conditions are such that it could be questioned whether they really are Catholic anymore, then that disrupts the apple cart with respect as the classroom Catholic.
00:12:22.220If two teachers of the same sex are married and pronounce that, you cannot discipline, you cannot dismiss those teachers, whereas before you could dismiss teachers that weren't Catholic.
00:12:42.500So if a principal of a school became a member of another religion, etc., then you can't say, well, how can that person now be a leader in the Catholic faith when they no longer believe in the Catholic faith?
00:12:58.080So it's just common sense logic to say you can no longer teach here because your viewpoint of the Catholic world, of the Catholic understanding, is no longer there, and you shouldn't be allowed to influence children with your own personal decisions that you've made.
00:13:15.800So I don't have to say about gender identity, which has been a big, big thing in the Catholic world, and the church is undergoing a turmoil in this as well, which lay people like myself look to the church for guidance as to what is proper and what is not proper.
00:13:34.620But we're affected by, but we're affected by, I think it was Pope Pius X with this issue of modernity.
00:13:40.460Part of the defense, if you will, of my colleagues on this issue is that it's a human right, and the times dictate that human rights supersede denominational rights, supersede Catholic rights.
00:13:57.020And that's a bit of an oxymoron to me because if you have a system that is supposed to be Catholic, how can you undermine that system with these other things that are creeping in?
00:14:09.540The ongoing battle right now is flying the pride flag, not just for the day or recognizing it for the day, but flying it for the month.
00:14:18.300And that opens up a whole kettle of issues, but again, the Catholic hierarchy, you have bishops that don't toe the line.
00:14:27.900I mean, they like when Pope Francis says, who am I to judge?
00:14:32.320So they jump on all that stuff, but then they don't want to deal with the fact that says you can't bless sin.
00:14:40.680And so we're getting to the situation that, for example, if we have these codes in our school board, if you have a same-sex couple that decides they want to send their child to a Catholic school,
00:14:54.940and the teacher should be talking about the sacrament of marriage, and the teacher says, you know, it's one man and one woman and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,
00:15:05.400then we could set, I believe, we can set ourselves up for a complaint to say, oh, you violated human rights because I don't subscribe to that,
00:15:14.740and you're teaching this to my child, and you shouldn't be teaching this to my child.
00:15:19.040Well, we're in a Catholic school environment.
00:15:21.820I mean, it just really, from my perspective, it upsets the whole table cart.
00:15:27.680It's a slow movement, if you will, to undermine the Catholic school system to become secular.
00:15:33.400I mean, what actual point is there to having a Catholic school system if you're not allowed to be Catholic anyway?
00:15:40.200Interesting point that you made about these different groupings.
00:15:45.180The Catholic faith is there for all, not just to pick on any particular sexual orientation.
00:15:51.920So it was interesting you mentioned, you know, people who are divorced.
00:15:55.260I mean, imagine a teacher who was married and had a few kids, and then, very public in the community,
00:16:02.220and then decides for whatever reason to leave his wife and abandon those children, marry another woman,
00:16:09.540and wants to have kids with her, and then decides, oh, by the way, I might as well marry two.
00:16:13.940So it enters into a multiple-person union, but very public about it.
00:16:18.940That's supposedly a Catholic and a Catholic teacher.
00:16:22.220The principal can't draw attention to that under these newly proposed ways of going forward,
00:16:28.680and discipline that teacher and say, wait a minute, you're not showing a Catholic example.
00:19:12.280And there were all kinds of philias that were in there that, I mean, are beyond the pale for Catholic whatever.
00:19:19.500But I said, look, let's not get into this thing every two, three years that we're going to add something and add something and add something.
00:19:25.460Tell me what it is that was going to be acceptable and what isn't going to be acceptable.
00:19:30.980And so I got taken to task because I was accused that I was comparing, for example, bestiality to the LGBT community, which I had not.
00:19:48.880I didn't say or point to any group or any person or whatever.
00:19:52.760I was saying in general terms, tell me how far we're going to go with changing who we are.
00:20:01.880And so the Cardinal of Toronto, Cardinal Collins, Thomas Collins, came out a few days later with a statement that they were not accepting the transgendered side of things.
00:20:21.400I actually came out with a statement, didn't mention me at all or the other trustees, but said we cannot.
00:20:30.080But we had been told in the debate that the archdiocese was okay with all this stuff, which I find out later through the, I don't know, news release or whatever from the archdiocese, that they were not okay with this particular thing.
00:20:45.560And then about three, four days later, not a peek from anyone, I believe someone ran to the CBC, which is the National Television Radio Network of the Canadian government, and did what I call the big lie.
00:21:05.920They associated my mentioning those feelings that I was talking about LGBT plus people, and I was making comparisons, and I was being hurtful, and I was this, and I was that.
00:21:19.460And then all the other news networks, rather than checking, they ran with what I would call the big lie.
00:21:27.560And so I was branded that I had done this when I had not done this.
00:21:32.940And so the repercussions were fast and furious, because I held a teacher's license.
00:21:41.300Some went so far as to remove my teacher's license to have me dismissed from the teaching profession.
00:21:49.000I had not taught, but I had the degree for it, and I'm going in the process of trying to defend myself with the teacher's college.
00:21:59.480But so they continued, and they continued, and then people in the government got involved, and politics being politics.
00:22:06.320It's almost comparable, not quite with the master cake issue that you guys had in the States, where a baker decides, I'll bake cakes, et cetera, but I'm just not going to bake a cake that give an impression that I'm supportive of this.
00:22:23.680But the complainants go after this guy to have his livelihood taken away, have his business license taken away, have his fundamental religious rights taken away.
00:22:40.880We look at that master cake issue as part of the overall issue when we don't have a situation like that in Canada.
00:22:50.600We look to Britain, and we look to the U.S. to look at precedents elsewhere if we don't have our own precedent.
00:22:58.280So mine is somewhat of a precedent from the point of view.
00:23:03.820The Education Act, which is what trustees fall under, have a section with respect to code of conduct.
00:23:11.800And every board is to adopt a code of conduct.
00:23:14.460Now, some boards adopt items in the code that go beyond the legislation, and there's a whole issue of can you do that, can you not do that, how far can you go.
00:23:26.380So, but given that there was a code of conduct complaint made against me, the board decided that I had violated the code, that I was to be censured, I could not participate as a chair or vice chair of any committee.
00:23:46.520I could not represent the board on any outside groups or committees, I was required to give an apology that I was wrong, and I had to go to re-education camp to learn about human rights and et cetera, et cetera.
00:24:05.420So the process in that legislation said that I could appeal that decision of the board, so I did.
00:24:17.720Ironically, this took place in the year 2020, November of 2020.
00:24:26.180The quote, the infraction occurred November 2019.
00:24:30.140In December of 2019, we had elections, we have elections every year for chair and vice chair of the board, et cetera.
00:24:37.920I was elected by my peers to head some committees, to be chairs of some committees, okay?
00:24:44.960They voted for me to be chairs of some committee.
00:24:47.800We have 12 trustees, and seven is the majority.
00:24:51.380So I got the majority to be on outside committees, et cetera, et cetera.
00:24:55.060And then this thing became more and more and more political.
00:24:59.840And on August the 20th, the board decided to make their vote as to whether I had violated the code of conduct.
00:25:11.200And our bylaws say that you need seven out of the 12 to pass that resolution.
00:25:21.860And so, therefore, the determination, as outlined by the legislation, was that, for lack of word, not guilty, okay?
00:25:33.180But in the meantime, between that and the 2019, there were all kinds of back and forth accusations between trustees and that I had done something to the student trustee.
00:25:45.700And it was like everything but the kitchen sink was thrown at me, that I was such a terrible, horrible guy, and look what he did, et cetera, and things were leaked.
00:25:56.800I couldn't speak because everything was private and confidential, but all kinds of stuff was leaking out, and I couldn't respond to it.
00:26:04.320So on August the 20th, when the determination was made, the political people at the Ontario government decided to get involved as well, too.
00:26:14.340And we had the former Premier of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne.
00:26:19.140Who, by the way, is a lesbian herself and one of the most anti-Catholic ministers we've ever had.
00:26:33.640The Minister of Education got involved as well, too.
00:26:37.520And the board, through some of the trustees that were incensed that I wasn't found guilty, they have a provision to review the decision, et cetera.
00:26:51.080And one of the people that wasn't on side with them, got on side with them, they got their seven votes and bang.
00:27:03.160And so, you know, I had to hire a lawyer, et cetera, a very expensive lawyer, because the provision said that I could appeal it, which I did.
00:27:12.380And then I could have a judicial review.
00:27:24.360But the process is, like, worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars to fight, because what's occurred in my situation right now is that the board is defending their position.
00:27:41.600And I guess, opposing my judicial review.
00:27:53.400So I have the might of the school board with deep pockets and the government with deep pockets fighting a simple trustee, OK, saying, look, I don't think this decision or how I've been treated is fair.
00:28:08.180Because if you continually can open up something, so a determination was made, you didn't get the result that you wanted, so you try again.
00:28:20.500How many times can you be tried for running a red light or, you know, any kind of legal infraction?
00:28:27.740So I thought, you know, that's rather unfair.
00:28:31.100You can't keep going until you get the decision that you want by pressuring the trustees to change their opinion to find me finally guilty.
00:28:38.340And we had an ombudsman who basically indicated to other people that were unhappy with code of conduct violations against trustees saying, hey, the only way that this can be undone is to have a judicial review.
00:28:53.520They didn't say that the decision can be reviewed over and over and over again.
00:28:59.500So it's like double and triple and quadruple jeopardy until you get the decision that you want.
00:29:04.880And that, I think, no matter where you go, this is a quasi-judicial application that occurred at the school board, okay?
00:29:15.580It's still enshrined in the Education Act as to the process.
00:29:21.800And so that process is quasi-judicial.
00:29:24.740It puts upon the board to make a decision based upon legislation.
00:29:29.860So they act in a position of authority to do that.
00:29:34.540So my point is, look, I haven't been treated fairly, my belief.
00:29:40.300Secondly, I was found not to be in violation because the number of seven was not reached.
00:29:47.320And, you know, let me get on with my life.
00:29:49.720And they came back and said, no, we're going to come at you again.
00:29:56.240I said, well, how many times can you come after me?
00:29:58.400Well, we can come after you again and again, five times, six times, seven.
00:30:02.660Well, even if you wanted to appoint a lawyer, you want to get appointed a lawyer six, seven times, et cetera, to keep battling and fighting.
00:30:11.740That's just not fair in any kind of legal or fairness jurisdiction.
00:30:19.000Now, Mike, we are going to launch a Life Thunder campaign to help you to get Catholics to support what really is just a Catholic trustee trying to do his job that he was elected for to represent parents on the Board of Education so that their children could have a Catholic education.
00:30:39.160But what's stunning to me in all this, you mentioned the deep pockets of the board and of the government that are funding the case against you, basically.
00:30:48.600What have you heard in terms of support of your position from the place you think it would come from most, the Catholic bishop, the Catholic diocese?
00:30:59.840It's kind of an oddity because maybe your viewers are not aware of this, but you have to look at the composition of the board and you have to say to yourself, why did this happen?
00:31:12.160Okay, so we can call ourselves Catholics, but we have different views of what Catholicity means.
00:31:18.940There are Catholics that believe in abortion, that it's okay, your president being one of those people.
00:31:26.620You have people that believe in all kinds of rights, all kinds of recognitions for things that are not compatible with the Catholic faith.
00:31:36.640I say that because there have been instances at our board where, one instance, someone came and quoted from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
00:32:59.980And when they found out where he worked, they contacted his employer, which was a university in Ontario.
00:33:09.040And the university, my understanding was that he was, he cannot teach.
00:33:15.260He was teaching a program having nothing to do with religion, nothing to do with anything.
00:33:21.320He was teaching about the insurance industry from which he comes from.
00:33:25.720And the university, I understand, said that he was not with keeping with their values.
00:33:33.080Okay, and this is a big problem for all of us everywhere, because corporations are now defining what their values are.
00:33:40.480And if you don't fit into their values, you can't work for them, which is like, you know, freedom of religion is out.
00:33:47.740So, they got him dismissed from that position.
00:33:52.860And the cardinal then, once again, through the Catholic registrar, which is the newspaper of the archdiocese, again, indicated to the trustees that the parent had every right to speak and talk about the Bible and the catechism.
00:34:12.080And that his reference to about little children, etc., taking a millstone, putting it around your head and, you know, drowning yourself, the opponents of this gentleman were trying to claim that he was trying to incite murder and violence against the people that supported the gay pride flag.
00:34:34.280So, again, you know, the thing is stretched out to make black into white and white into black.
00:34:40.900I mean, it's just a total, you know, whatever.
00:34:43.320But the cardinal never came out to defend me in a key position of the workings of the Catholic school system to say, trustee Delgrande had every right to defend and maybe I'm not happy with what he chose to defend or the examples that he gave, but he certainly has every right.
00:35:08.560And so, John Henry, I find it rather ludicrous that I'm there, I got invited to the archdiocese before this debate on November the 7th.
00:35:20.440The archdiocese wasn't happy with what was going on.
00:35:47.420But then they feature in the Catholic register some of the people that came after me, and I don't want to get into it too much, but they're there, you know, featured articles about them.
00:36:06.840And I'm scratching my head, and I'm going, and like, I'm not even one of the lost sheep of the 99.
00:36:14.360I've been a faithful servant, John Henry.
00:36:19.600I'm so disappointed because I am systemic.
00:36:26.260And my systemic bias is towards the faithfulness of my faith to the Catholic Church, okay?
00:36:32.580And I just find, in this world today, that instead of being one holy Catholic and apostolic, in order to be one, the gospel and the values and the magisterium have to be taught in Samoa, as they have to be in Brazil, as they have to be in Africa, as they have to be in North America and the West.
00:36:52.140You don't deviate, you don't have the luxury of deviating, otherwise you're not one.
00:36:58.080And part of the problem, I believe, with our Catholicity, if you will, is many of our people don't get good catechism.
00:37:06.160They don't, they're in name only Catholics.
00:37:23.140You have bishops in the United States.
00:37:26.220I just got one recently promoted to the Vatican who is not on side with respect to abortion, not on side with respect to sexual activities, et cetera, et cetera.
00:37:37.880And this is a bishop being promoted to this.
00:37:42.260So what are lay people supposed to do and think?
00:37:46.460And so I've also studied church history, and I know that the church history has not been perfect from the point of view of people, point of view of popes, point of view of anti-popes, point of view that St. Catherine of Siena had to grab the pope from France and bring him back to Rome.
00:38:05.720The seat of Catholicism, that various saints with heresies, et cetera, had to bring the church back, the areas heresies, et cetera.
00:38:19.720What lay people have had to do in order to bring the church back.
00:38:24.060And we're in a time, as I say, much confusion, much difficulty.
00:38:27.540And, you know, good Catholics are scratching their heads because one parish preaches one thing and another parish preaches another thing.
00:40:44.760However, when the government of Ontario pushed to have these gay and lesbian clubs in Catholic schools, originally said, oh, don't worry, I'm going to deal with this.
00:42:16.600When the successors of the apostles, the bishops, Cardinal Collins, puts the faithful into these dangerous situations where it endangers their faith,
00:42:32.360he's doing so exactly what our Lord warned against.
00:42:36.480I don't want to, I use the words of Pope Francis, I don't want to judge the Cardinal.
00:43:50.400And I have to, you know, when I get judged because I believe in the resurrection and the life hereafter, and I'm sounding like people would say, oh, you know, he's a wingnut.
00:44:01.520He's one of these radical, you know, right-wingers and stuff.
00:44:28.140I can't blame this group or that group, etc.
00:44:30.860But in my conscience, if I know the difference between what I believe is right and wrong, I, as a Catholic school trustee, cannot, because of convenience, say, well, I don't want to talk about that or I don't want to defend that because it's going to get me into trouble.
00:45:45.480I, again, have contributed financially to LifeSite, to Campaign Life here in Canada, because they're doing the work that I would like to do, but they're better organized.
00:46:00.120And so I give what I can to support those groups, your group.
00:46:09.040I forgot to mention right off the bat.
00:46:11.120I want to thank you and John Jesuwek up here in Canada for the work that you guys do with respect to LifeSite.
00:46:17.180And, you know, again, conservatives generally, even here in Canada, you can't say anything that goes against Google or Facebook or what have you.
00:46:30.020They censor you extremely bad, which, again, most people should worry about because we criticized the people of Germany in 1933.
00:46:39.380And we think we're going to learn the lessons from history, that we're not going to repeat some of those things.
00:46:46.260And there's some really dangerous parallels that are going here when you shut down free speech, when you guys in the States, you want to take people's arms, because that's what the Germany 1933 did, is remove people to have their arms, to change the judges, change what was being taught in the schools, etc.
00:47:08.460And people say, oh, you know, that could never happen in 2021.
00:47:14.660Surely and slowly, you don't cook the frog in the beaker by putting it in boiling water.
00:47:22.420You boil the water slowly, slowly and slowly and incrementally and incrementally.
00:47:29.700Next thing you know, you've repeated history.
00:47:35.160Mike, I want to let you know that we will support you.
00:47:37.740We will try and help you with this case of yours.
00:47:41.360Let me tell all of you viewers out there, if you really want to do something to assist a good man fighting the good fight for you, for the faith,
00:47:51.100please consider donating to the Life Funder campaign for Mike Delgrande,
00:47:55.680who is standing up for the Catholic faith inside the schools in Ontario, inside the schools in Toronto, and really up against a juggernaut.
00:48:08.860What I really truly believe is a precedent-setting kind of a case where he's not being supported by the Archdiocese, but he will be by faithful Catholics.
00:48:21.560Mike, God bless you for all of your good and hard work and for standing up for the faith under these terrible circumstances.
00:48:30.820I pray for you guys as well, too, for the courage, because it's people like yourself, like the organization that gives people like myself the hope that we're not fighting alone, that we have to band together.
00:48:43.780We tend to separate our various organizations, but all of us that are in the same philosophy, if you will, that we see a danger to our church, a danger to our teachings, a danger to our faith.
00:49:02.420It's not enough just to be sitting comfortably in the pews of our churches and forgetting about everything else that's going all around us.
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