Pastor faces jail time for refusing to apologize to librarian who hosted drag queen story time

 Calgary pastor Derek Reimer was ordered to write an apology letter after protesting at the drag queen story hour but said to be sorry means you admit you're wrong.

 





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CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian pastor who received one year’s house arrest for protesting a “drag queen story hour” event marketed to children at a public library in 2023 might soon face jail time after refusing to apologize to a local librarian.

Pastor Derek Reimer of Calgary, Alberta, is currently serving a one-year house arrest, which he had previously appealed, as reported by LifeSiteNews. Last Wednesday, he was in court to go over his sentence conditions.

As reported by LifeSiteNews, in 2023, Reimer’s Mission 7 Ministries lawyer Andrew MacKenzie filed an appeal to a sentence of one year’s house arrest and two years’ probation handed to the pastor before Christmas for protesting a “drag queen story hour” event targeting kids at Calgary’s Saddletown Library in the spring of 2023. Government lawyers had been seeking to sentence Reimer to jail time for his protest against the LGBT agenda.

Reimer told LifeSiteNews at the time of his house arrest sentencing that his trust in the Lord was keeping him strong despite the conditions placed upon him. He also informed LifeSiteNews that he is only allowed to leave his house with the approval of his probation officer, but noted that when it comes to preaching, “God comes first.” Pastor: ‘I will not apologize based on a fabricated narrative’

Reimer has asked Shannon Slater, who was the library manager, why the library was hosting such an event. After Slater did not answer, she told Reimer to leave, and he did. However, Reimer had published his interaction with Slater on social media.

He was ordered to write an apology letter to Slater, which was due at the end of last week. Should he fail to submit the letter, he could be jailed.

As of press time, it is not known if he has submitted the letter; however, based on his comments last week, it is unlikely he will.

Reimer told local media that for one to be “sorry,” one has to “admit fault” that “you’re wrong.”

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-pastor-faces-jail-time-for-refusing-to-apologize-to-librarian-who-hosted-drag-queen-story-time/

“I accuse myself of the following sins…”

From Multiclassing Cleric @lukei4655 on Twitter:

“Folk, stop using passive language in the Confessional. You didn’t ‘fall into’ a sin. You chose it. ‘Struggling with’ something is not the same as choosing it. Only what you choose is a sin. Own the wrong and then cast it at the foot of the Cross.”

When people tell me they’re afraid of dying without absolution, my next question is, “Why weren’t you afraid of dying between the time you committed the sin, which is the reason why we need absolution in the first place, and getting absolution in sacramental confession?”

When we have begun to believe the lie that sin is only “something that happens to us” we can begin to also believe the lie that absolution is something that can happen to us without renouncing the sin we’ve confessed by a firm purpose of amendment borne out through steadfastly avoiding the near occasions of that sin in future.

Catholics Rally Against Illinois Gov. Pritzker Who Is Signing Assisted Suicide Bill Into Law on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

 

By Catholics for Catholics

“Pope Leo XIV’s message of hope, compassion, unity, and peace resonates with Illinoisans of all faiths and traditions,” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker wrote just a few weeks ago after meeting with the Chicago-born pope at the Vatican. Now Pritzker has selected December 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, to sign an assisted suicide bill into law.

Against the objections of disability rights groups and religious leaders, Governor Pritzker is signing SB 1950, or the “End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act,” into law. The bill legalizes assisted suicide and allows patients to self-administer life-ending medication with the review of two physicians and two witnesses. In the Senate, which voted 30-27 to pass the bill, every “yes” vote came from a Democrat and eight Democrats joined the remaining 19 Republicans to vote against the measure. 

More: https://cforc.com/2025/12/catholics-rally-against-illinois-gov-pritzker-who-is-signing-assisted-suicide-bill-into-law-today-feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe/

Indian Catholics end 414-day hunger strike after court restores rights to land stolen by Muslims

 

The state court temporarily restored land rights last month, dismissing the ownership claims of the Islamic Waqf Board 

Kerala state Law Minister P. Rajeeve and Revenue Minister K. Rajan offer lemon juice to protest leader Benny Joseph on Nov. 30 to formally end a relay hunger strike on its 414th day after a state court temporarily restored land rights that were stripped nearly five years ago after a Muslim charitable body laid claim to their coastal village. (Photo: supplied)

By UCA News reporter

Published: December 02, 2025 06:21 AM GMT

Predominantly Catholic protesters in southern India have ended a relay hunger strike on its 414th day after a state court temporarily restored land rights they say were stripped from them nearly five years ago after a Muslim charitable body laid claim to their coastal village.

More than 600 families in Munambam, a fishing village in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, have been protesting since 2023 against the Kerala State Waqf Board’s assertion that large portions of their land are waqf property — religious endowment land under Islamic law.

The villagers, including many Catholics and Hindus, say they legally purchased the plots between 1988 and 1993 and have lived there for decades.

Father Antony Xavier, parish priest of the Valankanny Matha Church located on the disputed land, said the strike was suspended on Nov. 30 following a Kerala High Court order directing authorities to resume accepting land tax from residents as an interim measure.

“We have called off our indefinite relay hunger strike in view of the High Court order that restored our revenue rights on a temporary basis,” Xavier told UCA News. “If there is any hurdle again, we will not hesitate to resume the protest.”

Kerala's Law Minister P. Rajeeve and Revenue Minister K. Rajan formally ended the fast by offering lemon juice to protest leaders, assuring them that the state government would support the villagers’ claim.

The dispute escalated after the Revenue Department, in January 2022, stopped accepting land tax payments, citing the Waqf Board’s claim.

The board claimed some 163 hectares (404 acres) of land in the village was waqf, property gifted for charity, which under Islamic Sharia law is a permanent dedication that cannot be further gifted, inherited, sold or otherwise alienated.

More: https://www.ucanews.com/news/indian-catholics-end-414-day-hunger-strike-after-court-restores-land-rights/111173

BREAKING: 100 prisoners released in Nigeria Catholic school kidnapping

“One hundred of the 265 students and staff members kidnapped on November 21, 2025, at St. Mary's School in Papiri, Nigeria, have been released after more than two weeks in the hands of their captors, reports @acs_italia. 165 remain prisoners.”

Source: @matteomatzuzzi on Twitter

Teen dies just 3 hours after being ‘sextorted’ as nefarious international groups like 764 target US kids: ‘It’s 100% murder’

By Chadwick Moore

Published Dec. 9, 2025, 6:00 a.m. 

The afternoon that 15-year-old Bryce Tate was sextorted started off as a perfectly normal Thursday.

The Cross Lanes, W. Va., sophomore came home from the gym on Nov. 6, scarfed down a plate of tacos prepared by his mom, then went outside to shoot hoops. At 4:37 p.m., he received a text message from a strange number.

Three hours later, Bryce was found in his dad’s man cave — dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.i

“They say it’s suicide, but in my book it is 100% murder,” Bryce’s father, Adam Tate, told The Post. “They’re godless demons, in my opinion. Just cowards, awful individuals, worse than criminals.”

According to his dad, Bryce was apparently the latest victim of a vicious sextortion scheme targeting teen boys — one that law enforcement says is surging.

A representative for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children told The Post the group tracked over 33,000 reports of child sextortion in 2024 alone — with nearly that number reported in the first six months of this year.

Online scammers scour public social media profiles to learn about a teen, then pose as a flirtatious peer.

“They acted like a local 17-year-old girl. They knew which gym he worked out at, they knew a couple of his best friends and name-dropped them. They knew he played basketball for Nitro High School,” Adam said. “They built his trust to where he believed that this was truly somebody in this area.”

The Post is told that the photos Bryce received were not AI-generated but most likely of a real girl who was another victim.

Scammers then ask for illicit photos in return and, once they have them, extort the victim for money by threatening to show the pics to family and friends.

More: https://x.com/marshablackburn/status/1998506793769529859?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Why Are So Many Young Priests Leaving Ministry?

 Priestly fraternity and lay support are of vital importance. How can we do better?

Experts who work with U.S. priests told the Register they have increasingly seen, in recent years, the issues of burnout and loneliness drive men away from their vocation. (photo: FotoDax / Shutterstock)

Jonah McKeown NationDecember 3, 2025

When Toby — not his real name — approached the altar during his ordination Mass roughly a decade ago, he was understandably nervous — perhaps much more so than the average ordinand. 

Despite growing up Catholic, loving his faith, and enjoying constant encouragement throughout his seminary experience, Toby had nevertheless been harboring serious doubts about whether he could truly say “Yes” to priesthood. But he says expectations from family, supporters and the seminary itself created a situation where he felt it impossible to step back from ordination.

Though he immediately felt deeply insecure in the priesthood, Toby, on the advice of an older priest, decided to take his best swing at parish ministry.

“By Christmas, I was on the edge of a nervous breakdown,” Toby recalled.

“I was trying to do something wholeheartedly and properly and conscientiously, and my heart wasn’t there. Especially, saying Mass became very painful. It was this experience of this chasm between what I was doing and where I was [mentally].” 

Toby requested laicization just months after his ordination day. He told the Register he had always harbored a strong attraction to marriage; he’s happily married today.

To be sure, Toby spent significantly less time ministering as a priest than most ordained men. But the phenomenon of men leaving the priesthood in short order — for reasons that have nothing to do with misconduct or scandal — are more common than you might think. 

More: https://www.ncregister.com/news/why-are-priests-leaving-ministry-burnout-isolation