A preamble to the resolution involving quotes about the support for working against poverty and violence is appended to the end of this report. Too many demands of the March 2000 are contradictory to the objects of the Catholic Women's League of Canada, our faith and morality. That the Hamilton Diocesan Council of the Catholic Women's League of Canada in 80th Convention assembled demand that the National Council of the Catholic Women's League of Canada issue a public statement of withdrawal of its support and endorsement of the World March of Women 2000. They bear legitimate witness to the gravity of the physical and moral risks of recourse to violence, with all it's destruction and death. By virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
Sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of man and woman.
On marriage the physical intimacy of the spouses becomes a sign and pledge of spiritual communion. Marriage bonds between baptized persons are sanctified by the sacrament. The fecundity of conjugal love cannot be reduced solely to the procreation of children, but must extend to their moral education and spiritual formation. Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life.