Fr. Tom Lynch

A Culture of Life Student Conference with the theme Youth Supporting Life: Created, Called and Sent will gather students from all eight Halton district Catholic high schools as well as from other separate high schools across the Hamilton Diocese on Friday, February 12, in Hamilton. The main speaker is Father Tom Lynch, National Director, Priests for Life Canada, who will address the issues of abortion and euthanasia.

Halton Pro-Life will be presenting our booth at the conference, being held at the Nicholas Mancini Centre, Hamilton.

As an educational and motivational initiative for young people, the conference will be a youth-speaks-to-youth event. Previous high-school graduates will give testimonials on their involvement in student pro-life groups an interactive session will give the students a chance to discuss the issues.

 (For an example of how a pro-life conference inspired one university student pro-life activist, please see the talk given by Rachael de Souza at the Halton Pro-Life dinner).

 The conference will close with a mass at 2 p.m. celebrated by Bishop Gerard Bergie.

 Father Lynch is a popular and much sought-after speaker who has been interviewed and broadcast on radio and TV on abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research and other life topics.

The conference has been organized by a committee chaired by Teresa Hartnett, Program Director of the Diocesan Ministry of Family, and Religious Education, and composed of Joanne Matters, past Executive Director of Halton Pro-Life, and teaching staff from Halton and Hamilton separate schools: Mary Muller (a past president of Halton Pro-Life), Barry Mombourquette (current president of Hamilton Right to Life), Paul Beaudette, and Lorenzo Campanelli.