Di Pasquale must go!
Dissident Catholic trustee Norm Di Pasquale must be defeated in the next school board election
Dear Friend,
If you're a Catholic ratepayer living within the geographic boundaries of Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) Ward 9, or if you are a non-Catholic who has Catholic friends in Ward 9, we need your help.
Norm Di Pasquale, who is the elected Trustee in that ward, has revealed himself to be gravely unfaithful to Catholic moral teaching on human sexuality.
In a shocking act of defiance against official Church teaching, Di Pasquale actually shut down recitation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church by a delegate who was reading from Section 2357 of the Catechism!
Di Pasquale even described the Catechism teaching as "DANGEROUS".
Di Pasquale's outburst led Joseph Martino, Chair of the Board, to also condemn the Catechism as "NOT PROPER".
Finally, Trustee Maria Rizzo capped off Di Pasquale's rejection of the Catechism by describing the Church Teaching as "NOT ACCEPTABLE".
Watch the shocking exchange on video from the November 11, 2020 board meeting by clicking HERE, or on the image below.
Can you believe this open rebellion against the Church by a CATHOLIC school trustee?
Even if someone disagrees with Catholic sexual teaching, they cannot deny that Di Pasquale has violated the religious Oath of Office that all Catholic Trustees must swear to Toronto's Archbishop.
Nor can they deny that Di Pasquale is unfit to serve as a Catholic Trustee.
The Oath of Office sworn by Di Pasquale states that he would "be faithful to the teachings of the Church". Read the Oath of Office he swore HERE.
Only one solution to this problem exists
If Cardinal Collins is reluctant to demand the resignation of this renegade, anti-Catholic Trustee, then faithful Catholics must vote Di Pasquale out at the next municipal election, which will be held in October 2022.
That's why we're sharing this video with you.
Please spread it far and wide to every Catholic parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt, etc. whom you know in Ward 9, and urge them to remember it when the 2022 school board election rolls around.
If you happen to be Catholic yourself, share the video with your pastor and parish community.
Di Pasquale confirms his opposition to Catholic teaching was not a mistake
If you're thinking that maybe Di Pasquale didn't know the presenter was reading from the Catechism, think again.
After the incident, the Trustee retweeted a tweet by someone named Juliana Ozorio that thanked him for "shutting down" the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
See Di Pasquale's retweet below.
Di Pasquale therefore agreed with the person's anti-Catholic assertion that "Quoting the catechism" is "a means of demonizing the LGBTQ+ community" and that this official repository of what the Catholic Church believes "has no place ... in publicly funded education".
Does Di Pasquale have any business whatsoever serving as a Trustee, whose job, in part, is to ensure the faithful transmission the teachings of the Catholic Church to Catholic students?
Please share this email broadly. If Cardinal Collins doesn't force him to step down, then we must remove Norm Di Pasquale in the October 2022 election.
If you're willing to help us with this unseating effort, perhaps by distributing literature in Ward 9, please email us HERE.
Sincerely,
Jeff Gunnarson
National President
P.S. Please be sure to pray for Di Pasquale's conversion, for the good of his own soul.
P.P.S. To view the boundaries of Di Pasquale's Ward 9 on a map, click here.