Marc Ouellet

Religious Group Dept: The church's primary goal, he said, was to help people unite with God, to form "a relationship" with the Creator, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The best answer is people affiliate with a particular religious group because it was the faith of their parents, or perhaps their spouse. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, for example, converted to Catholicism after attending church with his third wife, a Catholic, as "a supportive husband." Marc Ouellet, the Canadian cardinal who reportedly was a contender in the recent papal election, has said the church's positions on women, contraception, homosexuality and abortion are "secondary" considerations for the Catholic Church as it moves forward under Pope Francis. There's nothing unusual about the comment, except for one glaring omission. At a time when Catholics in the West are abandoning the church in droves and shopping for alternatives, the real question, still unasked and unanswered, is why anyone needs or even wants to be a Catholic, as opposed to a Lutheran, an Anglican or whatever, in order to live with God. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.