Catholic Women's League

Mission Statement of The Catholic Women’s League of Canada

The Catholic Women’s League of Canada is a national organization rooted in gospel values calling its members to holiness through service to the people of God.

Objects of the League

The Objects of the League shall be to unite Catholic women of Canada

1. to achieve individual and collective spiritual development
2. to promote the teachings of the Catholic church
3. to exemplify the Christian ideal in home and family life
4. to protect the sanctity of human life
5. to enhance the role of women in church and society
6. to recognize the human dignity of all people everywhere
7. to uphold and defend Christian education and values to the modern world
8. to contribute to the understanding and growth of religious freedom, social justice, peace and harmony

Membership

Membership is established and maintained through payment of a $15.00 membership fee through a local parish council. It is the hope of the League that every Catholic woman in the Diocese of Charlottetown will choose to become a League member and come to enjoy the many benefits of the League

Organization

On Prince Edward Island The Catholic Women’s League of Canada is composed of 43 parish councils, and a provincial council which subsequently is a member of the national council which is affiliated with the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations (WUCWO).

Other provinces have diocesan councils, but there is no council at the diocesan level on PEI as geographically the Diocese of Charlottetown is comprised of the whole province.

Provincial Executive for P.E.I. (2010-2012)

President: Zita Cameron
Past President: Marion Marshall
President-elect & Organization chairperson: Barbara MacFarlane
1st vice-president & Christian Family Life Chairperson: Theresa Kenny
2nd. vice-president & corresponding secretary: Lorraine Savory
Recording secretary: Sue Power
Treasurer: Louise Doiron
Spiritual Adviser: Rev. Paul Batchilder
Spiritual Development Chairperson: Elizabeth Doyle
Community Life Chairperson: Valerie MacDonald
Education and Health Chairperson: Florence Flynn
Communications Chairperson: Mary MacLean
Resolutions & Legislation Chairperson: Eleanor Handrahan

Patroness

The patroness of the League is the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of “Our Lady of Good Counsel.”

Crest

The crest has a cross, symbolic of faith, ten maple leaves, symbolic of the provinces of Canada, with the words, “THE CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE OF CANADA FOR GOD AND CANADA”enclosed in an unbroken circle, symbolic of constant service to God and Canada. The colors are blue, for Our Lady, and the papal colors, gold and white.

Where are our Parish Councils located?

All Saints , Cardigan Corpus Christi, Glenwood Holy Redeemer, Charlottetown Immaculate Conception, Brae Immaculate Conception, Palmer Road Our Lady of the Assumption, Stratford Sacred Heart, Alberton St. Alexis, Rollo Bay St. Andrew;s Mount Stewart St. Ann’s, Hope River St. Ann’s, Emyvale St. Anthony’s, Bloomfield St. Augustine’s, Rustico St. Bonaventure, Tracadie Cross St. Brigid, Portage St. Columba, East Point St. Cuthbert’s, St. Teresa’s St. Dunstan’s Basilica, Charlottetown St. Felix, Tignish St. Francis of Assisi, Cornwall St. Georges, St. Georges St. James, Summerfield

St. Joachim’s, Vernon River St. John the Baptist, Miscouche St. Joseph’s, Kelly’s Cross St. Malachy’s, Kinkora St. Margaret’s, St Margarets St. Mark’s, Lot 7/ Burton St. Martin’s, Cumberland St. Mary’s/Holy Family, Kensington/Indian River St. Mary’s, Montague St. Mary’s, Souris St. Michael’s, Corran Ban St. Michael’s, Iona St. Patrick’s, Ft. Augustus St. Paul’s, Summerside St. Peter’s, St. Peter’s Bay St. Peter’s, Seven Mile Bay St. Pius X, Charlottetown St. Simon & St. Jude, Tignish St. Theresa/ St. Lawrence, Morell Stella Maris, North Rustico

Some of the information on this page was taken from the Constitution & Bylaws, 2006.

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