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59 Bishops Contributed Financially to Maine Bishop's Effort to Oppose Maine Same-Sex "Marriage" Law
Remarkable. I do find it pretty nauseating that they talk about how much they've "suffered" for the cause of "doing battle with same-sex 'marriage' advocates." (Note the quotation marks around "marriage.") I have a hard time mustering up too much sympathy for that kind of "suffering."
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Malone said that he was grateful for his fellow Catholic bishops "prayer, encouragement, and financial support" and sharing the suffering that now comes with the territory of doing battle with same-sex "marriage" advocates.
Report: Homosexuality no factor in abusive priests - Yahoo! News
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But the authors said that their evidence to date found no data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse.
Stephen Colbert interviews Fr. Randall Balmer on the papal appeal to Anglicans, Oct. 27, 2009
News: Catholic Physicians Wary of Health-Care Reform: NCRegister
The National Catholic Register reports on opposition from the Catholic Medical Association to Democrat-led efforts in the Congress towards reforming health care. You can read the open letter here (PDF via Vuzit) http://j.mp/4lKPxc . CMA's objection goes beyond strictly "life"-related concerns (abortion and end-of-life issues) to oppose the concept of "subsidiarity" from Catholic social teaching to the idea of a nationwide health bureaucracy under government oversight.
"Caritas in veritate" - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI
An English version of the original. "Profit is useful if it serves as a means towards an end that provides a sense both of how to produce it and how to make good use of it. Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty."
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Profit is useful if it serves as a means towards an
end that provides a sense both of how to produce it and how to make good use of
it. Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means
and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and
creating poverty.
Irish Question Catholic Identity After Abuse Report : NPR
On the far-reaching reverberations of the latest clerical child-abuse revelations in Ireland.
Austrian Catholic Church holds meeting amid bishops' uproar
Pope Benedict's reinstatement of Bp. Williamson and his elevation of Bp. Wagner, both hardline conservatives who have espoused highly controversial positions, has unleashed a storm of controversy in Austria. From the article: "Austrian Catholicism is in turmoil because Pope Benedict, one week after readmitting arch-traditionalist Bishop Richard Williamson, named an auxiliary bishop in Linz who said Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was God punishing New Orleans for its sins. The two appointments, both apparently without consultation with local churches, sparked doubt about Benedict's leadership and concern the Church was turning increasingly conservative. Schoenborn said the uproar had caused 'irritation and resignation' and the Church needed 'damage control' for the sake of its future, according to the Catholic news agency Kathpress. Four times as many Catholics have officially quit the Church in Linz so far this year as in early 2008, the Austrian Press Agency APA reported, and departures have also been running higher than usual in Vienna, Salzburg, Tyrol and Lower Austria. On Tuesday, 31 of the 39 deans (senior priests) of the Linz diocese passed a declaration of no confidence in Wagner, who has condemned the Harry Potter books as satanic, said homosexuality was curable and ruled out lay participation in Church affairs."
BusinessWeek online, January 21, 1991, on Catechic, a Catholic trivia board game
Webcite link: http://www.webcitation.org/5cQuyWndV
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a religious board game that is backed by the Pope
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His Holiness has allowed his picture to grace its cover
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US Conference of Catholic Bishops: statement condemning workplace raids as immigration enforcement tactic (Sept. 10, 2008)
The head of the immigration subcommittee of the US Catholic Bishops conference criticizes the increasing use of large-scale armed workplace raids by the ICE as a tool for immigration enforcement. He doesn't say this explicitly, but due primarily to demographic and economic factors, Catholic churches have often borne the brunt of the massive humanitarian relief costs that arise in the wake of these raids, particularly in caring for abandoned children and other dependent family members (many of whom, not that it should matter, are actually U.S. citizens).
In 1964, a candidate emerges from the Catholic imagination | National Catholic Reporter
The National Catholic Reporter's piece on Timothy Pettegrew, a fictional character featured in the children's comic series Treasure Chest, published by the rather short-lived Catholic "Commission on American Citizenship."
Woman told not to talk about visions of Virgin Mary | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/14/2008
From the page: "A Pennsylvania woman whose purported messages from the Virgin Mary have been discredited by the Roman Catholic Church has canceled her scheduled appearances in Maryland at the urging of the archbishop of Baltimore. The Lynfield Event Complex near Frederick says a series of regularly scheduled monthly prayer meetings featuring Gianna Sullivan have been canceled."
Lyndsay Moss, "Pope: Millions are losing their religion and declaring God is dead," The Scotsman (Oct. 6, 2008)
Interesting how Benedict unproblematically draws this connection between religious belief and national identity.
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Add Sticky NoteMODERN culture is so devoid of faith that some people are declaring God "dead" and entire nations are losing their identity, Pope Benedict XVI warned yesterday.
The 81-year-old pontiff said that God was being pushed out of people's lives under the "harmful and destructive influence" of today's society- Interesting way to draw connections between theology and national identity. - on 2008-10-07
Catechism Edit 'Troubling,' Jewish Leaders Say - washingtonpost.com
This sentence will shortly be cut from the Roman Catholic catechism: "Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through Moses remains eternally valid for them."
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Pending Vatican approval, this sentence will be deleted from the text: "Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through Moses remains eternally valid for them."
- The key sentence, which is about to be cut. - on 2008-09-23
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