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USCCB Loses Its Head
onepeterfive ^ | August 27, 2014 | PATRICK ARCHBOLD

Posted on 08/27/2014 2:08:59 PM PDT by NYer

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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Wow! The advisors to the committee is like a who’s who of scandalous bishops!

It includes Hubbard of Albany, Skylstad of Spokane, Skbla of Milwaukee, and Cardinal Keeler of Baltimore! Was Law, Teddy Kennedy’s buddy, too conservative or just too busy running the basilica-museum in Rome?


21 posted on 08/27/2014 2:59:37 PM PDT by dangus
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To: piusv

Not my implication at all. Responsibility lies with the bishops, but their fault often is simply preoccupation with other matters and a failure to rout out the problem. However, I just posted about how terrible the bishops on this committee are.


22 posted on 08/27/2014 3:01:54 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
I think you're right - while the conference is nominally one for US bishops, there's a staff that churns out leftist crap. The bishops are either inclined to agree, or are too cowardly to squelch this kind of political speech. Other, more conservative bishops do not feel it their duty to debunk or try to present a countering view.

So all you hear in public proclamations from the Catholic Church are these clowns, who continue to give Catholicism a bad name.

23 posted on 08/27/2014 3:15:48 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

It all comes directly from Vatican II.


24 posted on 08/27/2014 3:17:23 PM PDT by piusv
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To: dangus
A Muslim mother works at my baby’s daycare. She is absolutely loving towards my son. For the unsubtle, you can distinguish them from the radicals by the fact that she wears no face covering, drives for herself, talks to us fathers without shame, and respects the parents’ wishes. She is not ISIS. And anyone who lumps her in with ISIS without meeting her is dangerously ignorant.

Going to college, there's several younger Muslims who obviously aren't ISIS material. Some of them are decent people. But the fight isn't against individuals, the fight is against the 'religion'.

One of my best buddy's dad is from Iran, so he's technically a Muslim. His favorite food is bacon. He's less Muslim than I am Catholic.

The issue we have here is not the call for dialogue by the USCCB, but the lack of condemnation that liberal organization has for Islam as a whole. The Koran is not a happy-feel-good book.
25 posted on 08/27/2014 3:33:51 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: NYer

Who would have though you would see these kind of images after WW2? Just flat out murdering people for their religion or valuables. Sick mofo’s.


26 posted on 08/27/2014 3:45:10 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: NYer

We need to focus on the common ground between Christianity and Islam. Let’s see….

Islam does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

Islam does not believe that Jesus was born of a virgin mother.

Islam does not believe in the Holy Trinity

In Islam, Allah asks that his followers die for him, in Christianity, our God died for us.

In Islam, the surest way to paradise is to die in jihad, in Christianity; the surest way to heaven is to accept God’s grace.

In Islam, a woman “accused” of adultery is stoned to death, in Christianity; a woman who has “committed” adultery and asks for forgiveness is forgiven and asked to sin no more.

In Islam, Allah mandates that everyone worship him or die, in Christianity; God asks that we love Him and one another.

I just don’t understand why we don’t get along given how much we have in common.


27 posted on 08/27/2014 4:00:30 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Islam will kill anyone who will not convert from Christianity etc to Allah, so that should tell you they do not serve the same God as the Christians/Jews. Because there would be no conversion to Islam necessary if they did....case closed.

So who is Allah? Not the God of Love. I think we know them by their fruits of hate, murder, destruction, and their desire to destroy freedom....the two groups have nothing in common there.


28 posted on 08/27/2014 4:08:22 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: NYer
Does this help to address your question?

Very much so; thank you!

29 posted on 08/27/2014 4:09:10 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Svartalfiar
My child would not be in a daycare with Muslim caregivers. Never.

I don't care if they appear to be loving Sheherazades or not.

But that's just me.

Leni

30 posted on 08/27/2014 4:16:46 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: dangus
A Muslim mother works at my baby’s daycare. She is absolutely loving towards my son. For the unsubtle, you can distinguish them from the radicals by the fact that she wears no face covering, drives for herself, talks to us fathers without shame, and respects the parents’ wishes. She is not ISIS. And anyone who lumps her in with ISIS without meeting her is dangerously ignorant.

A moderate muzlim is a bad muzlim...Those of us who bother to look know that they are ALL taught to hate those who are not muzlim...They are taught to look forward to and contribute to killing or enslaving all who are not muzlims...That is not being a radical muzlim...That is being a muzlim...

You may want to read this:

31 posted on 08/27/2014 4:21:19 PM PDT by Iscool
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2) It is true that Muslims do kill other Muslims. ...

3) They all seem to unite when they are up against non-Muslims.

An old Arab proverb, "Me against my brothers, me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my brother and my cousins against the world."

32 posted on 08/27/2014 4:34:57 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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Note that the Pontifical Council in Rome has moved in a different direction than the USCCB. http://www.crisismagazine.com/2014/pontifical-council-slams-islamists Crisis Magazine Article
33 posted on 08/27/2014 5:02:27 PM PDT by MassRepublican
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My child would not be in a daycare with Muslim caregivers. Never.

Ditto.

34 posted on 08/27/2014 5:24:40 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: dangus

BTTT!


35 posted on 08/27/2014 6:54:05 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: NYer

The USCCB has been an appendage of the Democrat party since its creation in the ‘teens, as the National Catholic Warfare Conference. Its purpose was to support the draft—in defiance of Pope Benedict XV—and Wilson’s entry into the war. The dominant groups in the Catholic Church at the time were the Irish and the Germans, neither of whom was enthusiastic about getting into the war on the side of the British!

The abortionists got their greatest rhetorical gift from the NCCB’s president, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, with his “seamless garment,” the doctrine that pro-abortion politicians will govern with justice, wisdom, and compassion, and that pro-life politicians want to kill the poor and blow up the world.

The parking lot at the USCCB was festooned with KERRY bumper stickers in 2004. When a Catholic lady published photographs of all the pro-abortion bumper stickers at the bishops’ conference, the bishops took decisive action: They tightened security at the entrance of the parking lot.


36 posted on 08/27/2014 7:24:43 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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The USCCB is wrong on so many issues.

For example, they have consistantly come out in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants, as shown here and here, a position which goes directly against the Catholic teaching in the Catechism (2241) which insists that immigrants must obey the laws of the land they are emigating to.

They have regularly shown their support of Al Gore and his fellow demoncraps views on "global warming/climate change", as reflected here and here.

When asked about football player Michael Sam's coming out as an active homosexual, the former president of the USCCB (Cardinal Dolan) said "Bravo!", and "Good for him!", and Dolan also has come up shaky on his reactions to many other current moral issues. (See here and here and here for some examples.)

Someone on one of these discussions once recommended that the USCCB should be totally disbanded, and I agree with that goal, as well as the idea of faithful US Catholics ceasing all financial support of all USCCB monetary collections.

37 posted on 08/27/2014 10:16:43 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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Their first and BIGGEST mistake is the idea that one can dialogue with Muslims. Ain’t gonna happen, because Muslims have no desire to ‘dialogue’ with infidels, as they consider these Bishops.


38 posted on 09/01/2014 11:45:50 AM PDT by SuziQ
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