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  • [CATHOLIC CAUCUS] The Church is A Miracle

    05/23/2010 12:40:46 PM PDT · by GonzoII · 34 replies · 390+ views
    adw.org ^ | May 20 2010 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    May20 The Church is A MiracleBy: Msgr. Charles Pope If the Church were depending on human beings to exist and stay unified how long do think she would have lasted? Probably about twenty minutes, max! There are no governments or nations that have lasted 2000 years. Very little else in this world can claim such antiquity and even if it does can it claim to have remained essentially unchanged in its dogma or teaching? The Catholic Church is one, even after 2000 years. An unbroken line of Popes back to Peter and an unbroken line of succession for all...
  • Understanding Oppostion to the HHS Mandate (Part 1): Why the Church Won’t Pay for Contracept

    02/07/2012 2:11:19 PM PST · by NYer · 12 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | February 6, 2012 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    In discussing the Health and Human Services (HHS) Mandate that will attempt to force the Catholic Church to pay for contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization, I have discovered that many Catholics, while generally understanding why we object to paying for sterilization and abortifacients, are less than enthusiastic about our refusal to pay for contraceptives. This “lack of enthusiasm” for the Church’s position on Contraception, along with political irritation, makes many Catholics ambivalent or even hostile to the Bishop’s call that we oppose the HHS mandate.Why we won’t pay for contraceptives – While the fundamental issue is this matter is Religious Freedom...
  • Settlement reached in Evansville Diocese rape suit

    12/28/2013 2:32:06 PM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 2 replies
    Washington Times Herald ^ | December 27, 2013 | Nate Smith
    A settlement was reached in the 2010 case of a Hispanic woman against the Evansville Catholic Diocese and others. A confidential settlement agreement was reached in the case where Silvia Gameros alleged the diocese, employees and the Catholic Community of Washington asked her to cover up the rape of her developmentally disabled daughter in 2007. The agreement, filed earlier this month in Daviess Circuit Court, was signed between Gameros and the diocese was confidential and claims against the diocese, the Catholic Community of Washington and employees Sister Karen Durliat, Kande Batz and Jorge Gomez were dismissed. A default judgment was...
  • COMMENTARY: Bishop Michael Pfeifer: Immigration reform needed

    12/18/2013 11:25:24 AM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 25 replies
    The Monitor ^ | December 18, 2013 | Bishop Michael Pfeifer
    According to the Pew Hispanic Center, there are about 11.2 million unauthorized persons residing in the United States. Each year, approximately 300,000 more unauthorized immigrants enter the country. In large part, these immigrants feel compelled to enter by either the explicit or implicit promise of employment in the American agriculture, construction, service and other industries. Most of this unauthorized flow comes from Mexico, a nation struggling with severe poverty. Survival has thus become the primary impetus for unauthorized immigration flow into the United States. Today’s unauthorized immigrants are largely low-skilled workers who come to the United States for work to...
  • Iraqi Catholic Leader Asks West: 'If They Kill Us All, Will You Do Something Then?'

    12/16/2013 6:06:55 AM PST · by marshmallow · 24 replies
    The National Catholic Reporter ^ | 12/15/13 | John L. Allen Jr.
    Warning that a Middle East empty of Christians would be “just like the Taliban,” Iraq’s most senior Catholic leader pointedly called on the West to show greater concern for suffering Christians in the region. “We feel forgotten and isolated,” said Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church. “We sometimes wonder, if they kill us all, what would be the reaction of Christians in the West? Would they do something then?” Sako made clear he’s not asking for a mobilization “to protect Christians,” but rather Western efforts to support “harmonious societies for all human beings”, based on...
  • Catholic leader brands immigration policies 'inhumane'

    12/16/2013 5:51:15 AM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 11 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 16 Dec 2013 | Miranda Prynne
    The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales labelled the Government’s immigration policies which prevent families from living together in Britain “inhumane”. Vincent Nicholas, the archbishop of Westminster, said rules which prevent foreign spouses of UK citizens moving here would blight the lives of thousands of British children. He called on the Government to rethink the legislation which came into force in 2012 which prevents people from outside the European Union settling in the UK with their British husband or wife unless they can show an annual income of at least £18,600. Writing in the Guardian, Nichols said:...
  • Archbishop stresses need to educate on Church immigration teaching

    12/15/2013 9:46:38 AM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 21 replies
    CNA Daily News ^ | December 13th, 2013 | CNA Daily News
    Washington D.C., Dec 13, 2013 / 04:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Church’s welcoming stance on immigration is rooted in the person-centered recognition of human dignity, said one of the leading Hispanic bishops in the U.S. Church. “For us, as Catholics – following the example of Jesus in the Gospels – there is no way that we cannot be in favor of the immigrant,” said Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio. The Catholic position on immigration is a “humane position,” he told CNA in a November interview, “humane, and therefore very divine” The archbishop spoke at the annual fall meeting of...
  • Church teaching on immigration is a 'humane position'

    12/13/2013 11:57:32 AM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 10 replies
    (CNA/EWTN News ^ | Dec 13, 2013 | Adelaide Mena
    (In recent months, the U.S. bishops have been emphasizing the need to increase lawful means for immigrants to enter the country, in order to focus enforcement on those who pose a threat to public safety, including smugglers, human traffickers and terrorists.) The Catholic Church also has a moral responsibility speak up address nations such as Mexico others to the south. The Catholic Church answer is relocate people, without doing anything to press leaders of Latin American countries about making improvement to yheir countries so nobody will have to leave.All the church is doing without saying anything negative about other countries...
  • Time magazine names Pope Francis the Person of the Year

    12/11/2013 5:10:40 AM PST · by Biggirl · 33 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | December 11, 2013 | Lillian Cunningham
    The iconic red border of Time magazine will frame Pope Francis as its 2013 Person of the Year, the magazine announced Wednesday morning. By the judgement of Time’s editorial staff, the pope–elected earlier this year after a surprise resignation by predecessor Pope Benedict–was the most influential global newsmaker of the past 12 months. Earlier this week, Time narrowed the finalists down to ten, then five. Pope Francis ultimately won out over Edward Snowden, Syrian president Bashar Assad, Texas senator Ted Cruz and gay rights activist Edith Windsor.
  • Anne Arundel infant center of attention at Pope Francis audience

    12/02/2013 9:41:27 AM PST · by Welchie25 · 6 replies
    Catholic Review ^ | 12/2/13 | Paul McMullen
    Katie Scrivener worried that her infant son, Fulton, would cry when he encountered a very important man in Rome. She was the one who wound up weeping, albeit tears of joy. One of the enduring images that came out of the weekly general audience Pope Francis gave in St. Peter’s Square Nov. 20 has the pontiff trading gazes with Fulton Scrivener, who will celebrate his first birthday Dec. 19. In a photo that ran the next day on Page 1 of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, the Holy Father shows unabashed joy as he places his right hand on the...
  • Calif. Church, political leaders fast for immigration reform

    12/01/2013 3:26:30 PM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 25 replies
    catholicnewsagency.com ^ | Nov 30, 2013 | catholicnewsagency
    Los Angeles, Calif., Nov 30, 2013 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez and local political leaders have held a 24-hour fast to pray for immigration reform and to remember families who are separated from each other at Thanksgiving. “Today we are standing up for those who won't be sharing Thanksgiving dinner with their families and loved ones – those who are suffering because of our broken immigration system,” Archbishop Gomez said Nov. 25 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. He called for a “conversion of hearts” to fix U.S. immigration law. The...
  • Soros-Funded Catholic Group Denounces Rush Limbaugh's Disagreement with Pope

    11/29/2013 8:20:56 PM PST · by Impala64ssa · 92 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/29/13 | Dr. Susan Berry
    A spokesman for the liberal organization Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) has posted on the group’s website a denunciation of what he states were “incendiary remarks about Pope Francis” by conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday. Limbaugh said that Pope Francis was wrong in his apostolic exhortation released this week in which he appears to blame capitalism for the reason why people are poor in the world. CACG’s Christopher Jolly Hale wrote on Wednesday: Catholics of all political stripes are disturbed by Rush Limbaugh's incendiary comments this afternoon about Pope Francis. To call the Holy Father...
  • Pope backs male priesthood, urges 'feminine genius' in Church

    11/27/2013 6:13:19 AM PST · by NYer · 85 replies
    cna ^ | November 26, 2013
    Pope Francis lays flowers at the foot of the statue of Our Lady of Lujan on May 8, 2013. Credit: Stephen Driscoll/CNA. Vatican City, Nov 26, 2013 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis reaffirmed Catholic teaching on male priesthood in his first apostolic exhortation, while calling for a broader application of the “feminine genius” in Church life. “The reservation of the priesthood to males, as a sign of Christ the Spouse who gives himself in the Eucharist, is not a question open to discussion,” he said, “but it can prove especially divisive if sacramental power is too closely identified...
  • Border Bishops Call for Immigration Reform, Reuniting of Famileis

    11/26/2013 12:45:35 PM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 29 replies
    .woai.com ^ | November 26th 2013 | Kevin Haraldson
    The bishops of several dioceses in the southwestern US and Mexico today released a strongly worded open letter which stresses the need for immigration reform, and a program which will reunite families divided by illegal immigration, 1200 WOAI news reports. "We border bishops believe that what it happening to the immigrant family in the United States is an offense against God and human conscience," San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller said in releasing the pastoral letter, called 'Family Beyond Borders.' The letter says that not only is immigration reform the moral course of action, it says it is a 'misperception' that...
  • Love, Life and Liberty

    11/24/2013 6:15:38 AM PST · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 24, 2013 | Kathryn Lopez
    Mexico City -- Children giggle with hysterical joy as drops of holy water hit them. A handicapped man in pain groans, reaching for the hope that is so palpable here. A pregnant woman takes in a little of the peace of this place, even in the midst of all the noise. All along, I can't help but remember: "Like it or not, we must be good to the poor, because if we're not, we're going to hell." The quote comes from Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia. It's something to think about this Thanksgiving. I'm at the Mexican capital's...
  • Organ Music and Tradition at St. Gertrude the Great (Keeping the faith)

    11/15/2013 4:26:25 AM PST · by IbJensen · 12 replies
    Quidlibet: ^ | 11/12/2013 | Rev. Anthony Cekeda
    EVEN AT AGE 13 in 1964, the Vatican II liturgical changes that were just being introduced left me a bit uneasy, in particular, the near-immediate decline of good Catholic church music. I resolved to do something about it, so at age 14, with no keyboard training at all, I began to study organ and aspired to compose good liturgical music. To make a long story short, in a mere year or two my enthusiasm (it sure wasn’t my keyboard technique!) landed me a little scholarship at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. The head of the Conservatory was Michael P. Hammond...
  • Bishop Zubik says he won’t cooperate with government mandate

    11/12/2013 11:05:25 AM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 23 replies
    WPXI ^ | November 12, 2013
    PITTSBURGH — The Roman Catholic bishop of Pittsburgh said that he will refuse to sign a document allowing a third-party insurer to provide preventative reproductive services for employees of a diocese-related charity even if it means that the nonprofit will have to pay fines. According to Channel 11's news exchange partners at TribLIVE, Bishop David Zubik said Tuesday in federal court in Pittsburgh that he wouldn't be able to live with himself "knowing that we're contradicting what we believe." The Pittsburgh and Erie dioceses are challenging a new health care mandate that requires religious employers to either provide contraceptive and...
  • The Masonic Plan For The Destruction Of The Catholic Church

    11/10/2013 10:01:37 AM PST · by JosephJames · 106 replies
    Spiritual Food Blog ^ | November 10, 2013 | Rev. Joseph Dwight
    The Masonic Plan For The Destruction Of The Catholic Church A French priest who has renounced his membership of Freemasonry, announced this Masonic plan that he followed when he was part of the sect. As we have received this document so we publish it, asking our readers to offer on this point, a contribution of discernment and further documentation. Directives of the Grand Master of the Masons to the Catholic Bishops, effective since 1962. (Updating of Vatican II). All mason brethren will have to report on the progress of these crucial provisions. Revised in October 1993 as a progressive plan...
  • Terry McAuliffe's Anti-Catholic Campaign

    10/30/2013 4:50:32 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 19 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 30, 2013 | Brent Bozell
    There may be no more misleading newspaper sentence in the Virginia governor's race than this one from reporter Carol Morello in the Oct. 26 Washington Post: "The two major-party candidates running for governor in Virginia are both practicing Catholics." The Post did not ask McAuliffe where near his home in Fairfax County he attends church every Sunday and holy day of obligation, which is part of the definition of a "practicing Catholic." When radio show host Hugh Hewitt pressed him in 2007 about his church attendance after McAuliffe repeatedly cited his "Irish Catholic" bona fides in his autobiography "What a...
  • We Need a Few Good Men in Politics to Light the Way

    10/26/2013 9:29:25 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 12 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 26, 2013 | Kathryn Lopez
    "What matters?" It's a question Charles Krauthammer, psychiatrist-turned-Pulitzer-winning columnist, asks in the first sentence of his new book, a memoir-ish collection. The book is called "Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics." He explains how the working title for the book had originally been "There's More to Life than Politics" and was going to include just about everything but politics. Naturally, though, a man who "left a life in medicine for a life in journalism devoted mostly to politics" couldn't disengage. Thanks be to God. There is, of course, much more to life than politics. But...