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CNA Newsroom, Aug 11, 2022 / 06:58 am According to a new representative poll, 58% of German Catholics do not like "the fact that the Pope and the Church speak out against abortions." The Catholic weekly newspaper Die Tagespost commissioned the survey from the opinion research institute INSA Consulere, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner. "Among Lutheran respondents, the opinion picture is even clearer: 67% do not support the position of the pope and the church on the protection of life," the Tagespost reported on Aug. 8. The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is a grave evil and is...

America is a seething hotbed of “Islamophobia,” filled with ignorant racist rubes who irrationally fear the benign Muslim religion, according to the Obama administration’s lead investigator into the Benghazi atrocities. So said former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering in more polished, diplomatic language during an Oct. 23 panel discussion at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The talk was on “what role the faith community can play in fighting Islamophobia,” a make-believe mental illness that Islamists would love to have listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Radical Islam’s stateside defenders frequently accuse anti-terrorism hawks of “McCarthyism,” hurling...

In a rare move, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) correctly ruled that ministers and pastors do not risk losing their tax-exempt status for engaging in political acts on behalf of issues such as traditional-values advocacy according to yesterday's "The Washington Times." That is good news for those who believe in constitutionally-guaranteed religious rights in America. The IRS sent a letter to a group called the Niemoller Foundation which, like churches, is a 501(c)(3) organization according to the IRS code, saying that it did not violate its non-profit status by gathering together pastors for a series of public policy conferences. A...

I once read a poem about World War 2 that I can't remember the name of. It's pretty famous, so I'm sure there are some FReeps here who should know it and I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me where I could get a copy of it. The poem describes the lament of a man who stood back and watched as the Nazis came to power in Germany. He knew they were bad people when they started taking certain groups off to concentration camps. He, however, was not a target of the Gestapo just yet so he didn't do...

was there ever an editorial cartoon to go with the niemoller quote "when they came for the jews...but there was no left to speak for me" (I may have the words a bit off) a friend says they saw years ago an editorial cartoon with a stick figure dancer dancing next to each line of the quote. I have tried google, no luck. any ideas freepers? thanks

Most of us, in this PC age, are familiar with the following sentiments or some variant, supposedly written by prominent German Protestant theologian and pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) about the Nazis. First they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.Finally, they came for me and there was no one left to speak out. Two things...