Posted on 07/30/2004 5:23:08 PM PDT by narses
As the Democratic Party nominated a Catholic for president for the first time since 1960, the Catholic priest who gave the final words at the convention alluded to the church's concern with the Democratic Party's support for abortion rights by calling on God to ''guide every citizen of our United States to cherish all life."
The Rev. John B. Ardis spoke at the close of the convention, around 11:15, to a packed FleetCenter crowd that just seconds earlier had been dancing and shouting to celebrate Kerry's nomination. As the priest talked, his arms outstretched and palms facing upward, the nominees, Senators John F. Kerry and John Edwards, bowed their heads and closed their eyes in prayer, balloons and confetti swirling about them.
In his benediction, Ardis, director of the Paulist Center of Boston, also referred directly to gay and lesbian rights, asking God to ''give us the courage to embrace each person as our neighbor, regardless of gender, race, or ethnic origin, regardless of sexual orientation, religious tradition, or age."
Kerry, a supporter of abortion rights, decided to avoid the question of whether Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley would agree to speak at the convention by not inviting the Boston archbishop.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Hypocrite Ping.
They're still working on the "regardless of political opinion" part I guess.
And the Bishops did what?
Actually, both statements are within the canon. I think it's great that he said, "support all life." Good for him.
One for the (Barf Alert) list!
Happy pinging,
lj
(my computer hasn't died quite yet; I GOTTA save everything to disks tonight or I'll kill myself with my own fist if everything gets lost.)
Of course, he may have been including hamster life for all I know.
"They're still working on the "regardless of political opinion" part I guess."
That part would be easy: "Render to the Caesar..." followed by a simple statement that on weekdays from 9 to 5 (with overtime for longer sessions, if required) the politicians are not, and cannot afford to be, believers - just to follow the precept.
Well, yes, I know. But they did fire a Demo delegate. Celebrate victories where they can be found. If I were the Ordinary, well, let's just say that wood prices might rise as the demand rose rapidly.
But what would all their recently-discovered Jewish relatives think?
- Homosexual Agenda PING -
Love them as neighbors - respect their right to live, yes.
Pray that they turn from their destructive lifestyle - yes.
Tolerate, condone, support, or make excuses for their sickness - Hell No.
The good Reverend was sly in his benediction. Most of the "lukewarmers" who like to trod the fence are. He includes 'sexual orientation' in with the list of "race, age, color", etc...as if to say that queerdom is akin to a genetic trait and cannot be changed or helped.
He is wrong.
I can't judge his heart, but I can judge his words, and based on his words, he will have to account for any he's led astray in order to satisfy a politically-correct agenda.
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"But what would all their recently-discovered Jewish relatives think?"
If observant, then probably they'd not think anything good. But then, the observant ones already do not think anything good of them. So it is a no-loss proposition.
He should've performed an exorcism.
Oh God.
1:1 Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To the called [ones], having been sanctified by God the Father and having been kept in Jesus Christ.
1:2 May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you*!
1:3 Beloved, making all diligence [or, while I was making every effort] to be writing to you* concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you* urging [you*] to be contending earnestly for the faith having been handed down once for all [time] to the holy ones [or, saints].
1:4 For certain people wormed their way in, the ones having been marked out long ago for this judgment, godless [ones], perverting the grace of our God into flagrant sexual immorality and denying our only Master, God, and Lord—Jesus Christ [or, the only Master God and our Lord Jesus Christ].
1:5 But I want to remind you*, _you*_ knowing this once for all, that the Lord having saved [or, delivered] a people out of [the] land of Egypt, afterward destroyed the ones not having believed.
1:6 And angels, the ones not having kept their own domain, _but_ having left their own habitation, He has kept under darkness in everlasting chains for [the] judgment of [the] great Day.
1:7 Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in a similar manner to these [angels], having indulged in sexual sin and having gone after different flesh [fig., having engaged in homosexual sex], are exhibited [as] an example of suffering [the] divine justice of eternal fire.
1:8 Likewise indeed even these dreaming ones defile [the] flesh and regard authority as nothing [or, reject authority], blaspheme glories [fig., angelic beings].
1:9 But Michael the archangel, when contending with the Devil, he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment, _but_ he said, “May [the] Lord rebuke you!”
1:10 But these indeed slander as many [things] as they do not know [or, understand], but as many [things] as they understand by natural instinct (like the irrational animals), by these they are destroyed [or, corrupted].
1:11 How horrible it will be to them! Because they traveled in [fig., followed] the way of Cain, and for pay they plunged into the deception of Balaam, and they perished in the rebellion of Korah.
1:12 These are hidden rocks in the sea [fig., hidden dangers] in your* love-feasts [fig., fellowship meals], feasting together without fear, shepherding [fig., caring only for] themselves, clouds without water, being carried along by winds, late autumn [i.e., harvest season] trees without fruit, twice having died, having been uprooted,
1:13 wild waves of [the] sea, splashing up their own shames like foam, wandering stars [fig., stars out of their orbits], for whom the thick gloom of the darkness [fig., the gloomy hell] has been reserved into [the] age [fig., forever].
1:14 Now Enoch, [in] the seventh [generation] from Adam, also prophesied about these [people], saying, “Look! [The] Lord came with countless thousands of His holy ones,
1:15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly ones among them concerning all their ungodly deeds which they committed in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh [words] which ungodly sinners spoke against Him.”
1:16 These are grumblers, complainers, going [fig., living] according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks swollen [fig., pompous] [words], admiring faces [fig., flattering people] for the sake of [gaining] an advantage.
1:17 But _you*_, beloved, remember the words, the ones having been spoken previously by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:18 that they were saying to you*, that in [the] last time there will be scoffers, going [fig., living] according to their own ungodly lusts.
1:19 These are the ones causing divisions, worldly, not having [the] Spirit.
1:20 But _you*_, beloved, building yourselves up in your* most holy faith, praying in [the] Holy Spirit,
1:21 keep yourselves in [the] love of God, waiting for [or, expecting] the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
1:22 And be having mercy on some, making a distinction [between persons],
1:23 but others be saving with fear, snatching [them] out of a fire, hating even the tunic [or, garment] having been polluted [or, defiled] by the flesh.
1:24 Now to the One being able to keep them from stumbling and to make [you*] stand in the presence of His glory unblemished [or, blameless], with great happiness,
1:25 To [the] only wise God our Savior, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and authority, both now and to all the ages [fig., forevermore]! So be it!
6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
This is apostacy the man should be defrocked.
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