Posted on 10/20/2004 12:25:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
George Neumayr Ping
WOW! Excellent article. Nailed it. Thank you, my friend.
Actually he will find that many "mainline Protestants" are like President Bush and reject their national church heirarchy on issues like abortion and same sex marriage. Since they do not hear their ministers speak of these things, they may not know where their church "stands" on the issues. Who knows which national heirarchy dictates to their church? Who knows how long their church will remain affiliated before breaking from the antiChristian hierarchy that perverts religious tradition by celebrating the cities of Sodom and Gomorah and calling abortion a "God given right".
Catholics are all clear on what the Pope/Catholic Church's stance is.
Harder for Catholic priests and bishops to defend voting for Kerry if he is excommunicated.
Rumors are swirling and reportedly the Vatican won't deny them out right.
Don't expect to hear anything directly from Karol Wojtyla. His scarlet lackeys will do the 'it ain't so' dance to cover themselves with the socialist marxist membership and unholy priestly orders of the New Church. His much publicized denunciation of seminary enrollment controlled by the 'third sex' hasn't changed a thing either. Why? Because heretical bishops are still running the seminaries.
So much the better for the faithful who have turned to the SSPX for spiritual guidance. Holy priests are in demand to meet the growth of those faithful who refuse to deny the Sacred Dogma and Traditions of The One True Faith.
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.
Saint Pius X, pray for us.
Saint Padre Pio pray for us.
I think by "mainline Protestants" here, he is using a shorthand for the WCC and those churches whose spokespersons support it, not those many members and individual churches who want out.
In one of his books, Chesterton has a chapter on the times in Church history that the episcopate has been utterly corrupt and renewal surged up from the laity. This would seem to fit that pattern.
There has been a bit of a kerfuffle lately on whether Kerry has been excommunicated. For those who are not au courant, last spring a CA canon lawyer, Marc Balestrieri, filed a Complaint for Heresy against Kerry with the Boston Tribunal. I gather that for a layman to file such a thing was almost unheard of. Should the Boston Tribunal reject it, there remains the option of appealing to Rome.
The Boston Tribunal has taken no action, but has put the Complaint in the hands of the Archbishop. Balestrieri (possibly to keep the pot boiling) went to Rome in an attempt to get an answer to the question of whether politicians who vote for abortion should be excommunicated. He did get a response from a Vatican Congregation to the effect that they have excommunicated themselves. Kerry's name was never mentioned in this exchange, and there are those in Rome who are denying the whole thing.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Boston Archdiocese has said that it has "thousands upon thousands" of such Complaints to go through. This sounded highly unlikely to me, but on Balestrieri's website, De Fide, I thought I saw a message to his supporters a few days ago not to do anything else except on his instruction. I can't find it there today, but there are instructions for joining the suit: Join the Class-Action Lawsuit. Connection with the "thousands upon thousands"?
Balestrieri has been fired from his post as a canon lawyer with the Los Angeles (Mahony) archdiocese.
Excellent article. And it gives me yet another reason to vote for Bush.
John Allen is an apostate and a Marxist.
What he doesn't know about the Holy See would strain the capacity of the Library of Congress.
More proof that the road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.
"Catholics are all clear on what the Pope/Catholic Church's stance is."
I know what the 2000 years of Church teachings say, but the Holy Father...hasn't exactly been busting heads to get these heretics off our backs, has he?
I hope he's doing the right thing.
Sign of the times! Nothing new under the sun.
Even the suspect internals of the latest ABC poll show that Catholics are voting Bush 50/47. I say suspect because most other polls show anywhere from a 13 to 19 point spread.
In May Pew said 46/43 Kerry. In Sept it was 49/39 Bush.
In Oct is it 49/33 Bush.
There is no "Faith and Morals" issue here. The bishops can express their opinions and their's are as valid as ours.
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This makes me so sad, but increasingly, anger and disgust are winning out.
Ping!
Disgusting.
Note that Allen said the 60-40 split involved all officials, including the curia bureaucrats. He added that if the vote were just among the bishops and Cardinals, the vote would probably flip 60-40 the other way for Bush.
I give Balestrieri an A+ for strategery. A media campaign is the only way to move this forward.
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