Posted on 10/11/2004 10:33:39 AM PDT by conservonator
Recently I have noticed a disturbing trend in my Archdiocese newspaper The Witness regarding the amount of thinly veiled pro-Kerry editorial, "news" and letters to the editors published in the last few issues. Some of the most troubling pieces were written as letters to the editors form "priests". Most of the material begins with the recognition that the Church is pro-life (duh) but then what typically follows is a lengthy rationalization for weighing other social justice issues like: the war, death penalty, living wage, etc. on an equal or, by preponderance of sheer volume, superior weight in deterring one’s vote.
Is anyone else seeing the same thing in their diocesan newspaper?
I’ve been pondering how to react to this. On the one hand I want to call them and ask them to cancel my subscription and take the $ my parish sends on my behalf (each family is subscribed upon joining the parish) and sending that $ to Priests for Life or EWTN with an explanation as to reasoning behind my request. Or should I bombard them with letters outlining the true teaching of Christ and His Church on these issues in hopes that one might get published so other likeminded people will speak up. I’m torn.
I appreciate your thoughts.
Overall I would have to give central PA an overall B+.
Sorry about that. The nitpicker in me couldn't resist.
Someone at church talked to me and told be they had canceled their subscription to the Sentinel because it had too many secularistic articles.
She said if she wanted secularism she vould go to the USAToday/Gannett paper in our town.
She insisted that the Catholic newspapers should not be full of this crap.
I don't take it and only access it on the internet. Any other thoughts about your Diocesan newspapers??
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None that I can print...I guess I should not have been surprised at the dropping of the mask at the newspaper. For the most part it has been composed mainly of CNS articles that primarily dealt with social justice issues and touchy feely columns about personal spirituality. For the record I am in no way denigrating the role of social justice in our Christian life or those, my self included, who seek to deepen their personal spirituality, I just don't think real social justice or real personal spirituality are attainable with out a firm grounding in the teachings of the Church.
Thanks!
That'll get their attention.
Most theologians do not regard abortion as a decisive election issue
Thank God I have a pastor who DOES!!!!
Major issues
In our post-9/11 era, many political analysts have opined that this is the most important presidential election since 1932, which was conducted in the depths of the Great Depression.
Forty-five million Americans lack health insurance and 35 million live below the poverty level (up over a million just this past year)...Social Security reform is a necessity if it is to meet its promises...30,000 children die every day as a result of hunger, international debt and lack of development throughout the world...many people resort to violence to solve our most difficult challenges -- abortion to deal with problem pregnancies, the death penalty to combat crimes, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide to deal with the burdens of age, illness and disability, and war to address international disputes.
Given all of that, we must weigh carefully how our participation in the public policy debate and our vote can contribute to greater respect for human life and dignity, religious tolerance and democracy, economic justice, and care for God's creation.
FULL TEXT
As 'Sidewalk' already posted, this issue directs our attention to a member of the Secular Franciscan Order, who "will fast at least one day during the holy month of Ramadan in the Islamic lunar calendar."
FULL TEXT
This should give you a 'sense' of what is preached each week in the diocesan newspaper, here in Albany NY. It usually goes directly from the mailbox to the recycling bin, much like the Sunday edition of the Times Union - two liberal rags.
There is no infallible teaching on the death penalty. What's more, JPII's recent statements on the matter are contrary to hundreds of years of Church acceptance of the death penalty.
Ultimately, the use of the use of the death penalty, as the decision to go to war, is left up to "competent civil authorities." That is as it should be.
I figured that. What bothered me is the archbishops and the pope expressing their personal opinion without making it clear it is only a personal opinion. And Catholics who disagree should tell them to shut up and not use their office to muddle up our elections with their personal opinions.
I have heard arguments to support Kerry on his heretical abortion position, by his apologists saying "Well what about the Catholics in favor of the death penalty. should they be excommunicated?"
No! because the death penalty has not been ruled to be immoral as a matter of Church dogma. - yet. But abortion has been found to be immoral by the Church. - Tom
Our diocese sends however many we order and we don't actually pay for them and we throw most of them away. I got them to cut our subscription in half using an environmental argument but we need half of the half. I can't stand to read it, it should be uplifting but it's not.
A while back they started a Catechetical section and one of the first lessons was that Mary didn't need to be so prominent in our worship. A very faithful Catholic rebutted the article and the bishop took the politically expedient course as usual.
Our bishop came to our parish for Pro-life Sunday and hardly anyone showed up at the Mass. We all know he's a Dimocrat and justifies his positions so an anti-abortion Mass, followed by an anti-abortion seminar, followed by a seminar to abolish the death penalty was not something anyone wanted to do on God's day.
As my priest says, liberalism is a mental illness and it is obviously true just look at the media and the liberal Catholics, they don't even see the hypocrisy that they seem to stand for.
It won't make a difference if you ask them to cancel your subscription. You could write a few op-eds of your own or you could do what I do, ignore it and when the piles of last month's copy remain and the new copy is in, I toss them in the trash.
Good one.
**Just threaten to withhold your money.**
Or cancel your subscription.
>>The Vatican has now "endorsed" the action in Iraq....kinda kicks the legs out from underneath some liberal priests.... <<
(Still in a fight with my liberal SIL) Could you please give me a reference for this?
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