1. Katrina DID NOT hit New Orleans. NOLA flooded the next day due to levee breaks.
2. Katrina destroyed far more churches than bars.
The sort of thinking this guy is engaged in is straight out of the middle ages.
Posted on 02/12/2009 2:32:47 AM PST by malkee
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A newly appointed Austrian bishop once linked the 2005 Katrina disaster to what he called "the spiritual pollution" plaguing New Orleans.
"The amoral conditions in this town are indescribable," Bishop-designate Gerhard Wagner said in a parish newsletter in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina had devastated New Orleans.
"This is not just any city which has been drowned, but the people's dream town with the 'best brothels and the most beautiful whores,'" he said, according to excerpts from the newsletter which appeared on the Austrian Catholic Web site Kath.net.
The Vatican announced Jan. 31 that Pope Benedict had named the 54-year-old parish priest of Windischgarsten, Austria, to be auxiliary bishop of Linz, Austria.
"Hurricane Katrina didn't just destroy all the nightclubs and brothels in New Orleans ... it also destroyed all five abortion clinics" in a city of less than half a million residents, the bishop-designate said.
"Is the piling up of natural catastrophes merely a consequence of the environmental pollution carried out by people or is it rather the consequence of a spiritual environmental pollution?" he asked, adding that the question should be further discussed in the future.
The Austrian newspaper Osterrich reported Feb. 2 that the bishop-designate denied describing Hurricane Katrina or the 2004 Asian tsunami as a punishment from God.
But the newspaper quoted him as saying it was probably not a coincidence the tsunami took place at Christmastime, "when people from the rich world go to poor Thailand to enjoy the world."
The bishop-designate, who received a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, also told the newspaper he believes the Harry Potter book series is "satanic."
In an interview with Kath.net after his appointment, the bishop-designate was asked whether teachers of Islam in Austria's public schools should be watched by the secret services. He said, "Yes, if they call democracy into question."
"It's a significant question as to whether Islam can be seen in connection with democracy. Islam is truly a danger," he said.
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I am not sure if Katrina destroyed the brothels or abortion clinics but he is wrong about the storm destroying the nightclubs.
For now I just have to wonder what the people of Oklahoma did to deserve those tornados on Tuesday.
NOLA was statistically due for a hurricane. Hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes and earthquakes are part of the North American equation. Assigning spiritual graces to natural disasters is like shooting fish in a barrel...
Hey, Bishop:
“Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that kill innocent people are not some form of divine retribution against groups you personally don’t like. God is not your personal errand boy.”
No, if anything, God punished New Orleans for the ineptitude and ignorance of the federal government and levee boards.
The first was Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans the day before the Southern Decadence Parade was to be held.
This was followed up in rapid succession with an attempt to hold the Southern Decadence Parade (and activities) in the Spring following Katrina. That was met with the closing of the New Orleans Airport.
The airport was closed because it was severely damaged by a tornado.
The third natural disaster was Hurricane Gustav in 2008. The Southern Decadence Parade once again had to be cancelled -- though the parade was not scheduled as close to the Hurricane as Katrina -- if I remember.
Now if you believe in God as an all powerful, almighty deity that He is, then only happens on His watch...
On earth this bishop may take some flack, but he probably is okay in heaven...
Hurricane Katrina cancelled one.
Hurricane Gustav cancelled another.
A tornado destroyed the New Orleans airport at the time that Southern Decadence was re-scheduled after Katrina...
Facts only.
The flooding in New Orleans and the abortion clinic closings in Mississippi left only 1 1/2 abortion clinics in Louisiana/Mississippi besides the ones in Shreveport.
People had to go to Shreveport, Louisiana or Delta Women's Clinic in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (after Katrina).
Now Delta Women's Clinic was closed circa 2001 because it burned to the ground, so it took a couple of years to get that clinic re-opened.
The Delta Women's Clinic fire was an electrical fire...
A nun was telling me a story about Saint Katherine Drexel when she was alive.
Her order worked with negroes (blacks). They had opened a convent in Beaumont, Texas, when the Klu Klux Klan was threathening the nuns.
Saint Katherine Drexel prayed for help of heaven to protect them. At that time, the national headquarters of the Klu Klux Klan was struck by lightning and burned to the ground...
I consider that story to be an act of God, and not out of the Middle Ages...
Ha! What ever.
I agree with what he said and there is more horrific weather coming for the American south in general because of all the negativity and evil that has taken place there against Native Americans and Blacks. It takes 7 generations for karma to be returned and that time is about up. I hope Catholics and all religious people stick to their standards.
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