[GreyFriar]

I clicked on the Vatican link and got connected to: The Holy Shroud: One Big Bang and the body was gone.

[GreyFriar]

I clicked on the Vatican link and got connected to: The Holy Shroud: One Big Bang and the body was gone.

[IbJensen]

What an amazingly confusing garble of newspeak was uttered by the ‘pathetic’ spokesman for the current pope who heads the new religion established subsequent to Vatican II.

Obfuscation results from using utterly confusing phrases and terms to deliberately shroud what this new religion is really all about.

[from occupied ga]

Nor can the critical and essential intention of this fortnight, the protection and preservation of religious freedom, actually come to an end.

Well isn't that special. Religious freedom is essential and a necessary condition to being a free person; however, it is not a sufficient condition. We must also have economic freedom to enjoy the fruits of our labors. This is something that the Catholic Church preaches AGAINST in their pastoral letter Economic Justice for All.

This letter (quite long btw) has such gems in it as "70. Distributive justice requires that the allocation of income, wealth, and power in society be evaluated in light of its effects on persons whose basic material needs are unmet." and ""It is of the very essence of social justice to demand from each individual all that is necessary for the common good." and "74. Basic justice also calls for the establishment of a floor of material well-being on which all can stand. This is a duty of the whole of society and it creates particular obligations for those with greater resources. This duty calls into question extreme inequalities of income and consumption when so many lack basic necessities."

Since the thing runs to 90 pages I will let you read it yourself to see how contradictory the official position of the church is with tru economic freedom.

[count-your-change]

The link only goes to an article on the shroud. What?

[Natural Law]

“We live in a time that calls for sentinels and public witness. Every Christian in every era faces the same task. But you and I are responsible for this moment. Today. Now. We need to “speak out,” not only for religious liberty and the ideals of the nation we love, but for the sacredness of life and the dignity of the human person – in other words, for the truth of what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God."

"We need to be witnesses of that truth not only in word, but also in deed. In the end, we’re missionaries of Jesus Christ, or we’re nothing at all. And we can’t share with others what we don’t live faithfully and joyfully ourselves."

"When we leave this Mass today, we need to render unto Caesar those things that bear his image. But we need to render ourselves unto God — generously, zealously, holding nothing back. To the extent we let God transform us into his own image, we will – by the example of our lives – fulfill our duty as citizens of the United States, but much more importantly, as disciples of Jesus Christ.”

– Archbishop Charles Chaput, homily closing the Fortnight for Freedom, 4 July 2012.