Another attempt to destroy our society by breaking down our beliefs and standards.
Next you’ll tell me the Christian Science Monitor isn’t Christian. /snark
Nice start, but does the Press Office of the Holy See speak for the church?
Seems I recall some apologists attempting to make the claim that it does not, regarding a statement in support of recent gun restriction and control efforts by the Obama administration.
So, does the Press Office of the Holy See speak for the church, or not? If not, should it too cease being called Catholic?
Bishop Finn reminds his readers that in 1968 his predecessor, Bishop Charles Helmsing, directed the editors of the Reporter to remove the word “Catholic” from the title of their publication. The newspaper’s editors refused. Bishop Finn says: “From my perspective, NCR’s positions against authentic Church teaching and leadership have not changed trajectory in the intervening decades.”
The bishop discloses that soon after arriving in Kansas City, he sought to engage the Reporter editors in a discussion of their fidelity to the Catholic Church, but was rebuffed. “At other times, correspondence has seemed to reach a dead end,” he adds.
Bishop Finn concludes that “I have a responsibility as the local bishop to instruct the Faithful about the problematic nature of this media source which bears the name 'Catholic.'” He says that he remains willing to discuss the issue with the Reporter staff, but as things stand, “I find that my ability to influence the National Catholic Reporter toward fidelity to the Church seems limited to the supernatural level.”
There might be a legal way to neuter the NCR with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), by catching it pirating copyrighted material produced by the church.
Granted, the word “Catholic” cannot be copyrighted, but the NCR uses a lot of copyrightable material to attack the church, that if copyrighted, overcomes most “fair use” provisions, since they are a for profit newspaper.
It is unlikely a settlement could shut them down, but it could require them to put a disclaimer on the top of their front page, that they are “Not authorized by the Catholic church, and are published as parody only.”
Where are the apologists arguing that this is just one bishop’s opinion and he doesn’t speak for the church? And the old throw away, something about the floor being paved with the skulls of bishops?
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This Bishop must be against social justice!