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Did the Vatican release the expected document on what constitutes proper matter for ordination yet? I did a search and can't seem to find it. I thought it was supposed to be released on November 19th.

A little over a week ago I posted a prayer request for my sister in law. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who replied to the thread with prayers and those who simply prayed. An update Yesterday she and my brother met with the Oncologist, after many PET and CAT scans and other tests, the prognosis is dim. She has stage IV cancer. It is inoperable. With the chemotherapy treatment that she will undergo the survival rate for her particular type is 2% for one year and 0% at five years. She is only...

My sister in law, a lovely young woman, mother of three of three young children and wife of my brother has been diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer. She will undergo surgery to remove the entire right lung with in a week. At this early stage, we are uncertain of any long term prognosis. Please, please keep her and her family in her prayers.

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....

Another FReeper and I are engaged in a discussion on another thread and the subjects of creeds came up. From personal experience I know that there are people who consider them selves Christians and refuse to recite any creeds including the Apostles and Nicene creeds for various reasons and some even reject portions of said creeds. Ever mindful of the questionable nature of anecdotal evidence used to support or advance a position, I would like to take a very unscientific poll (ok, so it’s not much better than my personal anecdotal evidence) to find out if all Christians accept all...

BILL TAMMEUS The content of one's sexuality By BILL TAMMEUS - The Kansas City Star Date: 08/10/01 22:00 Ever so slowly, the mainstream culture is accepting the idea that gay men and lesbians are not sinful untouchables or freaks. This transformation remains far too painful and full of unnecessary barricades. Nonetheless, the forces of discrimination and intolerance that work to keep homosexuals second-class citizens are losing. Thank goodness. It leads me to imagine a time when -- to paraphrase what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said in a racial context -- people will be judged by the content of ...

American Values Reporter March 8, 2001 The Population Bomb Fizzles Out by Elizabeth Marquardt Affiliate Scholar They have appeared like clockwork for decades - one United Nations report after another warning of ever-larger increases in world population, or what came to be known as the "Population Bomb" after the influential 1968 book by Paul Ehrlich. A new U.N. Population Division report came out last week stating that by 2050 world population will reach 9.3 billion and the world's poorest nations will triple in size. Yet, reactions to the report have been distinctly more muted than in the past. Rather than ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 1 — In another embarrassing run-in with an open microphone, President Bush made remarkably candid remarks on abortion and Republicans that were unwittingly broadcast to the White House press this week. Speaking to leaders of Roman Catholic charities, Bush expressed frustration that the debate over letting parents use federal aid to put their children in private and parochial schools is such an uphill "battle." Bush said the issue is a "problem politically," adding that his proposal was being doomed by Republicans in wealthy suburbs who are "scared to death" ...

LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- An Italian doctor and fertility expert told a lecture at Samaritan Hospital that he plans to attempt to clone a human being within the next year. Dr. Severino Antinori of Rome said he is treating 10 couples -- including one American couple -- who are candidates for what he described as a therapeutic procedure. Antinori said this is the first time he has made his intentions public. "Whether we like it or not, we will have cloned individuals in the very near future," said Dr. Panos Zavos, a friend of Antinori, who delivered ...

Too irreverent, too subversive, too racy, too many curse words. Decade after decade across America, just about all those labels have been hurled at teenage anti-hero Holden Caulfield, protagonist of that staple of high school reading lists, "The Catcher in the Rye." For years, the little book has withstood attacks from the right. Today, Holden has new, perhaps more formidable, foes. This time his enemies have attacked from the left, with educators striking the J.D. Salinger classic from high school syllabuses because it fails to reflect multiculturalism For remainder of article click here.

Just announced as a special report on WHO Radio out of DesMoines: AP news has learned that Al Gore will concede the election in a statement to be made tonight.

By JONATHAN ROOS Register Staff Writer 12/08/2000 Gov. Tom Vilsack suffered a major setback Thursday in his battle with Republican lawmakers over his gay civil-rights order. Polk County District Judge Glenn Pille ruled that Vilsack, a Democrat, exceeded his authority when he issued an executive order forbidding discrimination against gays, lesbians and transsexuals in state government employment. Pille declared the order invalid. "By adding the additional classifications contained in his executive order . . . this court concludes that he has infringed upon the legislative authority by creating law," the judge said in a 14-page decision. Vilsack said he wants ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec 6 (AFP) - Hey Al, if that presidential thing doesn't work out, there's a gig waiting for you here on the US Left Coast. TalkRadio 790 KABC offered Vice President Al Gore the job of daytime talk show host should George W. Bush finally prevail in Florida and win the 2000 presidential election. Program Director Erik Braverman wants Gore to join "The Al Rantel Show." The new program would be called "The Al and Al Show." The station is offering Gore, who carried Los Angeles County with 63 percent of the vote, a four-year contract with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill Clinton says he would have been tempted to run for president again if the Constitution would have let him. And, he says, he would have won. ``Oh, I probably would have run again,'' Clinton tells Rolling Stone in an interview. Does he think he'd have been a three-time winner? ``Yes. I do. But it's hard to say, because it's entirely academic,'' Clinton said. He adds that as life expectancy rises, there may be a reason to change the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two four-year terms. Maybe it should just limit presidents to two ``consecutive'' ...

CBS) It is both ironic and educative that Vice President Al Gore’s address to the nation Monday night was laced with half-truths. It is tempting not to take words very seriously right now, since there is so much indigestible verbiage spewing from the candidates, their surrogates and their lawyers (not to mention pundits). But it is instructive to take rhetoric seriously. So let’s decipher Gore’s plea for patience Monday night (which he repeated nearly verbatim on Tuesday, in the sunlight). Click HERE for complete article.

Rush just announced that algore would speak in about five min. Rush will go live with gore while providing running commentary. Post comments here. If this is a duplicate post please ignore!

Subject: AL GORE IN VIET NAM Having posted a little tickler in last week’s Digest about Al Gore’s 141 days in Vietnam, The Federalist Editorial Board was inundated with inquiries from Vietnam vets. Most went something like this: “Gore claimed in his convention speech: ‘I enlisted in the Army because I knew if I didn’t go, someone else in the small town of Carthage, Tennessee would have to go in my place.’ Since he wasn’t KIA or wounded, how was it that his Army tour was far shorter than all the rest of us?” Our astute veteran readers took the ...