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Catholic Academics vs. the Faith A courageous student at John Carrol U writes in the hope of Unleashing the Power of the Blog: Dear Faithful Catholic Groups, As a seminarian and student at John Carroll University, I feel it my moral obligation to bring to your attention the following advertisement and activity taking place at John Carroll the Jesuit University in Cleveland, OH. I will send you a photo copy of the advertisement when I can gain access to a scanner. Until that time I will give you the text of the advertisement that has been hung all over the...

Upholding the teachings of the Catholic ChurchWinter 1997-Spring 1998Volume XIII, No. 1-2 Vatican's May 1997 letter to the President of National Conference of Catholic Bishops on "sex education" revealed in November"Those responsible for sex education in Catholic schools must not surrender to the temptation to conform to the permissive mentality which is prevalent today. On the contrary, they must strive to follow faithfully the Church's teaching on sexuality, according to the school's educational project, which consists in the explicit reference to the values of Christianity and the Christian concept of man".-- From letter from Cardinal Pio Laghi to Bishop Pilla...

Mr. D'Antonio said after he agreed to head Catholics for Kerry, he was frustrated by the Massachusetts senator's reluctance to woo the Catholic vote.He said, for example, that he made arrangements for Bishop Anthony M. Pilla of the Cleveland Catholic Archdiocese and the Rev. Edward Glynn, president of John Carroll University, a Jesuit college in Cleveland, to appear at a rally for Mr. Kerry in the pivotal state of Ohio, but the senator passed."American Catholics had a lot to contribute to the election," Mr. D'Antonio said, adding that Catholic social policies and the Democratic platform align on education, health care,...

Diocese of Cleveland Still Funding Pro-Abortion Groups: Campaign for Human Development at It AgainThree years after it was first revealed by Life Site and WorldNetDaily that the Diocese of Cleveland donated $30,000 to an Ohio community organization affiliated with the National Abortion Rights Action League, new information reveals that the Cleveland diocese is again funding a least one organization affiliated with a pro-abortion umbrella group, Community Shares - an organization that includes as its members Planned Parenthood, the Ohio ACLU and the Cleveland abortion clinic PreTerm . In a press release early this year, the Campaign for Human Development announced...

Diocese of Cleveland ex-CFO [accused of accepting more than $750,000 from an accounting firm he had hired to work for the diocese] to get Same Job with Diocese of Columbushttp://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/living/1093029328165640.xml?lrnewDiocese ex-CFO to get same job in Columbus Cleveland official resigned under a cloud of suspicion Friday, August 20, 2004 James F. McCarty Plain Dealer Reporter The deposed chief financial officer of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese has a new job as the next CFO of the Diocese of Columbus. Joseph Smith resigned from the Cleveland diocese in January under a cloud of suspicion, accused of accepting more than $750,000 from an...

Bishop Pilla on Communion to Pro-abortion Politicians Kathleen Willet Redle, M.F.A. What did Jesus do to the money changers and how did he describe the Scribes and Pharisees of his day? He called these leaders a brood of vipers, like whited sepulchers outwardly beautiful but within full of dead men’s bones. Then he used a whip to clear them out of the Temple, declaring, “My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves!” (Mt 23:27,33, Mt 21:12, Jn 2:14-15). What is happening to God’s house of prayer today? Look around...

Pro-abortion Dennis KUCINICH: "I would refrain from Communion if Bishop Pilla asked me to, but the bishop has not done so."Kucinich's press secretary, Kathie Scarrah, in May of 2003: "He absolutely believes in the sanctity of life and that life begins at conception." Kucinich in a letter to the Plain Dealer: "I don't believe in abortion; few do. I do, however, believe in choice." Kucinich in interview with the San Francisco Chronicle: "I am going to continue to take a thoughtful approach, and that doesn't preclude the poor from having the government support their right to choose." Kucinich to Tim...

More Catholic Bishops: If You're Pro-Abortion, Skip Communionby Steven ErteltLifeNews.com Editor July 9, 2004 Winona, MN (LifeNews.com) -- More Catholic bishops have said that anyone who supports abortion should recuse themselves from taking communion. Bishop Bernard Harrington of the Diocese of Winona in Minnesota is the latest to make a communion decision in the wake of a national meeting of American bishops on the issue."It is time we recognize that morality and ethics -- not our political parties -- determine what we believe," Harrington wrote in the latest edition of the diocesan newspaper, The Courier.Harrington added that "any Catholics who...

Futurechurch and Pilla - Pilla and Future ChurchFearful Pilla flips-flops on Futurechurch days before Ad Limina visit with Pope Early last year, Futurechurch leaders were urging its supporters to support Bishop Pilla: Were Bishop Pilla to be forced out, we would be leaving ourselves open to a new bishop who would most likely be much more conservative and legalistic given the Bishop appointments that have been made in this papacy. The well-known litmus test for being appointed a bishop under John Paul II is that the person must be opposed to birth control, optional celibacy and women priests. I have...

THE VIRTUS PROGRAM IN THE CLEVELAND DIOCESE A reader has emailed me asking for my comments on the Cleveland Virtus Program. This is the first I've heard of it. Nothing has been said in my parish bulletin about this program, and I'm not involved with the school. The reader is also a blogger who has described it in an archived blog where it appears to be the program for parish volunteers who work with children. You know, the ones who were never guilty of anything in the first place, but who have to bear the brunt of the failings of...

The Guerilla Girls on Tour have visited our campus, and it has caused quite an uproar in the community. The Guerilla Girls On Tour is a theater group, started in 2001, that utilizes humor and wit to enlighten the audience about social issues like racism and sexism through workshops and dramatic performances. Each performer assumes the name of a deceased female artist and wears a mask to conceal her true identity. In a recent interview, one of the performers explained, “We don’t want to lecture or hit our audiences over the head with the dreadful stats that exist about the...

  Priest charged in pot case under investigation for sex abuse The Associated Press2/11/04 6:56 AM AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- A priest charged with growing marijuana in his church residence is under investigation for alleged child abuse, a prosecutor said. Assistant Summit County Prosecutor Mary Ann Kovach said Tuesday that she plans to meet with police to determine if sex charges should be brought against Rev. Richard Arko, 40. The allegation surfaced during a court appearance by Andrew J. Smith, 25, of nearby Barberton, who tipped police last month to marijuana plants allegedly grown by Arko inside the rectory...

Diocesan Survey Finds Catholics’ Needs Unmet (Special to The Wanderer) CLEVELAND — The Diocese of Cleveland on April 17 released the "preliminary aggregate results" of a parish survey involving 129 participating parishes and 46,271 area Catholics. The results of the survey, available on the Diocese of Cleveland’s web site (www.dioceseofcleve land.org), presents a glaring disconnect between what parishioners expect to be done well, and what is done well. For example, in the category "how important to me," the number one issue for Cleveland-area Catholics was "Masses that are prayerful, reverent, and spiritually moving." But "how well done" are Masses in...

The following appeared in "The Wanderer's" from the mail section. (This does not appear on the website, I had to type it in): In Cleveland, which has been racked with the most damaging sex abuse scandals outside of Boston and Los Angeles, diocesan officials, including Bishop Anthony Pilla, maintain a stiff upper lip as some homosexual activists in the chancery and parishes continue to transform parishes into gay-friendly communities. Consider: The Diocese of Cleveland's official web site (www.dioceseofcleveland.com) greets the viewer with a rainbow flag, and gay activists at the diocese's Gay and Lesbian Family Ministry (GLFM) office are way...