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Cardinal O’Brien: I accuse the BBC…

webmaster — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:03:57 +0000

London, England, Sep 6, 2010 / 09:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the senior Catholic authority in Scotland, accused the BBC on Sunday of being contaminated by “a radically secular and socially liberal mindset.” Then prelate added that the public corporation headed by Mark Thompson, a 52-year-old Jesuit educated Catholic, should appoint a religion editor immediately.

Cardinal O’Brian, who is Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh also accused the BBC of plotting a “hatchet job” on the Vatican in a documentary about clerical sex abuse on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain. Click here to read more

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Apathy of Catholics threatens papal visit…

webmaster — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:09:17 +0000

The media, certainly, are not indifferent to the Pope’s trip. But are Catholics? Rumours suggest that the Mass at Cofton Park and the vigil in Hyde Park are actually under-subscribed, and that the Church is struggling to fill the space. Click here to read more

Bad Bishop Rebukes Good Priest …

webmaster — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:27:24 +0000

Bishop Armando Ochoa of El Paso has rebuked a diocesan priest who wrote that “every single Catholic, out of fidelity to charity and truth, has the absolute duty to oppose (1) the murder of unborn babies, and (2) any and all government attempts to legalize homosexual unions.”

“I urge all of the Catholic faithful to treat homosexuals with love, understanding, and respect,” Father Michael Rodriguez had added in his August 2 El Paso Timescolumn. “At the same time, never forget that genuine love demands that we seek, above all, the salvation of souls. Homosexual acts lead to the damnation of souls.” Click here to read more

Parents Beware: 99% Pop Music “Soft Porn”…

webmaster — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:45:37 +0000

LONDON, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While religious leaders have been warning about the moral effects of the modern pop music scene for decades, now even some leaders of the industry are expressing their concern. Today record producer Mike Stock told British media that he believes children are being “sexualized” by popular culture. Click here to read more

Vatican Consultor: gender ideology “worrying….”

webmaster — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:15:22 +0000

August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gender ideology is the “most worrying sign of the current ideas about man,” Monsignor Tony Anatrella, a psychoanalyst, told an audience of African bishops in Ghana late last month. Speaking on the pope’s most recent encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate,” the French priest and consultor to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, said that a new anthropology, a new way of viewing the nature of human beings, has grown in the last fifty years that is deeply antithetical to traditional Christian thought and jurisprudence. Click here to read more

Vatican: ‘Eucharistic Ministry’ – not a right …

webmaster — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:53:47 +0000

Vatican City, Aug 12, 2010 / 01:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The rights of girls and Catholic lay faithful to carry out certain roles on the altar are not prescribed as “rights” within the Church, according to the Church’s top legal authority, Archbishop Raymond Burke. The statement came in a clarification he wrote about the consequences of the reintroduction of the Latin Rite Mass by Pope Benedict. Click here to read more

Homosexual Judge: Pope Harms “Gays”…

webmaster — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:00:45 +0000

William May, chairman of Catholics for the Common Good (not to be confused with the left-wing “Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good”) commented on a portion of Vaughn Walker’s ruling that casts an ominous shadow over freedom of religion in this country. The ruling’s 77th “finding of fact” states that “Religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful or inferior to heterosexual relationships harm gays and lesbians.” Quotes that “support this fact” include statements of Pope Benedict XVI Click here to read more and to post your own comment on the blog.

Megrahi: Cardinal O’Brien Under Fire…

webmaster — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:15:50 +0000

…In a dramatic intervention into the furious row over the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, Cardinal Keith O’Brien said that Americans should assess their own judicial decisions before criticising those of other countries.

He compared America to Iran and Saudi Arabia because of its use of the death penalty, and defended Scottish officials’ decision to refuse to appear before American senators investigating the circumstances of the release. Scottish politicians should not go “crawling” to America, he said.

A spokesman for Senator Robert Menendez, the New Jersey senator heading the investigation into Megrahi’s release, last night declined to comment, but Frank Duggan, spokesman for the Victims of Pan Am 103 group, criticised the Cardinal’s intervention.

He said: “I’m a Catholic and we know that the Catholic Church has long opposed the death penalty.”

Click to here to read more but note that the Church does NOT oppose the death penalty. Here’s the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the subject:

Preserving the common good of society requires rendering the aggressor unable to inflict harm. For this reason the traditional teaching of the Church has acknowledged as well-founded the right and duty of legitimate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death penalty… (# 2266)

Well Said, Father Rodriguez!

webmaster — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:28:17 +0000

Fr. Michael Rodríguez, parish priest at San Juan Bautista Catholic Church, told readers that “a Catholic would be guilty of a most grievous sin of omission if he/she neglected to actively oppose the homosexual agenda.” Click here to read more

Yet More Priestly Celibacy-Bashing…

webmaster — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:12:16 +0000

Bishop Malcolm McMahon of Nottingham will defend the Church’s teaching on celibacy at a major debate in London two days before the Pope’s visit.
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Readers are urged to contribute a comment to this Catholic Herald blog thread. Defend, expound and promote Catholic teaching on celibacy – you know it makes sense!