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The General Election, May 2010…

April 21, 2010 in Politics, Uncategorized, abortion, assisted suicide, conscience, homosexuality, parliament by webmaster | 60 comments

Is it, we keep being asked, possible for a Catholic to vote for any of the parties on offer in this forthcoming election?  A reader rang this morning to alert us to an article in the Telegraph, which reports the Liberal Democrats’ thoroughly illiberal policy on Catholic schools. Click here to read more

Elsewhere, the media are speculating about whether religious beliefs will make any difference to the election outcome. Will Christians, the BBC asks, swing the UK vote? Read the BBC commentary and then tell us what you think.   And, if you were a betting man/gal, what would you put your money on – and don’t say a hung parliament because it would be impossible to hide all those bodies…

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General Election: Can Catholics Vote For Any Political Party – With A Clear Conscience?

March 6, 2010 in Morality, Politics, Uncategorized, abortion, assisted suicide, conscience, homosexuality, parliament by webmaster | 48 comments

A reader emailed the following message a couple of days ago:

I had a discussion yesterday about the forthcoming General Election this year.  That got me thinking and doing some research.  I found the draft manifesto of the Christian Party to be very interesting, especially the comments on homeschooling and life issues.  What do you think?
http://www.christianparty.org.uk/downloads/CPmanifestoDraftNov2009.pdf

Well?  What do YOU think?  To help you formulate your thoughts, I’ve copied the introductory article from a previous thread – at the time of the European Elections in 2009.

“Judgment Day is on its way. We cannot stop it. We don’t know when it will come, but just as surely as the sun rises daily, the Son of Man will come when we least expect.

Judgment Day is on its way. For many, this coming election may very well be judgment day, for this election will measure us. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells us in 10:32-33: “Everyone who acknowledges Me before others, I will acknowledge before My heavenly Father. But whoever denies Me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father.

Judgment Day is on its way. When my time comes, I will be measured by my Savior for the decisions I have made. I will either be acknowledged by Jesus or denied by Him in the presence of our heavenly Father. The question I need to ask myself is this: What kind of witness will I give to Him when I go into the voting booth this election day?” Click here to read more …

“…you cannot vote for a politician who is pro-abortion when you have a choice and remain a Catholic in good standing. For some Catholics this is a hard teaching, but I am simply repeating church teaching: “Human life is sacred because from the beginning it involves the creative action of God (Gospel of Life, par. 53)…the direct and voluntary killing of an innocent human being (abortion and euthanasia) is always gravely immoral (Gospel of Life, par. 57, 65)…protecting the mother’s health does not justify the deliberate killing of an innocent human being (Gospel of Life, par. 58).” Click here to read more …

Well?  What DO you think?  Who, if anyone, can we vote for at the next General Election which is just around the corner.  Does the Christian Party look good to you – or what?  More to the point, which Party will you feel right about, at your Judgment?

Click on ‘comments’ right now to share your thoughts…

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Equality Bill: last chance saloon…

January 23, 2010 in Politics, Uncategorized, parliament by editor | 16 comments

The  Equality  Bill, currently passing through the House of Lords, is very serious indeed, says Christian Concern For Our Nation.  Listen to barrister, Andrea Williams and then act…

Click here to view a short video

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Cardinal O’Brien: O Come All Ye Faithless…

December 18, 2009 in Politics, Uncategorized, inter-faith dialogue by editor | 88 comments

Click here to read Cardinal O’Brien’s Christmas Message which is addressed to everyone and anyone but the Catholic faithful.   In any case, Lead Blogger Athanasius re-wrote the Cardinal’s message to make it better reflect the situation in Scotland today:

In the course of the past twelve months Scotland has celebrated another  “Year of the Ecumenist” culminating in the closure of the last Catholic seminary (Scotus) and the closing of St. Andrew’s Cathedral for interior demolition. Our Homecoming year has seen Scots seminarians become ex-patriots in Ireland and many thousands of members of the Scottish Diaspora “come home” to find their old parish churches shut down and sold off. We have been glad to welcome them and hope they will not seek a return to the Tridentine Mass.

It is my hope that now and in the years to come, we here in Scotland will experience our own “Homecoming” in full union with the Masonic EU, in which Scots “come home” to the realisation that climate change is the religion of today and that the Catholic Faith and its convictions upon which our nation was built, and which the generations which came before us upheld, was, as the prophet Loftus recently made clear, just so much arrogance on the part of the Church.

I hope 2010 will see a return home to the wonders of Reformation change in our country. To those Christians who have left their church and lapsed from their faith I say – make 2010 your Copenhagen year and adapt the Christian message to accommodate the worship of Mother Earth. To our fellow Scots of other faiths, I hope you will take it from me that you’re saved no matter what denomination you belong to.

Ultimately, I wish everyone in our country a very peaceful and happy Christmas and a successful new carbon emissions agreement in 2010.

Click  on ‘comments’ if you’d like to reply to the Cardinal’s Christmas message – or to Athanasius’s “taking the mickey” rewrite of it… Or, even better, rewrite it yourself.  What do YOU think the Cardinal ought to have said in this year’s Christmas message?

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Common Purpose: Life in Post-Democracy UK…

December 4, 2009 in International, Morality, Politics, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, parliament by editor | 34 comments

Although it has 80,000 trainees in 36 cities, 18,000 graduate members and enormous power, Common Purpose is largely unknown to the general public.  It recruits and trains “leaders” to be loyal to the directives of Common Purpose and the EU, instead of to their own departments, which they then undermine or subvert, the NHS being an example.  Click here to read more and then here to visit the Common Purpose website

Now  click here to view a talk by Brian Gerrish who is working hard to alert the general public to the activities of Common Purpose.

Then, if you’re still with us, click here to take a fresh look at the relationship to nation states of the European Union  post-Lisbon Treaty.   Note what this commentary says about the disappearance of Westminster (and, no doubt, Holyrood) and the suppression of future elections.

And finally, fully read and viewed, making sure you’ve put a wee drop of the hard stuff in your teacup, click on ‘comments’ with your thoughts. Is this just another “conspiracy theory” or does the fact of the widely and, who knows, deliberately unpublicised activities of Common Purpose speak for itself?  What’ll happen to the much lauded concept of  ”religious liberty” when the post-democracy leaders get their hands on it?

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‘Spinning’ the Irish Child Abuse Scandals…

November 29, 2009 in Morality, Politics, Uncategorized, bishops, ireland by webmaster | 98 comments

The Obama principle that a crisis is too good to waste is clearly being applied in the case of the clerical child abuse scandal in Ireland. A spin is being put on the shocking revelations in the report on abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin to implicate the “pre-Conciliar” Catholic Church in the wrongdoings of post-Vatican II pederasts. In the process, the name of a good man has been dragged into the cesspit, for political purposes.

The Most Reverend John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin (1940-1972) was a great Catholic prelate. Under his pastoral leadership, the numbers of clergy and religious increased by more than 50 per cent, he created over 60 new parishes and built over 80 new churches and 350 schools. But he was a Vatican II sceptic who implemented reform conservatively, in accordance with what would now be called the “hermeneutic of continuity”. So he is a bogey figure to radicals.
Click here to read the entire article

As always, Gerald Warner, a  journalist who can think “outside the box”, hits proverbial nails on proverbial heads.  Big time.  At last, an article on the subject, written by someone of sufficient independence of mind to actually read the report, reflect on the data and come to a logical conclusion based on all the facts – not a politically motivated select few facts, that is, facts that fit the anti-Catholic agenda of the enemies of the Church.  As our lead blogger, Athanasius, has already said elsewhere on this topic, to treat “the Church” as a “partner in crime” in all of this, is downright dishonest and  insulting in the extreme.  Those priests and bishops who have “apologised” for these crimes lend credence to the lie that it is “the Church” to blame.  They should be completely ashamed of themselves. They are, effectively, useful idiots fighting the cause of the enemies of the Faith.  My advice to them is to apologise for the wrongs of which they are actually guilty (starting with the destruction of our sacred liturgy) and keep their mouths shut on the crimes of others, at least until they’ve learned to distinguish between individual sinfulness and the holiness of the Church.  For the Church IS holy. The Church is holy because Christ is holy and Christ and His Church are one.  That they’ve forgotten such a basic truth of the Faith is testimony itself to their lamentable religious ignorance.  Time they stopped trying to please the media and public opinion and started to think about pleasing God.  Now, there’s a thought.

Gerald  Warner  is getting a lot of predictable stick over on the Telegraph site, so we urge all of our bloggers to post comments there as well as here.  We must not allow the enemies of the Church to get away with using these terrible scandals as yet another stick with which to beat the Church.

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Thought Crime: Bishop To Go On Trial…

November 12, 2009 in International, Morality, Politics, Uncategorized, bishops, conscience, discrimination, sspx by webmaster | 178 comments

Bishop Williamon SSPX, continues to be persecuted in Germany.  Click here to read the latest stage in this relentless pursuit of a Catholic bishop for expressing an unpopular opinion – not about God, religion or Catholic doctrine.  No, he expressed an opinion about the numbers killed in the Holocaust.   I’ve wondered myself about that 6 million – I mean, according to the logic of one of our atheist bloggers, without individual testimonies from the 70,000 plus witnesses to the Fatima miracle of the sun, the whole thing is a sham.  Therefore, precisely what evidence is there that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust?  Have we got 6 million names, addresses and at least one relative for each of the alleged deceased?

Or am I going to end up being prosecuted as well, for asking these questions?  Not sure I want to spend the rest of my life in a jail cell with a bishop – even one of the Society of Saint Pius X!

Your views, please, on this disgraceful prosecution.

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Lisbon Treaty: Should Irish Catholics Vote “Yes”?

September 25, 2009 in Politics, Uncategorized, abortion, bishops, conscience, family, freemasons, ireland, marriage by editor | 40 comments

Irish pro-life groups campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty have accused a senior bishop of interfering in the upcoming referendum.

Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor said last week that he could “state unequivocally that a Catholic can, without reserve and in good conscience, vote ‘Yes’ for the Lisbon Treaty.

“There are no grounds to justify a No vote in the Lisbon Treaty on the basis of specifically religious or ethical concerns,” he said.

Read the  Catholic Herald article here

Well, that’s not what Irish Catholic Truth readers tell me.   They are so disturbed at what is happening in the Church in Ireland, that they’ve asked that the newsletter carry reports on their Bishops.   There’s one lined up for the November edition.

To help deliberations, click here for a  reminder of why the Irish voted “no” to the Lisbon Treaty last time round…

So, tell us what you think.   Are the Irish Bishops correct to say that a Catholic may, in good conscience, vote for this Treaty and all the “human rights” legislation that will follow in its wake?  We, in the UK, know that “human rights” is a euphemism to cover the promotion of every imaginable perversion.  If you were born a man and want to become a woman, you have a “human right” so to do.  Remember, Peter Tatchell, formerly ardent “gay” rights campaigner, is now mixing with the “great and the not-so-good” using the umbrella designation  ”a human rights campaigner”.  So, all things considered (and the danger to the unborn child at the top of the list) Should Irish Catholics vote “yes” …as their bishops effectively recommend?

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