By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has pulled out of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition that lobbies against pro-life and pro-family legislation and boasts top pro-abortion and homosexualist groups among its members.
The break was confirmed in a release sent to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) by Sister Mary Ann Walsh, USCCB Director of Media Relations, on Wednesday afternoon.
The release stated that the bishops withdrew following the group's published support for the pro-abortion and homosexualist Supreme Court nominee, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, which was pointed out earlier this week by Deal Hudson of Catholic Advocate and reported by LSN Tuesday.
In withdrawing from the coalition, the USCCB "reiterated its commitment to oppose discrimination based on race, religion, sex, ethnicity, disabling condition, or age, and said that these are grave injustices and affronts to human dignity."
"In light of recent events, it has become increasingly clear that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ continued membership in the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is not possible because of the LCCR’s expanded and broadened agenda," stated Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre NY, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Peace, as quoted in the release.
"The interests of the Leadership Conference and those of the USCCB have diverged as the LCCR has moved beyond advocacy of traditional civil rights to advocacy of positions which do not reflect the principles and policies of the bishops’ Conference."
Murphy did not address explicitly the pro-abortion and homosexualist activities of the coalition, instead saying only that the bishops ended their relationship because LCCHR in recent years "has joined others in advocating or opposing nominees for the Supreme Court, a practice which clearly contradicts USCCB policy and compromises the principled positions of the bishops."
"The USCCB deeply regrets this action has become necessary and pledges to continue our ongoing work on civil rights, racial and ethnic justice, and the protection of human life and dignity," said Murphy.
Deal Hudson told LSN following the release that, "It's a sad fact of politics that organizations originally founded for one purpose undergo changes over time that affect their mission."
"With the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop removing itself from the Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights, the bishops have recognized, as Bishop William Murphy put it, 'the LCCR has moved beyond advocacy of traditional civil rights to advocacy of positions which do not reflect the principles and policies of the bishops’ Conference.'"
Hudson concluded: "No one will doubt the ongoing commitment of the Catholic bishops to upholding civil and human rights, but this action was necessary to avoid any confusion about its protection of the most basic human right, the right to life of the not-yet-born."
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Murdering Christians is a National Sport in Egypt
Christmas for millions of Egyptian Christians, gunshots rang from a drive-by car, killing 7 parishioners exiting evening mass. The Nagaa Hamadi Church Massacre, as it became known, left 26 seriously injured in the small southern town.
During the funerals, greater mayhem erupted. In surrounding towns and villages some 3,000 Muslims broke into Coptic properties, agricultural plots, and businesses, looting and setting fires to shops. Across the country churches were burned. It took Egypt's police three days to show up and six weeks to arrest a single culprit.
As it has become customary, the government described the attack as ''an individual incident'', another dispute among villagers. The phrase has become so habitual in describing attacks on Christians over the past 40 years, it is used as a practical joke.
In reality The Nagaa Hamadi Church Massacre was the latest spike in a 40-year-long campaign of killing and violence against of Egypt's estimated 12 million Christians, known as Copts It's a campaign that is all the more ghastly for the fact that it has been largely ignored by the world of elite opinion. Yet in the past 40 years, the numbers of victims has soared to well more than 20,000, if the count includes those killed, wounded, dispossessed, or otherwise harmed, according to human rights groups.
In that period, Copts started to flee Egypt, and at least 2 million, mostly members of the upper and middle classes, now reside abroad. Within Egypt, the Coptic community has continued to grow, but nowhere as rapidly as the Muslim communities, whose numbers have soared, in line with a birth rate that is far above that of the Copts.
The word Copt refers to Egyptians whose ancestors embraced Christianity in the first century after Christ. It has its origins in ancient languages of Pharos to denote ''original Inhabitant'' or simply ''Egyptian''. Copts are part of the Eastern Orthodox Church that ranges widely from Ethiopia to Russia. In the Arab world however, they constitute the largest Christian minority.
In the 14 centuries since Muslim Arabs invaded Egypt, those who remained Copts were descendents of Egyptians who resisted conversion to Islam. Indeed they refer to themselves as the country's founders and Egypt was a Coptic nation in the first seven centuries of Christianity.
Since, they have suffered cycles of persecutions that ebb and flow as Muslim rulers succeed one another.
By and large the Copts enjoyed a golden period of tolerance starting the1860s. It came to an abrupt end when a group of army officers, led by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew the monarchy and took power in 1952. Under the officers' rule, but especially starting in the early 1970s, a systematic campaign, with evident government acquiescence, was set in motion to reduce Christians to second class citizens.
"Egypt has witnessed confessional tensions over the centuries involving attacks on Copts, but they were never as intense and widespread as they have been since the 1970s," Moheb Zaki, a former managing director of the Ibn Khaldun Center, a nonprofit organization that supports democracy and civil rights in Egypt and the Middle East, told this reporter.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Mr. Zaki asserted that "the violence of the last few years is more like a purge, as waves of mob assaults have forced hundreds, sometimes thousands of Christian citizens to flee their homes. In each incident the police, despite frantic appeals, invariably arrive after the violence is over." The Ibn Khaldun Center was founded by the Egyptian Human Rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who was jailed by the Mubarak regime and now is living in exile in America.
Copts have been eliminated from all senior positions in government administrations, the army, the police, the security services, and top echelons of the vast public sector. In the educational sector once largely endowed with Christian leadership, there are virtually no Christians left. Out of Egypt's 17 government-owned and administered universities which have a total of 71 presidents and 274 vice presidential jobs, there is one Coptic Christian dean and one Christian Vice President.
Egypt stands out for a number of reasons. It is, with 81 million citizens, the most populous Arab nation, the second largest recipient, after Israel, of American financial and military aid, and the intellectual leader of the Arabs. Since 1979 America has given Egypt well more than $ 60 billion and totally re-equipped its entire army with advanced weapons.
In that same period, successive governments especially those of Anwar Sadat, who took power in 1970, and Hosni Mubarak, who acceded in 1981, refined a system of "Islamization" across the whole society that includes a calculated marginalization of Christians.
Sadat referred to himself as "The Believer President," coming to power with an extensive Islamist agenda. He welcomed the return from exile in Saudi Arabia of hundreds the banished Muslim Brotherhood leadership and released thousands of them from Egyptian jails. In those jails they fundamentalists were replaced with secularists, socialists and many Christian activists.
Sadat cancelled Egypt's secular constitution designating Sharia Islamic Law instead as the source of all legislation. By September 1981, after ten years of power, he had stripped the Coptic Pope, Shenouda III, leader of the Christian community, of all authority, banishing him to a desert monastery and ordered the arrest of some 125 Coptic clergy and lay activists along with hundreds of secular Muslims.
Ironically, a month later, in October of 1981, militant Islamist army officers assassinated Sadat, as he reviewed a military parade. Hosni Mubarak, a former air force commander and Sadat's vice president, stood next to him when he died along with 25 others on the reviewing stand.
Mr. Mubarak moved immediately to strike a deal with the Islamists in return for their subtle agreement to retain a dynastic rule for his family. The covenant turned over to Islamists control in media, education, and government administrations in return for allowing Mr. Mubarak's rule to go on unchallenged, setting the stage for the Rais, as Egyptians call their leaders, to prepare for his son, Gamal, to succeed him. As part of the deal, this Rais agreed to feed Egypt's Christians to the growing Islamic beast.
In the Wall Street Journal article of Tuesday, Mr. Zaki related, among other things, that this year alone witnessed several attacks by roving bands of Muslims. In the run-up to Nagaa Hamadi, a mob of several tens of thousand Muslims gathered in the Mediterranean city of Marsa Matrough, after an imam exhorted them to cleanse it of "infidel Christians." They went onto ten hours of rampage that burned or destroyed 18 Christian homes and 23 shops, as well as 16 cars, as 400 Copts barricaded themselves in their church, where they stayed for those hours, until the frenzy died out.
Last year saw a dozen such attacks. Typically the police show up after the damage is done. The government-controlled press describes consistently individual incidents. Equally typically, the Egyptian government, bans publication of the full scale of assaults on Christians, even in the single Coptic weekly that is allowed to publish.
As a result accurate statistics are slow to surface. But NGOs and Human Rights groups record dramatic heap of ruined lives, expropriated lands, and injured, wounded, homeless and killed. Weekly reports surface of kidnapped Christian girls, who are raped and -- to save their honor -- forced of convert to Islam and marry their rapists. The government only intervenes to prevent the girls from leaving their marriage or reverting back to Christianity. Altogether these attacks add up to around 10,000 since 1971.
It is a narrative of persecution that keeps piling on. Higher and upper middle class Coptic Christians responded by immigrating in huge numbers. Today these immigrant Copts form a nascent Diaspora that is moving to political activism. It is estimated to number between 2 million to 3 million spread over Canada, Australia and the USA. My extended family and I are among those who are in America.
But the bulk of ordinary Egyptian Christians, who number at least 12 million and possibly as many as 14 million, remain trapped in Egypt. The government does not permit census numbers to be released insisting in unofficial statements for well over two decades now, that Copts do not number more than 8 to 9 millions.
By Youssef Ibrahim
Source: http://www.aina.org/news/2010051920902.htm
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During the funerals, greater mayhem erupted. In surrounding towns and villages some 3,000 Muslims broke into Coptic properties, agricultural plots, and businesses, looting and setting fires to shops. Across the country churches were burned. It took Egypt's police three days to show up and six weeks to arrest a single culprit.
As it has become customary, the government described the attack as ''an individual incident'', another dispute among villagers. The phrase has become so habitual in describing attacks on Christians over the past 40 years, it is used as a practical joke.
In reality The Nagaa Hamadi Church Massacre was the latest spike in a 40-year-long campaign of killing and violence against of Egypt's estimated 12 million Christians, known as Copts It's a campaign that is all the more ghastly for the fact that it has been largely ignored by the world of elite opinion. Yet in the past 40 years, the numbers of victims has soared to well more than 20,000, if the count includes those killed, wounded, dispossessed, or otherwise harmed, according to human rights groups.
In that period, Copts started to flee Egypt, and at least 2 million, mostly members of the upper and middle classes, now reside abroad. Within Egypt, the Coptic community has continued to grow, but nowhere as rapidly as the Muslim communities, whose numbers have soared, in line with a birth rate that is far above that of the Copts.
The word Copt refers to Egyptians whose ancestors embraced Christianity in the first century after Christ. It has its origins in ancient languages of Pharos to denote ''original Inhabitant'' or simply ''Egyptian''. Copts are part of the Eastern Orthodox Church that ranges widely from Ethiopia to Russia. In the Arab world however, they constitute the largest Christian minority.
In the 14 centuries since Muslim Arabs invaded Egypt, those who remained Copts were descendents of Egyptians who resisted conversion to Islam. Indeed they refer to themselves as the country's founders and Egypt was a Coptic nation in the first seven centuries of Christianity.
Since, they have suffered cycles of persecutions that ebb and flow as Muslim rulers succeed one another.
By and large the Copts enjoyed a golden period of tolerance starting the1860s. It came to an abrupt end when a group of army officers, led by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew the monarchy and took power in 1952. Under the officers' rule, but especially starting in the early 1970s, a systematic campaign, with evident government acquiescence, was set in motion to reduce Christians to second class citizens.
"Egypt has witnessed confessional tensions over the centuries involving attacks on Copts, but they were never as intense and widespread as they have been since the 1970s," Moheb Zaki, a former managing director of the Ibn Khaldun Center, a nonprofit organization that supports democracy and civil rights in Egypt and the Middle East, told this reporter.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Mr. Zaki asserted that "the violence of the last few years is more like a purge, as waves of mob assaults have forced hundreds, sometimes thousands of Christian citizens to flee their homes. In each incident the police, despite frantic appeals, invariably arrive after the violence is over." The Ibn Khaldun Center was founded by the Egyptian Human Rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who was jailed by the Mubarak regime and now is living in exile in America.
Copts have been eliminated from all senior positions in government administrations, the army, the police, the security services, and top echelons of the vast public sector. In the educational sector once largely endowed with Christian leadership, there are virtually no Christians left. Out of Egypt's 17 government-owned and administered universities which have a total of 71 presidents and 274 vice presidential jobs, there is one Coptic Christian dean and one Christian Vice President.
Egypt stands out for a number of reasons. It is, with 81 million citizens, the most populous Arab nation, the second largest recipient, after Israel, of American financial and military aid, and the intellectual leader of the Arabs. Since 1979 America has given Egypt well more than $ 60 billion and totally re-equipped its entire army with advanced weapons.
In that same period, successive governments especially those of Anwar Sadat, who took power in 1970, and Hosni Mubarak, who acceded in 1981, refined a system of "Islamization" across the whole society that includes a calculated marginalization of Christians.
Sadat referred to himself as "The Believer President," coming to power with an extensive Islamist agenda. He welcomed the return from exile in Saudi Arabia of hundreds the banished Muslim Brotherhood leadership and released thousands of them from Egyptian jails. In those jails they fundamentalists were replaced with secularists, socialists and many Christian activists.
Sadat cancelled Egypt's secular constitution designating Sharia Islamic Law instead as the source of all legislation. By September 1981, after ten years of power, he had stripped the Coptic Pope, Shenouda III, leader of the Christian community, of all authority, banishing him to a desert monastery and ordered the arrest of some 125 Coptic clergy and lay activists along with hundreds of secular Muslims.
Ironically, a month later, in October of 1981, militant Islamist army officers assassinated Sadat, as he reviewed a military parade. Hosni Mubarak, a former air force commander and Sadat's vice president, stood next to him when he died along with 25 others on the reviewing stand.
Mr. Mubarak moved immediately to strike a deal with the Islamists in return for their subtle agreement to retain a dynastic rule for his family. The covenant turned over to Islamists control in media, education, and government administrations in return for allowing Mr. Mubarak's rule to go on unchallenged, setting the stage for the Rais, as Egyptians call their leaders, to prepare for his son, Gamal, to succeed him. As part of the deal, this Rais agreed to feed Egypt's Christians to the growing Islamic beast.
In the Wall Street Journal article of Tuesday, Mr. Zaki related, among other things, that this year alone witnessed several attacks by roving bands of Muslims. In the run-up to Nagaa Hamadi, a mob of several tens of thousand Muslims gathered in the Mediterranean city of Marsa Matrough, after an imam exhorted them to cleanse it of "infidel Christians." They went onto ten hours of rampage that burned or destroyed 18 Christian homes and 23 shops, as well as 16 cars, as 400 Copts barricaded themselves in their church, where they stayed for those hours, until the frenzy died out.
Last year saw a dozen such attacks. Typically the police show up after the damage is done. The government-controlled press describes consistently individual incidents. Equally typically, the Egyptian government, bans publication of the full scale of assaults on Christians, even in the single Coptic weekly that is allowed to publish.
As a result accurate statistics are slow to surface. But NGOs and Human Rights groups record dramatic heap of ruined lives, expropriated lands, and injured, wounded, homeless and killed. Weekly reports surface of kidnapped Christian girls, who are raped and -- to save their honor -- forced of convert to Islam and marry their rapists. The government only intervenes to prevent the girls from leaving their marriage or reverting back to Christianity. Altogether these attacks add up to around 10,000 since 1971.
It is a narrative of persecution that keeps piling on. Higher and upper middle class Coptic Christians responded by immigrating in huge numbers. Today these immigrant Copts form a nascent Diaspora that is moving to political activism. It is estimated to number between 2 million to 3 million spread over Canada, Australia and the USA. My extended family and I are among those who are in America.
But the bulk of ordinary Egyptian Christians, who number at least 12 million and possibly as many as 14 million, remain trapped in Egypt. The government does not permit census numbers to be released insisting in unofficial statements for well over two decades now, that Copts do not number more than 8 to 9 millions.
By Youssef Ibrahim
Source: http://www.aina.org/news/2010051920902.htm
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Taking on the Lavender Mafia
A Catholic priest who is faithful to the teachings of his Church has written a book claiming that 30 percent of the priests in his diocese are practicing homosexuals, a clear violation of the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Father Germán Robledo, former head of the archdiocesan ecclesiastical tribunal, claims that the Diocese of Cali, third largest diocese in his native land of Colombia, is running rampant with sexual predators, both heterosexual and homosexual.
Echoing The Papal Call
In union with Pope Benedict's call to clean out the "filth" that has infiltrated the Catholic Church, the Colombian priest has kept his writings a secret until publication, calling his book a "bomb" for the Archbishop and clergy of Cali.
Benedict has been recently stepping up his call to "purge" Catholicism from the "sin that has infected" Catholicism from within.
Taking on the Lavender Mafia
Father Germán Robledo, former head of the archdiocesan ecclesiastical tribunal, claims that the Diocese of Cali, third largest diocese in his native land of Colombia, is running rampant with sexual predators, both heterosexual and homosexual.
Echoing The Papal Call
In union with Pope Benedict's call to clean out the "filth" that has infiltrated the Catholic Church, the Colombian priest has kept his writings a secret until publication, calling his book a "bomb" for the Archbishop and clergy of Cali.
Benedict has been recently stepping up his call to "purge" Catholicism from the "sin that has infected" Catholicism from within.
Taking on the Lavender Mafia
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Heretical Hospital Nun Excommunicated and Fired in Arizona
"PHOENIX (CNS) -- A nun who concurred in an ethics committee's decision to abort the child of a gravely ill woman at a Phoenix hospital was "automatically excommunicated by that action," according to Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix.
Mercy Sister Margaret Mary McBride also was reassigned from her position as vice president of mission integration at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix after news surfaced about the abortion that took place late last year. The hospital did not say what her new job would be.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1002085.htm
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Kardinal Kasper: The Dialogue with the Orthodox has reached a New Dimmension
Metropolitan Hilarion at the Vatican: One "wants" and "hopes" that a meeting between the Pope and Russian Patriarch must yield results.
Vatican City (kath.net/KNA) The Catholic-Orthodox dialogue has reached a new quality. The Vatican visit of Moscow Head of Foreign Office, Metropolitan Hilarion does not simply constitute a "new level", said the President of the Papal Council on Unity on Monday after approximately 45-minute conversation with the representatives of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate.
Kasper stresses that not only theological, but especially the cultural dialogue between the two churches are of greater importance. The difference between Orient and Occident are in the first line today, not in religious differences, rather in a "cultural alienation", said Kasper. Likewise he considers that the collaboration with the Orthodox Church will not be accomplished by a leveling of differences.
Metropolitan Hilarion stresses, that the closeness between Catholic and Orthodox churches in the past years were validated especially through the initiative of Pope Benedict XVI. The Catholic Leader enjoys the high esteem of Eastern Christians as a "defender of traditional Christian values".
The Catholic-Orthodox dialogue may not be limited exclusively to discussions between theologians, according to Hilarion's prescriptions. It it is less useful, when specialists unite on points of contention, if simple people aren't brought along in the accord, said the Metropolitan.
Hilarion however will not speculate on a possible visit of the Moscow Patriarch Kyrill to the Vatican. One "wishes" and "hopes" for such a meeting, but anyway, there are still fundamental questions to be clarified. One such concord is only meaningful, if the outcome yields results, said Hilarion. One mere meeting on his own desire is not meaningful, he confirmed the current mood toward a summit meeting.
The planned program for Hilarion's visit forms the "days of Russian culture and spirituality at the Vatican". The Highpoint is a concert in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI in the audience hall of the Church State on Thursday evening. This event is a gift of the Moscow Patriarch Kyrill for the Head of the Catholic Church.
Upon the conclusion of the concert an address by the Pope is planned. There the "second man of the Moscow Patriarchate" will take part in a Symposium with the title "Witness of Orodoxy and Catholicism in modern Europe" in the new Russian Katherina Church in Rome.
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Earlier meeting with Armenians, here.
Photo: Pope Benedict presents a book at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, 15 May 2009/Pool) reuters.
Catholic doctors support Olmsted
The Catholic Physicians Guild of Phoenix fully supports the Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted with respect to matters of life of a mother pregnant with a child in her womb ("Nun rebuked over abortion to save woman," Saturday). The Guild stands by the church's teaching that is guided by the Holy Spirit in ordering life toward truth and love.
An action which is in and of itself wrong, in that it lacks goodness as discerned by the light of human reason, is never justified by circumstances or intended end. Such is the case of abortion. A medical procedure, where the direct intention is the termination of pregnancy, is an abortion.
Medical treatments are appropriate for the direct purpose of curing a proportionately pathological condition of a pregnant woman, when they cannot be safely postponed until the unborn child is viable. When an unborn child attains viability, labor may be induced. - William H. Brophy, M.D.,Phoenix
Catholic doctors support Olmsted
An action which is in and of itself wrong, in that it lacks goodness as discerned by the light of human reason, is never justified by circumstances or intended end. Such is the case of abortion. A medical procedure, where the direct intention is the termination of pregnancy, is an abortion.
Medical treatments are appropriate for the direct purpose of curing a proportionately pathological condition of a pregnant woman, when they cannot be safely postponed until the unborn child is viable. When an unborn child attains viability, labor may be induced. - William H. Brophy, M.D.,Phoenix
Catholic doctors support Olmsted
Churches Push Leftist Radicalism
by Mathew Vadum
Churches Push Leftist Radicalism
On his TV show Glenn Beck accused President Obama of “merging” the government with churches. (transcript, no video)
The point I suspect that Beck was rather clumsily trying to make was that President Obama is trying to use churches to advance his left-wing agenda, just as atheist Saul Alinsky used churches in his organizing days in Chicago in order to advance leftism.
President Obama doesn’t need to take over the churches: many of them are already in the service of the left.
Churches Push Leftist Radicalism
Pro-Gay Irish Archbishop attacks the Church
He dithers on Church teaching, like his counterparts in Austria and the United States. He contradicts it. One thing he won't hesitate to do, however, is attack the Church. [He's a part of those forces]
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Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has reaffirmed his warning that there are still strong forces in the Catholic Church which would prefer that the truth about clerical child abuse did not emerge.
He has also stood by his statement that 'there are still worrying signs that despite solid regulations and child-protection norms . these were not being followed with the rigour required.'
And he rejected Irish Independent's report that his comments of last week were a 'criticism of Pope Benedict'.
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Islamic Instruction in German Schools?
The German Islamic Conference wants Islamic Instruction in the schools to be directed by Imams. Bundesminister Thomas de Maiziere reported this upon his interaction with the second Islamic Conference on Monday in Berlin. At the same time the Minister spoke to the Muslims of Germany, encouraging them to participate more strongly in society.
Begin Work
This Monday the assembly of the new German Islamic Conference (DIK) began work. The eleven page work program, that the assembly diseminated, was concerned primarily with questions of educational politics. There should be model concepts for religious instruction in Germany, proposed the Bundesminister. Otherwise, Muslim communities should be supported, in order to work towards the status of public bodies in the civil law like established churches. The goal is, that the Muslims in Germany could be treated indentically by Laws dealing with religious communities. The debate on the participation of Muslims must be brought to the kitchen table, and not only left to the academic area, proposed Thomas de Maiziere. Even so the differences are important: where there is a bit of discrimination of women, must be reported, if the problems would be blamed on Islam itself or not much more through the point of view of a certain Islamic community's view.
It callled for more participation and better integration of Muslims in Germany. He cautioned, only to speak again about the legal structures for Islam and proposed a stronger practical relevance. De Maizere expressly praised the level of the dialogue at the Assembly meeting.
Platform for Dialogue
The German Islamic Conference is a platform for dialogue between the State and representatives of around four million Muslims in Germany. The former Bundesminister Wolfgang Schäuble had spoken to their lives, in order to promote the integration of Muslims. In the second phase the members want to effect their findings to the first round of discussions in the preceding legislative period.
It only depends on contents
Two large governing bodies are going to be missing at the second conference, in any event: The Islamic Council and the Central Council of Muslims in Germany. The Islamic Council was disinvited because of the determinations of some of its functionaries. The Central Council held aloof from the meeting, because of the meager participation of the Mosque Communities and the negligible occupation with prejudice against Islam as a theme. De Maizere described the debate on assembling of the conference, meanwhile as at an end. It all comes down to content, he said.
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Begin Work
This Monday the assembly of the new German Islamic Conference (DIK) began work. The eleven page work program, that the assembly diseminated, was concerned primarily with questions of educational politics. There should be model concepts for religious instruction in Germany, proposed the Bundesminister. Otherwise, Muslim communities should be supported, in order to work towards the status of public bodies in the civil law like established churches. The goal is, that the Muslims in Germany could be treated indentically by Laws dealing with religious communities. The debate on the participation of Muslims must be brought to the kitchen table, and not only left to the academic area, proposed Thomas de Maiziere. Even so the differences are important: where there is a bit of discrimination of women, must be reported, if the problems would be blamed on Islam itself or not much more through the point of view of a certain Islamic community's view.
It callled for more participation and better integration of Muslims in Germany. He cautioned, only to speak again about the legal structures for Islam and proposed a stronger practical relevance. De Maizere expressly praised the level of the dialogue at the Assembly meeting.
Platform for Dialogue
The German Islamic Conference is a platform for dialogue between the State and representatives of around four million Muslims in Germany. The former Bundesminister Wolfgang Schäuble had spoken to their lives, in order to promote the integration of Muslims. In the second phase the members want to effect their findings to the first round of discussions in the preceding legislative period.
It only depends on contents
Two large governing bodies are going to be missing at the second conference, in any event: The Islamic Council and the Central Council of Muslims in Germany. The Islamic Council was disinvited because of the determinations of some of its functionaries. The Central Council held aloof from the meeting, because of the meager participation of the Mosque Communities and the negligible occupation with prejudice against Islam as a theme. De Maizere described the debate on assembling of the conference, meanwhile as at an end. It all comes down to content, he said.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Homosexual Vampires of Sant Anselmo Italy and Modernist Monastery Coven
What is the loss of innocence worth?
It's a Vampire Coven in Lake Woebegone, and here is yet another child of the night who was caught murdering the souls of poor boys.
A predatory homosexual and fraud, "Father" Francisco Schulte of the Order of St. Benedict lurks like a vampire in locales as far removed as Italy.
St. John's Abbey had promised parents and their two sons who were among Schulte's many victims that he wouldn't hold an active position again, but he is now working since 2003, taking unsupervised trips to Italy at Sant Anselmo where he's been at large.
The man is known to us. He is most certainly a homosexual and a vile heretic.
Of course, this will further the erosion of the Church's spiritual and physical capital and abet the activities of the would-be Van Helsing, Jeffry Anderson and his ACLU war against Catholicism.
Star and Tribune article, here,
Fox 12, here.
St. Cloud Times, here.
Pope Meets with Bolivian Leftist: Proposals from the Devil
Proposals from the Devil.
Yesterday, Pope Benedict held an audience with the totalitarian Bolivian President, Evo Morales. The anti-Church Socialist belongs to the indigenous population, is unmarried and has irresponsibly brought two bastards into the world. The uncouth lout requested of the Pope on his own account, the institution of priestly marriage. The Church can't "deny" the desire to marriage -- he villainously offered.
Morales appeared before the Pope without a tie or jacket in Andean style. Bolivia is still 90% Catholic.
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He also made his concerns known about the "environment".
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USCCB gets 33% of Its Funding for Communication from the Government: But
It's obvious that the USCCB isn't interested about doing the work of an apostle. What they care about are subsidies and getting that second collection in. What they do with the money is a little harder to decipher than where they get it.
What Gives with Catholic Communication
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Here's a link to the 2008 Budget in [in pdf] case you're wondering where we got our figures:
http://www.usccb.org/finance/financial_statements.pdf
What Gives with Catholic Communication
This last Sunday in most Catholic parishes in the United States, the 2nd collection was for the Catholic Communication Campaign. Half of the money collected stays in each respective diocese and the rest goes to national projects. The USCCB explanation of this need is found here with this interesting comment: “The Catholic Communication Campaign provides essential funding for the Church to engage in using new communication technology in its evangelization efforts,” said Archbishop Dennis Schnurr, chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee on CCC. “Many Catholics turn to their mobile devices to find the world. The Church needs to be in that world.”
I was impressed by the mention of mobile devices and our need to “be in that world” since I had just been discussing this very issue with Patti Armstrong. I had specifically asked Patti to research and write about the topic of Catholic apologetics in the age of digital and mobile communication. The fruit of our conversation is in our lead article today — warning it talks about apps. If you are like me, you don’t even want to know about apps.
You see, I use my cell phone to make phone calls (where I actually talk to a person) apparently a form of communication on the endangered species list. Once upon a time, I used a phone that plugged into the wall with a cord. It had a dial — a round thing on it that you turned to indicate a particular number. And if someone was not at home when you called them… guess what you did? You called them back (what a concept!). You did not leave a message. You shrugged, said, “I guess they aren’t home.” And then you called them back — at home, not on a cell phone that they took everywhere so they (and everyone else) were instantly available. I was already a mother when this amazing thing called a wireless phone was invented. I even had one of the first ones (that’s me, early adopter) in the whole apartment complex where I lived . You could actually take your phone and go outside with it! Even like a whole hundred feet away from the base unit! What freedom. By then it was routine to leave messages for people on their phone — the messages were recorded on little tape recorders with little tiny cassette tapes (ask your parents).
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Here's a link to the 2008 Budget in [in pdf] case you're wondering where we got our figures:
http://www.usccb.org/finance/financial_statements.pdf
"Catholic" Foundation threatens to withdraw funds
Is Jimmy Akin fakn'? It's easy to pick on homosexuals for donations and street-cred, but it's a lot harder to go after the sinful structures that create these abusive relationships between the mendacious (lying), illuminist (see freemasonry) administrators of allegedly Catholic founations who dangle funding to control the administration of cash-starved schools.
One more reason simply to opt out of the whole thing and educate your children at home.
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One more reason simply to opt out of the whole thing and educate your children at home.
Since Lord Alfred Douglas's 1894 poem "Two Loves," which was used at Oscar Wilde's trial, homosexuality has been referred to as "the love that dare not speak its name."
But that's so 19th century.
We're living in the 21st century now, so that was . . . like . . . 200 years ago, right?
Jimmy AKIN.org
"Catholic" scholars say those who thwart labor unions commit mortal sin
Hey, if we can't eliminate man's natural abhorence of sin and disorder, we can at least try to misappropriate that to support our collectivist ideology!
Monday, May 17, 2010
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service
Monday, May 17, 2010
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service
Delicious Digg Facebook MySpace Twitter Google Yahoo TechnoratiWASHINGTON (CNS) -- A group of Catholic scholars contends that management efforts to break labor unions are a grave breech of the church's social doctrine and tantamount to committing mortal sin.
A statement from Weymouth, Mass.-based Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice, released May 1, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, offers a detailed argument that actions to thwart union organizing campaigns, stifle contract talks, unilaterally roll back wages and benefits, and break existing labor agreements are a "grave violation of Catholic social doctrine on labor unions."
ACLU, NAACP among those fighting Arizona immigration law
The Commies are mad about this, so it must be a good thing; it's a rule of thumb.
ACLU, NAACP among those fighting Arizona immigration law
ACLU, NAACP among those fighting Arizona immigration law
Quebec Cardinal's Comments cause "Uproar"
The Canadian government is what's unacceptable.
MONTREAL - The Harper government is distancing itself from anti-abortion comments that have caused an uproar in Quebec.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Josee Verner calls the remarks unacceptable.
The controversy was triggered when a prominent Quebec City cardinal called abortion a crime in every case - even when a rape victim has been impregnated by her attacker.
Cardinal George won't give Catholic Funeral to Woman "Priest"
A woman who challenged a Catholic ordination ban has died. The Catholic church will not allow her to be buried at a Catholic parish.
Janine Denomme was ordained a priest in April by a group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests. She had been battling cancer and yesterday she died in her Edgewater home.
Chicago Public Radio, listen here.
Killaloe Ireland gets a New Bishoop
Fr Kieran O'Reilly has been appointed to succeed Bishop Willie Walsh as the new Bishop of Killaloe, which covers mainly County Clare.
Bishop Walsh is leaving his post after reaching the bishop's retirement age of 75.
He was not one of the bishops criticised in the Murphy report into an abuse cover in the Irish church.
Goto BBC, here...
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