WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An analysis of publicly available documents indicates that homosexuals in the military are three times more likely to commit sexual assaults than heterosexuals, relative to their numbers, announced the Family Research Council Wednesday.
The release comes on the heels of news that Democrat U.S. senators on the Armed Services Committee seek to attach a repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" rule banning open homosexuals from the military to an essential defense spending bill. Although Pentagon officials had begun a year-long review of the possible repercussions of repealing the ban, homosexual activists hope to squeeze the controversial overturn through before November elections - when several Democrats are expected to lose their seats - before the results of the Pentagon study are in.
The FRC analysis released Wednesday demonstrates one of the main causes of alarm for supporters of the ban: a review of the "case synopses" of all 1,643 reports of sexual assault reported by the four branches of the military for Fiscal Year 2009 (October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009) found that over eight percent (8.2%) of all military sexual assault cases were homosexual in nature. Yet homosexual activist groups themselves have stated that less than three percent of Americans (2.8% of men and 1.4% of women) are homosexual or bisexual.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Catholic Hospital Closings Plague the Northeast
NEW YORK CITY – On April 30, the third oldest hospital in New York City closed its doors after 160 years of service.
As the result of years of financial struggle, St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection leaving not a single Catholic medical center in the area.
Only two years ago, in March 2008, Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan, also closed and then filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in July 2009.
The list of Catholic hospital closings expands into boroughs of Manhattan.
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Marquette Faculty shows Church who's Boss
By James Tillman
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- An uproar among homosexualist forces has ensued after Marquette University President Father Robert Wild withdrew a job offered to an openly lesbian professor, citing her academic writings' sexually explicit content as out of line with Catholic teaching. According to some reports, Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki's input on the matter was a key influence his decision to withdraw the offer.
Jodi O'Brien, who is currently a Sociology professor at Seattle University, which is also a Jesuit Catholic Institution, had been offered the job of dean of the Marquette College of Arts and Sciences, before Marquette University rescinded the offer Thursday.
An examination of O'Brien's writings - with such titles as "Wrestling the Angel of Contradiction: Queer Christian Identities" - quickly reveals matierial in dramatic conflict with the Catholic character of a Jesuit university.
In her 1996 article "Changing the Subject," published in Woman and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, O'Brien discusses multiple sexual encounters, such as a lesbian who uses a sex toy to have sex with a gay man, in obscene detail. "What have they just done?" she goes on to wonder. "Is she having sex as a woman with a man? Is she having sex as a woman-man with a man-woman?"
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MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- An uproar among homosexualist forces has ensued after Marquette University President Father Robert Wild withdrew a job offered to an openly lesbian professor, citing her academic writings' sexually explicit content as out of line with Catholic teaching. According to some reports, Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki's input on the matter was a key influence his decision to withdraw the offer.
Jodi O'Brien, who is currently a Sociology professor at Seattle University, which is also a Jesuit Catholic Institution, had been offered the job of dean of the Marquette College of Arts and Sciences, before Marquette University rescinded the offer Thursday.
An examination of O'Brien's writings - with such titles as "Wrestling the Angel of Contradiction: Queer Christian Identities" - quickly reveals matierial in dramatic conflict with the Catholic character of a Jesuit university.
In her 1996 article "Changing the Subject," published in Woman and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, O'Brien discusses multiple sexual encounters, such as a lesbian who uses a sex toy to have sex with a gay man, in obscene detail. "What have they just done?" she goes on to wonder. "Is she having sex as a woman with a man? Is she having sex as a woman-man with a man-woman?"
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Baptist Minister Murdered in St. Petersburg
In St. Petersburg, Russia, friends and family are mourning the loss of Pastor Yuri Golovin after he was beaten to death, reports MNN.
Slavic Gospel Association and the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (UECB) reported that 76-year-old Golovin was on his way to pay a visit to an elderly church member when unknown assailants attacked the Central Baptist Church pastor outside the home.
After the attack, Golovin was able to get the attention of the church member, who called an ambulance. However, Golovin later died at the hospital from his injuries.
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Slavic Gospel Association and the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (UECB) reported that 76-year-old Golovin was on his way to pay a visit to an elderly church member when unknown assailants attacked the Central Baptist Church pastor outside the home.
After the attack, Golovin was able to get the attention of the church member, who called an ambulance. However, Golovin later died at the hospital from his injuries.
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Archbishop Chaput says it's too hard to correct Abuses
He hopes people will believe him when he says that he does what he has to do, and that he just can't correct every single abuse out there, much less those that happen in other Archdiocese. What is meant to sound reasonable actually comes off as shirking.
We can see how the Archbishop would think that he really has limited options, since so many of the people he's allowed to be appointed aren't demonstrably Catholic-- why would it surprise him when they aren't pliable to direction. Since his own record in this regard of dealing with abuses and scandals has been a bit spotty, like when he allowed a Mass to be said in his own See for the benefit of the Pro-Abortion Governor, here.
But there are even still some people who will remember the Archbishop's endorsement of Stations of the Cross like these, here, when a woman took the part of Christ in a very strange portrayal of the Stations of the Cross indeed.
In the organizational structure of the Catholic Church in America, the Province of Denver includes the dioceses of Pueblo and Colorado Springs in Colorado, the Diocese of Cheyenne in Wyoming, and the province’s metropolitan (or senior) see, the Archdiocese of Denver. That makes Denver’s bishop an archbishop. As that archbishop, I rarely see a year go by without at least two or three unhappy parishioners assuming I have the authority to “straighten out” their liturgists and principals and pastors or some other problem in their local parish—within the province but outside my own diocese.
They tend to get even more annoyed when they learn that I have neither the authority nor the foolishness to meddle in the life of a sister diocese. Nor will I intrude on the ministry of a brother bishop. The title archbishop does entail some rights and duties in the life of a province, but these are strictly limited.
In reality, each diocese is a separate, autonomous community of believers. Each bishop in a province is an equal. Each is a successor of the apostles. And each is the chief teaching and governing authority in his own local church. Of course, the bishop of Rome, who is also the pope, is uniquely different: He is first among brothers, and yet he also has real authority as pastor of the whole Church. But he is not a global CEO, and Catholic bishops are not—and never have been—his agents or employees.
We can see how the Archbishop would think that he really has limited options, since so many of the people he's allowed to be appointed aren't demonstrably Catholic-- why would it surprise him when they aren't pliable to direction. Since his own record in this regard of dealing with abuses and scandals has been a bit spotty, like when he allowed a Mass to be said in his own See for the benefit of the Pro-Abortion Governor, here.
But there are even still some people who will remember the Archbishop's endorsement of Stations of the Cross like these, here, when a woman took the part of Christ in a very strange portrayal of the Stations of the Cross indeed.
Pope Denounces Abuses of Authority, even those by a Pope Himself
(26 May 10 – RV) “Not even the Pope can do what he wants, on the contrary the Pope is the guardian of obedience to Christ, to his Word" who " must precede in obedience to Christ and his Church. " "Outside of a clearly and explicitly supernatural vision the priests own duty to govern is incomprehensible. Instead it is supported by true love for the salvation of every believer, it is particularly precious and necessary in our time".
This was Pope Benedict XVI’s message at the heart of his Wednesday audience delivered to thousands in St Peter’s Square. With little over two week to the conclusion of the Year for Priests (June 11th) the Holy Father delivered the third in a series of lessons on the duties of the priestly ministry. The first two were dedicated to the priests duty to educate and sanctify the People of God, the third task, as outlined by the Pope, is to exercise authority in the Lord’s name:
“Authority, in the Christian understanding, is a service to the true, ultimate good of the person, which is our salvation in Christ; exercised in the Lord’s name, it is an expression of the constant presence and care of the Good Shepherd. The spiritual authority conferred in Holy Orders should be matched by the priest’s interior fidelity to his pastoral mission and his personal readiness to follow obediently the lead of Christ. Understood in the light of faith, this authority, while involving the exercise of power, remains a service to the building up of the Church in holiness, unity and truth. Christ’s power was expressed in the washing of feet, and his kingship by the wood of the Cross; so too, the priestly ministry of governance must be expressed in pastoral charity.”
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This was Pope Benedict XVI’s message at the heart of his Wednesday audience delivered to thousands in St Peter’s Square. With little over two week to the conclusion of the Year for Priests (June 11th) the Holy Father delivered the third in a series of lessons on the duties of the priestly ministry. The first two were dedicated to the priests duty to educate and sanctify the People of God, the third task, as outlined by the Pope, is to exercise authority in the Lord’s name:
“Authority, in the Christian understanding, is a service to the true, ultimate good of the person, which is our salvation in Christ; exercised in the Lord’s name, it is an expression of the constant presence and care of the Good Shepherd. The spiritual authority conferred in Holy Orders should be matched by the priest’s interior fidelity to his pastoral mission and his personal readiness to follow obediently the lead of Christ. Understood in the light of faith, this authority, while involving the exercise of power, remains a service to the building up of the Church in holiness, unity and truth. Christ’s power was expressed in the washing of feet, and his kingship by the wood of the Cross; so too, the priestly ministry of governance must be expressed in pastoral charity.”
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Priest who opposed Papal teaching arrested for Sex Abuse
It's not really the people who accept the truth of the Catholic Church's teachings, believe in the moral law, fear the judgements of God who are the problem.
It's liberals you have to watch out for, and liberals who are clever enough to pretend to be real Catholics.
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It's liberals you have to watch out for, and liberals who are clever enough to pretend to be real Catholics.
Of course, the recent John Jay misinformation study, made up of analytically-challenged dataticians with a predetermined agenda, has enlightened us that there is no convincing evidence that sexual abuse of boys is a predominately homosexual crime.
Much as I am disgusted by so many abuse cases involving priests, and I usually avoid reporting them, there is another study that, in their determination to blacklist the Catholic priesthood, is ignored completely by the anti-Catholic media. Mind you, these analysts had no predetermined agenda other than identifying behavioral abnormalities of teachers. Clip: “But according to Charol Shakeshaft, the researcher of a little-remembered 2004 study prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, ‘the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.’” (my emphasis)
Catholic Culture reports: A 73-year-old Italian priest who has long been a critic of Catholic teaching that homosexual inclinations are objectively disordered was arrested on May 24 on charges of abusing a teenage boy. Father Domenico Pezzini, who has led gay Catholic organizations, is also a medievalist and translator who recently retired from his faculty position at the University of Verona. More here.
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No Homosexual Parade in Moscow this Year Either
MOSCOW, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - For the fifth year in a row, the government of the city of Moscow has defied the international homosexual lobby and has refused to issue a permit for a "gay pride" parade.
Nokolai Alexeiv, the organizer of the event, said that the permit had been denied because of risks to public order, as well as security concerns.
Gay pride marches are often scenes of public lewdness, in which participants violate nudity laws and engage in simulated and even real sex acts in public. The mayor's office has denounced homosexual behavior as "satanic" and said that it spreads disease.
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Signals of closer relations between Rome and Moscow, here.
Nokolai Alexeiv, the organizer of the event, said that the permit had been denied because of risks to public order, as well as security concerns.
Gay pride marches are often scenes of public lewdness, in which participants violate nudity laws and engage in simulated and even real sex acts in public. The mayor's office has denounced homosexual behavior as "satanic" and said that it spreads disease.
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Related article, here.
Signals of closer relations between Rome and Moscow, here.
An outpouring of Support and Love for Cardinal Ouellet
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the beating he took in the Quebec and national media last week, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, archbishop of Quebec City and primate of Canada, is “buoyant, joyful, brimming with love,” reports journalist Deborah Gyapong.
Cardinal Ouellet was attacked by the mainstream press, politicians, and even some clergy after he made comments just over a week ago in which he affirmed the teaching of the Catholic Church against abortion in all cases, including rape.
“The child is not responsible for how he was conceived, it is the aggressor who is responsible,” he told reporters. “We can see him (the child) as another victim.”
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Cardinal Ouellet was attacked by the mainstream press, politicians, and even some clergy after he made comments just over a week ago in which he affirmed the teaching of the Catholic Church against abortion in all cases, including rape.
“The child is not responsible for how he was conceived, it is the aggressor who is responsible,” he told reporters. “We can see him (the child) as another victim.”
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Heretical Jesuit Pretends to be Physicist and gets Owned
Jesuits are great pretenders.
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[First Thoughts] Catholic World News reports that Fr. Michael Kelly, S.J. the CEO of the Asian Catholic News agency, finds the Catholic doctrine of “transubstantiation” meaningless in this “post-Newtonian world of quantum physics”. Since I use quantum mechanics every day in my work, I think I can match my understanding of this post-Newtonian world of quantum physics against Fr. Kelly’s, and I do not find the doctrine “meaningless”.
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Deacon arrested for Simony in Greece
ATHENS, Greece -- Police arrested an orthodox deacon on Monday (May 24th) who allegedly sold human bones to a Swiss man, claiming they are holy relics. The priest, 24, was detained in the town of Sidirokastro, near the Bulgarian border. A total of 505 human bone fragments, 15 skulls, icons and Byzantine coins were found in his home. The bones were labelled with the names of various saints. Police also arrested the Swiss national, Stephan Meyer, 43, at the airport in Thessaloniki from where he was awaiting a flight to Germany. Skulls and nearly 200 bone fragments in his luggage were allegedly to be delivered to a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Germany. (AP, Telegraph - 24/05/10)
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Culture and Civilzation at War
Alice von Hildebrand
God gave Adam and Eve dominion over the earth. This mission was confided to them, not to let it become stale but to make it bear fruit. They were called to take care of it, to tend it, and to develop it. Nature was the material, and man was to foster its development and to beautify it. If one compares a virgin forest with a Tuscan or Umbrian landscape, it is obvious that men have taken this mission seriously and fulfilled it lovingly.
Man's intervention can take two different forms: Following my late husband Dietrich's terminology, I will call one of them "civilization" and the other "culture."
By civilization, I mean human achievements aimed at making life easier, more practical, and more convenient. Transportation comes to mind: It is a field in which technology has worked "miracles." Walking has -- in due time -- been replaced by buggies, which, in turn, have been replaced by bicycles, cars, ships, and airplanes. Man can now crisscross the world in a matter of hours, whereas at the time of Columbus, reaching the American continent was a slow and dangerous enterprise. We have even landed on the moon, and soon we can hope to conquer other planets.
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God gave Adam and Eve dominion over the earth. This mission was confided to them, not to let it become stale but to make it bear fruit. They were called to take care of it, to tend it, and to develop it. Nature was the material, and man was to foster its development and to beautify it. If one compares a virgin forest with a Tuscan or Umbrian landscape, it is obvious that men have taken this mission seriously and fulfilled it lovingly.
Man's intervention can take two different forms: Following my late husband Dietrich's terminology, I will call one of them "civilization" and the other "culture."
By civilization, I mean human achievements aimed at making life easier, more practical, and more convenient. Transportation comes to mind: It is a field in which technology has worked "miracles." Walking has -- in due time -- been replaced by buggies, which, in turn, have been replaced by bicycles, cars, ships, and airplanes. Man can now crisscross the world in a matter of hours, whereas at the time of Columbus, reaching the American continent was a slow and dangerous enterprise. We have even landed on the moon, and soon we can hope to conquer other planets.
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Cardinal Newman's Legacy is at Brompton Oratory where there's Trouble
No doubt, there's already a lot of rumpus about just how much a strong advocate the great Cardinal Newman was to the cause of belle lettres and literary genius. A Los Angeles Priest has tried to do his part to exonerate the beleaguered cause of Sainthood. Cardinal Newman's contemporaries weren't quite as keen about his Orthodoxy as are Cardinal Newman's latter day would-be hagiographers. Even Lord Acton, whose liberal Catholicism the Cardinal stood in good stead, found his personal orthodoxy suspect, perhaps even, distasteful.
Even a mix-up at Brompton Oratory won't put a damper on this.
Can a man about whom, for those who really know anything about him, be described as anything but catty, vengeful and petty? Many people look at Cardinal Newman as a herald of Vatican II. He certainly set an example for others of his Liberal set; we've got too many of his type already in the clerical state and we need more Cardinal Mannings.
Just how much will get out about the Cardinal's personal Orthodoxy remains to be seen, but perhaps there is something to the genius of the Papacy that perceives things as they are but not as they seem. Cardinal Newman, his literary genius notwithstanding, might not have been the most friendly and gregarious of men, but perhaps he was more than that, a Saint perhaps?
Hopefully, the Cardinal will have better defenders than he has opponents, because he really needs strong advocates to defend his honor and the honor of the Church.
So far, owing to the prurient interest of our modern world, the question of Cardinal Newman's sexuality far outweighs any considerations of his orthodoxy.
Even a mix-up at Brompton Oratory won't put a damper on this.
Can a man about whom, for those who really know anything about him, be described as anything but catty, vengeful and petty? Many people look at Cardinal Newman as a herald of Vatican II. He certainly set an example for others of his Liberal set; we've got too many of his type already in the clerical state and we need more Cardinal Mannings.
Just how much will get out about the Cardinal's personal Orthodoxy remains to be seen, but perhaps there is something to the genius of the Papacy that perceives things as they are but not as they seem. Cardinal Newman, his literary genius notwithstanding, might not have been the most friendly and gregarious of men, but perhaps he was more than that, a Saint perhaps?
Hopefully, the Cardinal will have better defenders than he has opponents, because he really needs strong advocates to defend his honor and the honor of the Church.
So far, owing to the prurient interest of our modern world, the question of Cardinal Newman's sexuality far outweighs any considerations of his orthodoxy.
Franciscan University Graduates its Fourth Largest Class Ever
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STEUBENVILLE, OH—Franciscan University of Steubenville sent the largest graduating class in the University's history into the world on Saturday, May 8, at the 62nd commencement exercises.
The 707 graduates of the Class of 2010 represent 11 countries and 46 states, with Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Virginia, and New York leading the way. This year's class also included the first-ever graduates from the sacred music and international business programs.
"Congratulations on graduating from one of the finest Catholic universities, not only in the United States, but in the world," His Eminence John Cardinal Foley told the graduates gathered in Finnegan Fieldhouse for the Baccalaureate Mass on Friday, May 7.
Delivering his homily "from the chair," Cardinal Foley linked the graduates to centuries of Catholic tradition while exhorting them to take the fervor of their faith with them into the world.
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ACLU attacks Sheriff for Refusing to Drive someone to Abortion
By James Tillman
WEATHERFORD, Texas, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has threatened legal action against a Texas sheriff, claiming he violated an inmate's constitutional "right" to an abortion by refusing to transport her to an abortion clinic.
Sheriff Larry Fowler, however, said he would not use taxpayer funds to facilitate the deed.
"My personal feeling is I don't feel like the taxpayers of Parker County would think much of their sheriff spending taxpayer money to take people to abortion clinics," Fowler told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
"I don't think they would want me to even entertain that notion."
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WEATHERFORD, Texas, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has threatened legal action against a Texas sheriff, claiming he violated an inmate's constitutional "right" to an abortion by refusing to transport her to an abortion clinic.
Sheriff Larry Fowler, however, said he would not use taxpayer funds to facilitate the deed.
"My personal feeling is I don't feel like the taxpayers of Parker County would think much of their sheriff spending taxpayer money to take people to abortion clinics," Fowler told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
"I don't think they would want me to even entertain that notion."
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Anxieties over the Papal visit to Britain
Damian cites one person's concern that Susan Boyle's singing is intended to "keep bums on seats". The concern is that not enough people will show up.
Anxieties over the Papal visit to Britain
Anxieties over the Papal visit to Britain
Dispute over Prague Cathedral Ends
[Czechia/Kreuz], The Church has capitulated in its year-long legal battle over the Cathedral which was robbed by the Communists in 1953. On Monday President Vaclav Klaus and Archbishop Dominic Duka (67) signed the agreement. The Church therein repudiates its rights of ownership. Msgr Duka is in his first month in office. His predecessor Miloslav Cardinal Vlk, wanted to make a constitutional appeal and if necessary to go before the European Human Rights Court, against the refusal to return the Cathedral.
Since the Cathedral had been stolen from the Church by the Communists, many years have come and gone.
[Czech News]Klaus said the disputes about the cathedral had thereby ended and that the state and the Catholic Church would take care of the cathedral jointly.
Under the agreement, the Prague Castle Administration is to provide the real estate, two buildings in the Castle complex, necessary for the church to use the cathedral and the Prague Castle will keep looking after the real estate.
"The court dispute about the cathedral and some other real estate at Prague Castle has been terminated by the declaration we have just signed. As it has been for long past centuries, the state and the Catholic Church will by joint forces take care of the cathedral that they together consider an exceptional national symbol in its historical, spiritual and cultural sense," Klaus said after signing the declaration this afternoon.
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New Chaldean Archbishop in Iraq
The Chaldean Diocese of Erbil (Iraq) has a new bishop. The new bishop, who will replace Msgr. Rabban Alqas who since 2007 held the patriarchal diocese as administrator is, as rumored since the last synod of the Chaldean church, Father Bashar Warda CSsR, rector of St. Peter Chaldean Seminary in Ankawa.
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