Tag Archives: Catholic Church

Day Two Of Vatican’s Marriage Meeting

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Pope Francis Confirms 2015 US Visit

Via NBC Philadelphia: The pontiff confirmed Monday he plans to attend the highly-anticipated World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia next year. “I wish to confirm according to the wishes of the Lord, that in September of 2015, I will go to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families,” he told a gathering of religious leaders in Rome. The three-day visit …

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Quote Of The Day: Pope Francis

“As you embark on a reflection on the beauty of complementarity between man and woman in marriage, I urge you to lift up yet another truth about marriage: that permanent commitment to solidarity, fidelity, and fruitful love responds to the deepest longings of the human heart. Let us bear in mind especially the young people, who represent our future. It …

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Headline Of The Day

This is the guy that the pope just demoted. Details.

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VATICAN: American Anti-Gay Religious Leaders To Attend Meeting On Marriage

Miranda Blue writes at Right Wing Watch: Next week, American Religious Right leaders including the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore, pastor Rick Warren, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput, and Latter-Day Saints official Henry Eyring will be joining opponents of LGBT equality from around the world at an interfaith conference on the “complementarity of man and woman in marriage” hosted by …

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VATICAN: Topless Femen Trio Arrested After Simulating Anal Sex With Crucifixes

Via the International Business Times: Three topless Femen demonstrators have been dragged away from St. Peter’s Square after simulating anal sex with crucifixes in a protest against the Pope outside the Vatican. The women crouched on all fours and re-enacted sex with crosses while shouting anti-papal remarks including “a world without religion, a parliament without a pope” and “god is …

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Vatican Boots Burke From Another Post

Via the Associated Press: American Cardinal Raymond Burke, who championed campaigns to deny Communion to Catholic politicians who support legalized abortion, was removed by Pope Francis from another top Vatican post on Saturday. The removal of Burke as head of the Holy See’s supreme court was widely expected in church circles. While he was archbishop of St. Louis, from 2003-2008, …

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Michigan Catholics Have The Gladz

“Today’s ruling is a joyous occasion for many communities and families across the state that have sought to protect the traditional definition of marriage. Those who ruled in the majority deserve applause for applying the rule of law and for recognizing voter intent to secure one man and one woman in marriage. By upholding the Michigan Marriage Amendment, the Court …

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Danny Devito Is The Anti-Christ

Here’s the latest from the Third Eagle Of The Apocalypse and Co-Prophet Of The End Times. Not only is Danny Devito the anti-Christ, a red couch seen in the latest One Direction video “symbolizes the second horseman of the apocalypse.” Red furniture is from Satan.

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VATICAN: Pope Slams “Bastardized” Marriages That Are Mere “Associations”

“The family is being hit, the family is being struck and the family is being bastardized. What is being proposed is not marriage, it’s an association. But it’s not marriage! It’s necessary to say these things very clearly and we have to say it! So many families are divided, so many marriages broken, (there is) such relativism in the concept …

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Sister Cristina – Like A Virgin

In June this Ursuline nun won Italy’s version of The Voice. Her new single has racked up 1.5M views in the last 48 hours. The label has disabled comments at YouTube, which is unusual for pop releases.

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Headline Of The Day

This is the guy who said that it was “evil” to introduce kids to their gay relatives. Details.

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Vatican Backtracks: Oops, Our Bad, Gay People Are Still Just Totally Horrible

Dry your tears, Maggie. Via CNN: Under furious assault from conservative Catholics, the Vatican backtracked Tuesday on its surprisingly positive assessment of gays and same-sex relationships. In a report Monday, the Vatican had said that gays and lesbians have “gifts to offer” the Christian community and acknowledged that same-sex couples can give “precious support” to one other. The statement, an …

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Maggie Gallagher Has The Vatican Sadz

“I hope to respond intellectually to the synod report. Tears right now are streaming from my face, and it is not about objections to welcoming gay people. There is something more profoundly at stake for me. Is this me? In the corner?” – Maggie Gallagher, writing for the National Review. Her link goes to REM’s Losing My Religion, which commenters …

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Thomas Peters Has The Vatican Sadz

“We need to remember and repeat that the relatio is only a working document and carries no authority. In fact, this entire extraordinary synod serves a purely advisory role in preparation for the ordinary synod next fall. What this debate has already done is create a space for all of us to reflect on the church’s teaching and to quietly, …

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VATICAN: Bishops Say Gays Have “Gifts And Qualities” To Offer Church

Via the Associated Press: Catholic bishops are showing unprecedented openness to accepting the real lives of many Catholics today, saying gays have gifts to offer the church and should be accepted and that there are “positive” aspects to a couple living together without being married. A two-week meeting of bishops on family issues arrived at its halfway point Monday with …

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Raleigh Archbishop Has The Marriage Sadz

“While saddened to learn of today’s ruling overturning the marriage amendment, the occasion provides an opportunity to convey two important teachings of our Church. First, the Church has always taught, and will always teach, that every person is created in the image and likeness of God and, thus, has a dignity which must always be respected and upheld. There are …

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Cardinal Raymond Burke: Families Should Not Expose Kids To Evil Gay Relatives

Jeremy Hooper has some of the transcript at Good As You: “If homosexual relations are intrinsically disordered, which indeed they are — reason teaches us that and also our faith — then, what would it mean to grandchildren to have present at a family gathering a family member who is living [in] a disordered relationship with another person?”…”We wouldn’t, if …

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Virginia Bishop Has The SCOTUS Sadz

“Because of the Supreme Court’s denial, marriages between couples of the same sex have begun today in Virginia. This occurrence reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the intrinsic nature of marriage and represents an injustice to over a million Virginia voters, whose decision was to enshrine the understanding of marriage as the union of one man and one woman into our …

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HomoQuotable – Frank Bruni

“Repeatedly over the last year and a half, I’ve written about teachers in Catholic schools and leaders in Catholic parishes who were dismissed from their posts because they were in same-sex relationships and — in many cases — had decided to marry. Every time, more than a few readers weighed in to tell me that these people had it coming. …

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