Tag Archives: Catholic Church

The 911 operator in Springfield, Illinois fielded an unusual emergency call from the local Catholic church in late November.  The story was published yesterday by the Illinois Times. The pastor of St. Aloysius church on Springfield’s north end has been granted a leave of absence after he called 911 from the rectory and told a dispatcher that he needed help …

Yesterday Illinois GOP chair Pat Brady began calling Republican legislators to urge them to support the same-sex marriage bill. Today NOM is calling for Brady’s resignation and is vowing to unseat any Republican who heeds his call. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today pledged to form an Illinois state PAC and spend $250,000 defeating Republican legislators who vote in …

In his New Year’s Day address, yesterday Pope Ratzinger sat on his jewel-encrusted throne and denounced “selfish” capitalism. Pope Benedict XVI has condemned “unregulated capitalism” for contributing to world tension, in a new year address to worshippers. The Pope also thanked the world’s peacemakers and said humanity had “an innate vocation for peace”. The Roman Catholic Church leader spoke at …

“Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: The Illinois General Assembly is being asked to consider a bill called ‘The Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act.’ This is a deceptive title that ignores basic truths. Marriage comes to us from nature. The human species comes in two complementary sexes, male and female. Their sexual union is called marital. It not only …

“We have a plan. Several states are being targeted by our opponents for advancing same-sex marriage legislation and NOM will be making sure that the voters in those states know what their legislators are doing, and that those legislators know how their constituents feel. But we need funds to counter the other side’s onslaught of deception and lies. In November, …

“Marriage comes to us from nature. That’s based on the complementarity of the two sexes in such a way that the love of a man and a woman joined in a marital union is open to life, and that’s how families are created and society goes along. It’s not in our doctrine. It’s not a matter of faith. It’s a …

In two nearly identical notices, NOM has posted emergency warnings that same-sex marriage is about to be legalized in Illinois and Minnesota.  From the Minnesota post: In November, Minnesotans voted to maintain the status quo on marriage, as Minnesota statutes already recognize marriage as the union of a husband and wife. Now gay marriage activists are trying to force a …

Years ago I posted about the “debaptism” movement in which Catholics request that their names formally be stricken from the memberships rolls of their local diocese. This month that (mostly) symbolic move has gained steam in the Netherlands due to Pope Ratzinger’s incessant attacks on same-sex marriage. Tom Roes, whose website allows people to download the documents needed to leave …

“Past generations have gathered in this cathedral on Christmas night amid many shadows which seemed to obscure the future for them. We think of the ideologies of the past century, Communism and Nazism, which in living memory threatened to shape and distort the whole future of humanity. These inhuman ideologies would each challenge in the name of progress the received …

A deacon with the Archdiocese of Montreal has been arrested on multiple charges related to child pornography. A prominent West Island deacon who used to speak publicly about sexual crimes has been charged with the production and distribution of child pornography following a police investigation. William Kokesch, a 65-year-old deacon of St. Edmund of Canterbury Parish in Beaconsfield, was arrested …

The official Vatican newspaper yesterday compared gay marriage supporters with people who had been “deceived” by communism and socialism. Faced with recent setbacks in the United States and Europe, the Roman Catholic Church has intensified its increasingly uphill battle against gay marriage. The latest salvo came this week, with a front-page article in the Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Historian …

“People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being. They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves. The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is …

Several prominent anti-gay groups have formed a coalition to oppose same-sex marriage in Illinois. The coalition includes the notorious Illinois Family Association, which is an SPLC-certified hate group and the former home of Peter Labarbera. Other members are the Eagle Forum, Concerned Christian Americans, Family-PAC, Catholic Citizens of Illinois, Abstinence & Marriage Partners, Thomas More Society, and Illinois Citizens For …

“There is also a need to acknowledge and promote the natural structure of marriage as the union of a man and a woman in the face of attempts to make it juridically equivalent to radically different types of union. Such attempts actually harm and help to destabilize marriage, obscuring its specific nature and its indispensable role in society. These principles …

In an article about Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent comments on homosexuality, the Los Angeles Times delivers a fascinating nugget about Scalia’s son. The notion that there are no homosexual people, just homosexual acts, is an ancient one. Until recently it was the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church. Scalia’s son Paul, a Catholic priest who has served as chaplain to …

Ugandan Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, who last month promised the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act as a “Christmas gift to Christians,” yesterday appeared in Vatican City to receive the motherfucking blessing of the Pope. From the website of the Uganda Parliament: Kadaga who led a delegation of Ugandan legislators to the Vatican expressed delight at meeting the Pope and visiting …

The Russian Orthodox Church has issued a letter vowing its solidarity with French Catholics in their battle against the same-sex marriage bill promised by President Francois Hollande. In a letter, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Moscow Patriarchate’s external relations director, praised Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, president of France’s bishops’ conference, for his “consistent and uncompromising” opposition to same-sex marriage which represented …

“I pray the court will affirm the fact that the institution of marriage, which is as old as humanity and written in our very nature, is the union of one man and one woman. Marriage is the foundation of a just society, as it protects the most vulnerable among us, children. It is the only institution that unites children with …

Pope Palpatine has issued a book declaring that the birth of Jeebus is off by several years. “The calculation of the beginning of our calendar – based on the birth of Jesus – was made by Dionysius Exiguus, who made a mistake in his calculations by several years,” the Pope writes in the book, which went on sale around the …