Tag Archives: Catholic Church

Bill Donahue On New York Marriage

“Ultimately, this issue will not be resolved in the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court: it will be decided by a constitutional amendment. Though the Federal Marriage Amendment prevailed in the House in 2006 by a margin of 236-187, it failed to achieve the necessary 290 votes required to pass a constitutional amendment; two-thirds of both chambers of Congress, and …

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Timothy Dolan: If We Allow Gay Marriage, Men Will Start Marrying Their Sisters

“That’s what’s going to happen here. You think it’s going to stop with this? You think now bigamists are going to want their rights to marry? You think somebody that wants to marry his sister is going to now say ‘I have a right.’ I mean it’s the same principle, isn’t it?” – Archbishop Timothy Dolan of the New York …

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Blowhard Bill Donahue On NY Marriage

Catholic League blowhard and pedophile defender Bill Donahue reruns the same-old tired lies. The threats to religious liberty are not hypothetical. A New Mexico photographer who refused to photograph a gay couple’s commitment ceremony was forced to pay the couple’s attorney’s fees; Christians in New Jersey who objected to allowing a gay union ceremony in their privately owned facility have …

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PhoboQuotable – Timothy Dolan

“Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in New York, in the United States of America – not in China or North Korea. In those countries, government presumes daily to “redefine” rights, relationships, values, and natural law. There, communiqués from the government can dictate the size of families, who lives and who dies, and what …

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Boston Priest Defies Archdiocese, Declares Gays Welcome At Catholic Mass

Earlier this week I reported that the Archdiocese of Boston had moved to cancel a planned “All Are Welcome” Catholic mass in honor of gay Pride. Yesterday the Boston Globe reported that the local priest behind the idea is standing up to his bosses. Sunday Mass at St. Cecilia’s Church in the Back Bay brought the first standing ovation any …

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Boston Catholics: Not All Are Welcome

After being criticized that it was “endorsing” Gay Pride Month, the Archdiocese of Boston has forced the cancellation of a planned “All Are Welcome” mass at a local church. In its most recent bulletin, St. Cecilia Parish said that it had planned a “liturgy to commemorate Boston Pride 2011’’ for later this month. “The Rainbow Ministry of St. Cecilia Parish …

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PhoboQuotable – Ignacio Barreiro

“The Catholic Church has often affirmed that here is no ‘right to adopt.’ It is a privilege and responsibility to be granted only to those married couples who can demonstrate, through their loving, permanent commitment to each other, their ability to make a lifetime commitment to raising a child in the best environment possible. May God bless these shepherds, their …

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ILLINOIS: More Catholic Adoption Groups Close Doors Rather Than Comply With Law

Two more Catholic adoption agencies in Illinois have decided to close their doors rather than comply with the state’s new civil unions law. They’d rather see children go without families. 

 Glenn Van Cura, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet, told The Advocate that his office is not accepting applications for new foster care or adoptive …

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Catholic Conference Denounces “Hate Purveyors” Attacking NY Sen. Ruben Diaz

The New York State Catholic Conference has issued a statement backing state Sen. Ruben Diaz, who is all over the net this week making unsubstantiated claims of receiving death threats from gay activists. It is now reported, in a popular political blog that all policy-makers read in Albany, that the “F*** Ruben Diaz Festival” will be held soon in Brooklyn, …

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GERMANY: Catholic Doctors Group Selling Homeopathic “Treatment” For Gayness

Germany’s Union of Catholic Doctors is selling a homeopathic “treatment” for gayness on their website. The religious association, which calls itself the “voice of the Catholic medical community,” writes on its website that while “homosexuality is not an illness,” a host of treatments are available to keep such “inclinations” at bay. Possibilities include “constitutional treatments with homeopathic tools … such …

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… Wisconsin: Pastor David E. Radtke charged with sexual assault on a 16 year-old student.Georgia: Pastor David Pope charged with child molestation.Wisconsin: Father Michael Nowak charged with making obscene phone calls to underage girls.Kentucky: Pastor Jeremy Caraway charged with child rape.Arizona: Two Mormon bishops will not be charged for failing to report a church member who …

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ILLINOIS: Catholic Charities To End Adoption Services Due To Civil Unions

Catholic Charities of Rockford, Illinois announced yesterday that they will suspend all foster care and adoption services rather than comply with the state’s new civil unions law. Officials cited a lack of clarity in the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act, which does not specify whether religious child welfare agencies must place children with couples in civil unions. …

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Priest In Diocese Of Pope’s Advisor On Pedophilia Scandal Arrested For Pedophilia

Time Magazine reports: The latest sex-abuse case to rock the Catholic Church is unfolding in the archdiocese of an influential Italian Cardinal who has been working with Pope Benedict XVI on reforms to respond to prior scandals of pedophile priests. Father Riccardo Seppia, a 51-year-old parish priest in the village of Sastri Ponente, near Genoa, was arrested last Friday, May …

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Catholic Molestation Study: Priests Were Stressed Out By The Sexual Revolution

According to a five year study commissioned by the Catholic Church, the real reason all those priests committed child molestation is because they were “poorly prepared and monitored” during the social tumult of the sexual revolution. Blame it on Woodstock. The researchers concluded that it was not possible for the church, or for anyone, to identify abusive priests in advance. …

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NY Archbishop Timothy Dolan Compares Gay Marriage To Incest And Polygamy

The elderly pedophile-protector in fabulous drag really has nothing. We are not anti anybody; we are pro-marriage. The definition of marriage is a given: it is a lifelong union of love and fidelity leading, please God, to children, between one man and one woman. History, Natural Law, the Bible (if you’re so inclined), the religions of the world, human experience, …

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Bill Donahue Rips Presbyterian Church

“The Presbyterian Church now joins the United Church of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and the Episcopal Church in allowing practicing homosexuals and lesbians to become members of the clergy. It also has something else in common with these mainline Protestant denominations: it is collapsing. In the case of the Presbyterian Church, it has lost more than half …

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… South Carolina: Pastor Charles Ledford arrested for embezzling over $250K from his church.Louisiana: Pastor Elijah Mealancon busted for stealing $100K from an elderly parishioner.New Brunswick: Father Charles Jean Picot found guilty of child molestation.Georgia: Pastor Kenneth Terrell pleads guilty to embezzling $200K from his church. Terrell has been arrested 27 times in the past.Missouri: Father …

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ILLINOIS: Catholic Charities To Defy Civil Unions Law On Gay Adoptions

Catholic Charities of Peoria, Illinois says that it will continue to deny its adoption services to gay people despite the recent failure of a bill that would have exempted them from anti-discrimination laws. Civil unions go into effect in Illinois on June 1st. “The Catholic Church is not going to be OK with Catholic Charities processing applications from anyone in …

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CALIFORNIA: Supreme Court Rejects Catholic Battle Against San Francisco

In 2006 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution denouncing the Vatican as an “insulting and ignorant” foreign country “hatefully” meddling in the right of gay Americans to adopt children. That didn’t go over so well with the local Catholic Church, who sued the city for violating the separation of church and state. Oh, the irony. Last year …

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MINNESOTA: Catholic Bishops Support Constitutional Marriage Ban

Minnesota’s Catholic bishops have issued a joint statement in support of the pending constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, which may go on the ballot this November. An excerpt: “Our own State’s constant recognition of marriage is based on the evident fact that only the sexual union of a man and a woman has the natural capability to bring forth new …

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