Tag Archives: Catholic Church

New York state Assemblyman Joe Lentol voted in favor of same-sex marriage. Which means a Brooklyn Catholic school has to send back his $50 donation. Officials at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg sent back a $50 gift from Assemblyman Joe Lentol (D-Brooklyn) – following Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio’s edict to refuse any honors from pols who backed …

“We do worry indeed about this freedom of religion. Editorials already call for the removal of guarantees of religious liberty, with crusaders calling for people of faith to be coerced to acceptance of this redefinition. If the experience of those few other states and countries where this is already law is any indication, the churches, and believers, will soon be …

Unsurprisingly, Catholic Bishops are ever so pissed about Rhode Island’s civil unions bill. “In no way can civil union measures be considered a permissible compromise or a step in advancing the common good, said Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, in a July 1 statment. “Instead, they directly violate …

Thomas Peters is the NOM staffer who embarrassed himself by posting a preemptive National Review article declaring that same-sex marriage had been defeated in New York. He’s also the son of the Vatican adviser who earlier this week called for Gov. Cuomo to be denied Holy Communion. Yesterday the younger Peters appeared on a Catholic news program to explain why. …

One day after World Net Daily called for NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s arrest for supporting same-sex marriage, a top Vatican adviser has declared that Cuomo should be denied Holy Communion. A senior adviser to the Vatican, who is a theology professor in Detroit, blasted the Catholic governor of New York for his strong backing of same-sex marriage, saying that he …

ZOMG! In less than five minutes, Catholic League mental case Bill Donahue hits on every viciously anti-gay lie in the religious right’s arsenal. Polygamy, procreation, incest, and even some wild shit about prongs and sockets. SRSLY. Huge huge kudos to the show’s host for firing back at every bit of Donahue’s batshittery.

“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 …

“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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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. …