Tag Archives: Catholics

Catholics Applaud NY Sen. Ruben Diaz

Bigotry makes strange bedfellows. Catholic Online’s head hater Deacon Keith Fournier has published an effusive praising of NY Sen. Ruben Diaz’ anti-gay performance yesterday. Senator Ruben Diaz is a “man with a chest”. He stands out in an age of men (and women) without chests. The reaction to the vote defending marriage against its opponents has been swift. Those in …

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PhoboQuotable – Cardinal Javier Barragan

“Transsexuals and homosexuals will never enter the kingdom of heaven and it is not me who says this, but Saint Paul. People are not born homosexual, they become homosexual, for different reasons: education issues or because they did not develop their own identity during adolescence. It may not be their fault, but acting against nature and the dignity of the …

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St. Louis: Activists Launch Month-Long Protest Outside Catholic Basilica

The Missouri LGBT activist group Show Me No Hate has launched a month-long protest outside of the St. Louis Basilica in response to the diocese’s $10,000 donation to repeal marriage equality in Maine. Via the Catholic News Agency: According to The Vital Voice, Show Me No Hate has accused the Archdiocese of St. Louis of misusing the funds, saying the …

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Irish Priest: Molestation Cover-Up Scandal Goes Right To The Top In Rome

BBC radio host and newspaper columnist Father Brian D’Arcy says that the blame for the Catholic Church’s unfolding child molestation cover-up scandal in Dublin goes all the way to Rome. One of Ireland’s best-loved priests, Father Brian D’Arcy, has called for the resignation of clergy who knowingly covered up for child sex-abuse priests. Five bishops who once served in the …

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New Jersey’s Catholics Asked To Pray Against Marriage Equality Today

The Catholic priests of New Jersey have been instructed by their bishops to ask their congregations to pray against the passage of same-sex marriage today. The bishops’ letter restates Catholic teachings that marriage should be allowed only between a man and a woman. It says prayer is timely “because marriage faces challenges from a society more focused on individual satisfaction …

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80’s Flashback

The Singing Nun, Dominique (Disco Version), 1982. In 1963 Belgian nun Sister Luc-Gabrielle (real name: Jeanine Deckers) became a worldwide sensation as The Singing Nun when her album of original songs (recorded to be souvenirs for visitors to her convent) topped the charts across Europe. In the U.S. Dominique topped the pop charts for four weeks in December 1963, partially …

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New Child Molestation Scandal Roils Ireland’s Catholic Church

For the second time in a year, evidence has emerged of a massive child molestation cover-up in Ireland’s Catholic Church. Ireland’s Catholic Church apologised Thursday after a damning new report showed it covered up child sex abuse over more than three decades. The Irish government also said sorry for failing to protect children in the wake of the latest report, …

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HomoQuotable – Lisa Neff

“Outing, to me, has always seemed like using sexual orientation as a weapon, like an act of violence. To out gay priests for an anti-gay Church policy, well, how is that different than outing gay and lesbian servicemembers because Congress adopted the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy? “Does anyone honestly think that by outing one or 100 gay priests, the …

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50 U.S. Catholic Dioceses Contributed To Maine Marriage Battle

A report just published by the National Catholic Reporter reveals that while half of the $550K donated by the Catholic Church to Maine’s marriage equality battle came from the Portland Diocese, the rest came from 50 dioceses around the country. Portland Bishop Richard Malone brought in $86,000 in one fell swoop, from that infamous second collection taken at Mass statewide. …

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DC’s Catholic Charities Complains About Bad Press Over Same-Sex Marriage Threat

Good As You reports that DC’s Catholic Charities placed a message in yesterday’s Sunday bulletin of St. Peters’s Cathedral to complain that the press was misreporting their threat to suspend social services if same-sex marriage is approved. Take it away, Jeremy Hooper: It would be one thing if they came right out and said, “Look, we simply don’t wanna serve …

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Thousands Of Anglican Priests Defect To Vatican Over Gay-Friendly Policies

Last month Pope Palpatine invited the world’s Anglican priests to join the Catholic Church if they disagreed with new gay-friendly Anglican policies. This weekend the first avalanche of thousands of defecting priests was announced. Over 4,000 Anglican priests all over the world, including married ones, are expected to join the Catholic Church, Bishop Matthias Ssekamanya announced on Friday. Ssekamanya, who …

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PhoboQuotable – Bill Donohue

“A new homosexual website, ChurchOuting.org, is intent on publicly disclosing who the gay priests are in the Archdiocese of Washington. The goal of this outing is to intimidate gay priests, as well as heterosexual priests who may be “romantically involved,” into voicing objections to the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage. “This initiative is the work of Phil Attey, self-described …

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Catholic Bishops: Gay Marriage Will Destroy American Society

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a 60-page pastoral letter condemning same-sex unions as a “threat to the fabric of society.” “We have the need to defend marriage within our culture,” said Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, a member of the committee that wrote the document. “This pastoral letter will also serve as a foundational document as we …

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And Now Wii Pray

JMG reader Victor tips us to this hilarious clip for Mass: We Pray, a Wii-based video game for all the Catholic sacraments! Commenters on YouTube are divided on the “real or fake” issue – I’m voting fake, but then again, there’s always Poe’s Law. BONUS: My favorite YouTube comment: 10-2-2 Cheat-Get to level 10 genuflectionbutton, sign of crossmove up 2 …

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Study: Gay Priests No More Likely To Molest Than Straight Ones

A new study shows that sexual orientation is not predictive of which Catholic priests commit child molestation. A preliminary report commissioned by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops to investigate the clergy sex abuse scandal has found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday. The full …

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Site Launches To Out DC Priests

Washington DC activist and JMG reader Phil Attey has launched ChurchOuting.org, a site intended to publicize the names of Catholic priests who are socially out but professionally closeted. Via press release: A new local Internet and social media campaign was launched today in response to increasing anti-gay attacks by Archbishop Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington and to a …

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CNN On Catholic Church’s Threat To Abandon DC’s Homeless & Hungry

DC’s Catholic Charities is pushing forward with its threat to close its soup kitchens and homeless shelters should the city legalize same-sex marriage. A double-speaking church spokesman tells Wolf Blitzer that Catholic Charities has “no intention” of ending its help to the poor, but a moment later says that “we can’t represent something that goes against our core beliefs.”

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Catholic Church Issues Ultimatum To DC: Allow Us To Discriminate Against Gays Or We Won’t Feed Or Shelter The Homeless

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC has issued an ultimatum to Washington DC, saying if marriage equality is approved without an exemption for them, they will end all their social service programs including food and shelter for the homeless, adoption programs, and public health services. Under the bill, headed for a D.C. Council vote next month, religious organizations would not …

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Maggie Gallagher On Maine

From the Catholic News Agency’s official YouTube channel. “If they cannot win in Maine, they cannot win anywhere.” (Via – Good As You)

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Over $9M Spent On Maine’s Question 1

The National Institute on Money in State Politics has sent us the above breakdown of the groups and amounts funding both sides of Maine’s Question 1. The losing No On 1 side outspent the bigots by 68%, but to no avail. Proponents The committees that supported Question 1 got their funding almost entirely from churches and conservative Christian organizations and …

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