Tag Archives: Catholics

Father Cutie Gets Busy

Famous Miami TV star/priest Father Alberto Cutie (sadly, it’s pronounced “koo-tee-yay”) was busted frolicking on the beach with a woman last week. Now he’s become the poster boy for ending celibacy requirements for Catholic clergy after being suspended by his diocese. He says he’s fallen in love with the woman and is “in the process of thinking about the future.”

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PhoboQuotable -Bishop Richard Malone

“I am deeply disappointed in the Maine Legislature and the Governor for making same sex-marriage legal in our state. We believe that the vast majority of Maine’s people believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, and that calling same-sex relationships marriage doesn’t make them so. Marriage as we have known it for millennia has served …

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Knights Of Columbus Join Anti-Marriage Equality Battle In New Jersey

The Knights of Columbus and other groups are working to get an anti-marriage equality referendum put on New Jersey’s 2010 ballot. Organizations opposed to letting gay or lesbian couples marry are urging lawmakers to put a question on the 2010 ballot asking voters whether to amend the state constitution to ban such unions. While there’s still time to get a …

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PhoboQuotable – Bishop Thomas Tobin

“Let me explain the “champagne principle.” Not every wine is champagne. Champagne has certain very specific, universally recognized characteristics. If someone were to take a bottle of Chianti, label and sell it as champagne, they’d be arrested for fraud. In the same way, those who seek to redefine marriage – with its specific characteristics – and to usurp the title …

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PhoboQuotable – Timothy Dolan

“We believe that human beings are hard-wired with a sense of right and wrong. It’s sort of in our DNA. And there are certain things that deep down we just know, because nature, and nature’s God has implanted that sense within us. That’s what philosophers, not even Catholic ones, like Aristotle, call natural law. There’s an in-built code of right …

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Archbishop Dolan Vows To Fight Paterson’s Marriage Equality Bill

In his second statement on the issue in as many days, yesterday New York’s new Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan vowed to use his new job to fight the marriage equality legislation to be introduced by Gov. Paterson today. Dolan said he will call on all the Catholic Bishops in New York to work with him to defeat the bill.Dolan: “We …

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Timothy Dolan Takes Over As Archbishop Of NY, Pledges To Fight Gay Marriage

Today the 2.5 million member New York diocese of the Catholic Church installs Timothy Dolan as Archbishop, replacing the creepily sonorous Edward Egan, who is retiring. During his homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral last night, Dolan referenced “the threats to marriage” (as well as sexual abuse by clergy) and promised to fight the impression that the Catholic Church is “unenlightened” …

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UK: Catholic Adoption Agencies Break From Church To Comply With Pro-Gay Laws

Five of the largest adoption agencies in the UK have broken their official ties to the Catholic Church in order to comply with gay rights laws and continue to receive government funding. The situation has caused an outcry in American religious circles as an example of religious persecution headed for American shores. Five agencies have declared themselves independent – and …

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Tony Blair To Pope: You’re Wrong On Gays

Former British prime minister and new Catholic Tony Blair told the UK gay magazine Attitude that the Pope is wrong about homosexuality. Tony Blair has challenged the “entrenched” attitudes of the Pope on homosexuality, and argued that it is time for him to “rethink” his views. Speaking to the gay magazine Attitude, the former Prime Minister, himself now a Roman …

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Iowa’s Bishops Are Shaking In Their Dresses With Righteous Anger

A secretive all-male group of dudes in embroidered dresses are angrily stomping their bejeweled slippers about Iowa’s approval of same-sex marriage. Via Catholic News Service: Iowa’s Catholic bishops vigorously disagreed with the Iowa Supreme Court’s unanimous decision April 3 that strikes down state law defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman. “This decision rejects the wisdom …

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Australia: Catholic Church To Test Potential Priests For Evidence Of Gayness

I’d love to see the questions on the test. Q: The Supremes did their best work after Diana Ross left. True/false? (Trick question, homo. Real men don’t even know who Diana Ross IS.) Melbourne Catholic Church has confirmed it is following Vatican recommendations to test would-be priests to ensure they are not gay. The head of the Vatican committee which …

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Serial Adulterer Newt Gingrich Converts To Catholicism, Now Completely “Sin Free”

Yesterday thrice-married Newt Gingrich converted to Catholicism in a move some see as part of his plan to run for president in 2012. According to Catholic theocon Deal Hudson, Gingrich has now been absolved of those pesky extra-marital affairs. “From a Catholic point of view, Newt’s sins no longer exist—they’ve been absolved. He’s made a fresh start in life. So …

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Death Threat Against Gay CT Legislators Results In Arrest

Connecticut police have arrested a man for emailing death threats to two gay state legislators who had proposed laws giving Catholic parishioners more control over church finances. The State Capitol Police Department charged a New Britain man with harassment after he allegedly sent a threatening email to two state legislators. Timothy Kane, 26, of New Britain was charged with Harassment …

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Amnesty International Calls On Pope To Support Decriminalization Of Gays

As he visits Catholic bishops in Cameroon today, Amnesty International is asking the Pope to support the United Nations resolution calling for the global decriminalization of homosexuality. Cameroon criminalises same-sex relations and the charity has said dozens of young men and women have been jailed or fined for allegedly engaging in homosexual behaviour over the last three years. Tawanda Hondora, …

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CNN On Pope’s Condom Comments

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Pope: Condom Use Increases AIDS

The Pope has made his first ever statement about safe sex and AIDS. Unbelievably, he says that condom use actually increases the spread of HIV. Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa Tuesday that condoms were not the answer in the continent’s fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working …

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Domestic Partners Bill Dies In New Mexico

For the third year in a row, the New Mexico Senate has rejected a domestic partners bill. The New Mexico Senate just voted down a bill that would have recognized domestic partnerships by a 25-17 vote. Ten Democrats joined the body’s 15 Republicans in voting against the bill, which would have given many of the same benefits enjoyed by married …

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Maine: Anti-Gay Marriage Site Launched

The Maine Marriage Initiative has launched a website to help residents contact their legislators and complain about the coming vote on marriage equality. Note the perfect Aryan family depicted in their header. Maine Marriage Initiative was established with the goal of informing Maine people about the consequences of the legalization of same-sex marriage. Maine Marriage Initiative is a coalition of …

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Buy A Ticket To Heaven

Much like a corporation can buy carbon credits and get absolution for having polluted the environment, the Catholic Church is once again granting the “indulgence”, an amnesty for past sins which one can get with special prayers or with a charitable contribution and “other acts”. Indulgences have been restored due to a drop off in people attending confession. The indulgence …

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