Cal-Catholic. Feb. 18, 2015. Eight state lawmakers on Tuesday urged San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to withdraw the “morality clauses” he unveiled this month in a handbook for high school teachers, and to reverse his intention to redefine teachers as “ministers” in their employment contracts. The letter to Cordileone from five members of the Assembly… Read More California Lawmakers Pressure Catholic Church
Westley Allan Dodd killings: A gruesome anniversary | The Columbian. Excerpt: Jeff “Mac” McEllrath has never regretted his decision to help send Westley Allan Dodd to the gallows. Twenty-five years ago on Labor Day, Dodd stabbed to death two brothers, William, 10, and Cole Neer, 11, in David Douglas Park in Vancouver. Later, the killer… Read More Westley Allan Dodd killings: A gruesome anniversary
It is known that St. Padre Pio withheld absolution. ‘One day Padre Pio didn’t give absolution to a penitent and he told him: “If you go to confess to another priest to have gain absolution you will go to hell together with him”. He meant that the sacrament of confession is profaned by people that… Read More Can Absolution Be Withheld?
“As people of faith, we know deep in our hearts that God’s forgiveness is extended to the most despicable criminals.“— Archbishop John Vlazny, Catholic Sentinel, September 5, 2012 The archbishop is a well-known opponent of the death penalty which provides a clue to his reluctance to openly condemn Father Perez, the alleged child abuser. Rather,… Read More Poll – Child Molesting Priests: Do Catholics “Know” God Forgives Them?
Pope says ordaining women is not the church’s choice to make “The church has ‘no authority’ to ordain women. The point is not that we are saying we don’t want to, but that we can’t,” he said. This requires obedience by Catholics today, he added. “This obedience may be arduous in today’s situation, but it… Read More Pope says ordaining women is not the church’s choice to make
Abortion May be the “Death Knell” for our Society: U.S. Bishop Doran “As with other forms of wrongful activity sanctioned or winked at by the government, procured abortion is for the killers and those who support them, immensely profitable,” the bishop says. “Abortuaries are gold mines for their operators. Killer physicians and surgeons, disdaining the… Read More Abortion May be the “Death Knell” for our Society: U.S. Bishop Doran
Catholic Network Starts New Anti-Death Penalty Campaign, What About Abortion? By Deal Hudson Excerpts: On January 29, the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Death Penalty (CMN) was launched. According to its executive director, Karen Clifton, the CMN was created “with the encouragement of the USCCB.” . . . there’s no avoiding the fact that… Read More New Anti-Death Penalty Campaign, What About Abortion?
HLI America Human Life International launches new affiliate, HLI America! Very few pro-life groups in our country are dealing with the root cause of abortion, which is the Pernicious Pill and all other forms of contraception that have given the abortion industry its feeder system of contraceptive failures and the devaluing of women and children.… Read More New HLI America Confronts Contraceptive Lies
A Talk by Fr. Thomas Euteneuer “Abortion is not the revolution; contraception is.”—-Fr. Thomas Euteneuer CONTRACEPTION is a topic that is often overlooked or neglected in the pro-life movement. What we sometimes forget or don’t realize is that abortion is not the revolution; it’s the fruit of the revolution. The revolution is contraception. In this… Read More The Infertile Soul: Contraception’s Influence On Faith and Society
Contraception—the Bitter Pill by George Sim Johnston. Crisis Magazine. 1996. The Church’s insistence on the link between contraception and abortion occasionally gets support in surprising quarters. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey the U.S. Supreme Court, on its perennial search for the most plausible-sounding sophistries to uphold legalized abortion, stated: For two decades of economic and… Read More Contraception—the Bitter Pill
Updated 9:03 a.m., 04/14/10 Why was Pro-Life Action of Oregon’s “Contraception” Material Banned from Oregon Right To Life’s Conference? Our position, and that of Judie Brown, president, American Life League, on the connection between the use of abortion pills and the rate of abortion has been rejected by Gayle Atteberry, director, Oregon Right To Life. … Read More Our Position on Contraception
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Bishop Robert Vasa is the Bishop of the Baker Diocese. Two resources: When Bishops Do The Right Thing by Rev. Thomas Euteneuer, President, Human Life International The point of contention that the good bishop had with the St. Charles Hospital in Bend, OR was the hospital’s practice of surgical sterilization. Apparently the Board of Directors… Read More Catholic Identity Yanked from Hospital by Oregon Bishop
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