Discipline embodies a new experiment in molding Catholic priests

By ERIC GORSKI
AP Religion Writer

updated 9:06 p.m. CT, Sat., Aug 29, 2009

DENVER – The seminarians’ wallets are empty, except for driver’s licenses and insurance cards. To buy cigarettes or clothes or anything else, they must ask their superiors for money — an exercise in obedience and a reminder that material things aren’t important.
They have virtually [...]

Letter from Kennedy that Obama hand-delivered to the Pope skirted abortion issue

Excerpts of Kennedy letter to pope and response
By The Associated Press (AP) – 16 hours ago
Excerpts of the letter from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy that President Barack Obama delivered to Pope Benedict XVI earlier this year and an account of the pope’s response, as read by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington:
“Most Holy [...]

Human Life International’s Statement on the Passing of Senator Edward Kennedy

Human Life International’s Statement on the Passing of Senator Edward Kennedy
We must, as a matter of precept, pray for the salvation of heretical Catholics like Senator Edward Kennedy, but we do not have to praise him let alone extol him with the full honors of a public Catholic funeral and all the adulation that attends [...]

What it’s like when life has no other meaning than Obama

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the factors in my life that lured me far Left for so long;  what captivated me and held me there even with mounting evidence that the ideology was bankrupt.  And why are millions still following the Pied Piper of Chicago, even though he’s looking increasingly more corrupt and [...]

Canon lawyer’s opinion about propriety of Kennedy’s Catholic funeral Mass

Now, any man with a 100% rating from NARAL (to highlight just the tip of the iceberg of Teddy’s decades-long campaign against natural rights) has, to put it mildly, the burden of proof in seeking a Catholic funeral (okay, technically, his executors have the burden of proof, but you see the point) in that notorious [...]

A suggestion from Randall Terry on House Bill 3200 (Obamacide Health Care)

Congressman Moran insisted that (federal) money would not pay for child-killing by abortion. This is a lie.
 
If Obama and Pelosi and Dean want us to believe them, there is something really simple they could do:

 
Obama, Dean, and Pelosi can prove they do not want child-killing by abortion in HR 3200; all they have to do [...]

What’s so special about a Roman Catholic priest? (A must read!)

Father Clement Machado – Are you a consumer of priests?
By JesusBeWithUs
Published August 17th, 2009
Say the word missionary and many think of a devoted priest hacking his way through a jungle to spread the Word of God.
Now meet Father Clement Machado—a modern missionary hacking his way through secular 21st century America, clouded Catholic thinking and even [...]

Left-wing Jesuits at America have finally “lost it”

According to the editors of America Magazine:
Four steps are necessary for the U.S. church to escape the strengthening riptide of sectarian conflict and re-establish trust between universities and the hierarchy. First, the bishops’ discipline about speakers and awards at Catholic institutions should be narrowed to exclude from platforms and awards only those Catholics who explicitly [...]

“IN HOLOCAUST DEBATE, A CALL FOR OPEN MINDS ???

“This is arguably one of the most disastrous moments in American Catholic history in the last hundred years as the moral teaching authority of the Catholic Church in America was passed from the Bishops to President Obama, the most popular president in a generation. Given the commencement rostrum of the most revered Catholic University in [...]

Obama’s “No Abortion in Health Care Bill” Assertions are BOGUS – Factcheck.Org

In recent weeks, NRLC has seen a wave of “factcheck” commentaries in various mainstream news media, denying that the health bills being advanced by President Obama and top Democratic congressional leaders would result in government funding of abortion.  Some of these articles assert that government funding of abortion would be prevented by a federal law called [...]

Individual States Biggest Beneficiaries of Clunker Cash

Do the math:
Cash for Clunkers rebate: $3500 – $4500
Sales tax, license, title costs on a $30,000 car: $2550
State gets: 50 – 70% of the total

Some U.S. Jews protest Catholic document on salvation

The incredibly vague, wrong-headed, and misleading post-Vatican II position of many Catholic church leaders regarding the status of the Jews in relation to the New Covenant promises of Jesus Christ and the Church, form the back drop for the latest political move by Jewish extremists.
A substantial percentage of Jewish people have always rejected the Gospel of salvation [...]

A Guiding Principle to the Debate on Healthcare: The Principle of Subsidiarity

Given the anti-Catholic bias in many circles, I must point out that the Catholic Church has no desire to gain power over the State, or even impose its teachings on those who do not share our Faith. Nevertheless, the Church offers her various social teachings, such as the Principle of Subsidiarity, as guiding principles in [...]

Catholics Step Up Fight Against ‘Unacceptable’ Healthcare Bill

Almost 13 percent of the nation’s 4,897 community hospitals are Catholic-run and often provide a higher percentage of public health and specialty services than other healthcare providers. Catholic healthcare facilities accounted for 20 percent of hospital admissions in 21 states and the District of Columbia last year, according to CNSNews.com. 
Last year, Catholic healthcare providers saw [...]

Obama “Credibility Gap” on health care getting wider

IS OBAMA LYING? OR JUST MISINFORMED?
President Obama went on BlogTalkRadio yesterday to address health care reform. At one point he told the left-wing religious audience, “You’ve heard that this is all going to mean government funding of abortion. Not true.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue replied as follows:
On July 17, the House Committee on Ways and [...]

Aupport the Randall Terry FAX appeal against abortion in the Obamacide health care bill

FAX EVERY US House Member at their HOME OFFICE While They are on Recess! 
 
 The Cost is only 15 ½ Cents per fax!

We have created an incredible tool for your use. You can send a personal FAX to every single member of the U.S. House of Representatives for only .14 cents each; that’s $67.43 to send a [...]

Catholic dogma on creation

The Church teaches that God created, that there was a primal human pair, Adam and Eve, and that they fell, and the human race fell in and with them. If that is denied, original sin would go with it. Theological liberals believe that, but not the Catholic Church. We teach that the fall was real [...]

Deanna Favre says Catholic faith helped her fight cancer

Fans of Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre relish counting the number of NFL records their hero owns. But Favre’s wife Deanna, a breast cancer survivor, finds comfort in counting her blessings.
The football star’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. She spent four months undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment. The following year, after [...]

Obama uses shill “Catholic” groups to front for back door government funded abortions in health bill

During a Wednesday teleconference sponsored by the left-leaning religious organizations Catholics United, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and Faith in Public Life, both White House Director of Domestic Policy Melody Barnes and President Obama denied that the health care bill would allow for federally funded abortions.
But according to Susan B. Anthony List President [...]

George Weigel on Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O’Connor’s relentless, faith-driven unsentimentality extended to the Church as well as to the world: “I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable; the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and [...]