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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Sigh...

June 28, 2015 Catholicsim , Newsbusters 0 Comments
For White Catholics, Climate Science ‘Clashes With Their Other God: The Free Market’

By Tom Johnson, Jun. 27, 2015, Newsbusters

When it comes to American Catholic opinions about climate change, a recent poll shows a major gap between whites and Latinos. The Public Religion Research Institute reports that by margins of approximately 20 percent, Latino Catholics are likelier than white Catholics to believe that there is such a thing as global warming; that it’s “due to human activity”; and that it “constitutes a crisis or a major problem.” What’s causing this discrepancy? 

A false god, suggests writer Patricia Miller. “White Catholics don’t accept the scientific consensus on climate change because it clashes with their other god: the free market,” declared Miller in a Thursday piece for Salon. “Over the last 15 years…much of institutional American Catholicism has become hopeless[ly] intertwined with a conservative, liberation [sic] ideology that has trickled down to Catholics in the pews. Leading bishops like New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan have been quick to reassure Catholics, who are increasingly trending Republican, that their anti-redistributive ideology is A-OK even in the Francis era.”


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Friday, January 16, 2015

"controversy surrounding some editorial stances in the organization’s magazine"

January 16, 2015 Adweek.com , Bret Baier 0 Comments
Bret Baier Withdraws From Legatus Summit

Chris Ariens, Jan. 13, 2015, Adweek

But he’s canceled the appearance following recent revelations that the group’s publication insisted that LGBT people could be cured.

“Bret accepted the invitation to speak about his book, his faith, and his son’s congenital heart disease. He was unaware of these articles or the controversy surrounding them.”

Legatus, an international organization of Catholic laymen and laywomen, business and community leaders, had also counted actor Gary Sinise among its 2015 speakers. But Sinise withdrew yesterday.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Many Cuban exiles in pain over "reconciliation"

December 23, 2014 AP , Catholic Church 0 Comments
Former Cuban Political Prisoner: ‘I Am A Catholic Without A Pope’

AP, Dec. 22, 2014, CBS Washington, D.C.

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski acknowledged that some Catholics are “concerned or suspicious,” but said many more exiles welcome the breakthrough, despite their suffering.

“The pain is real, but you can’t build a future on top of resentments,” Wenski told The Associated Press in an interview.

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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Priest's Execution In Syria Should Be Call To Action --They are murdering priests

April 26, 2014 Bashar Assad , Catholicsim 0 Comments
By Christine M. Flowers, Apr. 21, 2014, Jewishworldreview.com

In the hierarchy of saints, martyrs are on the highest rung of the celestial ladder, at least for me.

While I love St. Bernadette with her story of mystical vision, it's St. Maria Goretti — the child who surrendered her life to protect her purity — who animates my faith. St. Therese of Lisieux is an example of the glory we can find in small things but the Little Flower doesn't inspire me like Joan of Arc, who died in a maelstrom of fire. And while St. Francis of Assisi with his gentle ways is a hero to our current, beloved pope, I'm drawn to St. Sebastian, a Roman soldier who paid for his conversion to Christ in a barrage of piercing arrows.

My preference for those who were tested through the crucible of physical suffering is, I'll admit, a bit macabre. Today, we are taught that torturers are evil (which is of course correct) and that its victims are just that, victims. But to Catholics, there has always been something particularly ennobling about a person whose faith is so unshakable that it transcends terrestrial agony. They are heroic examples of the human spirit's infinite power.

Last week, we were given just such an example, and while the story is painful, we should take notice on this Good Friday.

The Rev. Frans van der Lugt, 75, a Dutch Jesuit who had spent the last four decades ministering to children, the poor and the mentally disabled in Homs, Syria, was assassinated last Monday, according to a Vatican source. He was abducted by unidentified gunmen, beaten and then executed in front of his monastery.

Father van der Lugt was an outspoken critic of Bashar Assad. The dictator has not focused on the religion of his victims, targeting Muslim and Christian alike. Politics is all that matters: If you support Assad you are an ally and if you oppose him, a traitor. It's not a simple calculus, and given the fact that some of the rebels who are seeking to depose the Assad regime are Islamist enemies of the west, you can understand why governments like our own have been hesitant to step in.

But now they are killing priests, and they are killing priests whose only crime is speaking out against the persecution of innocents. It is time, finally, for us to take a stand, because if a 75-year-old Jesuit has more courage than Uncle Sam and his mighty battalions, we no longer deserve respect in the international community.

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