Category: Catholic

Brooklyn Catholic school rejects donation from politician who voted for gay ‘marriage’ | LifeSiteNews.com

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Brooklyn Catholic school rejects donation from politician who voted for gay ‘marriage’ | LifeSiteNews.com.

New York Democrat assemblyman Joe Lentol normally gives a small donation to a Catholic school around graduation time.   This year, Queen of Rosary Catholic Academy returned his donation.

This is in compliance with a request from Bishop Nicholas Dimarzio for the Catholic institutions to refuse any ‘honors, donations or distinctions bestowed’ on them by the politicians who passed New York’s gay marriage law.

Pharmer wishes that more of the U.S. Catholic  bishops had felt so strongly about the abortion, embryonic stem cell, and physician assisted suicide issues.

Former Sacramento priest files suit against his accuser – Sacramento Living – Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee

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Former Sacramento priest files suit against his accuser – Sacramento Living – Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee.

Perhaps this is the main reason that Fr. John Corapi resigned from priestly functions…… so he could bring a lawsuit against his accuser.

With the shortage of vocations,  the Catholic church in the U.S. really can’t afford to remove every priest who is accused, whether the accusations are true or not.

Many priests arrange never to be alone in a room with another person in order to prevent false accusations.

The Church offers not much possibility for an accused priest, or lay ministers and teachers to defend themselves against false charges.

Having a prominent priest fight back might be a very  necessary thing, although filing suit certainly isn’t “turning the other cheek”.

Too much acquiescence to the accusers, many of whom are not truthful,  could eventually remove the ability of the Church to function in its educational and charitable ministries.

Pope Tweets for the First Time

~ Pharmer

Pope tweets for the first time.

Pope Benedict XVI  tweeted a message to announce the start up of the new Vatican news service which he hopes will streamline communciation from the Vatican to the world, and even assist it’s internal communications.

Assimilation will occur via the website, Facebook, Twitter, RSS feed, Youtube, and Flickr.  Resistance is futile! 😉

 

Pope Benedict officially clicks to publish the news website.

Memorializing Pakistani Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti

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An interview with Minister Bhatti prior to his assassination, on March 2  which a colleague shared with the media after his assassination by Islamic extremists,  and which was  disseminated by Al Jazeera English.

“I have struggled for a long time for justice and equality. If I change my stance today, who will speak out? I am mindful that I can be assassinated any time, but I want to live in history as a courageous man.”   -Shabbaz Bhatti

Pharmer adds a little assist to accomplish the minister’s wish.

Contact information found at  Lifesite News.

Embassy of Pakistan, USA
3517 International Court NW
Washington, DC 20008.
Phone: 202-243-6500, Fax: 202-686-1534
EMAIL: [email protected]

High Commission for Pakistan in Canada
10 Range Road
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 8J3
Phone: (613) 238-7881-2 lines, Fax: (613) 238-7296
Email: [email protected]

 

Bishop revokes Phoenix hospital’s ‘Catholic’ status

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Bishop revokes Phoenix hospital’s ‘Catholic’ status.

He actually did it.    Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted stripped St. Joseph’s Medical Center, in Phoenix  of its Catholic affiliation.  This came after a scandal in 2009, concerning a widely publicized abortion which took place there.   That issue had already been  addressed, but  St. Joseph’s affiliation with the Mercy Care Plan , which provides care through the Arizona  state medicaid program,  required it to offer contraceptive counseling and other services antithetical to Catholic teachings.   This contractual arrangement is said to be the tipping point to cause the dissolution of the Catholic affiliation

Mass may no longer be said at the hospital, and the Blessed Sacrament is to be removed from the Chapel.

Watch the changes which occur at St. Joseph’s   in the aftermath of this “divorce” from Church affiliation.    Will the hospital attempt to re-affiliate, or will it rely upon a closer relationship with the government for survival.  Certainly the loss of Catholic affiliation will affect private donations to the Medical Center.

Dems “Reward” the U.S. Catholic Bishops for their support all these years

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Democratic Ad: Catholic Church More Concerned About Abortion Than Poor | LifeNews.com.

To the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops:

See what happens????  You make one single complaint about the Obamacare, (because the Pope made you do it)  and the Dems throw you under the bus!

Check out this Minnesota Democratic Party Ad……. sez the Catholic  Church Cares more about abortion than the poor.

Not the Back of the bus………. UNDER the bus!

Why The Catholic Bishops Don’t Get Donations From Pharmer

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Pharmer continues the boycott of the US Catholic Bishops fundraisers, and here’s just one more reason.

This appeared in Pharmer’s Church bulletin during October, Pro-life month:

“The Indiana Bishops have asked that parishes and affiliated/associated organizations NOT distribute or allow distribution of Indiana Right To Life’s or county affiliate organization’s election materials.
The Indiana Right to Life has adopted a clearly partisan policy that effectively endorses ONLY Republican candidates for elected offices.
When the Indiana Right to Life Policy and materials are again non-partisan, with a focus on education and advocacy, parishes may be able to cooperate with the local and state organization during the election campaign once more.”

The use of the word “republican” in this announcement violates it’s own supposed non-partisan message. Thus it is internally inconsistent with the supposed spirit the Indiana Bishops are pretending to convey.

The reality is that the bulk of U.S. Bishops (outside of a persistently pro life minority) are paying lip service to pro-life ideals only due to the prodding of the pro-life Pope Benedict.

The Wallbuilders have established three years running that the churches need not fear the IRS removal of tax exempt status. Those preachers doing political advocacy from the pulpits, and sending the tapes to the IRS have yet to be taken to task. The IRS knows that it will lose this case in court, so it keeps silent, allowing the IRS intimidation of most pastors to proceed.

The Catholic Church in the United States ought not to specifically ally itself with any party, but it really needs to get out of bed with the pro-abortion, pro-infanticide, pro-euthanasia, pro-gay marriage, Pro-WAR, pro-slavery, anti-civil rights, Democrat party of the KKK. Those of us who know the history of the U.S. Wars and the above mentioned misbehaviors know which party has initiated and/or supported them in our government.

Any politically conscious person knows that the Republican party is not without stain, and this is why there is a TEA-party for one example. Pharmer has been boycotting the RNC appeals for many years, and assisting individual candidates in other ways.

Pro-life politicians need to find another party, because the Democrat party at the national level has been impervious to transformation on these issues, and defunds its pro-life candidates at the national level. Democrats have moved further left with their chosen president’s inclusion of actual infanticide as an extension of abortion.

Notes:

The Indiana Right to Life Voter Guide has no endorsements included on the document. It has survey questions for federal and state candidates, followed by lists of the candidates (without party affiliation) and their replies to the questions.

Indiana Right to Life has issued a statement that it will back no Democrats this year, due in part  to the cooperation of Indiana Democrats with the pro abortion Obamacare.  The Democrat state officials have not allowed pro-life legislation to proceed in the Indiana legislature as well.  The Indiana Bishops are reminded of Independents, Teapartiers, and Libertarians which are active within the state, and which are not excluded from consideration.  It is revealed that the “only republicans” statement appearing in the church bulletin really means “no democrats”.

The 2010 List of Indiana Right to Life PAC endorsements- click HERE

The Democrat Party Platform of 2008 on Abortion:
“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.”

“The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to comprehensive affordable family planning services and age-appropriate sex education which empower people to make informed choices and live healthy lives. We also recognize that such health care and education help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions.”

“The Democratic Party also strongly supports a woman’s decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre and post natal health care, parenting skills, income support, and caring adoption programs.”

Teaching Catholic Beliefs is Considered Hate Speech in Illinois – Same as Canada

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FOXNews.com – University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs.

Professor Ken Howell was fired from the University of Illinois at Urbana for teaching Catholic beliefs in his class on Catholicism.  Specifically he explained the Catholic teaching on homosexual sex, in an email,  based on the religious interpretation of natural law.  This caused him to lose his teaching position, and also to lose his job  as head of the Newman Center at the University.

The Newman Center job is said to be funded by the Diocese,  so explanations concerning that dismissal will be interesting. The current claim, attributed to Chancellor Patricia Gibson,  is that  the Diocese fired Howell because he can no longer teach at the university.

The Alliance Defense fund,  a Christian legal group which has also  given aid to conscientiously objecting health care professionals,  is considering assistance to Dr. Howell.

At first blush, we see a general group of Christians  offering to defend  a Catholic professor who has been abandoned by his own Diocese.

This is a religious and academic  freedom case worth watching.