NPR Plays Up Secularist Change In Spain, Misconstrues Papal Visit | NewsBusters.org.
Matthew Balan over at Newsbusters… reminds us why we abandoned NPR as a news source.
They attempted to cover a visit by Pope Benedict to Spain, and, being uneducated in world religions, gave incorrect background commentary, as well as excessive enthusiasm for the percentage of Spanish who have left the Catholic Church, or who know nothing about it.
Drop over to newsbusters and see what Lauren Frayer got wrong about Church’s address of the abortion issue in particular.
“In a rare move, the Vatican is offering to forgive women who’ve had abortions, if they confess at World Youth Day. They won’t be excommunicated, as is normally the case.”
NPR is wrong more than it’s right…… Excommunication for direct involvement in abortion proceedings is automatic. No one has to announce it. The Church has made the means for ‘getting back in’ readily available for people who are repentant. The notable address of abortion at World Youth Day was to mention it as a specific reason for receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation, which was also made freely available there.
Off on Pharmer’s tangent we go!
What a BLAZING success the so-called secularization of Spain has been! We all want to be sophisticated and reach their level of decline as FAST as possible! (That might be why Obama was elected.)
Spain is one of Europe’s most Bankrupt nations. And one reason they can’t sustain themselves is widespread failure to remember the procedure for reproduction. Let’s get their population figures…
Not helpful is Spain’s decision to further ease restrictions on the procedure for getting un-pregnant, so that it is no longer necessary for women to claim the ‘health problem’ of “mental distress” to get an abortion.
Spain has a need to import people at a rapid rate to make up for this reproductive shortfall, and has chosen a extremely lenient immigration policy as a means to sustain itself, thus incurring additional and immediate economic strain.