Month: April 2012

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I’m stunned,” said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby founded by sisters. Her group was also cited in the Vatican document, along with the Leadership Conference, for focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping “silent” on abortion and same-sex marriage. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/us/vatican-reprimands-us-nuns-group.xml

The Minnesota archdiocese is sending people into the Minnesota Catholic schools and saying things like this: Bliss told Tevlin that when someone in the audience stated that two men, for example, were perfectly capable of enjoying a loving, committed, stable relationship, the diocesan couple onstage equated that loving same-sex relationship with bestiality. Hannah was shocked by these comments, and she was equally shocked to hear one of the presenters characterize adopted children as “sociologically unstable.” I wonder if they’ll start denying communion to adopted kids now, too.

Minnesota Catholic High Schoolers Not Happy With Mandatory Marriage Discrimination Lecture

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After I have said all this, I am sure you are still ready to respond, in effect, “Yes, yes–but it still remains our right and our responsibility to decide what books our children are going to be made to read in our community.” This is surely so. But it is also true that if you… Continue reading Untitled