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2015-06-17T17:58:50-06:00

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Bishop Tobin, You Can’t Lead People by Bashing and Shaming Them.

Last updated on: June 17, 2015 at 5:58 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Bishops are teachers, leaders and administrators. They are also priests. When a bishop becomes so exasperated with his flock that he no longer likes them or feels love for them, it’s time for that bishop to go back to God in prayer. Bishop Tobin of Rhode Island has published a letter to is flock that is a case in point. I can’t say what Bishop Tobin feels in his heart, but various comments he’s made and things he’s done lead... Read more

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2015-06-17T11:34:26-06:00

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Cafeteria Catholics Wear Red as Well as Blue

Last updated on: June 17, 2015 at 11:34 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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It was a rout. They knocked one another down, running away from Him. The temple guards tried to catch John Mark by grabbing his clothes. When his clothes tore lose, Mark ran away naked into the night like a panicked bunny rabbit. A few days before, John and James had been arguing over who would sit at the places of honor in His Kingdom. Now, they ran. It was ignominious defeat, an end to all their boasting and bragging about their great loyalty.... Read more

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2015-06-16T14:22:44-06:00

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Vatican Puts Former Nuncio to Dominican Republic on Trial for Child Sex Abuse, Porn.

Last updated on: June 16, 2015 at 2:22 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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The Vatican plans to put former Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who served as the Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic on trial for child sex abuse offenses while he was overseas, as well as additional charges of possession of child pornography while he has been living at the Vatican. Former Archbishop Wesolowski was laicized in 2014. He was found guilty of “grave crimes” under Canon Law. He is being tried under Vatican City State law — as opposed to Church law. Possession of... Read more

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2017-03-24T15:25:22-06:00

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Turn Empty Churches Into Mosques, French Muslim Leader Says

Last updated on: March 24, 2017 at 3:25 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

From RT.com: France’s top Muslim official has suggested turning empty or abandoned Catholic churches into mosques, saying as many as 5,000 are needed for the country’s Muslim population – the largest in Europe. “It’s a delicate issue, but why not?” Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque in Paris and the president of the French Council of Muslim Faith, told Europe 1 radio on Monday. There are currently about 2,500 mosques in France with another 300 under construction, but the number... Read more

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2015-06-16T09:44:43-06:00

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Falling in Love with Jesus

Last updated on: June 16, 2015 at 9:44 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Lovin’ me some Jesus. Jonathan Butler brings it. Read more

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2015-06-16T10:10:49-06:00

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Climate Change Crosses Political Lines: What’s a Bishop to Do?

Last updated on: June 16, 2015 at 10:10 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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So, Pope Francis has written a soon-to-be-released encyclical on the environment. Long before we got this close to actually reading the document itself, we’ve been treated to histrionics and “instructions” to the Holy Father to mind his own pontifical business. Rush Limbaugh took time away from counting his money to come out against the encyclical he had not read. Predictably, he based his thinking on his own greed-is-good theology. Now, he’s running his jaws, flapping about a “leaked” version of... Read more

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2015-06-16T07:26:20-06:00

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I’m Not Going to Cover the “Leaked” Encyclical. I’ll Wait for the Official Version

Last updated on: June 16, 2015 at 7:26 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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This just a note to readers. Somebody in the Vatican “leaked” a copy of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the climate a few days early. First, of all, shame on them. Second, I’m not going to bother to read or write about this bootlegged version of the encyclical. Here are my reasons: 1. It’s a bootlegged version. Somebody got their grubby little hands on a copy of something, which might be a rough draft or might be something else. No one... Read more

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2015-06-15T15:06:30-06:00

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Pope Accepts Resignation of Two US Bishops Who are Charged with Sex Abuse Cover-Up

Last updated on: June 15, 2015 at 3:06 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of two more American bishops because the bishops were charged with sex abuse cover-ups. The pope accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn in April after Bishop Finn was convicted of a charge of failure to report child abuse. Now, he has accepted the resignations of Archbishop John Nienstadt and deputy bishop Lee Anthony Piche of St Paul Minnesota. Both bishops offered their resignations under canon law, which allows bishops to resign due to illness or... Read more

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2015-06-15T19:10:49-06:00

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Belgian GPs “Killing Patients Who Have Not Asked to Die.”

Last updated on: June 15, 2015 at 7:10 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Evidently, the greatest danger to an elderly person in Belgium is their doctor, a fact that shouldn’t surprise anyone. If you give people the legal right to commit murder, they will commit murder. What’s more, people who enjoy committing murder will be drawn to the profession which is allowed to kill without legal consequence. We have become a society which only grants a basic right to life to those who are able to go into court and defend their lives themselves. Now, we are... Read more

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2015-06-15T19:11:45-06:00

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Pope Francis: Gender Theory is a Threat to Marriage

Last updated on: June 15, 2015 at 7:11 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Getting rid of gender difference is the problem, not the solution … We must do much more in favor of women if we want to give more strength to the reciprocity between mean and women. It’s necessary, in fact, not only that women be heard more, but that their voices have real weight, an authority recognized in society and in the Church. Pope Francis, speaking on Gender Theory. Pope Francis, spoke to the bishops of the Caribbean, and he did what... Read more

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