Damned Catholics

[Mister Agenda]

I don't recall that particular command of Moses to the Israelites. Sounds like abust of paraphrasing to me.

[The Grand Nudger]

God told the isrealites exactly how much a magical abortion cost, and it was done at the temple. These people don't just have weird ass beliefs, they have weird ass beliefs about their weird ass beliefs.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't recall that particular command of Moses to the Israelites. Sounds like abust of paraphrasing to me.

Deuteronomy 30:19. Moses explicitly to the Israelites to 'choose life', but in an entirely different context.

Boru

[Mister Agenda]

I don't recall that particular command of Moses to the Israelites. Sounds like abust of paraphrasing to me.

Deuteronomy 30:19. Moses explicitly to the Israelites to 'choose life', but in an entirely different context.

Boru

Thanks, I was too overconfident in my Bible knowledge there.

[Fake Messiah]

The church is just angry because it's getting less important by the day. Why should Mamdani suffer through a boring Catholic mass that includes the installation of some asshole who is against basic human rights?

Backlash grows at New York mayor skipping Archbishop Hicks installation

Archbishop Hicks was installed on February 6 at St Patrick’s Cathedral, among 68 bishops, 13 archbishops and six cardinals, as well as 2,200 well-wishers including interfaith leaders and politicians.

However, Mamdani did not attend. In a brief post on X, he congratulated Archbishop Hicks, noting that they “share a deep and abiding commitment to the dignity of every human being” and that he looked forward to working together to create a more just and compassionate city where every New Yorker can thrive.

The absence makes Mamdani the first mayor of New York in nearly a century to miss the installation of the city’s archbishop. As far back as 1939, when the non-Catholic Fiorello La Guardia attended the installation of Archbishop Francis Spellman, mayors have attended the installations of archbishops of the city.

There have also been other noticeable incidents suggesting indifference towards the city’s 2.5 million Catholics. At his inauguration in January, no Catholic clergy or representatives were invited.

Similarly, at the annual interfaith breakfast organised by the mayor’s office, where 400 faith and community leaders gathered, no Catholic clergy or representatives were present. The breakfast opened with reflections from two Muslim representatives, continued with a reflection from the daughter of the Rev William Augustus Jones Jr, followed by speeches from Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Lutheran representatives, and another Muslim representative, before Mamdani gave his closing remarks.

https://thecatholicherald.com/article/ne...stallation

[Fake Messiah]

Argentine priest urges bold witness after Latin Mass outside San Francisco abortion facility

Celebrating a Traditional Latin Mass on the steps of a Planned Parenthood facility was a natural expression of Catholic witness, said Father Javier Olivera Ravasi, an Argentine priest who serves at Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco, who said he hopes to encourage priests and laity to proclaim the faith publicly without fear.

About 50 members of the parish recently joined Ravasi on a rainy Sunday, Feb. 15, for a Mass of reparation for sinners.

Explaining his decision to celebrate Mass outside the abortion facility, he said: “Part of why I had the Mass at the abortuary is to encourage priests. We have to live without fear. Too many priests practice a kind of self-censorship out of fear of reaction.” Referring to abortion, he added: “If there is freedom of speech in the U.S., and freedom to make human sacrifices to Baal, why shouldn’t priests proclaim the true God?”

By contrast, he said, “non-Catholics, LGBTQ advocates, and abortionists openly declare who they are. Why should we be ashamed to have the truth?” Laughing, he added: “We need to leave behind the Catholic closet!”

An Argentine native, Ravasi said he feels welcomed in the United States and has followed debates over immigration. “I haven’t seen the problems reported in other cities,” he said. “Every country has a right to protect its borders, just as every person has the right to protect his private property. It’s common sense.”

“Young people — Catholics, Protestants, and even atheists are coming,” he said. “They are tired of ‘woke-ism’ and of the farce of modern progressivism, and of the denial of what men and women are. They are looking for the eternal, lasting, and stable.”

https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/argent...n-facility


So, he thinks it’s common sense to protect one's private property, just not when he invades others' private property to hold his dumb masses and his bigoted speeches. Imagine if an imam or a Satanist decides to hold their mass and anti church speech on the church's property.

[Fake Messiah]

John Banville: ‘The Catholic Church was a state terrorist organisation’

The Booker-winning novelist on Ireland’s shift away from religious establishment, his tangled love life and finding dark comedy in ageing.

Meanwhile, if his internationalist pretensions now strike him as funny, he’s still no Irish nationalist. “There’s a phrase here – ‘You have to wear the green jersey.’ You have to be on the team. I’ve never believed in that nonsense. When one of the reports came out about child abuse in Ireland, I wrote a New York Times piece saying everybody knew. We knew in the same way that people living beside Belsen knew and didn’t know.

“That didn’t make me any friends in establishment Ireland. If I’d written it in The Irish Times, nobody would have cared. But I went outside the country and criticised it. That was the unforgivable sin.”

Banville bears an abiding hostility to the Catholic Church that dominated Ireland for much of his life. “When I went to Eastern Europe in the 1970s, I thought: ‘It’s Ireland.’ They had the Communist Party running their lives; we had the Catholic Church.” So was he surprised by how quickly its power crumbled from the early 1990s onwards? “Oh, that was amazing,” he replies. “The Catholic Church is no longer a state terrorist organisation.” He also recalls, with happy incredulity, the 2015 Irish referendum that approved same-sex marriage. “Dublin was in carnival. I thought, ‘Am I hallucinating? This is not the Ireland I grew up in.’”

Still, even in throwing off the Church, Ireland doesn’t escape Banville’s scepticism: “Any really grown-up nation would have gone through a period of trauma after the collapse of what they’d believed in for so long. It took us about three weeks.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...-festival/

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Connecticut Catholic bishops oppose bill to exempt school vaccines from religious freedom law

The chief spokesman for state’s Catholic bishops is speaking out against a proposed exemption to the state’s religious freedom law for school vaccinations.

“It is an attack on religious freedom,” said Chris Healy, executive director of the Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference, the public policy office of the Catholic bishops.

The legislature’s Public Health Committee introduced legislation to carve out that exception at the request of Attorney General William Tong amid an ongoing a legal challenge seeking to reinstate the religious exemption to required school vaccinations.

Healy said while the legislation proposes an exemption for school vaccinations, the enactment of Senate Bill 450 into law would invite more legislative attempts to add exceptions to the 1993 religious freedom law, such as protecting medical providers at Catholic hospitals from discipline for providing counseling or referrals for abortions and other reproductive services that go against church teachings.

https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/ar...956806.php

[Fake Messiah]

Icelandic police inspect priest’s comments on homosexuality

The Reykjavik police said they would investigate the remarks made by Father Jakob Rolland to Icelandic state broadcaster RÚV in early March, to determine whether criminal proceedings should be opened against the priest who is also the chancellor of the Catholic Church in Iceland.

Rolland said that members of the LGBTQ community lack help if they wish to “abandon this lifestyle.”

“That is precisely what is lacking in modern society. Those who wish to abandon this lifestyle receive no help,” he said.

He said that homosexual people who seek support from the Church “cannot find” psychologists or social workers to help them, and also said that some people have sought out the Church in Iceland in order to “stop” being homosexual.

His comments are being investigated to see whether they violate Iceland’s laws banning conversion therapy related to sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity that were passed in 2023.

Article 227b of the Penal Code criminalizes those who “use tactics such as coercion, deception, or threats to force someone to undergo treatment intended to suppress or alter a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.”

Rolland was asked whether the Church’s methods of guidance and support met the definition of conversion therapy.

“Sexual orientation is only one factor among many that concern an individual’s tendencies towards some lifestyle that is not good for the individual and not good for society. We are constantly in the position of turning away from what is evil towards what is good,” he replied.

He also affirmed that “all Christians are called to control their sexual impulses according to the moral teachings of the Church, not just homosexual people.”

When asked whether he would follow the country’s laws, the priest said he would “as long as the laws align with God’s laws.”

Rolland courted controversy in 2019 when he told a journalist: “If two women came to us and wanted to marry, then I’d say, ‘Unfortunately, that won’t work for us.’ If they wanted to press charges, I’d say, ‘Do it.’ If I go to prison, then I go to prison, but it won’t change my position.”

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/202...osexuality