New York, N.Y. John Cardinal O’Connor recently visited 27 Operation Rescue prisoners in Westchester County Valhalla jail and hailed them “for doing the work God has called them to do.” The 27 mean and women were attending Mass while serving ten days in jail stemming from a Rescue action in Dobbs Ferry last March. In addition, they were ordered to either pay [...]
Pentacostals On abortion In a letter to the government dated November 17, 1989, the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada declared Bill C-43 to be unacceptable. While they commend the government for re-affirming abortion as a criminal act, they declare that the Bill “in practice, provides for abortion on demand.” Says the letter: “We do not believe this legislation will reduce the number of [...]
In Lumen Gentium, one of the key documents of Vatican II, we are told that “They are fully incorporated into the society of the Church who, possessing the spirit of Christ, accept her entire system.” It is therefore somewhat disquieting to find that, while accepting “her entire system,” and presumably being fully incorporated into the universal Church, one can nevertheless be relegated [...]
Bishop John Spong of Newark, N.J., one of the Episcopal (Anglican) Church’s most controversial liberals, threw down another challenge to conservative critics December 16th when he ordained a practicing homosexual to the priesthood. The ordination of the 34-year-old Mr. Williams at All Saints Church in Hoboken is not the first ordination of an openly gay person in the Episcopal Church. The Rev. [...]
Dignity-USA, an organization of approximately 4500 Catholic homosexuals and lesbians, has formally rejected Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality. The document “Sexual Ethics: Experience, growth, challenge,” was approved in August 1989 at the organization’s twentieth anniversary national convention in San Francisco and published in full in the December 1989 newsletter. The teaching of the Catholic Church is that homosexual activity is sinful and [...]
Catholic pro-abortion or, as some call themselves, “pro-choice” politicians are meeting growing criticism from fellow Catholics. So are Catholic politicians who claim that while personally opposed to abortion, they must support pro-abortion measures “for the common good.” Each category is under fire in the United States and elsewhere. The one-million-member Catholic fraternal organization, the Knights of Columbus, is under pressure to expel [...]
In Lumen Gentium, one of the key documents of Vatican II, we are told that “They are fully incorporated into the society of the Church who, possessing the spirit of Christ, accept her entire system.” It is therefore somewhat disquieting to find that, while accepting “her entire system,” and presumably being fully incorporated into the universal Church, one can nevertheless be relegated [...]
Even though it in based on a Ph.D. thesis is sociology, and is praised on its back cover by an apostate priest (Gregory Baum), this is an important book. On the basis of 111 interviews which he conducted in the Toronto area in 1985-86, together with other research, Cuneo concludes that Canadian protesters against abortion are not reducible to a single social [...]
Dignity-USA, an organization of approximately 4500 Catholic homosexuals and lesbians, has formally rejected Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality. The document “Sexual Ethics: Experience, growth, challenge,” was approved in August 1989 at the organization’s twentieth anniversary national convention in San Francisco and published in full in the December 1989 newsletter. The teaching of the Catholic Church is that homosexual activity is sinful and [...]
The extremism that characterizes some of the more enthusiastic and influential proponents of “inclusive” liturgy clearly delineates the threat of using feminist ideology to support the Word of God. Canadian theologian Mary Malone asserts that “in the language of the Church, women do not exist,” that “liturgy is mostly for men,” that “women are not challenged by the Word of God,” and [...]
In her column this month, Miss Prestwich has collected a number of questions on surrogate motherhood she has received over the last few months. What exactly is a surrogate mother? A surrogate is someone who is a deputy or a substitute. A surrogate mother is a woman who carries someone else’s developing child in her womb. When this is done for money [...]
Catholic pro-abortion or, as some call themselves, “pro-choice” politicians are meeting growing criticism from fellow Catholics. So are Catholic politicians who claim that while personally opposed to abortion, they must support pro-abortion measures “for the common good.” Each category is under fire in the United States and elsewhere. The one-million-member Catholic fraternal organization, the Knights of Columbus, is under pressure to expel [...]
Once more a Canadian Episcopal gathering has prepared the ground for acrimony and dissent within the Catholic Church. It seems that whenever it prepares for an International Synod in Rome, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) becomes a forum for criticisms of The Holy See and the source of unwanted promises and demands which the Church at large cannot and will [...]
Bishop Leo Maher of San Diego, California, has denied Catholic assembly woman Lucy Killea, a Democrat, the right to receive communion. Killea ran for the state Senate in a special election on December 5, 1989. She took a pro-abortion stand in her public statements and advertising. This led Bishop Maher to declare “…you are placing yourself in complete contradiction to the moral [...]
Ottawa. The health standards of bill C-43 “are so subjective and vague” states Bishop Robert Lebel, president of the Canadian Conference of the Catholic Bishops (CCCB), in a terse statement “as to be practically meaningless.” “The absence of any mechanism for confirming that the health standard has been met makes abortion almost a private matter. The effect risks being the totally unacceptable [...]