From LifeSite News: SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, May 21, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a coordinated defense of religious liberty, at 11 a.m. 43 Roman Catholic organizations filed a dozen lawsuits nationwide to strike down the HHS mandate. The plaintiffs include some of the most significant organs of the U.S. church, including the Archdioceses of New York, [...]
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Obama’s Nightmare: The Catholic Church Rising
Posted in Bishops on May 22, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Commencement Woes: Sebelius, Fluke, and the Fuzzy Math of Georgetown
Posted in Birth Control, Bishops on May 16, 2012 | 12 Comments »
When Rush Limbaugh made his unfortunate comments about Georgetown Law’s new “it” girl, Sandra Fluke, he may or may not have accurately described the young woman’s behavior according to the standards of a bygone era. The accuracy of his description is not at issue, so much as that Limbaugh broke a cardinal rule and went [...]
Divided Motherhood in the Age of Discovery
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Bishops, Dignity, Motherhood on May 13, 2012 | 10 Comments »
The twentieth century saw the greatest advances made in science, technology, and medicine that the world has ever known. Building on the conceptual discoveries of the previous three centuries, we have wrought wonders unimagined in every decade of that century, and continue on unabated in this new century and new millennium. If there has been [...]
Were the Apostles the First Deacons?
Posted in Bishops, Lent, tagged Apostles, Deacon on March 19, 2012 | 6 Comments »
As Holy Week looms large on the horizon, I’m thinking out loud a question I have thought to myself for years: Were the Apostles really the first Deacons in the Church? Did the Apostles institute the Diaconate, or did Jesus at the Last Supper? I believe that a scriptural case may be made for the [...]
Obama Gives the Church Green Light for Partisan Organizing
Posted in Bishops on March 13, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Talk about manna from Heaven! Here is a video of President Obama himself calling on African American churches to support his reelection by selecting “Congregation Captain[s]“. There can be no further objection by the Catholic Bishops to publishing voter guides, or to organizing within our Churches. Obama just tossed the IRS regs. to the wind. [...]
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki Responds
Posted in Birth Control, Bishops on March 4, 2012 | 23 Comments »
Yesterday I posted a blog in response to Cardinal Goerge’s letter regarding the HHS Mandate and the future of Catholic institutions. Today, Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois responded. I offer his response as its own post and respectfully reply below. Here is Bishop Paprocki. Dr. Nadal is accurate in saying [...]
The HHS Mandate: Cardinal George and the Bishops Are Fighting the Last War
Posted in Birth Control, Bishops, tagged Bishops, Cardinal George, Cardinal O'Connor, HHS Mandate, Obama on March 3, 2012 | 32 Comments »
It is a well-known phenomenon that generals have a tendency to “Fight the Last War,” meaning that they tend to use the tactics that brought them victory in the last war they fought. The problem is that the enemy usually shows up with new weapons and new tactics. Either the generals adapt, or go down [...]
Of Soviets, Cardinals, Conscience Protections and Turkey-Cheese Sandwiches
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Bishops, tagged Bishops, HHS Mandate on February 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
In my youth, the differences between the Soviet Union and the United States were made abundantly clear to us. We had the freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights, and they didn’t. Teens at drive-thru fast food restaurants were iconic of American freedom. The freedom to recreate our culture through music, food, mobility. Our fathers [...]
An Open Letter to Cardinal Dolan: Fight for Your Flock!
Posted in Bishops on February 10, 2012 | 32 Comments »
Your Emminence, Yesterday on National television you made two statements that, taken together, signal disaster for the Catholic Church in America. In the first statement you said: We bishops aren’t fighters. We’re pastors, and we want to stand on principle. We just want to do our work as effectively as we can. In the second [...]
Dancing With the Swine: The HHS Mandate and Obama’s Real Agenda
Posted in Birth Control, Bishops, tagged HHS Mandate on February 9, 2012 | 8 Comments »
It started with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fast-tracking Obamacare and urging lawmakers to read it after voting in the affirmative. In Brooklyn, that’s called a clue. Then Donald Berwick was recess appointed to head Medicaid and Medicare, and to function as Obamacare’s Rationing Czar. He was recess appointed because the Senate found rather distressing his [...]
Cardinal Burke Encourages Petition Drive Against HHS Mandate: Sign Here
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Bishops, tagged Cardinal Burke, HHS Mandate, Obama, St. Gianna Physician's Guild on February 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The Saint Gianna Physician’s Guild has begun a petition drive calling for the Obama Administration to reverse course on the HHS mandate. This is a great organization, with more about them in a minute. Cardinal Raymond Burke has issued the following statement: I wholeheartedly express my solidarity with the Stop The Birth Control Mandate petition [...]
Retreating from Komen with Cardinal Ratzinger
Posted in Bishops, Dignity, tagged Dictatorship of Relativism, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Komen on February 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a blistering and draining week with the Komen story. As tomorrow’s Gospel tells us, Jesus often withdrew to prayer and solitude, and so am I today. Time for a retreat weekend. Here is an outstanding homily given by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the eve of his election to the Chair of Peter. It [...]
Archbishop Chaput Addressing the Growing Aggressive Eugenics in Fetal Medicine
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Bishops, Eugenics, Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Archbishop Chaput, Disability, Eugenics, Fetal Medicine on January 27, 2012 |
Hot on the heels of our medical conference last Saturday, Therapeutic Advances in Poor Prenatal Diagnoses, comes this letter from Archbishop Chaput to the people of his archdiocese. Opposition to this new eugenics is swelling all over the nation. Here is a bishop who makes me proud of my Church. Earlier this week local media [...]
Declaration on Procured Abortion (III): The Church’s Prophetic Vision of Medical Developments and Moral Obligations
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Declaration on Procured Abortion on August 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We continue our study today of a little-known and little-studied 1974 document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith entitled: Declaration on Procured Abortion Read Part I here. Read Part II here. Today we turn our attention to the prophetic voice of the document, with commentary to follow: 17. Scientific progress is [...]
Declaration on Procured Abortion (II): The Church on the Infusion of the Soul and Life’s Beginnings
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Church Fathers, Declaration on Procured Abortion, Didache, Gaudium st spes on August 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We continue our study today of a little-known and little-studied 1974 document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith entitled: Declaration on Procured Abortion Read Part I here. Today we turn to the document’s treatment of the Church’s varied voices on when the body is infused with a soul. This is critical, [...]
