September 2nd, 2010
Should Catholic School Offer Homosexual “Marriage” Course?
by Jimmy Akin Friday, June 04, 2010 2:45 PM
That’s the question that the board of regents of Seton Hall University is asking itself. You see, one of their associate professors—W. King Mott—is scheduled to teach a course on homosexual “marriage” this fall.
According to The Setonian,
A course on gay marriage will be offered by the Women and Gender studies department next semester at Seton Hall University.
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According to Newark Archbishop John J. Myers,
As the shepherd of the Archdiocese of Newark, I am responsible for maintaining the Catholic identity of all Church institutions and organizations within the Archdiocese, and for ensuring authentic and orthodox Catholic teaching in all educational institutions and parishes. That responsibility extends to our Catholic elementary and high schools, to our parish religious education programs for both adults and children, and to the Catholic colleges and university operating within my jurisdiction.
Recent news that a course on same-sex marriage is proposed for the fall schedule at Seton Hall University troubles me greatly.
The Church teaches – and has continued to teach for two millennia – that marriage is a union of man and woman, reflecting the complementarity of the sexes. That teaching precedes any societal connotation of marriage, and is based on natural law.
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September 2nd, 2010
via Minn. Governor Snubs Federal Grant for Condom-Pushing Sex Ed.
Note that one of the most important messages here is that THE STATE is providing “free” funds for its message, i.e. Eugenics while charging for programs that have a morality-based message, i.e. abstinence.
By Kathleen Gilbert
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnestota has triggered the ire of the local Planned Parenthood for refusing a federal grant under the new health care law to fund sex education that would push contraceptive use.
Pawlenty, who has ordered the state to reject the federal health care legislation “to the fullest extent possible,” is instead opting for an abstinence-centered education program.
The governor declined to apply for $850,000 towards a federal Personal Responsibility Education Program, which would provide “comprehensive” sex education to Minnesota public schools, by the Monday deadline.
Pawlenty has meanwhile accepted a half-million dollar grant towards abstinence-only education. While the federal government offered to foot the bill for the condom-friendly plan, it required that the state provide $379,000 in matching funds for the abstinence-only version, causing some to criticize Pawlenty for eschewing the less expensive route.
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota blasted Pawlenty’s decision to turn down the grant. “Young people have a right to accurate, complete information to help them postpone sexual activity and protect themselves when they become sexually active,” wrote PPMNDSD president and CEO Sarah Stoesz in a MinnPost.com column. Stoesz argued that “data conclusively show”%
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September 2nd, 2010
via A Tribute to Outgoing HLI President Fr. Tom Euteneuer.
In his recently released book on Exorcism, Fr. Euteneuer, himself an exorcist, warned that “Never in all of history have we seen evil promoted so effectively and the true good so roundly mocked and rejected as in this age of extreme technological prowess.” He explains: “the difference between the modern world and past generations is that Satan has a greater ability to use groups and institutions for increasing his wicked reach into human life and society.”
The former HLI President did not shy away from controversies even when they involved important Churchmen. When Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl said in an interview that he would not deny communion to pro-abortion politicians, Fr. Euteneuer noted that the Vatican had in fact ruled that he should do otherwise.
When Nancy Pelosi went to the Vatican to greet the Pope, Father publicly stated that he hoped she would not be granted a photo-op
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September 2nd, 2010
via Charitable Status Revoked from New Zealand Homosexual Reorientation Group.
An example of more sutle forms of persecution and state control.
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
WELLINGTON, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New Zealand affiliate of U.S.-based Exodus Global Alliance has had its charity status revoked by the NZ Charities Commission.
Exodus is a Christian organization that says it is dedicated to equipping agencies and individuals to communicate the message of “freedom from homosexuality.”
The NZ Exodus Ministries Trust Board has had charitable status for more than ten years. However, the status was removed by the government’s Charities Commission in a decision dated August 18, as part of a massive crackdown begun in 2007 to de-register groups it considers don’t fulfill the necessary criteria or are too political or commercial.
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September 2nd, 2010
via 15,000 Complaints Later, Pro-Abort/Gay Links Remain on Catholic College Site.
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alverno College, a Catholic college in Milwaukee founded by the School Sisters of St. Francis, has continued to host links to several pro-aborton and pro-homosexuality groups on its website, despite over 15,000 students and parents petitioning the school to remove the links.
After the conservative group TFP Student Action started its peaceful protest in June, Alverno College removed some of the objectionable links on the “resource” page for the school’s Research Center for Women and Girls. They also posted a disclaimer stating: “The views expressed in these weblinks do not necessarily reflect the views of the Alverno College Research Center for Women and Girls.”
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September 2nd, 2010
Sterilize the Unfit Says British Professor.
By Hilary White
LONDON, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mentally and morally “unfit” should be sterilized, Professor David Marsland, a sociologist and health expert, said this weekend. The professor made the remarks on the BBC radio program Iconoclasts, which advertises itself as the place to “think the unthinkable.”
Pro-life advocates and disability rights campaigners have responded by saying that Marsland’s proposed system is a straightforward throwback to the coercive eugenics practices of the past.
Marsland, Emeritus Scholar of Sociology and Health Sciences at Brunel University, London and Professorial Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Buckingham, told the BBC that “permanent sterilization” is the solution to child neglect and abuse.
“Children are abused or grossly neglected by a very small minority of inadequate parents.” Such parents, he said, are not distinguished by “disadvantage, poverty or exploitation,” he said, but by “a number or moral and mental inadequacies” caused by “serious mental defect,” “chronic mental illness” and drug addiction and alcoholism.
“Short of lifetime incarceration,” he said, the solution is “permanent sterilization.”
The debate, chaired by the BBC’s Edward Stourton, was held in response to a request by a local council in the West Midlands that wanted to force contraception on a 29-year-old woman who members of the council judged was mentally incapable of making decisions about childrearing. The judge in the case refused to permit it, saying such a decision would “raise profound questions about state intervention in private and family life.”
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August 31st, 2010
via Despite Bishop’s Objection, Seton Hall to Pursue Gay ‘Marriage’ Course.
By Kathleen Gilbert
SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Seton Hall University, a Catholic institution of higher education, has not backed down from plans to offer a course on gay “marriage” taught by a homosexual activist professor, it has been confirmed.
News broke in April that political science professor W. King Mott, an openly practicing homosexual who was once demoted after calling the Catholic Church “prima facie homophobic,” was slated to teach an upper-level course entitled “The Politics of Gay Marriage” in the Fall 2010 semester.
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August 31st, 2010
via Strengthening bonds | National Catholic Reporter.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious continues to face its own investigation. A March 2009 letter to the conference outlined Rome’s concerns, which include issues of homosexuality, women’s ordination, and the primacy of the Catholic church. Last April when LCWR leaders met with Vatican officials in Rome, the Vatican added to its concerns the fact that Leadership Conference of Women Religious had split with the U.S. bishops over health care legislation last spring.
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August 27th, 2010
Living within the truth: Religious liberty and Catholic mission in the new order of the world.
ADDRESSES BY ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT
Tertullian once famously said that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church. History has proven that to be true. And Slovakia is the perfect place for us to revisit his words today. Here, and throughout central and eastern Europe, Catholics suffered through 50 years of Nazi and Soviet murder regimes. So they know the real cost of Christian witness from bitter experience — and also, unfortunately, the cost of cowardice, collaboration and self-delusion in the face of evil.
I want to begin by suggesting that many Catholics in the United States and Western Europe today simply don’t understand those costs. Nor do they seem to care. As a result, many are indifferent to the process in our countries that social scientists like to call “secularization” – but which, in practice, involves repudiating the Christian roots and soul of our civilization.
American Catholics have no experience of the systematic repression so familiar to your Churches. It’s true that anti-Catholic prejudice has always played a role in American life. This bigotry came first from my country’s dominant Protestant culture, and now from its “post-Christian” leadership classes. But this is quite different from deliberate persecution. In general, Catholics have thrived in the United States. The reason is simple. America has always had a broadly Christian and religion-friendly moral foundation, and our public institutions were established as non-sectarian, not anti-religious.
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