This has been a busy week in the world Catholic bashing.
New Hampshire House Majority Leader David J. Bettencourt called Manchester Bishop John B. McCormack a "pedophile pimp who should have been led away from the State House in handcuffs with a raincoat over his head."
The Catholic League is going after Bettencourt's actions very determinedly. Later news indicates that Bettencourt plans to apologize. Then the Catholic League reports Rep. Andrew Manuse wrote this missive: "I am now considering a bill to remove the Church's tax exempt status in New Hampshire, for you have clearly shown that you no longer want it."
Anti-Catholic activities are becoming more blatant and more open.
The Philadelphia Archdiocese is being sued by the family of a man that claims that 27 years ago the man was abused by a priest. The man committed suicide.
The incident was investigated then and recently. In both investigations the claim of abuse was found to be not credible. To be sure there have been (and to a much, much smaller degree continue to be) cases of abuse by priests.
There are also, just as surely, false claims motivated by a variety of motives, money, dislike, revenge and more. Not surprisingly, Jeff Anderson is the lawyer going after the archdiocese.
The two relevant issues here are whether the Republicans will be able to restrain spending in an interim measure to keep the government operating and whether the Republicans will be able to NOT spend taxpayer dollars for abortion ...
You probably heard the news in late March that popular international speaker and Eternal Word Television Network personality Father John Corapi had been placed on "administrative leave" ...
The two relevant issues here are whether the Republicans will be able to restrain spending in an interim measure to keep the government operating and whether the Republicans will be able to NOT spend taxpayer dollars for abortion, both in DC and by funding Planned Parenthood.
The Republicans are toeing a hard line on not funding abortion and an environmental issue. Of course no Catholic representative has the option of voting for funding abortion absent some extreme conditions. By the same reasoning no Catholic senator may, in good conscience, help to defeat a bill simply because it DOES NOT CONTAIN funding for abortion.
Notice that the opposition declares that money has been stripped for abortion while the fact is that representatives have (rightfully) refused to insert it!
Continue readingYou probably heard the news in late March that popular international speaker and Eternal Word Television Network personality Father John Corapi had been placed on "administrative leave" while the religious order to which he belongs, the Texas-based Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, investigates allegations of impropriety.
Details of the accusations remain (as of this writing) unclear, but Father Corapi said in a statement on his website that "a former employee sent a three-page letter to several bishops accusing me of everything from drug addiction to multiple sexual exploits with her and several other adult women."
His indignation - both at the allegations and at his suspension - is palpable in the statement.
And the reaction among Catholics was even more intense.
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