tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post6215140152003631806..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: Of Vatican Miracles And Mounting Frustration With The Vatican And Vatican Miraclescolkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-68503676398216355852014-02-27T10:15:20.210-07:002014-02-27T10:15:20.210-07:00First of all as a physician, I would like to know ...First of all as a physician, I would like to know the real details of the "miracle" that is being used for political purposes. Second, the intrauterine development of a fetus has nothing to do with the use of BC pills on a daily basis as these pills primarily work to prevent ovulation and there is a secondary effect on the uterine lining with some of them. This effect is called an abortion by people who understand little or nothing about the science concerned as over 60% of all human blastocysts in women on no birth control are never implanted. The vatican circus has been reconvened, or is it a continuous show??.rdp46noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-20047371774719807412014-02-26T16:44:46.253-07:002014-02-26T16:44:46.253-07:00Yes, really mind blowing!!! NP television had a 9...Yes, really mind blowing!!! NP television had a 90 minute discussion on Front Line last night airing on several of its stations entitled "Secrets of the Vatican." Jason Berry was the coproducer or editor. It is worth a viewing. It is on again tonight at 5:00 or 5;30 on some stations also at 9 pm all Pacific time. You can watch the whole show on your computer at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/<br /><br /><br />I also heard a historian on an NPR radio station today discussing the history of Pius XI and his relationship to Mussolini and Fascism, but only heard a part as I was driving. The problems in this authoritarian leadership will become ever more public. The People of God are seeing who the modern day Pharisees really are. dennisrdp46noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-19930361961665279862014-02-26T16:33:29.560-07:002014-02-26T16:33:29.560-07:00Have enjoyed your comments Dr. McHugh on NCR. den...Have enjoyed your comments Dr. McHugh on NCR. dennisrdp46noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-8553395933275785942014-02-26T06:56:21.126-07:002014-02-26T06:56:21.126-07:00I keep going back to the fact some of this African...I keep going back to the fact some of this African angst certainly serves to deflect attention away from the polygamy issues. I remarked on another post a couple weeks ago that the African bishops are careful to define marriage as between a man and a woman. They don't say 'one man and one woman'. This is just one more reason I find the deafening silence from the Vatican intolerable.....not too mention the complicity of the US right in this whole scene.colkochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-39334516302367090072014-02-25T21:51:39.743-07:002014-02-25T21:51:39.743-07:00One of the odder consequences of Putin's posit...One of the odder consequences of Putin's position is that he is now becoming something of a hero among some Christians who object to "teh gai". Weird, that.James Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-51018688035744111472014-02-25T21:49:14.303-07:002014-02-25T21:49:14.303-07:00To be gay is next door to being a crime now - as C...To be gay is next door to being a crime now - as Card. Kaigama should know.James Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-4027372420033299322014-02-25T21:43:35.221-07:002014-02-25T21:43:35.221-07:00The Methodists in Nigeria have joined in:
http:/...The Methodists in Nigeria have joined in:<br /><br />http://www.punchng.com/news/anti-gay-law-catholics-methodists-back-jonathan/<br /><br />"The Catholic Diocese of Abeokuta and the<br /> Methodist Church of Nigeria, Remo Central Diocese in Ogun State, on Tuesday, backed President Goodluck Jonathan over the law prohibiting same-sex marriage in the country.<br /><br />The Catholics and Methodists also said that the President should not yield to pressures from the Western <br />countries and the international community to reverse the already signed law....<br /><br />While the Diocesan Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Abeokuta, Most Rev. Monsignor Christopher Ajala, spoke in Abeokuta, the Bishop of the Diocese of Remo Central of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Rt. Revd. Job Ohu, spoke in Isara.<br /><br />Ajala and Ohu stressed that Jonathan should not allow himself to be intimidated by the current outcry from the Western countries against the enactment of the anti-gay law in Nigeria.<br /><br />The two clerics commended Jonathan for signing the bill prohibiting same-sex marriage in Nigeria, despite the opposition from the Western world.<br /><br />Ajala said that same-sex marriage was against God’s injunction and would deny the marriage institution its significance.<br /><br /><b>He said anyone engaged in such act must be suffering from medical disorder and should be subjected to examination.</b><br /><br /><br /><b>That</b> is downright creepy - it's how the U.S.S.R. treated dissidents:manmy of them Christians. Comment is, as they say, needless.James Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-85546570837405645752014-02-25T20:51:06.240-07:002014-02-25T20:51:06.240-07:00Church artifice of self-serving political theater ...Church artifice of self-serving political theater is mind-blowing.sylvesterpatsteffennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-72520641317178461442014-02-25T10:42:54.559-07:002014-02-25T10:42:54.559-07:00wonderfully stated!wonderfully stated!Trebert101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-52564511057782549802014-02-25T09:12:23.413-07:002014-02-25T09:12:23.413-07:00you got it! you got it! Dennis Hayesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-13017012159399596482014-02-25T09:08:01.115-07:002014-02-25T09:08:01.115-07:00The sense of the People of God has already said no...The sense of the People of God has already said no to the Church's teaching on BC. Now we have this "miracle" attempting to define the people as wrong and the pope who should have allowed BC will be defined now by these MEN as a Saint. There is no devils advocate procedure. <br /><br /><br />Well what else should we expect after the rush to make an enabler of child and sexual abuse as a whole a saint. I think the People of God are changing their own idea about sainthood. How about a Saint Martin Luther King, a Saint Gandhi, a Saint Dorthea Dix, and a Saint Martin Burber and etc.....rdp46noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-83714181938609256702014-02-24T18:14:28.861-07:002014-02-24T18:14:28.861-07:00Notably, Catholic doctrine also teaches that LGBT ...Notably, Catholic doctrine also teaches that LGBT people are to be treated with <br />dignity and respect, a sentiment Kaigama tried to express. <br /><br /> <br /><br />“As a priest and by my Christian values it not a crime to be gay or <br />heterosexual," Kaigama told SaharaTV.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> "I will treat [a gay person] with great understanding and love, with great <br />compassion."healing," said Archbishop Ntagali.henneenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-88832247906576197002014-02-23T19:53:49.686-07:002014-02-23T19:53:49.686-07:00I'll have to see if I can get Kasper's boo...I'll have to see if I can get Kasper's book. I wonder though, if Francis doesn't hope Kasper can keep the lid on the rest of the German Bishops Conference.colkochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-20589697007559945292014-02-23T19:51:56.076-07:002014-02-23T19:51:56.076-07:00Doesn't it though. This has the smell of FOX&...Doesn't it though. This has the smell of FOX's Greg Burke all over it. Just too freaking convenient given the information coming in from the surveys.colkochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-71826643798447058002014-02-23T19:49:28.809-07:002014-02-23T19:49:28.809-07:00Thanks Bill.Thanks Bill.colkochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-25394958142635419902014-02-23T19:49:09.415-07:002014-02-23T19:49:09.415-07:00The Magisterium is not high on my trust list eithe...The Magisterium is not high on my trust list either. The People of God Church is a different story.colkochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-67428918021157902502014-02-23T19:48:00.849-07:002014-02-23T19:48:00.849-07:00Thanks Betty. Your latest at Open Tabernacle was ...Thanks Betty. Your latest at Open Tabernacle was your usual exceptional and thoroughly linked work.colkochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-69476233524124295802014-02-23T19:46:11.478-07:002014-02-23T19:46:11.478-07:00It's sort of synchronistic you brought this up...It's sort of synchronistic you brought this up. When I read the NCR article on the ceremony, the first thing I wanted to see is if Francis had changed the wording of the oath. Nope, we still have the secrecy crap and it was a big disappointment.colkochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-16198687560828395562014-02-23T19:43:55.912-07:002014-02-23T19:43:55.912-07:00Glad you found it and you are most certainly welco...Glad you found it and you are most certainly welcome to join the fun.colkochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-58415285991745866252014-02-23T18:46:10.755-07:002014-02-23T18:46:10.755-07:00But the timing of this is so transparent in its po...But the timing of this is so transparent in its political intent that it demeans the whole sainthood thing.sylvesterpatsteffennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-46782560376483766932014-02-23T16:46:31.993-07:002014-02-23T16:46:31.993-07:00Gerald,
"The Vatican is locked into an ideol...Gerald, <br />"The Vatican is locked into an ideology of a semi-divine infallible pope and falls back on it when under siege." It backs them right into a corner without any room to manipulate. <br /><br /><br />Until people can admit their own and societal mistakes and learn form the mistakes, there will be no real progress into a more ethical world. Slickness in the end will be understood for what it is: Hypocrisy (and always has been in the Vatican.) <br />dennisrdp46noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-27021925728378690692014-02-23T15:45:48.872-07:002014-02-23T15:45:48.872-07:00Excellent post, Colleen. Kudos for pointing out: &...Excellent post, Colleen. Kudos for pointing out: "not saying anything to Nigerian and Ugandan bishops who are all on board with directing the exact kind of language at gays that was used against Jews in Nazi Germany." Just more hypocrisy. Thanks for all your wonderful writings.Betty Clermontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-13489494165881167462014-02-23T12:14:01.274-07:002014-02-23T12:14:01.274-07:00Colleen, i have finally learned not to put my fait...Colleen, i have finally learned not to put my faith (and trust) into the church. this has taken most of my life. i recommend the journey. all best wishes to you, keep up the good work!Dennis Hayesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-69838615529995112342014-02-23T10:30:58.106-07:002014-02-23T10:30:58.106-07:00Everything that I need to know about Francis is de...Everything that I need to know about Francis is demonstrated in the oath of secrecy that the cardinals take. Is this not verbal proof that the veil of criminal secrecy surrounding the sex abuse scandals will continue? He has the power to get rid of this secrecy crap, but continues to enable it. Francis is nothing new at all. A big disappointment.johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-22857425212104634812014-02-23T08:15:20.317-07:002014-02-23T08:15:20.317-07:00Brilliant, Colleen--every word.Brilliant, Colleen--every word.William D. Lindseyhttp://www.bilgrimage.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com