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Posted on 05/30/2010 10:12:21 AM PDT by Sun
Pope Benedict XVI’s email address: benedictxvi@vatican.va
Pope Benedict’s private secretary:
Monsignor Georg Gaenswien (with omlats over the ‘a’)
Private Secretary to the Holy Father
00120 Via del Pellegrino
Citta del Vaticano
If you wish to correspond directly with the Holy Father and not have it intercepted by the ‘dark side of the force’ at the Vatican, simply send a sealed letter addressed to Benedict XVI to Monsignor Georg Gaenswein.
Monsignor will give your letter to the Pope unopened.
I'll see if I can find a link for you.
Then after TWA 800 went down, Clinton was going to rush to the airport to comfort the families. Cardianl O Connor got in touch with his office and told him, if Clinton showed up he would leave. Clinton didn't call O'Connors bluff.
In 1994, Clinton administration Attorney General Janet Reno launched infiltrators, wiretaps, mail monitoring, and a wide range of other spying activities in a massive coordinated effort that included the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; U.S. Postal inspectors; the U.S. Marshalls Service; and other Federal and local law enforcement agencies. President Bill Clinton had acted decisively to fight what he and First Lady Hillary Clinton deemed the most dangerous terrorist threat facing America: conservative Christians.
This huge Clinton surveillance scheme was VAAPCON, the Violence Against Abortion Providers Task Force. According to the U.S. Justice Department, VAAPCON “was charged with determining whether there was a nationwide conspiracy to commit acts of violence against reproductive health care providers.” The more than 900 targets of all this surveillance included the Christian Coalition, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Women’s Coalition for Life, Feminists for Life, Americans United for Life, the 600,000-member Concerned Women for America, the National Rifle Association, the American Life League, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and even then-Roman Catholic Cardinal of New York John O’Connor.
Please understand that I agree with you completely, but I think that there is no rolling back the clock on what is happening with our language. Too many women are just plain offended by the use of he, him, and his, and most academic institutions emphasize the need for gender neutrality - even the seminary (non-denom., rather conservative) where I am taking doctoral classes. I wish that we would just cave and use the they/their, understanding that it is in response to the need of some for gender neutrality. I really hate writing he/she and alternating between he and she is just plain irritating.
Oh, they have an agenda alright. It isn’t a witness to Christ, however. No one who wants to witness to Christ would just make things up, for instance.
Anti-Catholic Protestants are a strange group. I have met and encountered plenty of such people and they often seem like regular folks in every way - until the Catholic Church comes up. In an instant they change from normal people to hate-spewing, lying, conspiracy-theory-spreading, ignorant, bitter, mean spirited wackos. No distortion of Catholic doctrine is thought to be too much, no twisting of history is thought to be too wrong for them to do it and throw it out there as if it were all true. You can catch them lying, it won’t matter. You can prove that what they’re claiming is impossible - it’s just absolutely untrue - and it still won’t matter. They don’t care about the truth when it comes to the Catholic Church.
Actually there is at least one Catholic priest here but I do not feel at liberty to say who they are without their permission.
...and several seminarians.
I would have called “LIAR” and walked out on the spot.
Makes you wonder what they're teaching in seminary and why such priests and pastors bother to even show up.
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$10 says he is gay
Right, plus the masculine can have a universalist, all-inclusive connotation - “his” meaning “everyone’s” - while the feminine is always female-specific and cannot include the male.
Tell me why the faithful shouldn’t rise up out of the pews, lay hands on a priest like that, drag him outside, and throw him in the gutter.
Vewwy woughly.
I mean, really—a few hundred years ago, he’d have been burnt at the stake. What is expulsion, compared to that?
“I do not feel at liberty to say who they are without their permission.”
I do not feel at liberty to say who he is without his permission.
In Greek, the word for "Spirit" is neuter (to pneuma), but there are three pronouns in the Greek text referring back to the Spirit, all of them masculine--ekeinos twice and heautou once. The feminine forms have different endings.
“The church staunchly proclaims its infallibility, inerrancy, and superiority to all groups worldwide.”
In what universe is this so? Certainly not this one.
“You really must check its press and the postings of the other Catholics here at FR.”
Two sources with which you are clearly unfamiliar.
“still need to toe the party line.”
Thank goodness you didn’t write “tow the party line.” That drives me up the wall.
“this is one ordained by headquarters, not you.”
An organization that is working to clear out its rogues is not truthfully accused of endorsing the abuses of said scoundrels.
“to once again openly crucify the Son of Glory”
That resembles Catholic theology in no way.
“this piece of darkness is one of those you must defend or you become the judge of the judges. Which is it?”
That is a false dichotomy. Every Catholic is free to—no, has a duty to—oppose the heresy and abuses of this bad, bad man, whose heart is clearly as black as the Earl of Hell’s weskit.
I know.
I have experienced it first hand—especially when I became a convert to the Catholic Church but also in my work environment and by Fred Phelps-type demonstrations from time-to-time outside of my parish church on Sundays.
And especially in the time since I have been on this forum I have experienced it anew.
I am referring specifically to anti-Catholic Protestants. Not all Protestants are anti-Catholic, at least not openly or in the safety zone behind screen names in public forums.
BTW, what is “inflected language?”
“I will add to your explanation the grammar rules that have been so destroyed by this feminist/PC garbage that when it comes to the English language. If the antecedent is ambiguous or gender-neutral, one is to use the masculine pronoun, ie., he.”
Absolutely correct.
However, God is masculine. He is the Father, not the mother.
Perhaps you think you're infallibly saved no matter how often you violate the commandment ,"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," but I'm still going to call you on it every time you do it.
Jesus is not "re-crucified" in the Mass. Not according to Catholic doctrine, at least, though perhaps according to the lies John Calvin told about Catholic doctrine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JioaV87T3fE&feature=related
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