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Peter Kreeft has a very convincing argument against priestesses. The hour long lecture is found at:
http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio/09_priestesses.htm

This request was on the World Over Live on Friday night - will be repeated twice on Monday - Best show yet on the affects of the storm and flood. Raymond Arroyo is a New Orleans resident and he gave his testimony on fleeing the storm and impact on the City of New Orleans. http://www.ewtn.com/worldover/index.asp

And though the information was recovered in July, it was not given urgency until the attack in Beslan.

Says a lot about the security in this county.

"We question how the Kerry campaign can talk about creating jobs at the same time it talks about eliminating thousands of jobs for Americans," Halliburton said, noting that it currently has 30,000 workers in Iraq combat zones, including over 15,000 Americans.

Good come back from Halliburton

The newspapers are covering this story big time: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

It seems that this thread has gotten a little off track. Yesterday (7/4) afternoon I printed out the article and first 100 posts to read later at night. Also printed out the entire source document that caused the negative reaction as reported in the NCR. Very interesting read - if interested, maybe a new thread on the Affermation of Persoanl Faith document is in order.

One needs only to look at the AFFIRMATION OF PERSONAL FAITH first two paragraphs to see why the liberals are SO upset.

It states: “I believe and profess all that the holy Catholic Church teaches, believes and proclaims to be revealed by God.” In particular: I affirm and believe the Church’s teaching about the inviolability of human life. In accord with that teaching I affirm that human life is sacred and must be protected and respected from the moment of conception until natural death. I affirm that I reject direct, intentional abortion and I do not recognize the legitimacy of anyone’s claim to a moral right to form their own conscience in this matter. I am not pro-choice. I further attest that I am not affiliated with, nor supportive of, any organization which supports, encourages, provides or otherwise endorses abortion or euthanasia. (cf. CCC 2270-2283)

Would not the Democrat Party be such an organization, if so, would that eliminate all Democrats from lay ministry?

For your discussion Ping.

From: http://213.92.16.98/ESW_articolo/0,2393,42196,00.html

Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion. General Principles

by Joseph Ratzinger

1. Presenting oneself to receive Holy Communion should be a conscious decision, based on a reasoned judgement regarding one’s worthiness to do so, according to the Church’s objective criteria, asking such questions as: “Am I in full communion with the Catholic Church? Am I guilty of grave sin? Have I incurred a penalty (e.g. excommunication, interdict) that forbids me to receive Holy Communion? Have I prepared myself by fasting for at least an hour?” The practice of indiscriminately presenting oneself to receive Holy Communion, merely as a consequence of being present at Mass, is an abuse that must be corrected (cf. Instruction “Redemptionis Sacramentum,” nos. 81, 83).

2. The Church teaches that abortion or euthanasia is a grave sin. The Encyclical Letter Evangelium vitae, with reference to judicial decisions or civil laws that authorise or promote abortion or euthanasia, states that there is a “grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection. [...] In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to ‘take part in a propoganda campaign in favour of such a law or vote for it’” (no. 73). Christians have a “grave obligation of conscience not to cooperate formally in practices which, even if permitted by civil legislation, are contrary to God’s law. Indeed, from the moral standpoint, it is never licit to cooperate formally in evil. [...] This cooperation can never be justified either by invoking respect for the freedom of others or by appealing to the fact that civil law permits it or requires it” (no. 74).

3. Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion. While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

4. Apart from an individuals’s judgement about his worthiness to present himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, the minister of Holy Communion may find himself in the situation where he must refuse to distribute Holy Communion to someone, such as in cases of a declared excommunication, a declared interdict, or an obstinate persistence in manifest grave sin (cf. can. 915).

5. Regarding the grave sin of abortion or euthanasia, when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist.

6. When “these precautionary measures have not had their effect or in which they were not possible,” and the person in question, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, “the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it” (cf. Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts Declaration “Holy Communion and Divorced, Civilly Remarried Catholics” [2002], nos. 3-4). This decision, properly speaking, is not a sanction or a penalty. Nor is the minister of Holy Communion passing judgement on the person’s subjective guilt, but rather is reacting to the person’s public unworthiness to receive Holy Communion due to an objective situation of sin.

[N.B. A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate’s permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate’s stand in favour of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163572/posts

I went to school with this guy, and this kind of thing indicates he hasn't changed a bit since seminary.

Just curious - Please elaborate.

Good article and good discussions. BTW, Have you been to Latin Mass lately?

Why would a priest be advising a baby killer, pro homosexual union candidate?

**Jesuit priest Robert Drinan** is one of his key advisors on Religion! Is he still a "priest" - I thought he was laicized years ago.

I would like to see the Constitution Party get more coverage. I was one of 900 or so in the entire state of KY to vote for Howard Phillips in 2000. If it looked closer in KY I would have voted for Bush. He won with over 60%. I'll probably vote for Bush this time. Don't want to hear all the gargage about the popular vote again. Their platform is much more in line with the majority of Freepers than the Republican Part.

So which one of these loverlies bi*tch slapped the one who was really light in his loafers.

"Lexington attorney Michael Meehan declined to comment yesterday on Fayette Circuit Family Court Judge Kim Bunnell's decision earlier this month to reject his petition for a domestic violence order against his former partner Thomas Dysarz."

Catholic

NYer, like you we have have serious problems since the very beginnings of the Diocese of Lexington. After the forced departure of our pastor about five years ago, we have had three "notorious" priest in a row, including the current one, how doubles as the "Vocations Director". Our new bishop need to wake up and smell the coffee. If you think thing are bad in Albany - read this: http://www.geocities.com/gaydiocese/AWAKE.HTML

How clever to call him an anti-gay minister. I guess you never heard of him - http://www.godhatesfags.com/

This makes the woman the non-custodial parent of five children... To make the story even worse, she was pregnant with five babies and had one aborted to give the others a better chance of survival.

Why were there quintuplets? That usually happens with medical interventions such as fertility drugs (or other means which I'm sure alert freepers will add). In vitro fertilization - I believe.