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Ending the Death Penalty

Wed, 01/09/2013 - 15:02 — Dave Culver

  • In Jesus’ justice system, offenders are allowed to live and are called to conversion.  They are encouraged to rehabilitate, and are held accountable.  
  • There is no death penalty, because the death penalty is an act that says, “There is nothing more that God can do with this life."
  • American Prisons: Slavery By The Backdoor    

Eric DeBode, Catholic Agitator 

 

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October, 2012 | The story of Zacchaeus sums up many key themes which run through Luke’s gospel:  the high are brought low, the lost sheep are gathered, justice happens outside of court by repairing harms done, the “child of Abraham” is welcomed back, and the outsider and the unclean are recognized as key to the project of salvation. 

   

Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector, which meant that he got really rich by running a shady business; he collected taxes for the occupying Roman state, and he was despised by his fellow Jews. 

   

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American Prisons: Slavery By The Backdoor, Chris Gambrell, YouTube

The government will keep inventing more laws to make criminals out of good people.

 

 
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Pope Benedict Takes Anti-Gay Marriage To New Level In Christmas Speech

Sat, 01/05/2013 - 11:48 — Dave Culver

  • "People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being," he said. "They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves.
  • "The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man's fundamental choice where he himself is concerned," he said.
  • 50 Reasons to Boycott the Catholic Church

Nicole Winfield, Associated Press / Huffington Post

 

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December 21, 2012 | The pope pressed his opposition to gay marriage Friday, denouncing what he described as people eschewing their God-given gender identities to suit their sexual choices – and destroying the very "essence of the human creature" in the process.

 

Benedict XVI made the comments in his annual Christmas address to the Vatican bureaucracy, one of his most important speeches of the year. He dedicated it this year to promoting traditional family values in the face of gains by same-sex marriage proponents in the U.S. and Europe and efforts to legalize gay marriage in places like France and Britain.

 

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50 Reasons to Boycott the Catholic Church, Adam Lee,AlterNet

  • The Church uses its resources to oppose social progress and positive change all over the world.
  • Series | How Rome Didn't Decline and Fall (Yet), Part 1
  • Churchgoers, save yourselves

 

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One Million Letters Effort!

Sun, 12/30/2012 - 13:20 — Dave Culver

Join the effort to send 1,000,000 letters or emails to the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) in support of their stand in support of the ordination of women as Roman Catholic priests. 

 

Bob Wedl, Evergreene Digest

 

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December 17, 2012 | The December 3rd National Catholic Reporter (NCR) has written an editorial in support of the ordination of women as Roman Catholic priests.  This is just one more major group that is lining up to contest the rules of the Catholic Church hierarchy which argue, by their action and papal decrees, that women are not worthy of serving as priest ministers of the Catholic faith.  The response to that editorial has been overwhelmingly positive...and why would it not be?

 

As a supporter of the WomenPriest effort, I am asking you to join the effort to send 1,000,000 letters or emails to the NCR in support of their stand.  Also, forward this email to as many people as possible...and asking them to forward it to as many people as possible...etc.

 

You may send your email to NCR...or by US mail at: National Catholic Reporter, 115 E. Armour Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64111. You may also want to copy your bishop. 

 

Peace and justice to you at this time of wonder and joy.

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Nik Scott | Confession - How it Works / media.caglecartoons.com

Wed, 12/19/2012 - 11:37 — Dave Culver

 

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Series | How Rome Didn't Decline and Fall (Yet), Part 3

Mon, 12/17/2012 - 11:50 — Dave Culver

 

  • The Vatican Occupation of America
  • A Tragi-Comedy In Three Acts
  • Part 3: The Vatican Numbers Game
  • Series | How Rome Didn't Decline and Fall (Yet), Part 1
  • Series | How Rome Didn't Decline and Fall (Yet), Part 2
  • 50 Reasons to Boycott the Catholic Church

Bill Annett, American Logo, Salem (OR) News

 

Washington's Capitol building is at the centre of the world From the telegraph.co.uk article: Is America the new Rome?

 

December 17, 2012 | Question: (From the inquisitive student in the back row) “How can the Vatican, which has no defense or military budget of  $750 billion (as in the United States), with no army, navy or air force – except for a platoon or so of those Swiss guards carrying pike poles and wearing those funny hats - manage to control, dictate to and obtain absolute fealty (including the payment of enormous amounts of money under “concordats”) from literally every legitimate (about 178 of them) “free world” government, not to mention 800 million people (almost as many subscribers as Facebook) around the globe?”

 

Answer: An excellent question, back-row student. The answer is by parading itself as the next thing to God. The American model is typical, and one of the most successful. Let us consider the American model. Watch closely.

 

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Series | How Rome Didn't Decline and Fall (Yet), Part 1, Bill Annett, American Logo, Salem (OR) News

  • The Vatican Occupation of America
  • A Tragi-Comedy In Three Acts
  • Part 1: No God Before Me

Series | How Rome Didn't Decline and Fall (Yet), Part 2, Bill Annett, American Logo, Salem (OR) News

  • The Vatican Occupation of America
  • A Tragi-Comedy In Three Acts
  • Part 2: Sex and he Single Church
  • Series | How Rome Didn't Decline and Fall (Yet), Part 1
  • 50 Reasons to Boycott the Catholic Church

50 Reasons to Boycott the Catholic Church, Adam Lee, AlterNet

  • The Church uses its resources to oppose social progress and positive change all over the world.
  • Series | How Rome Didn't Decline and Fall (Yet), Part 1
  • Churchgoers, save yourselves

 

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Ordination of women would correct an injustice

Mon, 12/10/2012 - 18:05 — Dave Culver

  • Our message is that we believe the sensus fidelium is that the exclusion of women from the priesthood has no strong basis in Scripture or any other compelling rationale; therefore, women should be ordained.
  • NCR joins its voice with Roy Bourgeois and calls for the Catholic church to correct this unjust teaching.
  • Maryknoll: Vatican has dismissed Roy Bourgeois from order
  • Father Bill Brennan, 92, Sanctioned For Celebrating Mass With Woman Priest

NCR Editorial Staff, National Catholic Reporter

 

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Father Bill Brennan, a Milwaukee-area peace activist who has done missionary work in Central America, celebrated Mass last month in Georgia with Janice Sevre-Duszynska of the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests.  

 

Dec. 3, 2012 | The call to the priesthood is a gift from God. It is rooted in baptism and is called forth and affirmed by the community because it is authentic and evident in the person as a charism. Catholic women who have discerned a call to the priesthood and have had that call affirmed by the community should be ordained in the Roman Catholic church. Barring women from ordination to the priesthood is an injustice that cannot be allowed to stand.

 

The most egregious statement in the Nov. 19 press release announcing Roy Bourgeois' "excommunication, dismissal and laicization" is the assertion that Bourgeois' "disobedience" and "campaign against the teachings of the Catholic church" was "ignoring the sensitivities of the faithful." Nothing could be further from the truth. Bourgeois, attuned by a lifetime of listening to the marginalized, has heard the voice of the faithful and he has responded to that voice.

 

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National Catholic Reporter Endorses Women’s Ordination, Megan Sweas, Religion Dispatches

  • Many have been surprised by National Catholic Reporter’s announcement that it endorses women’s ordination. It’s a bigger surprise, however, that it’s taken them this long to do so.
  • Maryknoll: Vatican has dismissed Roy Bourgeois from order

Maryknoll: Vatican has dismissed Roy Bourgeois from order, Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter 

  • In interviews Bourgeois focused on the rights of conscience of Catholics and "the importance of people of faith and members of Maryknoll to be able to speak openly and freely without fear ... of being dismissed or excommunicated."
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Father Bill Brennan, 92, Sanctioned For Celebrating Mass With Woman Priest, Mary Wisniewski, Reuters

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December 8, 2012 | A 92-year-old Wisconsin Jesuit has become the latest Catholic priest to be punished by church authorities for celebrating Mass with a woman priest in violation of church rules, a Jesuit spokesman said on Wednesday.

 

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