The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
If it is a true sign of god for the modernization and democratization of the church, away from it's medieval, patriarchal autocracy of nefarious, deeply closeted, self loathing, elderly priests, why does he obscure it's significance and obstruct it's natural path to much needed reform of the institution?
ReplyDeleteThere is one thing for certain- the Pope does not answer to an aetheist like you. Go work on your own kind- people wrapped up in their own heads- looking for utopia within their brain.
DeleteAthiest who? I talk to God all the time. It must be a different one than the Pope talks to though. My God wants to empower all his children, not just a few elderly old men who pretend celebacy and then want to tell everybody else how to have sex.
DeleteMethinks it is you who are the atheist, Tim. Your perspective has become so warped that it is the institution you revere and worship, forsaking the one true God that it was originally built to honor and long since forgotten, in favor of the brittle, dusty doctrines and dogmas never changed or discarded once enshrined.
ReplyDeleteWe are all God's children, you me, the pope and Saloth Sar. The pope and Saloth may have more in common than one would think. The least denizen of the Black Hole may have greater faith and more holiness in God's eyes than Mother Teresa. To her credit, we know that Mother would never deny this... and there lies the difference between you and she.
See how these Christians (and non as well) love one another.
ReplyDeleteYou have trouble with sexual morality teachings of the Church. That seems to be a stumbling block for many. Does the God you talk to about sex agree with the God in sacred scripture? Fornication, adultery, homosexual acts are grave sins. What God has joined let no man put apart. The God of the Catholic Church is perfectly in line with those teachings. Is yours?
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Paul
These pelvic sins to which you refer are small potatoes compared to the big ones, greed, gluttony, sloth, envy, avarice and on and on. Yet because someone may be in a committed relationship over the course of many years that does not have the blessing of the church, divorced or actively homosexual, all lesser sins, you would exclude them from the community.
ReplyDeleteWe're all sinners. Some more than others. Being a sinner does not make you less Catholic. Do you believe you are not a sinner? That you are better than a divorced person? Someone in an unsanctioned marriage. A single mother? A homosexual? Maybe you should look in the mirror, examine the way you live and how you treat others. There might be some sin there that dwarfs those that you in your false righteousness would deny God's sacraments and community. If we didn't sin we wouldn't need God's sacraments and community. If only the righteous were allowed into the community, there would be no community.
Since when did Jesus say that the Church gets to pick and choose among those that come to her for succor? Who would be worthy to do this choosing? Someone with no sin? Good luck finding that guy.
You presume to rank sins by what you think should be the ranking of sins, starting with worst. Have you not read that leading astray, or showing a child how to sin, that it would be better for that man to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the depths of the sea? Do you know how heavy a millstone can be? I just happen to know- the ones I saw my father deal with in my youth were about 240 pounds ! Can you swim with that?
DeleteBut, of course, you are smarter than God.
I am not smarter than God, Mark. I may not even be smarter than you. I am more inclusive. I think that's a good thing.
DeleteI take that back. You apparently think that ostracization an demonization of homosexuals is beneficial to child development. I definitly am smarter than you.
Just another TWIT !
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