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.
Most Catholics stay affiliated with the church because of strong family, cultural and social ties. They hope against hope that the church will change.
ReplyDeleteThe Church will change and change dramatically. It has before and will again. because the church is an elderly patriarchal autocracy, it changes very slowly.
Whether most Catholics will leave the church or choose to stay is up to them. I don't think the opinion of the NYT figures into it at all. The Church itself is not going to kick many people out. It antagonizes those that remain rather than chastises them.
Many people can trace their Catholicism back a thousand years or more. That's not something you just give up because the current crop of priests are poofty wankers.
Reddog, have you been drinking? If you are not, you should be.
ReplyDeleteYour anti-Catholic rant is ............. yawn ............so boring. And what exactly did we Catholics do to you in order for you to spew such hate speech?
I am not anti Catholic. I am anti clerical and certainly not limited to Catholic priests. There are some priests I'm very fond of but the Pope keeps shutting them away. Frank Drinan. Tom Reese. Bill Morris. Peter Kennedy.
ReplyDeleteYou might ask instead of Catholics, what have Catholic priests done to me? You mightn't like the answer. You would likely say I'm lying, then hire lawyers to demean and discredit me. So what's the point, Laddybuck?
Poofty wanker, indeed.
Understand completely - but remember we have all dealt with some weak and creepy individuals. It doesn't mean they are all the same. I have known men who beaten their wives, girlfriends; sexually assaulted their children or took off so they would not have pay child support. I do not, however, place all men in those categories.
ReplyDeleteThat's just the fact, indeed.