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Irish lawmakers open debate on gay rights bill
Dublin :: Ireland | about 13 hours ago
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Ireland's lawmakers opened debate Thursday on a bill to grant marriage-style rights to gay couples, a social milestone in a country long observant of Roman Catholic opposition to homosexuality...Ahern noted that the proposal would have been unthinkable...
Tags: Ireland, gay couples, lawmakers opened, opened debate, Roman Catholic, Dermot Ahern, Dublin, LGBT rights in the United States, Politics, Same-sex marriage, Societal attitudes toward homosexuality, Social Issues, Recognition of same-sex unions in Ireland
Irish child sex abuse report due
Dublin :: Ireland | 9 days ago
Credibility The part played by the police and the state has also been investigated. In May a separate report revealed a catalogue of cruelty against children at residential homes run by Catholic religious orders. The latest independent inquiry, which began in 2006,...
Tags: Irish Catholic, Roman Catholic, Christian Brothers, child abuse, catholic group, Ireland, Dublin, Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Religion Belief, Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland, Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, Diarmuid Martin, Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin, Child sexual abuse, Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country, Industrial school, Sexual abuse, Paul McGennis, Social Issues, Abuse scandal in the Sisters of Mercy, Desmond Connell
Hill Catholics Take Heat on Health Care
New York :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility In this Sept. 22 file photo, Rep. Patrick Kennedy gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo) In an effort that has produced heated public feuds as well as significant changes in proposed health care legislation, religious leaders are...
Tags: kennedy, church, tobin, right, roman catholic, Ted Kennedy, Patrick J. Kennedy, health care, sacrament, Senate, New York, Pro-life movement, Catholic League, Rosa DeLauro, Catholic Church and politics in the United States, Abortion in the United States, Roman Catholic Church in the United States, Nancy Pelosi, Abortion, Social Issues, Politics, Religion Belief
RIGHT MOVE: KENNEDY REFUSED COMMUNION
J. Grant Swank, Jr.Canon Law Regarding Catholics and Abortion:"Canon Law 1398 Catholics who have obtained an abortion, or performed an abortion, have excommunicated themselves latae sententiae (automatically by their very action) from the Catholic Church....
Tags: communion, Roman Catholic, Tobin, Kennedy, sacrament, excommunication, canon law, evil, sin, right, wrong, church, accountability, God, Christ, Jesus, Savior, Calvary, crucifixion, Rhode Island, diocese, morality, ethics, Congress
Right Move: Kennedy Refused Communion
Providence :: RI :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility They remain outside the church until the reception of the sacrament of Penance through a good confession. "Canon Law 1329 Catholics who are accomplices in enabling and permitting the crime of abortion to occur, who without their assistance the crime would...
Tags: Patrick J. Kennedy, Thomas Tobin, bishop thomas, Roman Catholic, catholic bishop, Catholic Church, The Providence Journal, Providence, Sacraments, Ceremonies, Eucharist, Blessed Sacrament, Anglican Eucharistic theology, Anglican sacraments, Abortion debate, Religion Belief, Pro-life movement, Pro-choice, Raymond Leo Burke, Ted Kennedy, Catholic Church and politics in the United States, Human rights, Abortion, Bioethics, Politics, Social Issues, Caroline Kennedy, Kennedy family, John F. Kennedy, Bouvier family, Providence Rhode Island, Password
It's hard to even exercise your right to vote anymore, it seems
Earlier today, 21 innocent victims who were just traveling to file their election papers for the May 2010 nationals were hijacked and gunned down, including the current Bulan Township Vice Mayor Ismael Mangudadatu's wife and children. All 21 people, 13...
Tags: politics, elections, victims, gunmen, hijacking, allnews, Philippines, Manila, Mangudadatu, Maguindanao, War Conflict, Ismael Mangudadatu, Muslim, Roman Catholic, warlords, political rivals
BIBLICAL MORALISTS DEFY GOVERNMENT
J. Grant Swank, Jr.Biblical ethicists defy left-of-left government intrusion if the latter prods believers to deny their values.These stalwarts are in the line of Jesus overturning temple tables, sending merchants fleeing. Jesus defied the power structure...
Tags: Bbile, Scripture, God, Jesus, Christ, ethics, morals, Obama, czar, shadow government, Chuck Colson, Manhattan Declaration, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, evangelial, conservative, secularists, anti-God, Washington archbishop, eternal verities
Convicted priest loses title
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility The leader of an independent Catholic denomination headquartered in Columbus said he is tightening background checks for clergy after discovering that a priest is a convicted child molester. The Reformed Catholic Church ordained the priest, Sean-Michael...
Tags: Sean-Michael Lyons, Phillip Zimmerman, Reformed Catholic Church, background checks, Roman Catholic, Sophia Catholic Communion, Philadelphia, Catholics not in communion with Rome, Catholic priesthood, Defrocking, Bishop, Independent Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodoxy, Methodism, Anglicanism, Religion Belief
Williams faces pope over Vatican call for converts
Canterbury :: United Kingdom | 13 days ago
Credibility The archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams , took the highly unusual step yesterday of protesting personally to the pope about his shock announcement last month of special arrangements for the mass conversion to Catholicism of disillusioned, traditionalist...
Tags: Canterbury Rowan Williams, Dr Rowan Williams, Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, anglican leaders, closer relations, England, disaffected anglican, United Kingdom, Canterbury, Anglicanism, Christianity in the United Kingdom, Protestantism, Primate, Catholicism, Catholics not in communion with Rome, Christian ecumenism, Religion Belief, Primacy of the Roman Pontiff, Roman Catholic, Bishop, Anglo-Catholicism, Roman Catholicism in England and Wales, Church of England, Catholic, Ecclesiology, Rowan Williams, Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumenism, Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue, George Carey, Jean-Louis Tauran
Christian leaders issue 'call of conscience'
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration on Friday reaffirming their opposition to abortion and gay marriage and pledging to protect religious freedoms. The...
Tags: Roman Catholic, gay marriage, religious freedoms, protect religious, Birmingham, Gynecology, Conscience clause, Timothy Dolan, Abortion, Medical ethics, Fertility, Social Issues, Religion Belief, Politics, Evangelicalism, Conservatism in the United States, Christian right, Christianity and abortion, Charles Colson
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