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Les Femmes Website Earns Kudos from Idaho Fan
I am a strong orthodox
Catholic. My wife and I love your site. You are to be commended for speaking
up for true Catholicism.
Keith Hoene
Garden Valley, Idaho
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Reader’s Suggestion Inspires Twilight Zone Entry
Why don't
you suggest that Michael Jackson replace you as a 4th grade CCD teacher?
After his successful trial, we know that all his paperwork is in order
and he is as clean as a hound's tooth. I'm sure he'd survive fingerprinting
and a criminal background check, too. How does it feel to be a human shield
for priests and bishops?
Name withheld
Received via e-mail
Is Solving the Homosexual Problem a Lost Cause?
I think
the American Catholic Church faces the same problem with homosexuality that
the American South faced with slavery in 1861. It's wrong, but it's
here and it's integral to the institution. Take it out, and what do you
do? The American Church/South falters, the homosexuals/ slaves are homeless.
You have to rebuild from the bottom up. That sounds untenable, so people
avoid facing reality. But sooner or later, you're forced to confront the
problem.
I look at the better bishops, good priests, and Catholic faithful and
I see the South dying on the altar of "the Cause" - good, noble
people struggling with a fundamental evil at their institutional core.
Judith Graham
Fairfax, VA
Bishop “Came Out” for Civil Unions in California
The reason
bishops don’t protect us from sexual deviates is they are too busy
promoting them and giving them their own parishes. Rampant homosexual
behavior was tolerated in seminaries. Now these guys are in powerful positions
(i.e. bishops). Our own bishop came out publicly in favor of civil
unions claiming not to allow them is discriminatory. [In 2000] he asked
Catholics in his diocese to reject Proposition 22. The legislature, supported
by Catholics-in-name-only, continues to try and undo the people of California
who successfully voted to protect true marriage.
The local parochial school has two queer men, guardians to young boys
(whom they legally adopted). They are not only listed as “parents”
in the school directory, but work alone with small groups of Kindergarteners.
Do you see a problem here? The pastor objected to their waltzing around
campus together and wrote a policy prohibiting it. The response: feminist/nun
(31 years as principal) threatened to quit because he was not being “nice.”
So the bishop did what? Demoted the pastor and brought in someone less
“divisive.”
Please pray for these dysfunctional bishops and priests. St. John Vianney,
pray for all parish priests but especially for our bishops. A Catholic
in California
During the debate over Prop. 22 Bishop Tod Brown sent his priests an
article by Fr. Gerald Coleman supporting “committed” civil
unions. Will fingerprinting protect families from this spiritual abuse?
— Editor