So says Cardinal George of Chicago (h/t Ace): The cardinal does not not speak as someone who can, with the stroke of a pen, order all Catholic Hospitals to shut down. Rather, he lays out the dynamic that will happen if the HHS contraception mandate is not rescinded: What will happen if the HHS regulations… Read More Say Good-Bye to Catholic Hospitals
And worse, when pressed to discuss the Catholic position on birth control and sexuality, he doesn’t hide in the bushes, but stands for his positions like a man. Naturally this makes him unacceptable as a Presidential candidate. The comments explode with the imaginary fear that Santorum is going to outlaw birth control (he isn’t, and… Read More Ace of Spades Discovers that Rick Santorum is Catholic
I am a bigot. I am a stupid, antediluvian redneck, bitterly clinging to my guns and god, insufficiently educated to note the distinction between my posterior sphincter and divot in the earth. How do I know this? Because I do not support gay marriage. If this reasoning satisfies you, by all means, stop reading here.… Read More Confessions of a Bigot
And the angel opened up the fourth seal, etc… Speaking as a Catholic, I wish the Church would be more open on the contraception question. But speaking as an American liberal who believes that religious pluralism imposes certain obligations on government, I think the Church’s leaders had a right to ask for broader relief from… Read More I Agree With E.J. Dionne
In 1999, the Vatican issued guidelines for exorcisms. Among them was the requirement that a person claiming demonic possession should first be screened by doctors to rule out illness. In 2012, that fact is used as the premise for a bad movie to trash the Church as “hypocritical,” “bureaucratic,” and uncaring. Because a religious organization… Read More The Big, Bad Catholic Church Strikes Again.
At Catholibertarian: Do the elements added by the U.S. bishops in 1983 to traditional just war criteria help in determining whether a particular war is just?. I always took the requirement of “a probability of success” to mean that there was a serious and thoughtful plan, in line with other principles, to bring about success quickly.… Read More Complicating Just-War Theory
Rick Santorum’s Catholicism runs to the fervent, and can discompose people whose faith is nominative at best. As one who believes in charity as a divine command, I’m going to offer that as an explanation for Alan Colmes’ cheap shot about Santorum bringing his dead son home in 1996 before taking him to the funeral… Read More Alan Colmes Loosens His Filter
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