Classically Liberal (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have an extremely low opinion of the Vatican and the morally-challenged Cardinals and Bishops that make up the bureaucratic structure of that corrupt institution. So you would think that the Vatican could do little to actually lower my estimation of their character. You would think that but you would be wrong. It seems the Vatican just has not yet reached the bottom of the moral...
Liberals Are Cool (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Read this and ponder the 2 questions at the bottom. VATICAN CITY, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Gay rights groups and newspaper editorials on Tuesday condemned the Vatican for its decision to oppose a proposed U.N. resolution calling on governments worldwide to de-criminalise homosexuality. The row erupted after the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations told a French Catholic...
The Road to the Horizon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following the Vatican's controversial opposition to a UN declaration calling for an end to discrimination against homosexuals, the Vatican envoy to the UN, confirmed that the Holy See also refused to sign off on the rights of the disabled. They claim it did not condemn abortion or assert the rights of foetuses with birth defects. The Vatican made its position clear today, marking...
Catholic Fire (Free subscription) | yesterday
On December 10, the French will submit to the U.N. General Assembly a non-binding declaration that would decriminalize homosexuality. The Vatican is opposed to the document, citing its concerns over language that could impose same-sex marriage in law. Catholic League president Bill Donohue defends the Vatican decision: “The Vatican’s critics are already going ballistic over its...
s o s (Free subscription) | yesterday
Appeals court lets Vatican sex-abuse case proceed The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave the go-ahead for the lawsuit filed by three men who claim priests abused them as children. They allege the Vatican orchestrated a decades-long coverup of priests sexually abusing children throughout the U.S. ‘We will get to the bottom of this,’ said McMurry, who represented 243 sex abuse victims...
Chris Dickson (Free subscription) | yesterday
"RENEWING THE AMERICAN DREAM" Holy See refused to sign a UN document on the rights of the disabled because it did not condemn abortion Richard Owen in Rome Following the Vatican's controversial opposition this week to a UN declaration calling for an end to discrimination against homosexuals, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican envoy to the UN, has confirmed that the Holy See also...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is no level of gay-bashing to which the Catholic Church will not stoop. Via Think Progress, we learn that the Vatican opposes a U.N. resolution that would urge nations to de-criminalize homosexuality: The Vatican is drawing criticism from gay rights groups and newspapers editorials after Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations,...
Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Chiesa had a good article on this at Great Music in the Churches of Rome. But in the Vatican, They're Deaf You would think it would be the opposite. However I have noted that a lot UK Catholic priests, that were of course raised and are around a lot of great Choirs, oftne rant on about this too. Father Z also took a look at this article and gave comments here at The sacred music scene in Rome:...
Shrine of the Holy Whapping (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Good news to all devout believers and twelve-year-old anime-obsessed pre-teen boys : we finally have gotten one step closer to getting our first samurai saint, the newly-beatified martyr Blessed Leo Zaisho Shichiemon: The samurai Zaisho Shichiemon was baptized on July 22, 1608. He took the name of Leo, that of the great pope who had halted the barbarian invasions. But his story much more closely resembles...
Dad29 (Free subscription) | yesterday
This reminds me of something . There is a sort of musical paralysis, in Rome, around the celebrations of the pope. Benedict XVI's thought on liturgical music is very well known, it has been presented in his writings, very critical of the decline that has taken place. But almost nothing has changed, in more than three years of pontificate. The Vatican still has no office with authority on sacred...
Mike Tidmus : Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The obscurantist Papa Ratzi (PhotoShoppery: mine) In this morning’s Times Online, we learn that, not only do the politicians in the Vatican oppose the decriminalization of homosexuality, they also refused to sign a UN document on the rights of the disabled because it failed to condemn abortion. From Times Online: Vatican stands up against further UN resolutions Richard Owen in Rome Following...
The Freethinker (Free subscription) | yesterday
ITALIAN gay rights groups and newspapers have turned their fury on the Vatican following its decision to oppose a proposed UN resolution calling on governments worldwide to de-criminalise homosexuality. According to this report, the row erupted yesterday after the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations told a French Catholic news agency that the Holy See [...]
Political Wrinkles (Free subscription) | yesterday
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Gay rights groups and newspaper editorials on Tuesday condemned the *Vatican for its decision to oppose a proposed U.N....
The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | yesterday
... that has taken place. But almost nothing has changed, in more than three years of pontificate. The Vatican still has no office with authority on sacred music. The Sistine Choir, conducted by Monsignor Giuseppe Liberto, is a shadow of its glorious former self. And when the Sistine Choir is not singing at the papal Masses, what dominates is the theatrical style of Monsignor Marco Frisina,...
Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am sure the headlines and the context will be totally lost over the next few days. VOX NOVA has the details . Update - Translated from an Italian Paper l'Occidentale at the Ratzinger Forum Anyone who says the Church is intolerant can only do so in bad faith by Stefano Fontana Translated from December 3, 2008 The position taken by the Catholic Church to the proposed 'decriminalization of homosexuality'...
