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Rev. John K. Nesbella of St. Mary’s Rectory, in the diocese of Altoona- Johnstown wrote a letter to
his local newspaper where he lists the documentable problems with Sr. Jose
Hobday speaking at the Catholic Life Conference Saturday at Mount Aloyisius
College. The article ends with this:

…�You can’t do
these things and be a good Catholic, anymore than a terrorist who attacks his
own country can claim to be an American patriot. The very first commandment
states: “Do not have false gods before me, Fr. Nesbella writes, and says that
�Hobday is free to invent her own religion with goddesses or lesbians or
whatever. Someone has to stand up and say: That is not the Catholic faith. If
you do some of these things you’re probably not even a Christian.�

�The point is not to condemn Hobday, it is to protect the
faithful from learning and repeating her dissent and errors,� he
concludes.

Nevertheless, Most Rev. Joseph V. Adamec, Bishop of
Altoona-Johnstown, have said that

�as Bishop of this Diocesan Church, I appreciate the good
will of our Faithful and their desire to bring their concerns to my attention.
Having done that, it is incumbent upon them to foster unity and peace
within the Church, rather than division. Furthermore, Sister Jose ought
not to be condemned before we have an opportunity to hear her. And, above all
and regardless of anything else, our attitude needs to be that of Jesus in
similar situations.� Full
article

Would someone from the Arian Brotherhood be allowed to speak before being
condemned? It seems to me to would be highly prudent to check the background of
a speaker first and if there are problems to try to determine if these opinions
are still held. But a wait and see attitude when red flags have been raised is
not about peace and unity. Just how much peace and unity has come about by
allowing this speaker? I thought the request was “Feed my sheep” not “Poison my
sheep” with false doctrine.

Charles Schumer who applies a liberal litmus test to judicial nominee is
accusing Miguel Estrada of allegedly having a political litmus test when hiring
clerks. Don’t you just love anonymous sources for accusations? Forget about the
right to face your accuser thing it just isn’t convenient right now. The Corner
has a post
about a conservative clerk not being accepted by Miguel Estrada.

Classic cartoons originally produced between the 1930s
and 1950s and a television staple for the baby boomer generation, are being
edited for offensive material today “because of a politically correct white
mentality,” according to a cartoon historian. The sanitized cartoons feature
Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry and a host of Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies
characters.

…”If we are going to start censoring jokes because
people are offended, like the whole Mr. Magoo controversy where blind people
were offended, name me a cartoon character that doesn’t offend someone,” Beck
said.

“Bugs Bunny will be attacked because he is from Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn people don’t like him making fun of their accent,” he said. “The
NRA will be against Elmer Fudd because he is a bad hunter,” he added.

Beck noted that Fudd’s depiction, as a redneck hunter
with a speech impediment has not been censored, despite being possibly offensive
to some. “Unfortunately, at the moment, it’s okay to make fun of white guys. You
can do anything you want to white guys,” he said. Full
article

The CENSORED
CARTOONS Page

Mark Twain, Flannery O’Connor, and now Bugs and
Daffy.

This blog was always excellent but the addition other people have made it
more thought provoking and funnier. But this
post on SISTER NOUVEAU MARY ADDRESSES THE STATUE OF THE BLESSED MOTHER was
extremely funny and as with most things that are really funny there is a lot of
truth in it. So give a hearty welcome to the whole Catholic Light
team.

Who knew the World Trade Center was
gonna get bombed
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay
home that day
Why did Sharon stay away?

…A month after Amiri Baraka
became the poet laureate of New Jersey, Gov. James E. McGreevey asked the writer
and political activist to resign yesterday because a poem he read at a recent
poetry festival implies that Israel knew about the Sept. 11 attack in
advance.

But Mr. Baraka said he would not resign, creating an
unusual political quandary. Aides to the governor said he did not have the power
to remove Mr. Baraka because Mr. McGreevey had not directly selected him. And a
member of the committee of poets and cultural officials who chose Mr. Baraka
said that group had no power to remove him either.

Found via Rod Dreher
at The
Corner

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Girls as young as 11 will be able to obtain the
morning-after pill at a London school without their parents’ consent.

If the scheme at Chestnut Grove School in Balham is
successful, it could be extended to every secondary school in Wandsworth, a
borough which has the fifth highest teenage pregnancy rate in inner
London.

Margaret Peacock, the headmistress, said her school was
trying to behave responsibly.

She said under-16s could already obtain the pill without
their parents’ consent from hospital accident and emergency units and
pharmacies.

“The school governors thought it would be better for
children to receive counselling from the school nurse at the same time. If the
child is under age, loud bells will ring and the case will be treated as a child
protection issue.”

…Sheila Crouch, Chestnut Grove’s nurse, said: “If a
pupil comes to me for advice about emergency contraception I can only inform
them of relevant clinics. This delays the process. The sooner the young person
takes the first dose of the Levonelle-2 pill the more likely it is to
prevent a pregnancy.” Full
article

I think this school nurse might need an update on her
education, pregnancies don’t occur a day after having sex. This is like
arresting and executing someone after they have committed a murder and then
saying you have prevented a homicide.

…Then you have the quandary of gay Catholics like
Andrew Sullivan. If he were a Protestant in the U.S., the future conservative
drift of Christianity literally wouldn’t be a problem. We Protestants — and
that may be the one and only time I use that particular phrase — are
schismatics to our very bones. Sullivan would have no difficulty finding a niche
or a cubby hole in the myriad of mutations that continue to spew forth from the
revolution that Luther and Calvin started and would no doubt be aghast at. You
want to handle snakes? No problem. Bark for Jesus? Hey, make a joyful noise unto
the Lord. You swing both ways? Well, there is this really happening church
downtown…

However, Sullivan doesn’t want to be a Protestant. The
fact that Catholicism is the religion of his birth plays a part in this but he
is not, I think, merely a genetic Catholic. Sullivan believes — and, if I have
read him correctly, believes with some intensity — that his church is the
church — the one that Jesus started, complete with sacraments, smells and
bells, holy orders, and with a Scripture and Tradition that, in the Catechism’s
words, form “a single deposit of faith.”

But he’s also gay and therein lies a huge problem. His
church has said that this constitutes a “disorder” and is supported in this by
Scripture and by thousands of years of unbending Tradition. Rome regards gay sex
as a sin and a life ordered around such activity as something approaching a sin
against the Holy Ghost — that is, while the church might not take the trouble
to actually excommunicate gays, there is an understanding that they are living
in something approaching mortal sin. In the dust-up over the priest sex abuse
cover- ups, it is instructive to note that the response of many conservative
Catholics, including several in the Vatican, has been to say that homosexuals
shouldn’t be allowed to take holy orders. Full
article

Story reported in Amy Welborn’s
blog about a traditional group building a new church

The church was founded in 1978, part of a grass-roots
movement among Catholics opposed to reforms the Roman Catholic Church made in
the 1960s after the Second Vatican Council. The Masses are still in Latin,
and other pre-Vatican II doctrines are followed. St. Gertrude the
Great is independent of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the
Vatican. Full
article

I like the wording “Sermon in stone” but the sentence about
pre-Vatican II doctrines is very vague and I would be curious to know what they
consider these doctrines to be? The true spirit of Vatican II seems to have
evaded both the progressives and the ultra-traditionalists.

2477. “Respect for the reputation of persons forbids
every attitude and word likely to cause them unjust injury.[Cf. CIC, can. 220.]
He becomes guilty: – of rash judgment who, even tacitly, assumes as true,
without sufficient foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor; – of detraction
who, without objectively valid reason, discloses another’s faults and failings
to persons who did not know them;[Cf. Sir 21:28 .] – of calumny who, by remarks
contrary to the truth, harms the reputation of others and gives occasion for
false judgments concerning them.” –Catechism of the Catholic Church

I usually try to avoid Cardinal-cussing and Bishop-bashing but this releasing
of the list by Cardinal Keeler is imprudent at the least and is probably
detraction. I know it is difficult to ensure that Catholic truth is taught in
the schools, seminaries and universities and to guide the flock that you are
responsible for, but it seems rather Clintonesque to just release a list of
people who have been accused without a full investigation of the facts. So here
is a song I made up to release my anger a bit.

(Sung to the words “Santa Clause is Coming to Town”)

Even if your dead, or you are laicized
Your good reputation is about to
die
Cardinal Keeler is coming to town

He’s making a list and not checking it twice
Gonna print out who’s
allegedly naughty with vice
Cardinal Keeler is coming to town

He detracts you when you’re sleeping
He calumniates when you’re
awake
He doesn’t know if you’ve been bad or good
But to appease for the
medias sake

Oh! You better watch out, you better pray
That prudence might come the
Cardinals way
Cardinal Keeler is coming to town

In Riegel’s book, released in 2000 by a publisher called
SafeHaven Foundation Press, he writes: “Men who sexually pursue young boys are
not monsters, but sincere, concerned, loving human beings who simply have a
sexual orientation that is neither understood nor accepted by most others.”

The USJF has given Amazon 30 days to pull the book or
face “protracted litigation.” Today the group posted an online petition at a
website called Conservative
Petitions.com.