Category Archives: CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS

WE GET A GLIMPSE INTO THE CHARACTER OF PIETRO PAROLIN IN HIS REPORT ON HIS TRIP TO VIETNAM

Posted on September 2, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Vatican Diary / Another Venetian at the top, after more than three centuries Similarities and differences between the only two Venetian secretaries of state in history: Pietro Parolin and the cardinal nephew of Alexander VIII. Both at the center … Continue reading →

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DON’T JUST STAND (SIT) THERE, DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE LOSS OF OUR FREEDOM

Posted on August 28, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Wednesday: Stop San Antonio’s attack on religious liberty! August 27, 2013 | | Share with Friends Greetings from FRC Action! We wanted to share the following information with you from our friends at Texas Values. If you have previously … Continue reading →

Posted in ANTI-CATHOLICISM, CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS, Freedom of Conscience, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, HATE SPEECH LAWS, HOMOSEXUALITY, INTOLERANCE, JUSTICE, LGBT, LIBERALISM, MEDIA BIAS, MEDIA BIGOTRY, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS | Comments Off on DON’T JUST STAND (SIT) THERE, DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE LOSS OF OUR FREEDOM

BRAVO BISHOP CLARENCE R. SILVA, YOUR LETTER IS THE BEST DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE I HAVE READ

Posted on August 27, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Diocese of Honolulu ●Office of the Bishop 1184 Bishop Street, Honolulu, HI 96813 August 22, 2013 URGENT LETTER TO ALL CATHOLICS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII FROM BISHOP LARRY SILVA Dear Brothers and Sisters: The issue of same-sex marriage … Continue reading →

Posted in CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS, GAY 'MARRIAGE', GENES AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENETIC DETERMINISM, GENETIC PREDISPOSITION, LGBT, MARRIAGE v COHABITATION, MORAL RELATIVISM, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, POLITICAL LIFE IN AMERICA, SAME SEX ATTRACTION, SAME-SEX 'MARRIAGE', SAVING CHILDREN | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on BRAVO BISHOP CLARENCE R. SILVA, YOUR LETTER IS THE BEST DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE I HAVE READ

WE ARE SLIP SLIDING TOWARDS A TOTALITARIAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT

Posted on August 10, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! ………………………………………………………………………… A friend who has occupied positions of national prominence today sent me this email message.  I think that it is timely and important and so I pass it on to you. – Abyssum ………………………………………………………………………… I just sent this … Continue reading →

Posted in 'SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE', ANTI-CATHOLICISM, CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS, Freedom of Conscience, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, HAPPINESS, INTOLERANCE, JEWS, JUSTICE, LIBERALISM, MORAL RELATIVISM, POLITICAL LIFE IN AMERICA, RELATIVISM, RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION | 1 Comment

CATHOLICS MUST WITNESS TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ARE OF NATURAL LAW

Posted on August 5, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Catholics Must Face Squarely the Dire Threat to Religious Liberty by Rev. George W. Rutler http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/catholics-must-face-squarely-the-dire-threat-to-religious-liberty November, 2012   This reminded me of the line about the morally tranquilizing effects of  “intolerable music” in  Solzhenitsyn’s  1978 Harvard Class Day … Continue reading →

Posted in 'SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE', ANTI-CATHOLICISM, CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS, EVANGELIZATION, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, INTOLERANCE, JESUS CHRIST, JUSTICE, LIBERALISM, MORAL RELATIVISM, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, POLITICAL LIFE IN AMERICA, RELATIVISM, RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

FIRST, CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT NOW, CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES, WHAT NEXT?

Posted on July 19, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! U.S. Bishops’ relief agency caught giving $2.7 million to top abortion-marketing firm by Patrick B. Craine Thu Jul 18, 2013 14:58 EST BALTIMORE, July 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic Relief Services is in the midst of distributing a projected … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion, BIRTH CONTROL, BISHOPS, CANON LAW, CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS, INFANTICIDE, JESUS CHRIST, LIBERALISM, LIFE ISSUES, MORAL RELATIVISM, POPULATION, SAVING CHILDREN, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE RIGHT TO LIFE, UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on FIRST, CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT NOW, CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES, WHAT NEXT?

THERE IS NO TURNING BACK THE CLOCK, THE U.S. CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN GUTTED! PREPARE FOR MARTYRDOM!

Posted on July 14, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! You will not be martyred in a coloseum like the early Christian martyrs, nor will you be martyred as the Christians are being martyred in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Egypt, India and other places by Muslims, no, you will … Continue reading →

Posted in ANTI-CATHOLICISM, ATHEISM, CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS, Freedom of Conscience, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, GAY 'MARRIAGE', HATE SPEECH LAWS, HOMOSEXUALITY, HUMAN SEXUALITY, INTOLERANCE, JURISPRUDENCE, LAWRENCE V TEXAS, LIBERALISM, MEDICAL-MORAL PROBLEMS, MORAL RELATIVISM, POLITICAL LIFE IN AMERICA, RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH | 1 Comment

POPE FRANCIS HAS REPEATEDLY CRITICISED THE AVERAGE QUALITY OF THE BISHOPS OF THE WOLRD

Posted on July 11, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! A Pope Like None Before. Can He Do It? The symbolic voyage to Lampedusa. His great popularity. The reform of the curia. The calculated silence on ethical issues. But also his first error over an IOR appointment. The challenge … Continue reading →

Posted in BISHOPS, CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS, CLERICALISM, POPE BENEDICT XVI, POPE FRANCIS, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, VATICAN'S SECRETARY OF STATE | Comments Off on POPE FRANCIS HAS REPEATEDLY CRITICISED THE AVERAGE QUALITY OF THE BISHOPS OF THE WOLRD

“WELL IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE,” NO IT COULD NOT, IT ONLY DELAYED THE INEVITABLE

Posted on June 28, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! MARRIAGE AND JUSTICE ARE WOUNDED, BUT NOT FATALLY June 27, 2013 Matthew J. Franck http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/06/marriage-and-justice-wounded-but-not-fatally You know that someone has bad news to relate when he begins by saying, “well, it could have been worse.” That is what the … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion, CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS, Freedom of Conscience, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, GAY 'MARRIAGE', JURISPRUDENCE, LAWRENCE V TEXAS, MORAL RELATIVISM, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, POLITICAL LIFE IN AMERICA, RELATIVISM, SAME-SEX 'MARRIAGE' | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on “WELL IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE,” NO IT COULD NOT, IT ONLY DELAYED THE INEVITABLE

CATHOLIC SCHOOLING PRODUCES CITIZENS NOT SUBJECTS FOR BIG BROTHER

Posted on June 25, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! June 25, 2013 Obama Misrepresents Catholic Schools by Peter Smith Recently visiting Northern Ireland for the G8 meeting at Lough Erne, President Obama said this during his now-traditional speech to local young people: If towns remain divided—if Catholics have … Continue reading →

Posted in CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, POLITICAL LIFE IN AMERICA, RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION | Comments Off on CATHOLIC SCHOOLING PRODUCES CITIZENS NOT SUBJECTS FOR BIG BROTHER