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Posts Tagged ‘Roman Catholic Church’
October 18th, 2017 - 1:37 am § in America
A Boon to Trump’s Churches
The Johnson Amendment is a 1954 federal law (named for sponsor and then-Senator LBJ) prohibiting churches and charities from endorsing political candidates, at the risk of losing their tax exempt status. Donald Trump has vowed to “destroy” the law, which would be a boon to some of the ch[...]
July 16th, 2017 - 1:11 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Marrying Women to a Deity
3 women pledge lifelong virginity and become ‘brides of Christ’ (AP) Laurie Malashanko of Plymouth, Karen Ervin of Northville and Theresa Jordan of Dearborn Heights are now, in the words of Catholic canon law, “mystically betrothed to Christ.” Unlike nuns, they are not part of a religious o[...]
Papal Antisemitism
Pope Francis has been offering increasingly frequent and bitter denunciations of Catholics who oppose his push to give communion to the divorced and remarried. Sadly, the Pope has portrayed the rigid clergy—as Pharisees who “sit in the chair of Moses and judge.” This is a horror rooted in th[...]
October 23rd, 2016 - 12:52 pm § in Christianity, Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: “DO NOT HATE ME FOR THIS (1)”
Jesus may have cleansed the temple but he cannot clean the mess of Christianity in Nigeria. Chinazor Onianwah So in 1990, I had this inspiration to study theology and become a minister. Luckily I was ordained and hired at a growing congregation. This was right in the prime of Afrocentrism. But wha[...]
October 12th, 2016 - 9:46 am § in Misc.
Roman Catholicism Needs Reform
GAYS AND CATHOLICISM: POPE’S WORDS OPEN DOOR TO CONFUSIONPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – An ideological tug of war over the firing of a Rhode Island church music director for marrying his same-sex partner illustrates the confusion that permeates some U.S. Roman Catholic parishes over Pope Franci[...]
October 3rd, 2016 - 1:30 am § in Misc.
Francis Jacobson on Trump and The Catholic Media
Yes, most Catholics are opposed to Mr. Trump, and the “support” the conservative Catholic media gives him is based only on the abortion issue. Here is why I say that calling them racists is counter-productive. A Trump supporter will merely take those words and twist them into some sort o[...]
September 11th, 2016 - 1:17 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Is Hillary a Saint?
The revelation today about Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia made me wonder, given all he has been through, would death during a campaign agsinst the anti Christ, make her eligible to be a saint? Mother Theresa is the newest example of the Papacy’s claim to deify humans. I say “deify[...]
March 27th, 2016 - 9:01 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Easter: Why Jesus Died
Resa Aslan on the Death of Jesus The Message That Led to His Conviction[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS:Of Nuns And Popes
Is Pope Frank for Real? In 2012, the Vatican accused U.S. nuns of taking up such “radical feminist themes” as social welfare and political action. The Romans saw income inequality as a distraction from Roman Catholicism’s issues of contraception, abortion and same-sex marriage. There[...]