11/6/22, 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, C (Sign/Voice)
- From Pope Leo’s Arcanum to 2013 – Part 1 (Catholic Stand, 10/30/22)
- From Pope Leo’s Arcanum to 2013 – Part 2 (Catholic Stand, 10/31/22) - visible after 10/31/22
- Why Are So Many New Pontifical Academy for Life Members at Odds With Church Teaching on Life and Sexuality? (National Catholic Register, 10/27/22)
- World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations vs Pontifical Academy for Life (ZENIT, 10/25/22)
- "A nun in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been burnt alive after Islamists set fire to the hospital where she worked as a doctor" (ZENIT, 10/25/22)
- Allegheny Reproductive Health Center, et al. v. PA Department of Human Services, et al. (10/25/22)
- The case for excommunication today (Catholic Culture, 10/25/22)
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"Within the past hundred years, the Church in the United States has publicly excommunicated those among her members in the American South who refused to minister to Blacks. This sent a message that any racial bar to the Church’s ministry is gravely sinful and will not be tolerated among Catholic clergy or people. The choice was to get with the Catholic program, or get out. The same should be true now for the most serious public breaches of Catholic trust: Catholic educators who teach fashionable moral errors, Catholic politicians who advocate laws which violate God’s law, lay persons who openly parade their defiance of Catholic teaching, and Catholic clergy who abuse those in their spiritual care (should they remain morally obstinate after removal from ministry)....
If the Catholic Church today wishes to recover a lost reputation for actually believing what she claims to teach, she has no choice but to begin again publicly to apply the penalty of excommunication. Obviously, the normal process of fraternal correction should be followed (as described in Mt 18:15-18), but if the serious fault and its attendant scandal does not go uncorrected, excommunication is the only remaining logical step. Even if the presumption is that the one to be excommunicated will ignore the ban, or that he or she will use the media to reap earthly benefits from it, or that the Church’s discipline will be denounced as politically motivated, nonetheless, if it proves otherwise impossible to bring back the sinner from his evil way (James 5:20), the step of excommunication is essential."
"Hobart Catholic school St Mary's College made headlines last week when concerns were raised about the chosen reading for its graduation mass — Ephesians 5: 21-23 — which includes: 'Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord, since as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife; and as the Church submits to Christ, so should wives submit to their husbands, in everything.' After concern among staff, students and parents, and backlash on social media, Archbishop Julian Porteous agreed to change the reading, and provided an alternative" (ABC News, 10/24/22)
- The Issues at Play in the first post Roe Midterm Elections (National Catholic Register, 9/6/22)
Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."]
(USCCB)
Scientific documentation abortion [including so called "contraceptives" that are abortifacient] kills living human beings/persons (Diane Irving, PhD, 6/26/22)
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(If you have difficulties opening "Ephphata", be sure you are opening the "web version.")
