Tuesday, Sep 7, 2010

Opinion

Guest Commentary: Planned Parenthood has big plans
Aug. 25, 2010, By Vicki Evans
Economic times are tough and not many businesses are in an expansion mode. But Planned Parenthood is. It’s expanding its physical plant size, implementing plans for increasing its professional workforce, and broadening its customer base. Moreover, it is benefiting from ...

Judge overreaches in claiming voters irrational
Aug. 22, 2010, By Bill May
Members of Catholics for the Common Good were stunned that Judge Walker could find absolutely no rational reasons for maintaining marriage between a man and a woman when he overturned California’s Proposition 8 in a ruling released Aug. 4 in San Francisco.

Guest Commentary: Judge overreaches in declaring voters irrational
Aug. 11, 2010, By Bill May
Members of Catholics for the Common Good were stunned that Judge Walker could find absolutely no rational reasons for maintaining marriage between a man and a woman when he overturned California’s Proposition 8 in a ruling released Aug. 4 in San Francisco.

Guest Commentary: Decision pending on future of marriage
Jun. 23, 2010, By William B. May
The message delivered to Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker by Prop 8 proponents during the closing arguments at the trial to redefine marriage in San Francisco was clear. The voters have overwhelming authority and rational reasons for defining marriage between a man and a woman.

Priest sees roots of abuse crisis in loss of prayer discipline
May. 14, 2010, By Father Ted Shipp
Losing prayferfulness, many succumbed to temptation, author says, recounting the cultural changes that affected the priesthood in the 1960s. 'Those of my brothers who had sexual weaknesses were tempted.'  

Guest commentary: 12 things the bishops have learned from the abuse crisis
May. 12, 2010, By Bishop Blase Cupich
The Catholic bishops of the United States have learned many lessons from the sex abuse crisis. These twelve are among the most important.

Guest Commentary: The California Cannabis Initiative
May. 5, 2010, By Father Gerald Coleman
The California Cannabis Initiative (CCI), also known as Tax Cannabis 2010, has qualified for the November ballot in California. If passed, CCI would decriminalize certain marijuana offenses which currently generate a fine, arrest, or a misdemeanor, and would permit personal ...

Guest Commentary: Panoply of Priests
Apr. 28, 2010, By Helen M. Alvaré
I’m not sure if it got started in the late 1960s, but that’s when I remember family-friends and relatives beginning to express the opinion that it was better to roam from parish to parish in order to find a priest who satisfied one’s personal taste, than to ...

Archbishop’s Journal: A pastor’s homily on the Church’s failure
Apr. 21, 2010, By Archbishop George H. Niederauer
In recent weeks the issue of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy has been in the news, with an emphasis this time around on Europe and on accusations leveled at Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI.

"Be proud you're Catholic," says Jewish businessman
Apr. 20, 2010
Writer says the press has blamed the disease of pedophilia on the Catholic Church, which is as irresponsible as blaming adultery on the institution of marriage.

Vatican rebuts stalling charges in California abuse case
Apr. 14, 2010, By John Thavis
VATICAN CITY – Vatican officials have rebutted allegations that the future Pope Benedict XVI stalled on a priestly sex abuse case in 1985, and said critics have misunderstood the fundamental Church procedures in use at the time.

Pedophilia is only the latest weapon aimed against Joseph Ratzinger
Apr. 8, 2010, By Sandro Magister
Why is this pope so under attack, from outside of the Church but also from within, in spite of his clear innocence with respect to the accusations?  The beginning of an answer is that he is systematically attacked precisely for what he does, for what he says, for what he is.

Continuing tragedy in Gaza
Dec. 2, 2009, By Sister Sheral Marshall
With so much concern about the economy, no wonder that most of us have lost track of an ongoing tragedy taking place in our name and with our tax money.

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