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 Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:01 am Post subject: Pope scolds Canada on gay marriage |
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Pope Benedict lashed out Friday at Canada for allowing same-sex marriage and abortion, saying the policies resulted from Catholic politicians ignoring the values of their religion.
"In the name of tolerance, your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse," the Pope told a group of bishops from Ontario. "In the name of freedom of choice, it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children."
Such laws, Benedict said, are the result of "the exclusion of God from the public sphere."
He lamented that Catholic politicians had yielded to "ephemeral social trends and the spurious demands of opinion polls."
Benedict has made the defence of traditional family values a major goal of his papacy, speaking out often on the issue. During a trip to Spain in July, he challenged that country's socialist government for instituting liberal reforms such as gay marriage and fast-track divorce.
Robert Mickens, the Rome correspondent for the Catholic newspaper The Tablet, told CBC News that the tone of the Pope's speech was a lot sharper than what he has said over the last several months.
Mickens said he suspected the speech was written for the Pope by Vatican officials because it didn't bear his style or syntax. |
I always find it ironic when the Catholic Church opposes gay rights. They employ so many of them.
In the meantime I'm sure the latest statement from the Vatican will be a non-issue during the next election. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:09 am Post subject: Re: Pope scolds Canada on gay marriage |
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Pope Benedict lashed out Friday at Canada for allowing same-sex marriage and abortion, saying the policies resulted from Catholic politicians ignoring the values of their religion.
"In the name of tolerance, your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse," the Pope told a group of bishops from Ontario. "In the name of freedom of choice, it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children."
Such laws, Benedict said, are the result of "the exclusion of God from the public sphere."
He lamented that Catholic politicians had yielded to "ephemeral social trends and the spurious demands of opinion polls."
Benedict has made the defence of traditional family values a major goal of his papacy, speaking out often on the issue. During a trip to Spain in July, he challenged that country's socialist government for instituting liberal reforms such as gay marriage and fast-track divorce.
Robert Mickens, the Rome correspondent for the Catholic newspaper The Tablet, told CBC News that the tone of the Pope's speech was a lot sharper than what he has said over the last several months.
Mickens said he suspected the speech was written for the Pope by Vatican officials because it didn't bear his style or syntax. |
I always find it ironic when the Catholic Church opposes gay rights. They employ so many of them.
In the meantime I'm sure the latest statement from the Vatican will be a non-issue during the next election. |
I already did this a bit ago, but you avatar appearing first makes yours more valid 
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=65584 |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| Nowadays, so few young men are interested in becoming priests, I bet they are worried that this might make it less of an attractive choice for prospective young men who are gay. A logic solution to the problem would be to allow women to become priests, something that the Vatican will never permit as long as a conservative occupies the Holy See. |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:54 am Post subject: |
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I can't wait until this rotten, bass-turd pope dies, and I hope it's as slow and miserable a death as the last pope's. Well, maybe not quite as slow -- was there anything more tiresome than the long slide into Jesus' arms that John Paul II had? But I do hope it's every bit as miserable, or more.
There's nothing worse than evil masquerading as goodness, and the fact that the masquerade is so good that it fools even the man who wears the mask does nothing to make it better. As long as the papacy stays locked in the middle ages, I wish them all miserable deaths. I only wish I could see their faces when they find out from Jesus that their wholes lives were a horrible, misplaced lie, that they had access to an expanded spiritual truth but didn't have souls large enough to embrace it, that their exalted lives on earth buy them nothing in the hereafter. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| There's nothing worse than evil masquerading as goodness, |
I don't know about the "evil" part but it sure could be called "ignorance." |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
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| A determined ignorance that leads to great evil is, for all intents and purposes, evil. |
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