Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Shamed Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien urged to tell life story by former Irish leader
Shamed Cardinal urged to tell life story by former Irish leader
CARDINAL Keith O'Brien has been urged to tell his life story to help gay people in all walks of life who have felt the need to pretend to be heterosexual.
CALL: Mary McAleese.
The call came from former Irish President Mary McAleese, who said the Catholic Church had been in denial over homosexuality for decades and that it was "not so much the elephant in the room but a herd of elephants".
Speaking during a lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Mrs McAleese said: "I would have thought Cardinal Keith O'Brien, in telling the story of his life - if he was willing to do that - could have been of great assistance to gay people, not just in the Church but elsewhere, who felt over many, many years constrained to pretend to be heterosexual while at the same time acting a different life."
Mrs McAleese said that, like so many closet homosexuals, Keith O'Brien hoped to divert attention from himself by raising his voice "in the most homophobic way".
However this, she said, was a reflection of the Vatican's attitude to gay people in general.
She said: "Things written by Benedict, for example, were completely contradictory to modern science and to modern understanding, and to the understanding of most Catholics nowadays in relation to homosexuality.
Continue reading:http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/wider-political-news/shamed-cardinal-urged-to-tell-life-story-by-former-irish-leader.23100567
Childbirth Is Violent and Gruesome, Like Gosnell’s Abortion Clinic
Former Time Reporter: Childbirth Is Violent and Gruesome, Like Gosnell’s Abortion Clinic
Former Time reporter Nina Burleigh – the infamous feminist journalist who once announced ”I’d be happy to give [Bill Clinton oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal” — has a new article at The New York Observer on “The Year In Sexism.”
Even the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in May was used audaciously as a feminist moment to correct those who “demonize abortion generally.” She insisted while late-term abortions were violent and gruesome, so is childbirth:
The murder conviction of quack abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell for scissoring viable fetuses to death propelled a new effort to demonize abortion generally. Even moderates like the Times’ [sic] Ross Douthat used the event to remind people how violent and gruesome late-term abortions are when performed by competent doctors, failing to note that childbirth itself is a violent and gruesome event too.
This sounds a lot like PBS talk-show host Bonnie Erbe, who announced in 1995 that “partial-birth abortions” shouldn’t be seen as atypically gruesome: ” “But aren’t most medical procedures, when you describe them in detail, pretty disgusting? Isn’t, for example, the production of veal, when you describe it in detail, and how people eat meat, when they crunch down on the flesh of living beings, formerly living beings with their teeth. Isn’t that pretty gruesome, too?”
Monday, January 6, 2014
January 6.—THE EPIPHANY
Collect of the Day: Epiphany
Behold the Lord the Ruler is come: and the Kingdom is in His Hand, and power, and dominion.
(From the introit of the day’s Mass, Malach. 3. 1; 1 Par. 29. 12)
Lesson – Isaias, 60. 1-6
From
The Liturgical Year
by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.
The Liturgical Year
by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.
Oh! the greatness of this glorious Day, on which begins the movement of all nations towards the Church, the true Jerusalem! Oh! the mercy of our heavenly Father, who has been mindful of all these people that were buried in the shades of death and sin! Behold! the glory of the Lord has risen upon the Holy City; and Kings set out to find and see the Light. Jerusalem is not large enough to hold all this sea of nations; another city must be founded, and towards her shall be turned the countless Gentiles of Madian and Epha. Thou, O Rome! art this Holy City, and thy heart shall wonder and be enlarged. Heretofore thy victories have won thee slaves; but from this day forward, thou shalt draw within thy walls countless children. Lift up thine eyes, and see–all these, that is the whole human race, give themselves to thee as thy sons and daughters; they com to receive from thee a new birth. Open wide thine arms, and embrace them that come from North and South, bringing gold and frankincense to him who is thy King and ours.
The Epiphany from the Darmstadt Altarpiece by an unknown German master, circa 1440
January 6.—THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD.
THE word Epiphany means “manifestation,” and it has passed into general acceptance throughout the universal Church, from the fact that Jesus Christ manifested to the eyes of men His divine mission on this day first of all, when a miraculous star revealed His birth to the kings of the East, who, in spite of the difficulties and dangers of a long and tedious journey through deserts and mountains almost impassable, hastened at once to Bethlehem to adore Him and to offer Him mystical presents, as to the King of kings, to the God of heaven and earth, and to a Man withal feeble and mortal. The second manifestation was when, going out from the waters of the Jordan after having received Baptism from the hands of St. John, the Holy Ghost descended on Him in the visible form of a dove, and a voice from heaven was heard, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.” The third manifestation was that of His divine power, when at the marriage-feast of Cana He changed the water into wine, at the sight whereof His disciples believed in Him. The remembrance of these three great events, concurring to the same end, the Church has wished to celebrate in one and the same festival.
Reflection.—Admire the almighty power of this little Child, Who from His cradle makes known His coming to the shepherds and magi—to the shepherds by means of His angel, to the magi by a star in the East. Admire the docility of these kings. Jesus is born; behold them at His feet? Let us be little, let us hide ourselves, and the divine strength will be granted to us. Let us be docile and quick in following divine inspirations, and we shall then become wise of the wisdom of God, powerful in His almighty power.
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