University of Toronto distances itself from courage

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From here:

The University of Toronto has distanced itself from a controversial program dubbed “Courage” that is described as an anonymous support group to help young adults struggling to resist homosexual urges recently launched at the Catholic parish based on the school’s main campus.

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“The Newman Courage group is a spiritual support group for young adults who experience same-sex attractions and who desire to live chastely, in accordance with Catholic teaching,” reads the centre’s website. A pamphlet lists the five goals of Courage, including fostering a spirit of fellowship to help “ensure that no one will have to face problems of homosexuality alone.”

Note that the support group is not compelling anyone to do anything. In contrast, in a spirit of openness, tolerance and free enquiry, Toronto’s bastion of higher learning has concluded, for no particular reason other than liberal bigotry, that a homosexual who does not wish to act on his urges should be denied any assistance in living in his freely chosen manner: compulsory homosexuality.

Rowan Williams says goodbye

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Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, says his final goodbye.

It’s been a turbulent 10 years for the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury.

Only recently he has had to fight to maintain unity within the Anglican community amid rows over the contentious issue of women bishops.

And in the past he has come under fire for comments made on a number of controversial topics, including sharia law.

Cheerio, Rowan. I’ll miss the beard, the eyebrows, your wisdom on how well sharia law would fit into British life, your denouncing of evil bankers, the failure of capitalism, the jewels to be found in the inner depths of Marxism, your heroic Hegelian striving to find a happy medium between truth and lies and your virtuoso performance in taking the public position you did on human sexuality while privately believing the opposite. I expect your successor will continue much of your good work, so it only remains for me to say:

Catholic diocese ends gay Soho Masses

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England’s leading Catholic prelate has called an end to the “Soho Masses” that had drawn homosexuals to a London church, and announced that the church will be dedicated to the Anglican ordinariate of Our Lady of Walshingham.

The obvious move for a Catholic church geared to homosexuals: give it to the Anglicans – albeit the Anglican ordinariate.

Santa distributes condoms and needles

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Christmas, as everyone knows, is all about indiscriminate sex with strangers and injecting oneself with soul numbing opiates; it’s what makes the season festive.

Consequently, unlike cigarette manufacturers who are compelled to print gruesome photographs illustrating the effect of their noxious merchandise, a taxpayer funded New York health clinic has adopted the strategy of immersing itself in the spirit of the season by having Santa and his elves distribute condoms and needles.

Barring an accidental overdose or exertion induced heart attack, City Wide Harm Reduction is making Christmas safe for the less than stable Christmas reveller.

 

Diocese of Montreal to “move forward in God’s mission” by closing another church

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From here (page 7):

Past and present clergy, wardens, altar servers, choristers. Organizers over the years of Sunday school, bazaars and rummage sales and men’s activities. Altar guild members.

Partners in other churches. Bishop Barry Clarke of Montreal – from 1993 to 2004 parish priest of St. Paul’s Church in Lachine – asked members of these and other groups in a near-capacity congregation of over 300 parishioners and wellwishers to stand and be recognized as he presided over a closing service marking the end of the 139-year history of the parish.

He also urged them not to waste energy trying to assign blame for the closing of the church or to focus too much on its dramatically impressive buildings, dating from 1963-64.

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“For us to move forward in God’s mission we have to do things differently,” he said.

The diocese has no discernible plan to “do things differently”; unless you count its accelerating descent into heresy tinged liberalism accompanied by an increasing cannibalisation of its assets in order to stay afloat – all disguised as a Ministry Action Plan – as different.

Page 8 of the same paper, without the least hint of irony, proudly announces: “Quebec diocese to offer blessings to same-sex couples”, something that the Diocese of Montreal approved in 2010. Catering to 0.8% of the population has worked out so well for other dioceses that Quebec has decided it wants a piece of the action.

Anglican Church of Canada bishop looks to Shamanism and Confucianism for inspiration

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The church needs to recognize that God is already at work through, for example, first nations spirituality, shamanism in various traditions and Confucianism, Bishop Mark MacDonald, national indigenous bishop, said.

“When a Christian person goes to a new place they find God already there.”

There is a sense in which Bishop Mark MacDonald is correct: God is omnipresent, so he must indeed be “already there”. That is not what MacDonald is getting at, though. What he means is Christians should look for enlightenment in the manner that God expresses himself through Shamanism and Confucianism; this is utter tripe.

A Shaman purports to contact the spirit world in an attempt to gain occult insights, a practice – whether it works or not – that is expressly forbidden in the Bible.

Confucianism teaches that people can perfect themselves through their own efforts – a contention whose falsehood is blindingly obvious to anyone who has made an honest effort to do so.

It is hard to believe that any Christian who is not non compos mentis could fall for either – yet Mark MacDonald, a bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada, clearly has.

Why is he still a bishop? Because the Anglican Church of Canada, while still trying to maintain the fiction that it is a Christian denomination, actually ceased to be one a few decades ago.

Praising Krishna in the Diocese of Niagara

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“My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison was –

written in praise of the Hindu god Krishna, while at the same time serving as a call to abandon religious sectarianism, through its deliberate blending of Christian “hallelujah”s with chants of “Hare Krishna” and Vedic prayer.

Here is St. Simon’s Anglican Church Oakville, a Diocese of Niagara parish, in the throes of Krishna adoration one Sunday morning: