Archbishop Robert Duncan stands with Catholics against abortion

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The Obama administration has mandated that Catholic institutions, as employers, fund the prescribing of abortifacient contraceptive drugs to their employees. Unsurprisingly, Catholics are somewhat upset about this.

Archbishop Robert Duncan has made this statement in support of the Catholic Church:

Archbishop Robert Duncan released the following statement in support of the Catholic Church’s fight to maintain freedom of conscience in the midst of the U.S. federal government issuing a preventive care mandate in violation of its teaching.

“The Anglican Church in North America stands by our Catholic brothers and sisters as followers of Christ in a nation whose Constitution guarantees ‘the free exercise’ of religion.  As Christians, our faith and doctrine are at the very heart of our service to others in our community.  Therefore, it is extremely troubling to see our government mandate services contrary to Catholic Church teaching.  I call on all members of the Anglican Church to stand by our Catholic brothers and sisters, and pray for our elected officials to have the courage to stand up for religious freedom and overturn this mandate,” said Archbishop Duncan.

As Archbishop Duncan has called “on all members of the Anglican Church” to add their support, I’m expecting a flood of agreement from Anglican bishops all over North America, starting with Katharine Jefferts-Schori and Fred Hiltz.

Or not.

The pathetic truth is that, for all their trumpeting about social justice, both TEC and the ACoC are completely indifferent to the injustice that will define the callous barbarity of Western civilisation for ages to come: murdering their unborn.

Some think many Church of England parishes would collapse without gay clergy

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Since many Church of England parishes are collapsing anyway, perhaps it’s the presence of gay clergy that is hastening their demise.

If the seemingly extravagant “1,500 gay, bi or trans clergy” number mentioned in this article is accurate, it means that Anglicanism in the UK is following in the footsteps of its North American cousin – wilfully flushing itself down the toilet of gender bending irrelevance into oblivion’s cesspool.

With what sensitive, discerning yet piperitious aphorism should one greet this news? “Good riddance” comes to mind.

A coalition supporting the gay and transgender members of the Anglican church is pressing for it to recognise the contribution made by those clergy without whom, it says, some parishes “would face utter collapse”.

The group advocates lifting the ban on bishops in civil partnerships and allowing priests free choice on whether to conduct such ceremonies in their churches, an issue currently being considered by a review group in the church’s House of Bishops.

Reverend Benny Hazlehurst, Chair of the LGBT Anglican Coalition, told PinkNews.co.uk the group would be handing out flyers outside the General Synod at a Silent Act of Witness tomorrow ahead of its meeting with the review group this month.

He said: “If all the LGB&T Clergy were to leave the Church of England, parochial and sector ministry in the Church of England would suffer major trauma, and the parish system in some parts of the country would face utter collapse.”

Rev Hazlehurst said the group estimated there are over 1,500 gay, bi or trans clergy in the country and the LGBT Anglican Coalition was advocating more recognition of these members.

 

Police seize pro-life posters in Calgary

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The excuse seems to have been that the posters were “obscene”, a contention I find easy to believe; the problem is, the posters are considerably less obscene than the act they depict.

While on the subject of obscene images, in Canada it is illegal to sell a package of cigarettes that is not covered in images of equal aesthetic obscenity (even the Huffington Post thinks they’re horrifying) to those of gory aborted babies. This is done, apparently because the government of Canada wants to “horrify smokers into not smoking” and using gory photographs is a good way to do it; if children see them, so much the better.

When it comes to applying the same tactics to horrifying mothers and doctors into not aborting, the opposite rules seem to apply.

This must be because, on the scale of Canuck-confused societal evils, killing unborn babies is a mere peccadillo while smoking is the foremost scourge of our age.

Escaped rhino alert

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You can’t accuse Japan of not learning from its mistakes.

It was dismally unprepared for the 2011 meltdown in the Fukushima nuclear reactors, but it’s reassuring to know that if a rhino escapes from the Tokyo zoo, emergency staff will be ready:

In the UK, you can no longer proclaim “God can heal”

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From here:

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it had concluded that the adverts by Healing on the Streets (HOTS) – Bath, were misleading.

It said a leaflet available to download from the group’s website said: “Need Healing? God can heal today!”

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The ASA said it had been alerted to the adverts by a complainant, and concluded that they could encourage false hope and were irresponsible.

If all advertising that “could encourage false hope” were banned, then there would be very little advertising at all and the economy of the UK would collapse even faster than it already is.

The fact that these advertisements have been singled out for special opprobrium is yet another example of secularism’s attempt to expunge Christianity from public view.

On purely factual grounds the ban is absurd: if a person believes there is no God, his hopes for healing will not be stimulated by the ad; if a person believes in God, but he doesn’t actually exist, he is already so deluded that one more false hope won’t make much difference; if a person believes in God and God does exist, then there is no false hope in believing God can heal – he can do anything he chooses, including heal.

 

Harebrained pro-abortionists

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Rather than condemning something that is done routinely, and for no particularly good reason, to unborn babies – killing them – abortion enthusiasts are fretting about something that is less likely to occur than being struck by lightning seven times in a row:  being shot at any time.

That must be why they are recommending defending themselves with deadly force only if  really necessary:

h/t: Jill Stanek

Conservative senator in hot water for offering rope to murderers

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From here:

A Conservative senator has landed in hot water after telling reporters that the worst murderers should be given a rope so they can choose their fate.

Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu told reporters Wednesday the most heinous of criminals and “assassins” with no hope of rehabilitation should “have the right to a rope in his cell and make a decision about his or her life.”

On the other hand, the Right to Die Society of Canada is not in hot water for suggesting much the same thing for anyone except murderers.

This is blatant discrimination against murderers.

Occupiers throw condoms at Catholic school girls

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From here:

A group of Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupted a Right to Life rally and threw condoms on Catholic school girls inside the Rhode Island state capitol building.

Barth Bracy, executive director of Rhode Island Right to Life, said their rally had to be cut short after the Occupiers began screaming and refused to allow a Catholic priest to deliver a prayer.

“This is their idea of civil speech but we believe it’s an outrage,” Bracy told Fox News & Commentary “They started heckling, chanting and blowing whistles. They shouted down a priest.”

The modern condom was an invention of Julius Fromm, a Jew who lived in Germany. His invention was seized by the Nazis: you can read about it in the illuminating book, The Great Rubber Robbery: How Julius Fromm’s Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis.

There is nothing new under the sun: Nazis have once more seized condoms, this time to use as missiles aimed at Catholics trying to prevent the murdering of unborn babies.

 

Diocese of Niagara does Tai Chi and Yoga for Lent

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From here (page 6):

Yoga and Tai Chi for Lent
Two clergy in Niagara Diocese are taking seriously Paul’s (1 Corinthians 6:12-20) statement— do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit? So glorify God in your bodies—and applying Tai Chi and Yoga to bringing it into life.

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Rather, we have been gifted with this planet and these bodies because this is where God dwells. All flesh is holy and the ground of all human endeavors is sacred. It is in these bodies that we will work out our salvation. Since the only life we know is earthly and sensual, it follows that this is the stuff of our spirituality.”

It was in this spirit, according to Jones and Ash, that St. Paul’s, Westdale introduced Tai Chi and Yoga as spiritual practices in the Christian context. Since the beginning of Lent last year, approximately 20 – 30 people have been gathering every week to practice and celebrate God in their bodies, they reported, and as a fresh expression of the Church, the practice has gathered new people into the Church community.

Lent is supposed to be a time of preparation for Easter, generally through prayer, repentance, almsgiving and self-denial.

Tai Chi and Yoga practiced as merely physical exercise might have some benefit, but, if that’s what the Yoga-priests are after, why not go to the gym for Lent?

The reason, I suspect, lies in the fact that they want to use “Tai Chi and Yoga as spiritual practices in the Christian context”: it’s the spiritual aspects of Tai Chi and Yoga that appeal to the Revs. Owen Ash and Rick Jones. Unfortunately, the spiritual components of Tai Chi and Yoga are rooted in Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism, none of which have much to do with Christianity, let alone Lent.

Still, the Diocese of Niagara doesn’t have much to do with Christianity either, so this doesn’t come as much of a surprise, particularly as Tai Chi starts with a meditation on emptiness, or wu chih in Taoism – diocese of Niagara priests are adept at meditating on emptiness. Just listen to one of their sermons.