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Swallowing Camels

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Another
aren’t we wonderful? parish

From Richard John Neuhaus’ May “Public Square”

It is no little thing when one Sunday’s church bulletin can reflect the innumerable
wonders of renewal. A friend picked up the other day the bulletin of St. Francis
Xavier Church, which is around the corner on West 16th Street. It includes the parish
mission statement: “We, the Church of St. Francis Xavier, are a prophetic Roman
Catholic community. . . .” Not any old Roman Catholic Church, mind you, but a community,
and a prophetic one at that.

I doubt parishes like this actually bother to strain gnats, but they’re apparently
swallowing camels like crazy. Inclusiveness isn’t an object good. If it were, the
Church would be inclusive of pagans, secular humanists, feminists, third-rate liturgical
composers, and other un-Catholic types. Oh, wait…

In, But Not Of

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Scripture tells us to be in the world but not of it. Obviously somebody forgot to tell the Anglicans. The implication of these actions is that if it’s legal in man’s law, it should be legal in God’s law. "It has the state’s blessing. Why shouldn’t it have ours?" Oy. I bet this kind of thing drives Pontificator nutty.

Liturgy for Gay Marriages Developed in Vt.
Fri Jun 18, 4:26 AM ET
By DAVID GRAM, Associated Press Writer

BURLINGTON, Vt. – Vermont’s Episcopal Diocese has become the first in the country to develop a liturgy – a script for a religious service – in response to a state law making same-sex unions legal.

Rolling My Eyes

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CHURCH & STATE
by Neal Pollack

A lunatic Christian cult has the run of the White House and the ear of the president. What do they want? The end of the world. Be afraid.

I almost didn't blog this article due to it's secular silliness and lack of intelligent analysis, but the author offers the following pile of stinking feces (Ad hoc or accurate assessment? Let me know.) as a prayer. It reeks of the kind of warm, fuzzy, "I'm OK. You're OK" relativism that defeats the whole point of having faith at all.

"Dear [Higher Power of Choice], give us the will to restore religion in this country, as our Founding Fathers intended, to an abstract guiding principle, not the theologically unsound justification for a twisted foreign policy. Let us fight our enemies with peace and wisdom, not anger and indiscriminate force. Allow our country to serve as a symbol of what's good in humankind, not what's corrupt. Most of all, grant us the strength and wisdom to remove President George W. Bush from office. In your name, we say: Amen."

"abstract guiding principle"?!? Why believe in God at all? Why not just stick to secular humanism? It makes you feel like you're a good person acting on an informed, enlightened conscience without any of the nasty thankfulness, codes of conduct, or global implications and applications inherent to most religions. No fuss, no muss. "Ethos Lite: All of the Flavor, None of the Obligations"

Honest Enquiry

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Pam, the Catholic blogmistress of “A
Bird’s Melody“, sincerely wonders why homosexual acts are sinful. Anybody
out there want to field this one? I suppose we could point her to the relevant parts
of the Catechism, but I suspect that would be unsatisfying for her.

the church
and homosexuality

A sin is either an act that is harmful to God, oneself, or others, or simply an act of turning away from God. How then exactly are acts of homosexuality harmful? I’m asking this question seriously, not rhetorically. If they are not harmful, how are they turning away from God? Please do not point to the Bible and say “there, in this verse, it says that it’s sinful.” I know the Bible says that. I want to know how, exactly, acts of homosexuality are sinful.