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Protected Speech?

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While I disagree with the publication of the article in the first place, I think a better solution than confiscation would have been to publish a companion column explaining Church’s teaching on contraception.

College Removes Newspapers With Condom Commentary

“A college in the North Hills pulled copies of a student newspaper because it contained a column about condom use, Channel 4’s Sheldon Ingram reported Wednesday.”

Copies of student paper confiscated
La Roche says column, religious values at odds
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
By Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“La Roche College removed copies of the student newspaper from its campus, saying an opinion column supporting condom use could have been misinterpreted by families who visited the Catholic school last weekend.”

Proper Worship

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I’ve anxiously awaited this document.

Vatican
Document Targets Abuses Against Eucharist
Reiterates and Explains Key Norms for Worthy Celebration and Reception

VATICAN CITY, APRIL 23, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A new Vatican instruction on the
Eucharist takes pains to emphasize that the Blessed Sacrament “is too great
for anyone to permit himself to treat it according to his own whim.”

Redemptionis
Sacramentum: On certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist

More About “Father” Bill

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Priest may be forming breakaway church
Catholic leaders issue stern warning
Thursday, April 08, 2004
By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A Catholic priest, who was transferred two years ago after delivering a vulgar Easter homily advocating the ordination of women and married men, may be starting a breakaway church, Catholic officials said yesterday."

Roman Catholic priest plans to form own church

By JOE MANDAK, The Associated Press

"PITTSBURGH – A Roman Catholic priest who believes the church should ordain married men and women as priests plans to form his own church, according to a Web site, and Pittsburgh church officials said on Thursday they hope to intervene."

Bishop With Balls

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It’s about time somebody applied well-established Canon Law to keep nominal Catholic
politicians in line.

Wisconsin
Bishop Bans Pro-Choice Politicians From Communion
By Kevin Eckstrom

“Roman Catholic Bishop Raymond Burke of LaCrosse, Wis., has directed his priests
not to give Communion to politicians who openly support abortion rights.”

Hardworking
Wisconsin bishop follows Vatican policies precisely
Patricia Rice

“The Wisconsin bishop who will become the archbishop of St. Louis next month
is a staunch conservative who is expected to carry out most of the initiatives Cardinal
Justin F. Rigali introduced during the past nine years.”

Good Catholics or Poor Historians?

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The Church has NEVER supported contraception. A quick glance at early documents, like the Didache, makes that obvious. So how do these idiots figure good Catholics should use condoms? Good Catholics should keep Captain Winky in the pants until marriage.

"We believe in God. We believe that sex is sacred. We believe in caring for each other. We believe in using condoms."

How about this shorter version? "We believe in heresy."

Catholic Group Says Good Catholics Use Condoms

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ — 'Good Catholics Use Condoms' is the message of a new global public education effort to counter Vatican misinformation on condoms, beginning December 1, 2003, World AIDS Day. The campaign, a new phase in the Condoms4Life campaign, kicks off in Washington, D.C., with provocative and eye-catching ads appearing in dioramas in the most highly traveled Metro stations throughout the United States capital. Then, on a rolling basis, the campaign will move worldwide throughout 2004 with newspaper and billboard ads, Internet action alerts, and educational materials all geared to reach Catholics at risk of HIV/AIDS with the truth about condoms."