hoyarooter
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Post by hoyarooter on Jan 12, 2024 22:37:28 GMT -5
‘Anti-pope.’ ‘Blasphemous.’ Criticism of Francis comes in strident terms. VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is facing some of the most vociferous objection to papal authority in decades, in language that might have stunned past popes. German Cardinal Gerhard Müller derided the pope’s new guidance allowing priests to bless same-sex couples as “blasphemy.” One Italian priest found himself rapidly excommunicated after he referred to Francis in his New Year’s Eve homily as an “anti-Pope usurper” with a “cadaverous gaze, into nothingness.” Still holding on to his title is Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who recently dubbed the pontiff a servant of Satan and announced a seminary to train priests free from the “deviations of Bergoglio” (Francis’s name before becoming pope). Francis is experiencing a level of reproach that some observers say is the fiercest since Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the church’s ban on artificial birth control in 1968. Today’s criticism is further amplified by social and digital media. An even more striking distinction, though, may be the overt disdain some clerics are showing to a man seen by Catholics as the Vicar of Christ atop the Throne of Saint Peter. The opposition to Francis is “unprecedented,” said John Carr, a former longtime lobbyist for the U.S. bishops conference who founded Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. “It is strong, it is narrow, and it is about power — ecclesiastical, economic and political. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/12/pope-francis-criticism-same-sex-blessings/Wow. SMH.
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Post by tashoya on Jan 13, 2024 0:03:53 GMT -5
It's almost as though the Church as an organization is pretty awful. Shocking.
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 26, 2024 11:16:26 GMT -5
Depending on the time you happen to open your e-newsletter or otherwise click on the link that takes you to this article, Kenneth Eugene Smith may already be dead. Mr. Smith is scheduled to be executed by the state of Alabama this evening, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m. Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy is the executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network, the U.S. bishops’ official campaign against the death penalty in the United States. “[Kenneth Smith] is a human being, not an experiment,” she said in a statement released on Jan. 24. “The state’s plan to kill Kenny using nitrogen hypoxia, an untested execution method, is reckless, inhumane, and a violation of his inherent human dignity,” Ms. Vaillancourt Murphy said. “It’s confounding the lengths to which Alabama is going to take his life.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/01/25/nitrogen-execution-death-penalty-alabama-kenneth-smith-catholic-churchAlabama puts Kenneth Smith to death in first execution with nitrogen gas Smith appeared conscious for at least two minutes while the gas flowed to his mask, according to media witnesses. He shook and writhed for at least two minutes on the gurney, and this was followed by two minutes of deep breaths and then a period of time during which media witnesses were unable to determine if he was breathing. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/25/alabama-execution-nitrogen-gas-kenneth-smith/
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Post by tashoya on Jan 26, 2024 20:47:36 GMT -5
Depending on the time you happen to open your e-newsletter or otherwise click on the link that takes you to this article, Kenneth Eugene Smith may already be dead. Mr. Smith is scheduled to be executed by the state of Alabama this evening, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m. Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy is the executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network, the U.S. bishops’ official campaign against the death penalty in the United States. “[Kenneth Smith] is a human being, not an experiment,” she said in a statement released on Jan. 24. “The state’s plan to kill Kenny using nitrogen hypoxia, an untested execution method, is reckless, inhumane, and a violation of his inherent human dignity,” Ms. Vaillancourt Murphy said. “It’s confounding the lengths to which Alabama is going to take his life.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/01/25/nitrogen-execution-death-penalty-alabama-kenneth-smith-catholic-churchAlabama puts Kenneth Smith to death in first execution with nitrogen gas Smith appeared conscious for at least two minutes while the gas flowed to his mask, according to media witnesses. He shook and writhed for at least two minutes on the gurney, and this was followed by two minutes of deep breaths and then a period of time during which media witnesses were unable to determine if he was breathing. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/25/alabama-execution-nitrogen-gas-kenneth-smith/Without taking sides on capital punishment, this seems cruel, no?
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 27, 2024 7:34:34 GMT -5
Depending on the time you happen to open your e-newsletter or otherwise click on the link that takes you to this article, Kenneth Eugene Smith may already be dead. Mr. Smith is scheduled to be executed by the state of Alabama this evening, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m. Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy is the executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network, the U.S. bishops’ official campaign against the death penalty in the United States. “[Kenneth Smith] is a human being, not an experiment,” she said in a statement released on Jan. 24. “The state’s plan to kill Kenny using nitrogen hypoxia, an untested execution method, is reckless, inhumane, and a violation of his inherent human dignity,” Ms. Vaillancourt Murphy said. “It’s confounding the lengths to which Alabama is going to take his life.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/01/25/nitrogen-execution-death-penalty-alabama-kenneth-smith-catholic-churchAlabama puts Kenneth Smith to death in first execution with nitrogen gas Smith appeared conscious for at least two minutes while the gas flowed to his mask, according to media witnesses. He shook and writhed for at least two minutes on the gurney, and this was followed by two minutes of deep breaths and then a period of time during which media witnesses were unable to determine if he was breathing. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/25/alabama-execution-nitrogen-gas-kenneth-smith/Without taking sides on capital punishment, this seems cruel, no? Sickest part is watching the Alabama AG bragging about Alabama being the first state to use this method and offering its assistance to other death penalty states. No doubt he is an Evangelical "Christian." At least the Catholic Church is consistent in its opposiion to the death penalty. “Alabama has done it, and now so can you,” Marshall said at a press conference hours after Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed in Atmore for the 1988 murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett. “The [Alabama Department of Corrections] deserve a great deal of thanks and credit for being willing to be the one to step up first in the country to do so,” Marshall said. “And I now suspect that many states will follow as of last night.” alabamareflector.com/2024/01/26/alabama-attorney-general-defends-first-execution-by-nitrogen-gas-anticipates-national-trend/
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2024 6:56:11 GMT -5
There is no way to reconcile the death penalty with Catholicism.
And there is no way to reconcile this form of the death penalty with human decency.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Feb 22, 2024 15:09:06 GMT -5
The Church says "no" to IVF due to the massive destruction of embryonic life, the assault on the meaning of the conjugal act and the treatment of the child as a product not a gift. She continues to announce a loud "yes" to life, endeavoring to take care of the human embryo, the least of our brothers and sisters (see Matthew 25:40). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36518712/#:~:text=The%20Church%20says%20%22no%22%20to,a%20product%20not%20a%20gift.
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