Spanish Bishop: Catholic Pols Who Vote for Abortion Excommunicate Themselves

Here’s more good and encouraging news from the episcopal front, this time coming from Spain, where the Catholic bishops there are girding for battle with the country’s leftist, pro-abortion government.

The Groveler in Chief Does it Again

Catholic Radio Is Coming On Strong Across the Country — Take a Listen . . .

Catholic radio is expanding rapidly across the country, and it’s very gratifying to see how many good things are happening — in particular conversions to the Catholic Church — that result when Catholic radio starts up in a given locale. A new station in the Immaculate Heart Radio network has gone live recently in Salt Lake City, blanketing most of the State of Utah, and another large station will go live in December, booming across the metro Phoenix area with 24/7 Catholic programming.

St. Louis Archbishop Carlson Now Under Media Attack

I’ll tell you what. I am stoked to see the new wave of American bishops taking courageous, articulate, and effective public stands against evil in its many forms. This is exactly what the Heavenly Doctor ordered (John 10:11-15), and it’s something I haven’t seen, at least not like this, not in such numbers, in my nearly 50 years of being Catholic. Thank God Almighty that more and more of our bishops are standing up like men to fight the good fight. May the Lord strengthen them!

Please Pray for My Little Grandson, Killian Patrick

London Calling

"Why Do Catholic Apologists Need to Lie?"

That’s only one of several provocative questions raised, presumably by an Evangelical Protestant, on this new 3-minute video clip. If nothing else, it illustrates the kind of dense — don’t bother me with the facts! — kind of mentality we “Catholic Apologists” (and you know who you are, Steve Ray, Scott Hahn, Tim Staples, Jim Burnham, Mark Shea, John Salza, Father Mitch Pacwa, and the rest of you) have to deal with, from time to time. I won’t bother to try rebutting these claims. It’s enough to see them leveled with a presumably straight face in public and to know the sad truth, exemplified in this video, of our Lord’s words in Matthew 13:15.

Catholic apologists don’t represent “real” Catholicism.

The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches are the “same” and “believe the same things.”

The Catholic Church has oral traditions that came before the Bible and are authoritative.

I like the part where he claims that “We [Protestants] have no canon other than the Bible itself . . . No one has produced any transcript or recording of any definitive ‘oral tradition.'” [NB: That is particularly interesting because the canon of Scripture is itself a Tradition and is not explicitly mentioned by Scripture.]

[Catholic apologists’] hate-filled rhetoric comes at a time when Evangelicals are most willing to discuss issues.”

“Catholic apologist = hate-filled liar. That’s just the sad fact.”

Orgulho vai antes de cair (pride goes before a fall)

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This Debate Did Not Go Well for the Catholic Side

I just finished watching the video of a public debate recently held in England on the proposition: “The Catholic Church is a Force for Good in the World.” As a Catholic who ardently believes in the truth of that proposition, this was an exchange that was not pleasant to watch. There was so much at stake vis-a-vis public opinion that was swayed in the wrong direction as a result. It could have had a much different outcome.

NYT Gives False Impression That Catholic Medal of Honor Winner Was Muslim

Why does this not surprise me?

So many in the mainstream media are tripping over themselves in their haste to exonerate and extol Muslims in America, in particular those in the U.S. military, especially now, in the ghastly light of last week’s terrorist attack at Fort Hood perpetrated by a murderous Muslim lunatic. Why is the American press so unwilling to report accurately on this issue?

Yes, I know. The NY Times in particular is notorious for printing “news” that’s grossly tainted by politically correct spin and occasional eruptions of yellow journalism. I expect nothing better of them. But it’s still irritating.

Try to imagine — I know it’s hard — the NYT and similar media outlets wringing their hands in worry over the “frustration,” challenges, and difficulties Catholics experienced in the military. Not gonna happen.

Andrea Elliott’s front page article in the November 9 New York Times played up the thousands of Muslims in the U.S. military and how their “service…is more necessary and more complicated than ever before,” but gave the false impression that a Medal of Honor recipient named near the end of her piece was a Muslim himself, when he was actually Catholic.

Elliott spent much of her article, “Complications Grow for Muslims Serving in the U.S. Military” (which appeared above the fold on the front page of the print edition of the Times), detailing the concerns of “many Muslim soldiers and their commanders…[who] fear that the relationship between the military and its Muslim service members will only grow more difficult” after Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood on November 5. She later noted that “[w]hatever his possible motives, the emerging portrait of Major Hasan’s life in the military casts light on some of the struggles and frustrations felt by other Muslims in the services.”

Near the end of the article, Elliott changed the subject ever so slightly that it might have gone unnoticed. The reporter quoted Captain Erich Rahman, an Iraq war veteran and Bronze Star winner: “Too many Americans overlook the heroic efforts of Arab-Americans in uniform, said Capt. Eric Rahman…He cited the example of Lieutenant Michael A. Monsoor, a Navy Seal who was awarded the Medal of Honor after pulling a team member to safety during firefight in 2006, in Ramadi, Iraq. Lieutenant Monsoor died saving another American, yet he will never be remembered like Major Hasan, said Captain Rahman. Regardless, he said, Muslim- and Arab-Americans are crucial to the military’s success in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

Elliott’s specific attention to Muslims in the military and their “struggles and frustrations” for most of her article, followed by this passing reference to Monsoor (pictured above, who was actually a Petty Officer, 2nd class), certainly gives the impression, despite the use of the “Arab-American” label, that the Medal of Honor recipient was a Muslim. However, this impression couldn’t be further from the truth.

The Navy’s biography of Monsoor, who died in 2006 after he jumped on a grenade to save the lives of fellow Seals, notes that the lieutenant “attended Catholic Mass devotionally before operations.” Another article written in tribute to the valiant officer cited his aunt Patricia Monsoor, who recalled that he “went to confession frequently.” . . . (continue reading)

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