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Bill Donahue: IS NICKI MINAJ POSSESSED?

February 13, 2012

 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on what happened last night at the Grammys:
 
Nicki Minaj, fresh off looking like a fool with Madonna at the Super Bowl, showed up last night on the red carpet at the Grammys with a guy dressed like the pope. This was just a prelude of what was to come.

File under: "Curious and Revealing": Catholic World Report

But not under "Surprising or Unexpected"

February 10, 2012 01:56 EST

By Carl E. Olson

The world's most famous opponent (and the word is used very loosely) of that so-called, non-existent institution, "gay marriage", recently spent time soliciting donations at the home of a "married" lesbian couple, as reported by ABCNews.com:

President Obama, who has opposed same-sex marriage but is said to be “evolving” on the issue, this evening is attending a fundraiser at the home of a lesbian couple whose 2008 Chicago nuptials were described in a local paper as the “wedding of the season.”

Obama will collect an estimated $1.4 million for his re-election campaign from an intimate group of around 40 gay and lesbian supporters at the home of Karen Dixon and Dr. Nan Schaffer in Washington, D.C., according to a campaign official.

Dixon and Schaffer, transplants from Chicago, held a wedding ceremony in July 2008 with hundreds of guests attending from all across the country, according to an account in the Windy City Times. ...

 

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TV Network Started by Cloistered Nun Sues Sebelius | CNSnews.com

(CNSNews.com) - Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)--founded in 1981 by Mother M. Angelica, a cloistered Roman Catholic nun belonging to the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration--has filed suit against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other senior officials in the Obama administration arguing that a new regulation requiring health-care plans to cover sterilizations and contraceptives—including those that cause abortions—is a violation of the organization’s First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.

“EWTN’s sincerely held religious beliefs prohibit it from providing coverage for contraception, sterilization, abortion, or related education and counseling,” says a complaint the network filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The network is headquartered in Irondale, Ala.

In addition to Sebelius, the suit also names as defendants Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

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by Terence P. Jeffrey

Legal Experts: HHS Contraception Edict Likely to be Ruled Unconstitutional i

 press release
Even Jesus' Earthly Ministry Would Run Afoul of New HHS Rule, Says New National Center for Public Policy Research Paper

Washington, D.C. - National Center for Public Policy Research Adjunct Fellow Horace Cooper is criticizing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for pushing a new health care mandate that forces church-supported soup kitchens, schools, and other charities to provide coverage for contraception, sterilization procedures and early abortifacients to all of their employees as part of their insurance plans.

Philadelphia: BROTHER TIMOTHY AHERN, F.S.C. RESIGNS

 

(February 9, 2012)The Archdiocese of Philadelphia Office of Catholic Education announces that with great reluctance it has accepted the resignation of Brother Timothy Ahern, F.S.C., President of West Philadelphia Catholic High School, effective immediately. 

Bill Donahue: THE PRESIDENT WHO BROUGHT THE CULTURE WAR TO A BOIL

OBAMA’S PLOY ADDS INSULT TO INJURY

February 10, 2012

 

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on President Obama’s revised healthcare plan as it affects Catholic institutions:

Archbishop Broglio Calls on Faithful to Stand Against Federally Mandated Health Insurance

Warns newly affirmed administration policy will compel Catholics to choose between violating their conscience or

dropping employee health coverage

WASHINGTON, D.C.—His Excellency, the Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D., Archbishop for the Military Services, issued a pastoral letter on Thursday, denouncing the recent decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to persist in its demand that sterilization, abortifacients and contraception be included in virtually all health plans.

 

Here follows the text of Archbishop Broglio’s letter:

 26 January 2012

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

 

An Open Letter to all Catholics, to all Americans

 

Dear Catholics:

This Open letter it to all Catholics, be they liberal or conservative, laps or practicing, fallen away or on their way back home to Rome. In-fact this open letter should be shared with non-Catholics, non-Christians and anyone who is concerned about their personal liberty and freedom. This letter is intended to excite you, motivate you and call you to action. This letter is a letter of protest and a letter of compassion; it is written from my heart and shared with the world. It will, undoubtably contain miss-spellings, bad punctuation and grammatical errors. However, what it will not contain is false emotions and lack of integrity. It will be heartfelt and passionate, it will be my personal views and my faith presented for you and for all.

Revelation 3:16
So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Bishop Joseph Estabrook Called Home Following Lengthy Illness; Services Begin Thursday

 

 Archbishop Broglio calls on faithful to pray for deceased bishop and his family

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Most Reverend Joseph W. Estabrook, D.D., a native of Albany, N.Y. and Episcopal Vicar for the Eastern half of the United States of the Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS), died on February 4, 2012 in Houston, Texas following a lengthy illness. He was 67 years old.

Obamacare Awakens Sleeping Giant

Such is the case with the firestorm of opposition to Obamacare and the Obama Administration’s attack on religious liberty. Under a new Obamacare mandate issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the White House is mandating that virtually all religious employers, with the exception of churches, provide health care coverage for contraception — including abortion-inducing drugs — thereby trampling upon their constitutionally guaranteed free exercise of religion. And it is this mandate that has caused a vehement response in churches and synagogues across the country.

Yesterday, the head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, warned that the nation’s 70 million Catholics are ready to go to war with the Administration’s dictates, saying “Never before, unprecedented in American history, for the federal government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church. This is going to be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, and, dare I say it, maybe even in the streets.”

Donohue’s remarks follow those of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and at least 153 Catholic bishops across the country who have weighed in with opposition to the mandate. “We Catholics will be compelled to either violate our consciences, or to drop health coverage for our employees and suffer the penalties for doing so,” wrote Bishop Alexander Sample of Marquette, Michigan. Those penalties include fines imposed by the federal government that could cost larger organizations millions of dollars per year.

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“OCCUPY” THUGS ATTACK CATHOLIC GIRLS

February 2, 2012

 

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on what happened last week in Providence, Rhode Island:

Funeral Services for Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, Archbishop Emeritus, Announced | cnbnews.net

Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, died on January 31, 2012 at the age of 88. Cardinal Bevilacqua died in his sleep at 9:15 p.m. at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, where he had resided since his retirement. Cardinal Bevilacqua served as Archbishop of Philadelphia from February 11, 1988 to October 7, 2003. He was elevated to the College of Cardinals on June 28, 1991.

“I was greatly saddened to learn of the death of my predecessor Cardinal Bevilacqua,” said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. of Philadelphia. “I encourage all Catholics in the Archdiocese to join me in praying for the repose of his soul and that God will comfort his family as they mourn his loss. Cardinal Bevilacqua has been called home by God; a servant of the Lord who loved Jesus Christ and His people.”

As the leader of the Archdiocese for 15 years, Cardinal Bevilacqua initiated a renewal process called Catholic Faith and Life 2000 to bring non-practicing Catholics back to the Church. The renewal process culminated on October 22, 2000 with 40,000 Catholics participating in a candlelight procession on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.

 

Bill Donahue: CARDINAL BEVILACQUA TREATED UNFAIRLY

February 1, 2012

 

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the death of Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua and news reports on his passing: 

Pelosi Vows to Stand With Obama Against Catholic Church | cnsnews.com

 

By Thomas Cloud

February 2, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) vowed today that she will join with the Obama administration in standing up against the Catholic Church in defending a new regulation that will require Catholic individuals to buy, and Catholic institutions to provide, health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including those that induce abortions.

 

Reuters Touts Pro-Abortion Study in One-Sided Article | mrc.org

• By Paul Wilson
• Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:13 AM EST

 The day after the March for Life, a one-sided article from Reuters touted the safety of abortion.

But Reuters failed to include vital information about the study and the people it quoted - namely, that the authors of the study and both of the experts it cited were either abortion doctors or had strong ties to the abortion industry.

Bishop Galante on Federal Health Care Mandate

 

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ:

I write to you about a serious matter concerning the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any faith.  The federal government has just dealt a blow to Catholics and all those served by the Catholic faithful through our education, health care and charity ministries.

Archbishop Chaput: HHS Ruling is Flawed and Dangerous

 

February 2, 2012

 

ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT CALLS ON CATHOLICS TO PRAY, ACT 
FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN LETTER TO ARCHDIOCESE: 
HHS RULING IS FLAWED AND DANGEROUS

 

Dear friends in Christ, 

The United States Department of Health and Human Services announced on January 20 that almost all employers, including Catholic employers, will be forced to offer their employees health coverage that includes sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and contraception. Almost all health insurers will be forced to include those "services" in the health policies they write. And almost all individuals will be forced to buy that coverage as a part of their policies. 

Sister Catherine James Hanley OP, Taught in Catholic Schools Throughout the Area

 

Sister Catherine James Hanley, OP, of the Dominican Sisters of Hope, Ossining, NY, died

Sunday, January 29, 2012, in Caldwell, NJ. She was 84 years of age. The daughter of the late James Patrick and Catherine Conner Hanley, she was born May 6, 1927, in Jersey City, NJ.

 

Sister Catherine James entered the novitiate of the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh, NY on September 8, 1945, made her First Profession June 25, 1947, and Final Profession August 26, 1950. She earned her BA in English from Villanova University and her MA in English from Catholic University.

Bill Donahue: PHILLY JUDGE SHOULD STEP DOWN

February 1, 2012

 

The presiding judge in the trial of two Catholic priests from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia expressed dissatisfaction yesterday with the following question for prospective jurors: “Do you believe child sex abuse is a widespread problem in the Catholic Church?” Common Pleas Court Judge M. Teresa Sarmina said, “Anybody that doesn’t think there is widespread sexual abuse within the Catholic Church is living on another planet.”
 
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds as follows:

CNBNEWS Op-Ed: To Hell With You’

By Bishop David A. Zubik

Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh

It is really hard to believe that it happened. It comes like a slap in the face. The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, “To Hell with you!” There is no other way to put it.

In early August, the Department for Health and Human Services in the Obama administration released guidelines as part of the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The guidelines mandated that by Summer 2012 all individual and group health insurance plans, including self-insured plans, cover all FDA-approved contraception, sterilization procedures and pharmaceuticals that even result in abortion.

President Obama Honors 9 Catholic Teachers

January 26, 2012

 

President Barack Obama recognized nine Catholic teachers today as “Champions of Catholic Education.” Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented on this event as follows:

Bill Donahue: OBAMA’S CONTEMPT FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

January 20, 2012

 

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on today’s announcement from the Obama administration that it is going forward with its original “Obamacare” policy that mandates coverage of sterilization and contraceptive services in most healthcare plans:

Bill Donahue:OPPOSITION TO HEALTHCARE MANDATE GROWS

January 23, 2012

 The announcement on January 20 by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius that religious non-profits will have to cover sterilization and contraceptive services, including some abortion-inducing drugs, is being met with growing rancor. Catholic League president Bill Donohue speaks to this issue today:

Bill Donahue: PHILLY PROSECUTOR IS MALICIOUS

January 23, 2012

 

The Philadelphia Archdiocese was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” today by prosecutors in a case involving clergy sexual abuse. At the pretrial hearing, Assistant District Attorney Mark Cipolletti made accusations against a defrocked priest, Edward Avery, and the archdiocese. Cipolletti said “the archdiocese was supplying him [Avery] with an endless amount of victims.” Msgr. William Lynn will also face trial in March. He is charged with covering up incidents of sexual abuse for the archdiocese.

Diocese of Camden - Three Cumberland County Catholic schools to close

Three Cumberland County Catholic schools, Sacred Heart High School in Vineland and two regional elementary schools, Notre Dame in Landisville/Newfield and St. Mary Magdalen, Millville, will close at the end of this school year.

The announcement was made in a letter to parents from Bishop Joseph Galante released Jan. 20.

U.S. Bishops Welcome Pope’s Reaffirmation Of Religious Liberty During Ad Limina Visit

 

January 19, 2012

Cardinal-Designate Dolan Praises Pope’s Pastoral Vision
Chair of Religious Liberty Committee Says Bishops Thankful, Encouraged
Most Recent Statement on Religious Liberty Reflects Church’s Longstanding Teaching

WASHINGTON—The U.S. bishops expressed praise and gratitude for the latest statement of Pope Benedict XVI on the need to protect religious liberty, which he delivered in an address January 19, to U.S. bishops gathered in Rome for their ad limina visits.

Consolidating Catholic Education: St. Gabriel and St. Thomas | South Philly Review

Since Jan. 6, the students and staff at St. Gabriel School, 2917 Dickinson St., have needed as much might as their savior can grant, as the Archdiocese of Philadelphia-appointed Blue Ribbon Commission announced plans to merge the facility with St. Thomas Aquinas, 1719 Morris St., to form a regional school. The devoted advocates of their 104-year-old educational home are hoping today’s appeal before a review committee will help to prolong its Grays Ferry existence.

“Someone could have knocked us over with a feather,” nine-year Principal Sister Noreen Friel said Friday of the commission’s conclusions.

Kindergarten teacher Michelle Sumner has spent her entire 34-year professional career as a member of the St. Gabriel clan. The graduate of Epiphany of Our Lord, 1248 Jackson St. — a spot scheduled to merge with Holy Spirit, 1845 Hartranft St.; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 2329 S. Third St.; Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1329 E. Moyamensing Ave.; and St. Richard, 1826 Pollock St., at the former Stella Maris site, 814 Bigler St. — hopes implementation plans end up being for naught.

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Bill Donahue: HUGE DEFEAT FOR OBAMA

January 11, 2012

 

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that churches are entitled to make employment decisions without interference by the government. In doing so, the high court affirmed what is known as the doctrine of “ministerial exception,” the long-standing right of churches to be shielded from discrimination lawsuits brought by employees.

Controversial John Paul II Statue to get Makeover | CAN

ROME, ITALY, January 10 (CNA) .- The much criticized 12-foot bronze sculpture of Blessed John Paul II that stands outside of Rome’s main train station will be revamped.

“I made a design for the sculpture that wasn’t executed well in the foundry,” explained the creator of the artwork, Italian sculptor Oliviero Rainaldi.

CNBNEWS Op-Ed: Catholic School Closings Result From Church Being Paper Tiger

by Chris Freind

cnbnews.net

 

If the Church had fought for true school choice, many schools would be thriving

 

Part Two

 

What does it tell you when private Notre Dame Academy in Villanova has 101 students in its freshman class --- at $20,000 per year --- and Archbishop Prendergast in Drexel Hill, an Archdiocesan high school, has…82?  Yes --- eighty two.

 

That the economy is booming because folks can shell out 20K a pop? That the gap between rich and poor is widening, with more people in the “have” category?  Not quite.

 

It tells us, in no uncertain terms, two things: