Monday, November 17, 2008

News Updates, 11/18

Muslim Group Orders All Christians Out of Iraq
A Christian bishop received a threatening letter written by Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish Muslim group affiliated with al-Qaeda in Iraq. The letter ordered the Christians to leave Iraq en masse and stated it is sending a final warning to Christians in Baghdad and other Iraqi governorates to leave Iraq permanently.

Cardinal: Obama is 'disruptive and apocalyptic'
American prelate delivers frank address at Catholic U.

“Cultural earthquake”
Cardinal describes Obama as ‘aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic,’ predicts U.S. Catholics will weep ‘hot, angry tears of betrayal’ in years to come

Obama and the bishops are talking the same platform
Kmiec speech at St. John’s Seminary attracts pro-life protesters [

Abortion opponents protest U.S. bishops' 'support' for Obama
[For some (most?) is seems that party politics comes BEFORE loyalty to Christ and His Church]

Father Bourgeois heading to Rome to appeal threatened excommunication
Father Roy Bourgeois says that he plans a trip to the Vatican, accompanied by sympathetic priests and at least one bishop, to lobby against the formal excommunication that has been threatened because of his public support for the ordination of women and his involvement in illicit "ordination" ceremonies...
[Any dibbs on who this "bishop" might be? Remy de Roo? Gumbleton?]

Maine diocese: Same-sex unions not marriage
Bishop Malone voices strong opposition to activist calls

Fr. George W. Rutler: No place for amateur soldiers in the army of the Lord
Many have warned about the consequences of yielding the Faith to false messiahs.

Bishops condemn 'silent genocide' in Congo
Widespread massacres, targeted killings, systematic rapes

US Army returns college to Chaldean Catholics
Seminarians, students and staff left in January 2007

'Ad limina' visits no longer occur every 5 years
U.S. bishops will have an extra year to report to Pope

Italian nuns refuse to kill Eluana Englaro
Hospice won't carry out court order to remove hydration

No infant euthanasia reported in Netherlands
First year after laws on mercy killings were expanded

Do outspoken bishops lose conference elections?
Has Archbishop Chaput been marginalized for strong stance?
[Should faithful orthodox bishops start a truly Catholic national conference and let the heterodox faction whither away?]

Obama warned of 'huge threat' from al-Qaeda
Security officials fear 'spectacular' during transition

Divided Loyalties, Obama’s Eligibility Problem
Judah Benjamin, an historian and former journalist, has written a two-part series challenging the Constitutionality of Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President. It is exhaustively researched, and lengthy compared to most blog entries....Barack Obama has been a citizen of multiple nations. And even if his citizenship outside the US was renounced, Article II of the U.S. Constitution prohibits him from being President, for the same reason that naturalized citizens are prohibited: divided loyalties....Part 1 & Part 2

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