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Category Archives: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
UK: MP pushes to force Church to have contrary-to-nature “marriages” or no marriages at all
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, comes this portentous (I’m serious this time) article: Tory MP urges Cameron to crack down on churches that refuse to hold same-sex ceremonies By Simon Caldwell on Thursday, 8 September 2011 … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 2004 Civil Partnership Act, 2010 Equality Act, Bp. Conry, contrary-to-nature unions, D. Arundel and Brighton, David Cameron, Fr. Blake, same-sex marriage, Simon Caldwell
31 Comments
31 Comments
The future and our choices
Here is an interesting story from The Mail Online: Christian nurse ‘ordered to remove crucifix… at hospital where Muslims were allowed to wear headscarves’ By Luke Salkeld A Christian nurse was ‘forced to choose between her job and her faith’ … Read More
CNN’s Piers Morgan v Catholics
The Catholic League responded to Piers Morgan’s remark to presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Last night on CNN, Piers Morgan asked presidential candidate Rick Santorum about his views on gay marriage. Santorum said he favored the traditional understanding of marriage, citing … Read More
The Catholic League: MSNBC OUTDOES NEW YORK TIMES
MSNBC, Hell’s Bible, and their treatment of anything or anyone truly Catholic. What could go wrong? From The Catholic League: MSNBC OUTDOES NEW YORK TIMES Catholic League president Bill Donohue discusses how MSNBC outdid the New York Times’ recent attack … Read More
Catholic League on ban against clergy during NYC 9/11 ceremony
From The Catholic League: CLERGY BANNED FROM 9/11 NYC CEREMONY Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the decision by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban the clergy from speaking at the 9/11 ceremony next month: After the … Read More
Posted in The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 9/11, Catholic League, Mayor Bloomberg, NYC, Twin Towers
27 Comments
27 Comments
Antonio Gramsci, the destruction of Catholic identity, and you.
At the Catholic Thing there is a must read article by George Marlin about the uber-anti-Catholic and founder of Italian Communism, the brilliant but twisted Antonio Gramsci. Understanding Gramsci and the Italian version of Communism is verrrrrry important for faithful … Read More
The cost of WYD
In Spain, before and during the World Youth Day gathering in Madrid, the secularist critics and enemies of God and His Church and – by most accounts- good taste, claimed that the cost of WYD was extravagant and wasteful and … Read More
Posted in The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Madrid, Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinksy, WYD
9 Comments
9 Comments
MUST READ: Young person’s account of harassment and violence at WYD
Nolite mirari fratres si odit vos mundus. Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. 1 John 3:13 In Madrid during WYD the were no lack of twisted, benighted wing-nut protesters harrassing the pilgrims and young people. One of the … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Modern Martyrs, New Evangelization, Non Nobis and Te Deum, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, TEOTWAWKI, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged 1 John 3:13, anti-catholicism, Benedict XVI, homosexuals, persecution, protests, secular humanists, secularism, WYD
73 Comments
73 Comments
Remember: All it takes is a spark
Thomas Peters posted a few photos of anti-Catholic bigots in Spain harassing young Catholics at WYD. Here are two. Consider this well, friends. It could happen where you are. It could happen to you.
Posted in New Evangelization, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Spain, WYD
68 Comments
68 Comments
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