Four Subversive Traitors Step Into the Spotlight

In a letter published yesterday in the Detroit Free Press.

Three priests and a professor "emeritus" collaborated on a letter defending a Catholic politician's "right" to be pro-abortion. Victor Lams and Kevin Miller have addressed some of the issues. I want to address this part specifically:

Finally, there is the recognized responsibility of individual Catholics to follow their well-formed consciences in making specific decisions. Certainly Catholics have a responsibility to give careful and prayerful consideration to official Catholic teaching. But when that teaching proves incomplete, or unconvincing, Catholics have both the right and responsibility to follow their well-formed conscience.

This is evil. You don't see me use that word often, do you? I use it again: this grotesque caricature of Catholic doctrine can — obviously — be used to justify any action whatever — without exception — and, thus, is evil. And, it sounds to me just like the kind of "thinking" that led priests like Paul Shanley to justify their abuse of underage boys.

These priests really need removing from whatever position(s) they hold, immediately. They need to be sent back to seminary where they can learn real Catholic doctrine, instead of the secularist, relativistic, pseudo-Catholic claptrap they seem to have been fed on in (I would bet) the 1960s and 70s.

P.S. Dale Price weighs in, too.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 10/20/02 08:00:25 PM
Categorized as Religious.

Letter from Bishop Wilton Gregory to Cardinal Re

Posted at A Catholic Blog for Lovers.

Gerard Serafin has posted the text of the letter from Bishop Wilton Gregory to Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

His Eminence
Giovanni Battista Re
Prefect Congregation for Bishops

Your Eminence,

Thank you very much for your letter of October 14, 2002, in which you communicate to me the response of the Apostolic See to the request for recognitio by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for the Norms approved at our Plenary Assembly in Dallas, Texas, on June 14, 2002. The Bishops of the United States are profoundly grateful to the Holy See, both for the fraternal solicitude that has been shown to the Church in the United States at this difficult time and for the gracious consideration that has been given to our request.

In view of the issues that Your Eminence raises in your letter to me regarding the best way for us to pursue effectively the recognitio of our proposed Norms, I am happy to accept, on behalf of our Episcopal Conference, the suggestion of the Apostolic See that a Mixed Commission be established in order to reflect further on and consider revision of certain aspects of the Charter accepted by the Bishops in Dallas and the Norms proposed to the Holy See for recognitio. I look forward to communicating to you in the very near future the names of the four Members of our Conference who will join four representatives from those Dicasteries of the Holy See that have direct competence in the matter before us.

Grateful to you, personally, Your Eminence, for your many kindnesses to our Conference, and with renewed sentiments of esteem and prayerful best wishes, I am

Sincerely yours in Christ,
Most Reverend Wilton D. Gregory
Bishop of Belleville
President
October 15, 2002

(See Letter from Cardinal Re to Bishop Gregory.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 10/20/02 03:26:07 PM
Categorized as Religious.

Viacom Still Getting Boycott Warnings

I was copied on this e-mail yesterday:

As a loyal viewer in VH1's key demographic, I am horrified at your reply.

1. I am boycotting VH1 and all Viacom networks (http:// viacom . com / thefacts . tin) until the situation is corrected.

2. I am calling the cable company to cancel VH1 to my home if the show has not been retracted and an apology has not been issued to the families of the victims within seven days. My cable company has assured me they CAN do this.

3. I will continue to email Sumner Redstone at info @ viacom . com, Christina Norman at christina . norman @ vh1staff . com, and Viacom at bars @ viacom . com.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 10/20/02 11:48:31 AM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.

"What were they thinking!?"

Brad Bumsted writes on VH1's Music Behind Bars.

In today's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in which we find out that three of the "Dark Mischief" band's members are convicted murderers (only two are "featured on the show" on VH1):

The news hit many of us with a sick thud.

Cable network VH1 was airing a documentary featuring inmates at Graterford State Prison near Philadelphia performing in a heavy metal band, “Dark Mischief.” One of the inmates, Christopher Bissey, was convicted of killing two teenage girls at Lehigh University seven years ago. One of the girl’s mothers recently was channel surfacing and saw her daughter’s killer on a promo for the documentary.

These violent criminals are serving time at a state prison, paid for with state taxpayers dollars. Why should a woman who lost her daughter have to go through this? What about the other victim’s families?...

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 10/20/02 11:44:04 AM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.