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Archive for March, 2010

Mandatory lessons on sex in primary schools

Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education | Comments Off

Letter to the Telegraph SIR – Parents and guardians have the primary responsibility for bringing up their children in accordance with their own values and culture. They may entrust the task ... Read more..

Christians discriminated against, bishops warn

Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From BBC News A group of Church of England Bishops have accused the government of discriminating against Christians while treating other faiths more leniently. In a letter to the Sunday Telegraph, they ... Read more..

Denham announces Government plans to promote faith and social action initiatives

Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`CARE'   John Denham MP the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has announced three new Government proposals that would promote the work of faith groups in England. In a ... Read more..

Legal drug likely to be banned following deaths

Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   The Government’s chief drugs advisor has indicated that the legal drug behind a spate of recent deaths should be banned.   Professor Les Iversen, chairman of the Advisory Council on ... Read more..

Fr. Paul Marx’s Last Article – Prophesies of Humanae Vitae

Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`LifeSiteNews'   March 23, 2010 (pop.org) - Introduction: Only a few days before he died, Father Paul Marx returned to the topic that had so often occupied him during his long decades ... Read more..

Holy Week Meditations – Palm Sunday

Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

  Mar 28   am: 24, 29 pm: 103 am: Zech 9:9-12 pm: Zech 12:9- 13:9   1 Tim 6:12-16   Matt 21:12-17   PALM SUNDAY   LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: Palm Sunday is the day we celebrate Jesus’ triumphal and peaceful entrance into ... Read more..

Canonically Permissible Graciousness

Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

Living Church Editorial In September 2009, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told journalist Denis O’Hayer that she would be willing to consecrate another openly gay or lesbian bishop because of her ... Read more..

Two Communion Partner Bishops will Attend Global South to South Encounter in Singapore

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By David Virtue, VOL Two Communion Partner Episcopal bishops, John W. Howe of Central Florida and Mark Lawrence of South Carolina will attend the Fourth Global South to South Encounter in ... Read more..

Commentator: Ireland will pay heavily for gay unions

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Traditional beliefs about marriage will be equated with racism if the Irish Civil Partnership Bill becomes law, a newspaper commentator has warned.   David Quinn, writing in the Irish Independent, ... Read more..

Commentary: Feminism’s “Gendercide”

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`LifeSiteNews'   March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Wondrous news! The mainstream media and even the United Nations have "discovered" the 30 year old crisis of "missing girls." The Economist (the recent edition ... Read more..

Celibacy and child abuse

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Andrew Brown’            `The Guardian’   Many people blame celibacy for Catholic sexual abuse. But it's much more likely to have played a role in the cover-up   What role did celibacy play in the ... Read more..

Vietnamese Abortion Rates Skyrocket; Doctors Anguished by the Killing

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`LifeSiteNews'   HANOI, Vietnam, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Rising abortion rates, especially among unmarried teens, and widespread sex-selective abortions, are causing psychological trauma to many Vietnamese doctors, according to VietNamNet report.   Dr. ... Read more..

The Pope, his brother and a Church reeling from scandal

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Roger Boyes’                `The Times’   The time is 7am and an old, almost blind priest makes his way to the altar of the small St Johann church tucked in the shadows of ... Read more..

Italian Candidate a Threat to Religious Freedom on International Scene: Catholic Lobby Group

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Hilary White’                 `LifeSiteNews’     ROME, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Emma Bonino’s power and influence will increase dramatically both nationally and internationally if she wins the upcoming election to the presidency of ... Read more..

Rise in marriages between cousins ‘is putting children’s health at risk’

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Frances Gibb’                      `The Times’   The dangers of marriage between first cousins are to be highlighted by a leading professor, with a warning that their children are at risk of genetic defects.   Baroness ... Read more..

Fr. Paul Marx’s Last Article – Prophesies of Humanae Vitae

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`LifeSiteNews’              March 23, 2010 (pop.org) - Introduction: Only a few days before he died, Father Paul Marx returned to the topic that had so often occupied him during his long ... Read more..

If faith schools are so bad, why do parents love them?

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in Education, Faith | Comments Off

By Jonathan Sacks, Timesonline It may not be the faith in faith schools that makes them different, so much as the communities that build, support and sustain them But if they are ... Read more..

South Carolina: The Amended Finally Approved Text of Resolution 2 From Yesterday

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

From Kendall Harmon Resolution R-2 2010 Convention Offered by: The Standing Committee Subject: Response to Ecclesiastical Intrusions by the Presiding Bishop RESOLVED, That this 219th Convention of the Diocese of South Carolina affirms its ... Read more..

Irish public unmoved by pope’s apology

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Henry McDonald’                      `The Guardian’   Along Dublin's main thoroughfare, O'Connell Street, shoppers appeared unimpressed by the pope's letter to the republic's four million Catholics.   Adrienne Kelly, on a day out from Co Meath, said ... Read more..

Haiti – An Anglican Responsibility

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Anglican Communion'   `The Anglican Communion needs to be actively involved in helping the rebuilding and healing of Haiti, working with the Église Épiscopale d’Haïti (the   Anglican/Episcopal Diocese of Haiti) and its ... Read more..