Faith of the Fathers

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

The following excerpts are from LifeNews.com:

Facebook has become a major communications network for people of all ages throughout the world. Created as a way to allow high school friends to keep in touch after heading to college, the social media site has erupted into a place where people are free to bully and free to create offensive, harmful pages. One such page is simply titled “Abortions.”
Despite countless e-mails to Facebook to remove the page, Facebook refuses. It doesn’t consider the page offensive or involved in hate speech despite the fact that the page’s creator continuously posts pictures of a girl who lives with Progeria, calling her ugly and comparing her to vampires. But the Abortions page’s main purpose is to make light of abortion, from comments about all aborted babies being in hell to cartoons of a man kicking a pregnant woman in the belly. The page has over 7,000 likes.
Luckily, there is a page on Facebook called “1,000,000 people to take down the Abortions page.” Unfortunately, it has only just over 1,000 likes. Whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life, you should find the Abortions page offensive, just as it is likely offensive to abortion survivors, women who regret their abortions, and people with disabilities. Report the page to Facebook, and like the page against it. Our voices will change the way the world views abortion and the level of respect we show for others.

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Facebook Page Promotes Abortion, Attacks Child with Terminal Condition | LifeNews.com

The following excerpts are from UCANews.com:

A Catholic family is now living in mortal fear after conducting a high-profile campaign to stop a Church property from being demolished.
Augustine George, a teacher trainer, lived at the 7,922 sq.m. property in Lahore, which was managed by Caritas and included a small chapel. He and his family also helped maintain it.

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Death threats for family who tried to save Church property - ucanews.com

The following excerpts are from Catholic Culture's Catholic World News:

The Archdiocese of New York has confirmed that Cardinal Timothy Dolan has invited President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner and that both have accepted the invitation.

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Confirmed: Obama, Romney to attend Al Smith dinner : News Headlines - Catholic Culture

The excerpts below are from Catholic Culture's Catholic World News:

Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle, who has been charged by the Vatican with responsibility for supervising a reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), has been told by the group’s leaders that his presence “would not be helpful” at the LCWR’s annual assembly this week.
As the LCWR prepared for the annual meeting, at which members will discuss the Vatican’s demand for reform, the group’s president, Sister Patricia Farrell, told reporters that the group would continue to question Church teachings. She expressed concern that in the Vatican’s eyes, “that questioning is seen as defiance.”