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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

About Catholicism Readers' Choice Awards

Once again, it is time to make your nominations for "The About Catholicism Readers Choice Awards" for 2013. The categories are: Best Catholic Book of 2012, Best Catholic Blog, Best Catholic Website, Best Catholic Podcast, Best Catholic Radio Show, Best Catholic Magazine, Best Catholic Newspaper, Best Catholic iOS App, Best Catholic to Follow on Twitter, and Best Catholic Facebook Page.

By clicking on this posts title or the link below, you will be taken to the page for the different categories. Click on a category and you will be taken to the nomination form, where you can nominate your favorites.

About Catholicism Readers' Choice Awards

Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Euthanasia Movement Promotes “Kill Me” Living Will in Australia | LifeNews.com

The following excerpts are from LifeNews.com:

The euthanasia movement rarely tells the full truth about its objectives. Activists pretend that their goal is only to legalize “voluntary” terminations, or in the USA, to restrict killing to the already dying whose suffering–a very elastic term in euthanasia advocacy–cannot otherwise be controlled.
But once a society accepts the premise that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, eventually concepts such as “voluntary” and “only for the terminally ill,” fall by the wayside. Look at the Netherlands, where 45% of neonatologists (according to a Lancet study) have committed infanticide and doctors engage in non voluntary euthanasia–euphemistically called “termination without request”–without fear of any significant legal or professional consequence.
Now, a bill soon to be introduced in the South Australia Parliament–where euthanasia is always bubbling on the legislative stove–would permit people to be killed by doctors based on via instructions made, catch the irony, in a “living will.”

Church of England OKs gay bishops in civil partnerships, as long as they’re ‘celibate’ | LifeSiteNews.com

The following excerpts are from LifeSiteNews.com:

The Church of England announced January 4 that it is dropping objections to accepting homosexual clergy as bishops, even those who live in formal civil partnerships, on the condition that they agree to remain celibate.
The announcement earned a rebuke from African members of the Worldwide Anglican Communion, including Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Stanley Ntagali, who called the decision “discouraging”.
In a statement the Church of England said it was “unjust” to exclude gay men from the episcopate who are “seeking to live fully in conformity with the Church’s teaching on sexual ethics or other areas of personal life and discipline.”

Monday, January 07, 2013

Arguments begin in case of minister accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ for homosexuality remarks | LifeSiteNews.com

The following excerpts are from LifeSiteNews.com:

Lawyers for a Massachusetts pastor have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by a foreign homosexual advocacy group accusing him of “crimes against humanity.”
During a 90-minute hearing on Monday in U.S. District Court, Judge Michael Ponsor said the lawsuit filed by Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) against Springfield-based minister Scott Lively poses a test of free-speech protection and the rights of sexual minorities to equal protection under the law.
Ponsor heard arguments from lawyers representing both Lively and SMUG. SMUG, represented in court by the George Soros-funded “Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR),” accused Lively of “violating the law of nations” and “crimes against humanity” as well as conspiracy and various “civil rights” crimes because of his outspokenness against the homosexual agenda in Uganda. In their filing, they listed a number of violent acts committed against homosexuals in Uganda that they claim Lively’s speeches against homosexuality incited.
The suit demands compensatory damages, punitive damages, exemplary damages, attorneys’ fees, and a “declaratory judgment that the Defendant’s conduct is in violation of the law of nations” as well as “all such other and further relief that the court may deem just and proper.”