The Manhattan Declaration - National Religious Leaders Release Historic Declaration on Christian Conscience

Friday a group of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders and scholars released the Manhattan Declaration, which addresses the sanctity of life, traditional marriage and religious liberty. The 4,700-word declaration issues a clarion call to Christians to adhere to their convictions and informs civil authorities that the signers will not - under any circumstance - abandon their Christian consciences. Drafted by Dr. Robert George, Dr. Timothy George and Chuck Colson and signed by more than 125 Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical Christian leaders.

I found this at Happy Hearts at Home

No women priests, ever

Thanks to technical problems, I wasn’t able to comment on Rowan Williams (”Archbishop of Canterbury” in the Henrician usurpation tradition, as Gerald Warner calls him) lecturing the Vatican on the virtues of women priests. I’m glad he did, because it is high time that the Church of England stopped apologising for this innovation. Anglicans have women priests; Catholics and Orthodox don’t. End of story, so far as corporate reunion is concerned.
“Oh, but the Roman Catholic Church will certainly ordain women one day,” Dr George Carey once told me. No it won’t. Why do Anglicans find this so hard to grasp? When Pope John Paul II decreed that the Church does not have the authority to ordain women, he was reiterating a teaching that has never changed.

More at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100017430/the-catholic-church-will-never-ordain-women/

On the Archbishop of Canterbury

No no, he isn't doing anything crazy to save the Anglican communion like embracing orthodoxy or anything. Canterbury leads us in a different direction, off a cliff.

Read more at Creative Minority Report.

A new way of life

Way back in the Dark Ages, in the 1950s, a woman's place was in the home. Like it or lump it, housework was the ultimate satisfying career.

If you think those days are long gone, we've got some news for you. Some women who have it all, have had enough.

More and more want to go back to the 50s to live the way mum and granny did. They're giving the old-time feminists the flick and ditching their jobs, staying home to look after hubby and the kids.

In fact, two thirds of Australian women say they'd do it if they could. Cooking and cleaning are fashionable again, the housewife superstar is back.

More at http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/824791/housewife-superstars

That all be one: Catholics and Anglicans

This offer was 400 years in the making

Fr Michael Rear says that new provisions for the reception of Anglicans should not surprise those who are familiar with English history.

At http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/f0000491.shtml

Traditional African rulers should apologise for the role they played in the slave trade

Traditional African rulers should apologise for the role they played in the slave trade, a Nigerian rights group has said in a letter to chiefs.
“We cannot continue to blame the white men, as Africans particularly the traditional rulers, are not blameless,” said the Civil Rights Congress.
The letter said some collaborated or actively sold off their subjects.
The group said it was time for African leaders to copy the US and the UK who have already said they were sorry.
It urged Nigeria’s traditional rulers to apologise on behalf of their forefathers and “put a final seal to the history of slave trade”.

Read it at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100016754/should-africans-apologise-for-slavery/

Cardinal Newman's miracle

Is Jack Sullivan proof that miracles really can happen?
A 71 year-old American's cure from a severe spinal condition is being proclaimed as an Act of God. Even his doctor says so.
Jonathan Wynne-Jones reports.

Read it at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/6521361/Is-Jack-Sullivan-proof-that-miracles-really-can-happen.html

The Berlin Wall and England's left

How Labour politicians and The Guardian helped keep the Berlin Wall standing

As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, let’s not forget those British socialists who helped keep it standing. Many Labour activists had a soft spot for East Germany – and understandably so in the 1950s, given the skill with which the GDR played on their antifascist sympathies. But, as two historians have demonstrated in a recent academic paper, Labour politicians, trade unionists, churchmen and The Guardian gave moral support to East Germany as recently as the early 1980s.

Read more at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100016052/how-labour-politicians-and-the-guardian-helped-keep-the-berlin-wall-standing/

Crucifixion

Saudi Arabia bans crosses, but crucifixion is OK. In fact, there's one happening soon .

2012, Medjugorje and endtimes

While the calendar doesn't actually end (it is reset), the notion is too exotic for the media to let go and there are all kinds of convergences, from economic forecasters who have pointed to that as the year of real financial comeuppance to those who indicate it as another presidential election year in the U.S. to astronomers who say the eclipse of our solar system will pass across the equator of the Milky Way on December 21, 2012 (at 11:11 universal time), which some think will unleash new gravitational forces.

More at http://www.spiritdaily.com/prophecynov09.htm

Abortion Practitioner Admits "Yes I Am" Killing Unborn Children During Abortions

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorNovember 5, 2009

Dallas, TX (LifeNews.com) -- The late-term abortion practitioner at the new abortion center in Dallas has admitted in a shocking interview that he kills unborn children during abortions. Curtis Boyd is one of the few abortion practitioners to admit what he is doing, but he has no qualms with his job.
Boyd opened the first abortion center in Dallas in 1973 after the Supreme Court handed down the roe v. Wade decision allowing virtually unlimited abortions.
In an interview with WFAA yesterday after news surfaced that he re-opened his late-term abortion center, Southwestern Women's Surgery Center, in the huge metro area last week after more than a year following the closure of the Aaron's abortion facility, he makes a startling admission.
"Am I killing?" Boyd said. "Yes, I am. I know that."

More at http://www.lifenews.com/state4549.html

Pelosi and abortion

http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=666

This one came back alive

I found this amazing video at Creative Minority Report.


The Return from Iraq - The most amazing bloopers are here

Europe Court bans Crucifix in schools

It's the coming of the anti-Christ.
The Vatican protested.
Read it at http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/4/worldupdates/2009-11-04T002800Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-436518-1&sec=Worldupdates

'Miracle' as communion wafer becomes heart tissue

The Catholic Church in Poland is investigating claims of a miracle after a piece of communion wafer was reported to have been transformed into human heart tissue after falling into water during a mass.

More at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6461051/Miracle-as-communion-wafer-becomes-heart-tissue.html

Exorcists tell us

At http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20091030-233044

and another at
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20091030-233044

On anti - catholicism in the media

Read it at Creative Minority Report.

Maharashtra, 6,000 Christians reconverted to Hinduism by extremist groups

by Nirmala Carvalho

Reconversion occurs in a large-scale and highly publicised ceremony. According to the Global Council of Indian Christians, this kind of propaganda relies on the authorities’ complicity and is designed to “disrupt communal harmony”. Anti-Christian violence continues unabated. Mumbai (AsiaNews) – At least 6,000 Christians reconverted to Hinduism because of the work of Swami Narendra Maharaj. The ceremony of their re-conversion was held yesterday in Thane, a place some 50 kilometres from Mumbai (Maharashtra). In the recent past, the same group celebrated the return of thousands of Christian converts to Hinduism (“Thousands converting back to Hinduism: truth, or propaganda?” in AsiaNews, 8 April 2009). In the meantime, anti-Christian violence continues unabated elsewhere in the country.
Led by Guru Narendra Maharaj, the group’s mission is to reconvert people to Hinduism. Twice a year, it organises large-scale ceremonies for the return to India’s traditional religion.

Read it all at http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=16698&size=A

Why (almost ) nobody talk about it? Because it'a catholics who are persecuted.

Anti-Catholicism

I found this link at Standing on my Head.

FOUL BALL!
By Archbishop Timothy M. DolanArchbishop of New York

Read it at
http://www.archny.org/news-events/columns-and-blogs/blog---the-gospel-in-the-digital-age/index.cfm?i=14042

Also
MAJOR NEWSPAPERS BLAST CATHOLICISM

Furious attack on the Church

Richard Dawkins's latest attack on the Catholic Church is vicious and crazy. The man needs help.

At http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100014886/richard-dawkinss-latest-attack-on-the-catholic-church-is-vicious-and-crazy-the-man-needs-help/

Also at http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/2009/10/dawkins-venom.html