The privately owned chain, famous for closing on Sundays in deference to its founder's evangelical Christian values, donates to many Christian causes, scholarships, and organizations through its charitable arm. But when a Pennsylvania restaurant donated sandwiches and brownies to a Harrisburg meeting of The Pennsylvania Family Group, a group that works to outlaw gay marriage, pro-gay marriage bloggers and gay rights organizations went on the offensive. The news quickly trickled into the mainstream. Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton wrote about it, and so did the food blog Grub Street, with the headline "Chick-fil-A is anti-gay." President Dan Cathy posted a video response to the company's Facebook page in early January, no doubt hoping to quell the controversy. "Chick-fil-A serves all people and values all people," Cathy said, adding that the donation did not serve as a political endorsement.
UPDATE: Cathy now says Chick-fil-A will no longer donate to any organizations that take a political stand on marriage. Thousands of people chimed in on Chick-fil-A's Facebook page, many of whom said they would support the chain even more because of the donation and the controversy around it.
"You have nothing to expain to your customers, we support your family values, and know that you mean no ill-will to those with other opinions," John Joyner wrote. Others wrote that they would give up their favorite chicken with heavy hearts.
"I've eaten and loved chick all my life. I am sad that me and my entire family must denounce the Chick until you publicly apologize and make an equal and opposite donation to the Human Rights Campaign or other civil rights group," Rob Augino commented.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110131/us_yblog_thelookout/popular-chicken-chain-under-fire-for-anti-gay-marriage-donations
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
EWTN Acquires National Catholic Register
The National Catholic Register-- not to be confused with the National Catholic Reporter, another weekly publication with a very different editorial outlook-- has been owned since 1995 by the Legionaries of Christ. With the Legionaries experiencing financial difficulties in the wake of revelations about their founder, the late Father Marcial Maciel, the newspaper was placed on the market. The sale to EWTN will not involve any cash payment; EWTN will assume the paper's subscription liabilities.
Michael Warsaw, the president of EWTN, said that the network planned no major immediate changes in the paper's operations. Over time, he said, EWTN would expand the newspaper's online presence. EWTN has already taken a major step into online delivery of news, entering into a partnership in 2010 with the Catholic News Agency.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=8953
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Coptic Pope Shenouda III. Supports Mubarek's Government
Shenouda III. will not take part in the public protests against Mubarak -- IGFM disappointed.
Cairo -- Frankfurt am Main (kath.net/IGFM) The Coptic Pope Shenouda III. yesterday, Sunday, on the 30th of January in a public statement to Copts declared that he would not participate in the protests against the government of Mubarak. Shenouda III. is the ecclesiastical head of the Coptic-Orthodox Church and also the spiritual head of most Christian Egyptians.
The International Society for Human Rights [IGFM] was disappointed over the news of Shenouda's statement. Actually, most Coptic human rights advocates in Egypt are secular. For a large minority, the Egyptian Christians, the decisions of the head of the Cotpic Church have enormous weight, said the IGFM, also important was the statement of the Coptic Pope on State Controlled Egyptian television which was repeated a number of times.
Since the outburst of the protests against the almost thirty year old government of former General Husni Mubarak, there has been no overlap against the religious minorities. The IGFM reported in the spect of human rights advocates in Egypt that the demonstrators are in no way motivated by religious scandals, rather, they seek the resignation of the Mubarak government.
According to estimates of the IGFM the Islamic brothers and some opposition politicians have appropriated the protests for themselves. Actually the protesters themselves are seeking freedom and are not initiated by the Islamic Brotherhood or funded by them. The IGFM reports that the Egyptian human rights advocates have interpreted the situation as a "war of normal Egyptians against the Internal Ministry".
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Cairo -- Frankfurt am Main (kath.net/IGFM) The Coptic Pope Shenouda III. yesterday, Sunday, on the 30th of January in a public statement to Copts declared that he would not participate in the protests against the government of Mubarak. Shenouda III. is the ecclesiastical head of the Coptic-Orthodox Church and also the spiritual head of most Christian Egyptians.
The International Society for Human Rights [IGFM] was disappointed over the news of Shenouda's statement. Actually, most Coptic human rights advocates in Egypt are secular. For a large minority, the Egyptian Christians, the decisions of the head of the Cotpic Church have enormous weight, said the IGFM, also important was the statement of the Coptic Pope on State Controlled Egyptian television which was repeated a number of times.
Since the outburst of the protests against the almost thirty year old government of former General Husni Mubarak, there has been no overlap against the religious minorities. The IGFM reported in the spect of human rights advocates in Egypt that the demonstrators are in no way motivated by religious scandals, rather, they seek the resignation of the Mubarak government.
According to estimates of the IGFM the Islamic brothers and some opposition politicians have appropriated the protests for themselves. Actually the protesters themselves are seeking freedom and are not initiated by the Islamic Brotherhood or funded by them. The IGFM reports that the Egyptian human rights advocates have interpreted the situation as a "war of normal Egyptians against the Internal Ministry".
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Pope Hemmed in by Negative Forces
Yesterday and today as well, there are those who would like to reduce the Mass to the “social realm.” Mons. Negri makes this point in regard to the “reform of the reform.”
DOMAGNANO - “It is in relation to the Liturgy that the destiny of the Faith and of the Church is decided”: thus spoke Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI in the first volume of his opera omnia, Theology of the Liturgy. (This book is known in the English-speaking world as "The Spirit of the Liturgy" -- CAP) On November 27th at Vespers for the beginning of Advent, the Pope also defined the Liturgy as “the place where we live the truth and where the truth lives among us.” Let us confront these themes in a one-on-one with the bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, His Excellency Luigi Negri, who is preparing for the Pope’s visit in 2011.
Read further...Rorate
Japanese Anglican Priest Plans on Entering the Catholic Church
On the heels of yesterday's story about Dean Sellers of Fargo, UCANews.com is carrying the story of another Anglican Communion priest who will be entering the Catholic Church:
Father Satoru Kato, 56, until recently an Anglican priest working in England, is set to enter full communion with the Catholic Church and be ordained a Catholic priest.
According to Father Hiroshi Oka of the Saitama diocese, who has been helping coordinate the convert’s entry into that diocese, once he is ordained Kato will work at a welfare institute and parishes as an assistant priest in Gunma Prefecture. Since Christmas, he has been doing interim work in Gunma.
Read further at The Epiphany of Our Lord, here.
By ucanews.com special correspondent, Tokyo
Father Satoru Kato, 56, until recently an Anglican priest working in England, is set to enter full communion with the Catholic Church and be ordained a Catholic priest.
According to Father Hiroshi Oka of the Saitama diocese, who has been helping coordinate the convert’s entry into that diocese, once he is ordained Kato will work at a welfare institute and parishes as an assistant priest in Gunma Prefecture. Since Christmas, he has been doing interim work in Gunma.
Read further at The Epiphany of Our Lord, here.
Seven Habits of Highly Orthodox People: New Popular Book
This article is being co-published by Brigid Strait in her blog, Nineteenth Century Russia. AR: We are fortunate to have with us today Father Vasiliy Vasileivich, Pastor of Saints Boris and Gleb and Vladimir and Olga Russian Orthodox Church in Sydney, Austalia, and spokesman for the Church Overseas of Russian Orthodox Christians or COROC. Father Vasiliy has just published a new book, and has graciously agreed to an interview.VV: Whatever is selling books.
AR: First let me say how good it is to see you after more than a year’s separation.
VV: Is good to being back.
AR: So I see you have a new book coming out next month through Anaxios Press: Seven Habits of Highly Orthodox People.
H/t: from Intrepid Editor at, Outrage! where you can read the rest.
Vatican rejects suit over Milwaukee priest’s abuse - The Daily Cardinal - News
They need to send these jackals running in terror. These ACLU associated attacks coupled with the NYTs schmear need to be faced squarely and denounced.
The really sad thing is that many of the Church's sons can't see through this Marxist bit of homosexual non-sense.
Vatican rejects suit over Milwaukee priest’s abuse - The Daily Cardinal - News
The really sad thing is that many of the Church's sons can't see through this Marxist bit of homosexual non-sense.
Vatican rejects suit over Milwaukee priest’s abuse - The Daily Cardinal - News
From Village Boy to Soldier, Martyr and, Many Say, Saint
Published: November 21, 2003
KURILOVO, Russia — Shoulders back, chest out, the young soldier stands as if on parade in his camouflage fatigues — his boots polished, his rifle at his shoulder, a halo around his head.
His face is the blank mask of a man for whom duty is life. It is not easy being a soldier, or a saint.
Portraits of this young man, Yevgeny Rodionov, are spreading around Russia — sometimes in uniform, sometimes in a robe, sometimes armed, sometimes holding a cross, but always with his halo.
Related article and photo, here... Except he hasn't been canonized by the Orthodox Church yet.
New York Times Article further, here...
H/t: JonB
German Media Outlet Founded by a Child Abuser
Will the left-leaning German 'taz' lay claim to its dark past and offer damage payments? No trace, only the German capitulation Bishops can be so stupid.
(kreuz.net) In the 70s the left-leaning Berlin daily 'taz was one of the leading mouthpieces [In German about the left wall of silence about their attempts to legalize sex with children] for the legalization of child sexual abuse. Original citation: "Pedophilia is a crime without a victim."
With a continuing series the paper attempted to legitimize child sex abuse. Pederasts were able there to openly promote immoral conduct with children. The paper sympathized with child abuse groups.
Today the paper attempted to work out its past with the Church, where cases of abuse were seldom reported and always sharply condemned.
Actually, last week the 'taz' was in the struddle of successive events over the abuse-scandal in the Odenwaldschule. [Editor: As Peggy Noonan describes this degenerate arrangement]:
According reports from the 'Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zonntagzeitung', Dietrich Willier († 2009) [Affectionately known as "Didi"], belonged to one of the founders of 'taz'.
He was active as the art teacher from 1969 to 1972 at the famous abuse-school in the South Hessian town of Heppenheim.
Willier sexually overpowered at least nine boys who have come forward so far. In reality there are more victims coming forth.
The perpetrator had an enormous child pornography collection, according to the testimony of former students. There were even portrayals of three year old children.
Finally, Willier was one of the founding members of 'taz' and also as a Stuttgart correspondent till 1989.
At the end of 2009 he died, where the 'taz' published a sanitized obituary. There was no mention that Willier had been an instructor at the Odenwaldschule.
Therefore, you can read things like: "People like Didi were like those, who the 'taz' brought to success and gave it its incomparable color and above all, forged its internal independence."
It was mentioned that Willier was active with the weekly 'Zeit' and for the German boulevard magazine 'Stern'.
His relationship to children came in any case to the fore. He worked with the children's television program "Tigrente" to organize a meeting of children and Nobel Prize winners on the island of Mainau.
That encouraged him to suggest a Kinderunversity: "Children from everywhere belong to its life".
Last Saturday 'taz' had to stick. Actually to cover up again. The paper described the child abuser euphemistically as "pedosexual".
Besides being later "disavowed of pedosexuality". The "attractive man" had relationships only with women -- even described as feminist.
Actually everyone knows, who is well informed about the theme of "pedo-criminal": whoever has once begun to abuse children, does not stop. He is then, only when nabbed and locked away.
But that is only valid, naturally, so long as the perpetrator is not a leftist.
Link to original kreuz.net...
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| Fawning Obit for Child Abuser |
(kreuz.net) In the 70s the left-leaning Berlin daily 'taz was one of the leading mouthpieces [In German about the left wall of silence about their attempts to legalize sex with children] for the legalization of child sexual abuse. Original citation: "Pedophilia is a crime without a victim."
With a continuing series the paper attempted to legitimize child sex abuse. Pederasts were able there to openly promote immoral conduct with children. The paper sympathized with child abuse groups.
Today the paper attempted to work out its past with the Church, where cases of abuse were seldom reported and always sharply condemned.
Actually, last week the 'taz' was in the struddle of successive events over the abuse-scandal in the Odenwaldschule. [Editor: As Peggy Noonan describes this degenerate arrangement]:
Many have heard of the sexual abuse by clergy in Catholic schools in Germany. However, at the time these reports were surfacing, it was learned that a prestigious private boarding school had an unspeakable record of abuse of its own. The Odenwaldschule is a UNESCO model school whose administration would arrange to have students provide "entertainment" for visitors and whose male students were having sexual relations with the wives of teachers. A music teacher had numerous pupils living with him in his apartment. The administrator of the school was an advisor to the German Ministry of Education. Where were the headlines proclaiming that a UNESCO model school was engaged in the systematic molestation of children? In fact, when the report of the Odenwaldschule first appeared it was under a headline decrying abuse in Catholic schools! [Peggy Noonan, American Spectator, here]
According reports from the 'Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zonntagzeitung', Dietrich Willier († 2009) [Affectionately known as "Didi"], belonged to one of the founders of 'taz'.
He was active as the art teacher from 1969 to 1972 at the famous abuse-school in the South Hessian town of Heppenheim.
Willier sexually overpowered at least nine boys who have come forward so far. In reality there are more victims coming forth.
The perpetrator had an enormous child pornography collection, according to the testimony of former students. There were even portrayals of three year old children.
Finally, Willier was one of the founding members of 'taz' and also as a Stuttgart correspondent till 1989.
At the end of 2009 he died, where the 'taz' published a sanitized obituary. There was no mention that Willier had been an instructor at the Odenwaldschule.
Therefore, you can read things like: "People like Didi were like those, who the 'taz' brought to success and gave it its incomparable color and above all, forged its internal independence."
It was mentioned that Willier was active with the weekly 'Zeit' and for the German boulevard magazine 'Stern'.
His relationship to children came in any case to the fore. He worked with the children's television program "Tigrente" to organize a meeting of children and Nobel Prize winners on the island of Mainau.
That encouraged him to suggest a Kinderunversity: "Children from everywhere belong to its life".
Last Saturday 'taz' had to stick. Actually to cover up again. The paper described the child abuser euphemistically as "pedosexual".
Besides being later "disavowed of pedosexuality". The "attractive man" had relationships only with women -- even described as feminist.
Actually everyone knows, who is well informed about the theme of "pedo-criminal": whoever has once begun to abuse children, does not stop. He is then, only when nabbed and locked away.
But that is only valid, naturally, so long as the perpetrator is not a leftist.
Link to original kreuz.net...
Sunday, January 30, 2011
"Black Widow" Bomber Blows up Self, Moscow
"Black Widow" suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year's Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources.
The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Monday, intended to detonate a suicide belt near Red Square on New Year's Eve in an attack that could have killed hundreds.
Security sources believe a message from her mobile phone operator wishing her a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her suicide belt, killing her at a safe house.
http://www.leaderpost.com/mobile/story.html?id=4172966
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Global Muslim population will continue to grow in next 20 years
The world's Muslim population will grow at double the rate of non-Muslims over the next 20 years, according to a broad new demographic analysis that is likely to spark controversy in Europe and the United States.
If current trends continue, the study found, the number of Muslims in the United States will more than double, from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030. The percentage of native-born Muslims in the U.S. is projected to rise from 35 percent today to 45 percent in 2030.
The Future of the Global Muslim Population may be the first to attempt to map the Muslim population of most of the world's countries. The analysis was conducted by two giant nonprofit groups interested in religion: the Pew Research Center and the John Templeton Foundation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/26/AR2011012607769.html
If current trends continue, the study found, the number of Muslims in the United States will more than double, from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030. The percentage of native-born Muslims in the U.S. is projected to rise from 35 percent today to 45 percent in 2030.
The Future of the Global Muslim Population may be the first to attempt to map the Muslim population of most of the world's countries. The analysis was conducted by two giant nonprofit groups interested in religion: the Pew Research Center and the John Templeton Foundation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/26/AR2011012607769.html
The Fate of the Abbey Remains Uncertain: More German Cloisters Closing
The cloister was founded in order to inform the soul of the way to life. Will their walls receive the dark consecration to serve the cult of the body?
(kreuz.net) It is unclear if the Abbey Michealsberg can continue as the spiritual center of the city of Siegburg. The Bonn paper, the 'General-Anzeiger' said on January 26th.
Only one thing is sure: the monks must leave the cloister after 946years. The one or the other of them apparently had the interest to align themselves with the Steyler Missionaries.
According to the paper investors for hotels or wellness-spas have been contacted.
A speaker for the Archdiocese of Cologne explained, however, that an ecclesiastical use of the people "will have the highest priority".
An important date is 5. April.
Then a summit meeting will take place about the future of the Abbey.
The participants: members of the Archdiocese, the Abbey and of the Benedictine Order as well as the city Dean Peter Weiffen, the business office of the Abbey and the Siegburger Mayor.
Included, the Abbey swept the fate of the Redemptorist-Cloister in Hennef-Geistingen.
There the condominums are in place. The landmark cloister church will become a convocation hall for corporate events and similar affairs.
A similar fate awaits the once famous Dominican Friary of Walberg in Bornheim.
It was purchased two years ago by the company 'Summit Partners' from Cologne for five million Euros.
Now there is a restaurant, a Catholic kindergarten and homes for the employees of the amusement park.
The 'General-Anzeiger' cited the Cologne Realestate-Firm 'Pro Secur', that specializes in the purchasing of ecclesiastical properties.
The firm has been buying cloisters for about twenty years.
"Presently the company has had a series of closing cloisters in offer" -- says the 'General-Anzeiger'":
The friary of the Dominicans of Neusatzeck with 89 rooms in northern Black Forest was sold for 2,5 Million Euro.
Currently for sale is also the idyllic Cloister of Maria Engelportder Hünfelder Oblates nearby the associated municipalities of Treis-Karden-Rheinland-Pfalz for 2.25 Million Euros or the Cloister "St. Joseph House" in Sunder in Sauerland for 800.000 Euro.
These properties are highly prized by hotels and culinary establishments.
Kreuznet...
(kreuz.net) It is unclear if the Abbey Michealsberg can continue as the spiritual center of the city of Siegburg. The Bonn paper, the 'General-Anzeiger' said on January 26th.
Only one thing is sure: the monks must leave the cloister after 946years. The one or the other of them apparently had the interest to align themselves with the Steyler Missionaries.According to the paper investors for hotels or wellness-spas have been contacted.
A speaker for the Archdiocese of Cologne explained, however, that an ecclesiastical use of the people "will have the highest priority".
An important date is 5. April.
Then a summit meeting will take place about the future of the Abbey.
The participants: members of the Archdiocese, the Abbey and of the Benedictine Order as well as the city Dean Peter Weiffen, the business office of the Abbey and the Siegburger Mayor.
Included, the Abbey swept the fate of the Redemptorist-Cloister in Hennef-Geistingen.
There the condominums are in place. The landmark cloister church will become a convocation hall for corporate events and similar affairs.
A similar fate awaits the once famous Dominican Friary of Walberg in Bornheim.
It was purchased two years ago by the company 'Summit Partners' from Cologne for five million Euros.
Now there is a restaurant, a Catholic kindergarten and homes for the employees of the amusement park.
The 'General-Anzeiger' cited the Cologne Realestate-Firm 'Pro Secur', that specializes in the purchasing of ecclesiastical properties.
The firm has been buying cloisters for about twenty years.
"Presently the company has had a series of closing cloisters in offer" -- says the 'General-Anzeiger'":
The friary of the Dominicans of Neusatzeck with 89 rooms in northern Black Forest was sold for 2,5 Million Euro.
Currently for sale is also the idyllic Cloister of Maria Engelportder Hünfelder Oblates nearby the associated municipalities of Treis-Karden-Rheinland-Pfalz for 2.25 Million Euros or the Cloister "St. Joseph House" in Sunder in Sauerland for 800.000 Euro.
These properties are highly prized by hotels and culinary establishments.
Kreuznet...
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Kohat bombing kills 5
KOHAT – Five people, including two women, died and 14 others were injured when militants attacked a tunnel in Kohat January 28 late night, media reported.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attacks, BBC Urdu reported, quoting a TTP spokesman.
Two trucks exploded in and near the tunnel on the Indus Highway, a Dara Adamkhel official told media. One truck packed with at least 500kg of explosives entered the tunnel and exploded, damaging another truck behind it.
Security forces cordoned off the tunnel immediately and closed it to traffic.
Read More: http://centralasiaonline.com/cocoon/caii/xhtml/en_GB/newsbriefs/caii/newsbriefs/2011/01/29/newsbrief-02
Catholic schools add 20 days in LA
JANUARY 29, 2011 BY
Catholic K-8 schools in Los Angeles will add 20 days to the school year for a total of 200 days of instruction. Los Angeles’ public school year has been cut to 175 days to save money, notes the LA Times.
With 210 elementary schools spread across Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, the archdiocese runs one of the largest school systems in California, larger than the public school districts in San Francisco or Sacramento. It has earned accolades for operating well-run, academically rigorous schools that serve many low-income students.
Parents will pay an extra month’s tuition. Charges range from $200 a month in low-income areas to $800 a month in affluent areas. The archdiocese will try to offer aid to parents who can’t afford the extra cost.
Teachers will receive a 10 percent raise for the extra month of work.
Catholic high schools set their own schedules.
Link: http://www.joannejacobs.com/2011/01/catholic-schools-add-20-days-in-la/
Louisville couple claims retaliation from former church
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) -- A Louisville couple says they've been the victims of retaliation just days after filing a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Louisville.
Gary and Margie Weiter say they've been banned from helping their church after they complained the parish was hiding a priest accused of sexual abuse.
"It was horrible. It was horrible. He cried all night. Some people don't understand it but we've devoted our life to the church, to those people," said Gary and Margie Weiter, plaintiffs.
Gary and Margie Weiter claim they were fired from volunteering at St. Therese Church where Gary has run bingo for years.
Both said they received a hand-delivered letter Friday from Father Tony Olges.
"He said you are no longer allowed to volunteer or run the bingo at St. Therese," said Gary Weiter.
"I just want to know why? Why me? What did I do to deserve this? To hurt the people of the parish I just don't know why?" asked Margie Weiter.
"I've never seen retaliation like this, as long as I've been practicing law and that's been over 30 years," said Mikell Grafton, attorney.
Attorney Grafton represents the couple.
The notice came just one day after the couple sued the Archdiocese of Louisville and Father Olges, accusing them of hiding Father James Schook, a priest accused of sexual abuse, who had been removed from his previous parish.
The lawsuit claims Margie was fired from her bookkeeping job at the church after complaining that Schook was allowed to live in St. Therese's rectory, and was often left unsupervised.
The Weiters became uncomfortable with Schook's presence because Gary had been a victim of priest abuse in 1960s.
"Why was our church chosen to harbor out a sex abuser? I don't understand and no one has given me an answer," said Gary Weiter.
Eight dead after suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN: A car bomb exploded in a tunnel in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding 14 others, The Nation newspaper reported.
The newspaper said a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden truck in Kohat tunnel, which connects the northwestern cities of Peshawar and Kohat, forcing authorities to close it to traffic. The attack happened just after midnight local time.
Read More:http://news.oneindia.in/2011/01/30/eightdead-after-suicide-bombing-in-northwestpakistan-aid0127.html
Read More:http://news.oneindia.in/2011/01/30/eightdead-after-suicide-bombing-in-northwestpakistan-aid0127.html
Turkish President Gul Criticizes the Discrimination of Christians
"Every Turkish Citizen should have the same chances for employment and advancement regardless of their religion" -- The reporter's question: Why has Turkey hindered the hiring of a Turk of Armenian descent?
Strassburg (kath.net/KAP) The Turkish President Abdullah Gul publicly denounced the discrimination of Christians by government authorities. That is a "shame", said Gul for visiting journalists during his visit in Strassburg, reported the paper "Milliyet" on Thursday. Gul reacted following a suggestion by Reporters that the Turkish administrative courts had prevented the hiring of an Armenian of Turkish descent from working for the authorities at the EU-Mission to Turkey.
Already upon the visit of Bundespresident Christian Wulff last October Gul has made it publicly known that he is also the president of non-Muslim Turks. Now it's been reported that he's told journalists that, soon every Turkish citizen independently of his religious background will have the same chances for employment and advancement. He didn't mention any particulars, however.
Members of non-Muslim minorities have long complained that the employment in government are closed to them. In Turkey there are no high-ranking politicians, military or in the judiciary who don't belong to Muslim groups. First on Wednesday minorities were encouraged to apply for posts at the Turkish foreign ministry .
Read further...original at kath.net...
Of course, some will remember the blistering attack leveled by the Austrian, Ewald Stadler in December last year:
Strassburg (kath.net/KAP) The Turkish President Abdullah Gul publicly denounced the discrimination of Christians by government authorities. That is a "shame", said Gul for visiting journalists during his visit in Strassburg, reported the paper "Milliyet" on Thursday. Gul reacted following a suggestion by Reporters that the Turkish administrative courts had prevented the hiring of an Armenian of Turkish descent from working for the authorities at the EU-Mission to Turkey.
Already upon the visit of Bundespresident Christian Wulff last October Gul has made it publicly known that he is also the president of non-Muslim Turks. Now it's been reported that he's told journalists that, soon every Turkish citizen independently of his religious background will have the same chances for employment and advancement. He didn't mention any particulars, however.
Members of non-Muslim minorities have long complained that the employment in government are closed to them. In Turkey there are no high-ranking politicians, military or in the judiciary who don't belong to Muslim groups. First on Wednesday minorities were encouraged to apply for posts at the Turkish foreign ministry .
Read further...original at kath.net...
Of course, some will remember the blistering attack leveled by the Austrian, Ewald Stadler in December last year:
Thursday, January 27, 2011
St. Petersburg bishop refuses to meet parents with complaints about priest - St. Petersburg Times
Editor: More fallout from the sex abuse hoax. It's acceptable for a priest to ask questions about various sins in the confessional to help the penitent with an examination of conscience. The people who are demanding this audience with the Bishop are presumptuous, stupid and probably evil.
Either they need to be brought up to speed about the Sacrament of Penance, or sent speeding out the door to the nearest protestant/universalist/muslim sect where objectivity and clarity aren't held in as much esteem.
St. Petersburg bishop refuses to meet parents with complaints about priest - St. Petersburg Times
Either they need to be brought up to speed about the Sacrament of Penance, or sent speeding out the door to the nearest protestant/universalist/muslim sect where objectivity and clarity aren't held in as much esteem.
ST. PETERSBURG — The head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg has rejected a request by parochial school parents for a meeting to discuss questions they say their children were asked during confession.
The Cathedral School of St. Jude parents accuse Father Joseph L. Waters, 49, of asking at least eight children questions they consider inappropriate regarding what the children looked up on the internet and whether they masturbated.
They say Waters, head priest at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle in St. Petersburg, asked the questions during confessions a few weeks before Christmas.
St. Petersburg bishop refuses to meet parents with complaints about priest - St. Petersburg Times
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