LA Times criticizes Church for speaking out

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Its too bad that there are so many angry people out there who say so many angry things.
 
I really rely on the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. They may be wrong, but they are consistent. A compass that always points south is as useful as one that points north.
 
If I understand Donahue’s criticism, it is not the L.A. Times which is responsible but the columnist who writes for it. I suppose you can hold the Times responsible for not muzzling George Skelton, but this would be a secondary fault rather than a primary one.

The Sacramento Bee apparently wrote an editorial criticizing Cardinal Mahony for speaking out, and the Scripps News Service is distributing it. The piece is milder than Skelton’s column but still says Mahony went beyond acceptable standards.
scrippsnews.com/node/20938

The Bee’s editorial may actually be the worse of the two, because Skelton is so obviously overboard. He speaks to persons already in his camp. But the Bee speaks to those in the middle, the ones who are less committed in their opinions. These are the people who, when polled, say they are against physician assisted-suicide but if the question is worded differently, say they are for allowing terminally ill patients to receive life-ending medication.

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez may be the highest profile Catholic to support the assisted-suicide bill (AB 374), but he isn’t the only one. The bill’s co-author, Patty Berg, who identified herself as a practicing Catholic, (at least she did in 2005), said that issue is “just like Roe v. Wade, it’s just like abortion. If you support choice at the beginning of life, you can’t reconcile not supporting choice at the end."
calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=ba29bff6-a838-4171-84d0-ab34da454a24

I think we need to thank Cardinal Mahony, and also San Francisco’s Archbishop George Niederauer for speaking out againt this measure.
 
cgvnau said:
Its too bad that there are so many angry people out there who say so many angry things.
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Angry and uninformed -
any pastor/priest/bishop/church employee can support any ISSUE - just not a CANDIDATE -without any threat to their non-profit status.

Problem is, the bishops want Democrats in power (even though they are the party of death and homosexual rights) - so they can get open borders and homosexual unions (gotta pay off their buddies).

Many of our bishops and pastors claim they can’t distribute voter guides with actual names and numbers in them “because we might lose our tax exempt status” (Just ask your “old” “Pro-life Rep” at your parish.) They know it’s not true, their bevy of lawyers knows it’s not true - but they use it so they don’t have to allow pro-lifers to distribute pro-life voter guides (because then the laity might be inclined to vote republican). (And, Oh, ya,I almost forgot, it’s not “Pro-life” anymore - it’s “Peace and Justice”.

This was an easy one for C. Mahony. No risk of losing anyone who even thinks they (themselves)are Catholic. Doesn’t offend the illegal aliens, doesn’t offend the sodomites - he’s good and safe of this one.

And the Times, as usual, complies with his request to publish. (If we had the Boston Globe reporters in So Cal, (who bagged C. Bernard Law) C. Mahoney (and his sodomite-hiding bishop buddies) would have been gone years ago).

B. Brom is just beginning to feel the heat.
riteofsodomy.com/reviews/The%20Bishop%20Brom%20File.htm

and from the Boston Globe
boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories2/070302_settlement.htm
 
Dale_M said:
If I understand Donahue’s criticism, it is not the L.A. Times which is responsible but the columnist who writes for it. I suppose you can hold the Times responsible for not muzzling George Skelton, but this would be a secondary fault rather than a primary one.
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As my Father-in-Law used to say of music he disliked, I don’t blame the idiot who wrote it, I blame the idiot who is playing it. 😃
 
How dumb. If there is one thing that I like about the Catholic Church, it is that it is not afraid to speak out on issues of morality such as this. 👍
 
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