2005 Speaker List
**“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” **
St. Matthew 7:15
Rev. Gwynne Guibord:
Please ask why a militant Lesbian Protestant Feminist Minister who is an endorser of the Sexuality Information and Education Council’s (SIECUS’S) controversial declaration that among other things calls for a religious commitment to “sexual and reproductive rights” which is really code for abortion, has been invited to speak to you on
“One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism”. For more information, please do a search for her name on the Web. You will be very enlightened if you do!
Scott Appleby:
A prominent liberal on the University of Notre Dame faculty, in 1995 co-edited, with **Woman Church feminist Mary Jo Weaver, “*Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America”. ***This book is an arrogant report on “**Catholic Fundamentalist” **who, Weaver says, hold “presup-positions including a **belief in God and in absolute truth; an assumption that God’s will can be known from Scripture and the teaching of the church; and a desire to be faithful to God by following church teaching.” **Appleby’s concluding essay endorses Weaver’s opinion that traditional Catholic faithful institutions and groups are “pathetically ineffective in exercising any real influence beyond their walls, “because they prepare people “for a world that no longer exists.” Among such “fundamental–ists” the book includes
pro-lifers, homeschoolers, Catholics United for the Faith and Family, the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars – and Pope John Paul II.
Fr. Gerald Coleman:
This Priest, the rector of a Major Seminary, supports so called Domestic Partner legislation, and has stated such in his article “Is Proposition 22 Discriminatory?”
What does the Holy See say about this: “It is from this quarter that one is more likely to find those who seek to ‘manipulate the church by gaining the often well-intentioned support of her pastors with a view to changing civil statutes and laws” (cf. No. 5), those who use the tactic of protesting that “any and all criticism of or reservations about homosexual people…are simply diverse forms of unjust discrimination” (cf. No. 9)
Fr. Patrick Brennan:
He has spoken out vehemently against indulgences in his homilies, yet Pope Paul VI cited the Council of Trent thusly: “The Church teaches and command that the usage of indulgences…approved by the authority of the sacred councils, should be kept in the Church and condemns as
an anathema those who say that indulgences are useless, or that the Church does not have the power to grant them.” At a Call to Action meeting he said that the old Church had to hurry up and die so that the new one could be born. Based on that statement, it would seem he believes that the real Catholic Church did not exists until recent times, despite Our Lord’s saying to Simon Bar-Jona, “THOU ART PETER, AND UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.”
Fr. Richard Rohr:
At the March 1997 New Ways Ministry Symposium, he described his retreats at the Center for Action and Contemplation which are for men only, he describes them as involving the participants removal of clothing and touching one another in sensitive areas. (wounded areas, Fr. Rohr calls these.) Fr. Rohr was reprimanded by Archbishop Sheehan for co-presiding with Fr. Robinson at the “wedding” of a lesbian couple.
Dr. Diana Hayes:
“The Master’s tools will never dismantle the Master’s house; dismantling of the entire house is needed, from within and without, using tools of our own creation” was her keynote address to the Women’s Ordination Committee, November, 1995.
Kathleen Chesto:
At the 1994 Congress, she told her audience she has rejected the All-Good, All-Powerful, All-Loving God of Catholic teaching. Instead she proposes a limited process god who suffers with people but cannot help them.
THIS IS JUST A PARTIAL LIST, SPACE DOESN’T ALLOW A COMPLETE LIST
Ask yourself a question. Why is it that even token orthodox Catholic speakers such as Dr. Peter Kreeft, Dr. Janet Smith, Fr. Benedict Groeschel, Dr. Dolores Grier, etc. are hardly ever, if ever invited back to speak at this Congress, while dissenters are almost always invited back time and time again
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