The Catholics for Choice or otherwise known as Catholics for a Free Choice intruded on a worldwide Catholic Youth event in Cologne. They object to the contraceptive position of their Leadership and, for that matter, the entire tradition of "their" Church. Not only do they set up shop in defiance of Leadership and at a world Catholic event, they attempt to subvert leadership by having Bishops throughout the world sign a document that has every appearance of looking snow white and smelling of flowers. But they use it subversively.
The document doesn't go by a singular name but is identified by Catholic Choice as "The Millenium Development Goals" and was approved by the United Nations. Of course, it would not be the intent of the United Nations to openly antagonize the Catholic Church within their goals for the world but it is the intent of this subversive Catholic group to do just that. So they twist the intent of the document to meet their objectives and in the process spread their chaos and hate.

But Catholics for Choice isn't really about abortion rights. They are simply anti-Catholic. They want and expect the New Pope to follow their feminist agenda.

On their website they list their expectations: First he needs to meet with survivors of clergy sex abuse and while touring those locations listen and apologize repeatedly, lift the "ban on condoms" (as if faithful Catholics don't have free choice), remove the men in 25% of the Vatican senior positions and appoint women of any qualification (apparently), move toward optional celebacy by integrating currently married "priests" into official ministries, allow divorced members to receive the Eucharist, celebrate the Eucharist with married priests and advocates of the ordination of women. And they wanted the Pope to do all of this in the first 100 days of his life long term. They are not idiots but their agenda is quite different than what they let on. They are hedonists, however. They have reported offense that the Pope "exhorted the bishops to fight against secularism, gay marriage, contraceptive mentality and abortion... and insinuated (?) itself into the political workings of individual states to influence outcomes." They speak as if they had a contract with the new pope. Instead of focusing on what the group wanted, he had the audacity to speak to issues of sexual morality. The Choice group, I guess, doesn't want that to be one of the choices.
I am neither a Catholic, nor have I ever been. I have great respect for men and women of faith who have an integrity that will not buckle. Likewise, there is much to be said in favor for leaders who will not be extorted. The Catholic Church if it is to continue to have integrity will never accept abortion of any kind because the advocates of abortion according to the Pope "end by losing their own identity." I can certainly agree with that. It would seem that Catholics for Choice through their hateful actions has confirmed the Pope's conclusions.
It is not difficult to understand from scriptures that the apostles of old taught principles consistant with some of the sentiments of the Catholic Church....... at least the bulk of issues that so offend this unmasked empty anti-Catholic group.
As for me, I believe everyone should be able to worship whatever they want without someone else coming into their place of worship for the purpose of subversion.

But we let the dead bury the dead. I'm just here to share what's going on out there.

Excerpts from today's Christianity Today with my comments:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/008/13.31.html

"The Protestant reformers named three marks by which the true church is known: the preaching of the pure doctrine of the gospel, the pure administration of the sacraments, and the exercise of church discipline to correct faults." ---So much for what the reformers believed! Today, Protestant leaders teach just the opposite: that church discipline is the mark of a false church. Just a bad memory I guess..--------------------------------------Who killed church discipline? The article tells us that the megachurch can't keep track of membership, let alone members' personal lives. Explaining in such a church you can't be sure of the members, as opposed to "church-hoppers or perennial visitors", and other "free-floating Christians without accountability." The article implicates others as well: "Despite the efforts of responsible evangelists from John Wesley to Billy Graham" converts accept salvation at some stadium and only secondarily get to a church. This teaches the new convert that "salvation is separate from accountable membership in a congregation"....The real killer of church discipline today is none other than the early reformers. Surprise, surprise. That's right, the same guys who couldn't find the true church of their day, so they did their best to create it. "Luther, for example, never instituted an order for church discipline, saying that if the state did its job of dealing with offenders, the church wouldn't need to. Calvin used the authority of the state to deal with both morals in Geneva and the doctrinal heresies of Michael Servetus"...Three generations ago, some evangelicals still possessed a moral code worth standing up for. "In conflict with liberals or "modernists," many evangelicals withdrew from mainline churches. --------------------------------------------------
The article concludes "It doesn't make much sense to bring people into Christ's way in the first place if the church then fails to make every effort consistent with the gospel to bring back into Christ's way those who are straying from it." Dah! That is the very kind way of saying that the orthodox Christian Church...every one of them.....have lost the way. And their membership with them!
It is societal mores and practices that rule the pulpit, rather than the teaching and later holding members accountable to Scripture (especially that of the New Testament). This is moral laziness and a clear indication of the loss of divine authority. For all of you getting the hardcopy of the magazine: Copyright © 2005 Christianity Today..August 2005, Vol. 49, No. 8, Page 31

Truth is more disgusting than fiction

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/144/22.0.html

The Anglicans pretend to be seriously wounded by allowing their own whoredoms. I'll be breaking up this article with my own comments with brackets:

Christianity Today magazine begins the article:"
Some 103 top Anglicans, amid tight security and a media blackout, gathered last week on Egypt's Red Sea coast for the third Global South to South Encounter to address disunity in the 75-million-member Anglican Communion, the world's largest and one of the most influential Protestant bodies.--------[LOL - So much for an open forum - One is left to wonder if the bulk of the 75 million are aware they are Anglican]

"Gay ordinations, same-sex unions, and acceptance of the homosexual bishop, V. Gene Robinson, have sharply increased tensions among Anglicans worldwide. Talk of schism is no longer speculation." [And we probably have some of our own blogging ministers that can provide scriptures in support, sneaking up behind us, as it were.)

"The world's leading Anglican, Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, joined the conference for a day. He gave little or no open encouragement to conservatives that the Episcopal Church (USA), the Anglican Church of Canada, or any other Anglican province would face meaningful penalties for participating in gay ordinations, same-sex unions, or the consecration of Robinson as bishop."

[Hello!?!?! This is the Episcopal Churches of North America defending profound sexual deviancy as, suddenly now, sanctified behavior. And worse, the Mother Church shows itself accomplices. Is this the direction the rest of my North American Orthodox Christian latte lovers are going? Heck, you wouldn't know if they surprise you from behind. The leadership meetings are closed for YOUR own good. When they are done with their revisioning, you become an accomplice with them. ]

"After five days of meetings, the group issued an eight-page statement, in which the delegates said:

"Our own Anglican Communion sadly continues to be weakened by unchecked revisionist teaching and practices, which undermine the divine authority of Scripture. The Anglican Communion is severely wounded by the witness of errant principles of faith and practice which in many parts of our communion have adversely affected our efforts to take the gospel to those in need of God's redeeming and saving love." [Butt we're just gonna be quiet about the weird in our family, After all we're all pretending at authority anyway. Nobody respects any of it.]

The delegates made the following commitments

"We express full confidence in the supremacy and clarity of Scripture and pledge full obedience to the whole counsel of God's Word. We in the Global South endorse the concept of an Anglican Covenant (mooted in the Windsor Report) and commit ourselves as full partners in the process of its formulation. We are seeking a covenant that is rooted in historic faith and formularies and that provides a biblical foundation for our life, ministry, and mission as a communion."

"We reject the expectation that our lives in Christ should conform to the misguided theological, cultural, and sociological norms associated with sections of the West."

[BUT THEY WILL DO NOTHING. We have American Episcopalians who have held a "service of consecration" at the National Cathedral in Washington for the gay religious community and want everyone to watch how they reform Christianity. They are reforming without scripture and Mother is taking it just like a corrupt mother would.]

"The Episcopal Church (USA) intends to send a signal that they are going in a certain direction and will not turn back," Noll said. "It confirms our sad realization that the Episcopal Church as it is now constituted is unreformable. It is a sad day to see your own birth mother fall away."-------------

Early Christians understood that only the actions of lawfully-ordained priesthood holders were valid. Ignatius, the second bishop of Antioch, writes to the Church of Smyrna that no baptism is legitimate lacking the bishop’s consent: “It is not right either to baptize or to celebrate the agape apart from the bishop; but whatever he approves is also pleasing to God--so that everything you do may be secure and valid.” He continues: “He who is within the sanctuary is pure; he who is outside the sanctuary is not pure -- that is, whoever does anything apart from the bishop and the presbytery and the deacons is not pure in conscience.” Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, stated that “it is incumbent to obey the presbyters who are in the Church” and referred to the “the order of the priesthood.” Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, affirmed that “Only they who are set over the Church and established in the Gospel law, and in the ordinance of the Lord, are allowed to baptize and to give remission of sins [cf. John 20:21-23]; but that without, nothing can either be bound or loosed, where there is none who can either bind or loose anything. Nor do we propose this, dearest brother, without the authority of divine Scripture, when we say that all things are arranged by divine direction by a certain law and by special ordinance, and that none can usurp to himself, in opposition to the bishop and priests, anything which is not of his own right and power." Cyprian refers to "the office of our priesthood"; "the vigor of the priesthood"; "hands were placed upon the repentant by the bishops and clergy"; "the Church is founded upon the bishops, and every act of the Church is controlled by these same rulers"; "it behooves the deacon . . . to acknowledge the honor of the priest, and to satisfy the bishop set over him with full humility."

News will be arriving this Sunday at your local church that there have been too much contention between Christian believers concerning what is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our religious leaders have gathered and fearing, they say, that the Hoopleheads will begin to riot over their differences, the following edict has come down: Revelations is too far out of character with the bulk of the other sacred works. It is being taken from the canon. Likewise, Paul is over represented so the Corinthian letters and Ephesians have been seen as most redundant. But most of the venim came against the Book of James with his comments on works; the men of the cloth saying it was a mistake having included him from the beginning. Both Proverbs and Psalms are out of step with what real Christians are doing in their worship services. A smaller set of scriptures should be greater comfort to carry for a younger congregation who don't normally bring scriptures. A new level of Good News has arrived. Its about time we did this again. How long has it been? Certainly a thousand plus years. Now it'll be easy to defend the faith when more of us believe less of it.