This week we begin a new format, by which during the week we will be adding / archiving the week’s news stories.
Check from time-to-time during the week to see if new stories have been added.
Catholic Relief Services pro-abortion grantee wins UN Population Fund Award
BALTIMORE, MD, April 17, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) by Kirsten Andersen – A pro-abortion grantee of Catholic Relief Services has been announced as the winner of the 2014 United Nations Population Award. The award is given to organizations that demonstrate outstanding effectiveness in population control efforts, including contraception, sterilization and abortion. The grantee, Jhpiego, is a non-profit health organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. According to CRS’ 990s for 2012, the U.S. bishops’ organization gave Jhpiego a grant of $282,356 that year for “health.” As part of their work, the group has spearheaded national campaigns in the developing world to promote the abortifacient morning-after pill….Catholic Relief Services has often been criticized for their partnerships with groups that violate Church teaching on grave spiritual matters, but the organization says on its website that it is willing to overlook the sinful actions of certain grant recipients in order to fund the good work that they do. For example, grants given to the pro-abortion group CARE International were earmarked for agriculture, emergencies and general welfare, and were not supposed to be used for family planning.
A report released by American Life League in September 2013 revealed that 86 percent of CRS’ grants to domestic groups in 2012 went to groups that promote contraceptives, in addition to, in some cases, other evils such as abortion, the abortifacient “morning-after pill,” and homosexuality. In 2013, the Catholic aid organization gave a $2.7 million grant to Population Services International, which markets a “Safe Abort Kit” in developing countries.
The Resignation of Mozilla’s CEO: Catholics Should Be Worried
“Now is the time for Catholics to express the truth about marriage boldly. Our jobs and our legitimate standing in the public sphere may soon depend on it.” Rome, Stephanie Pacheco, writer, blogger, speaker.
Zenit ran up the storm-warning flag on the happenings at Mozilla. The full story is here. Highlight: “The media storm swirls around Brendan Eich’s April 3 resignation as CEO from Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser. Eich is a talented programmer who invented the JavaScript programming language for the internet and who co-founded the Mozilla company. After fewer than two weeks as the company’s head, he was forced to resign over Silicon Valley furor regarding a $1,000 donation he made back in 2008 to California’s Proposition 8 law, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. To repeat, he was fired for holding unpopular— now socially forbidden—views. … Catholics should be up in arms, for at stake here is the freedom to work in a public capacity and hold orthodox views at the same time.
Pope to Seminarians: We Have Too Many ‘Half Priests’ Who Fail to Imitate Jesus
Vatican City,
Pope Francis to Seminarians: from regions around Rome, warn[ed] them that the Church has “many half priests” who fail to reach their potential because they are not “pastors in the image of Jesus.” The seminarians are members of the Pontifical Leonine College of Anagni, a regional seminary for several of the dioceses around the city of Rome. “We have so many, so many half way priests,” the Pope told the young men. “It is a sorrow, that they do not succeed in reaching the fullness. “They have something about them of employees, a bureaucratic dimension and this does no good to the Church. I advise you, be careful that you do not fall into this!” He continued, “You are becoming pastors in the image of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, to be like Him and in His person in the midst of his flock, to feed his sheep.”
Belgian intensive care doctors back involuntary euthanasia
April 14, 2014 by Michael Cook Involuntary euthanasia is acceptable medical treatment, according to a recent official statement by the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Although voluntary euthanasia is legal in Belgium under some circumstances, involuntary euthanasia is basically illegal. But the Society wants to be able to euthanize patients who do not appear to have long to live. “Shortening the dying process” is a euphemism for administering a lethal injection. Effectively the Society has declared itself to be above the law. The Society also says that intensive care doctors should inform relatives of a decision to euthanize a patient, but it does not instruct them to ask for the relatives’ permission. The policy applies to both adults and children. The statement concludes by reassuring intensive care doctors that what they are doing is “not be interpreted as killing ….”
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Why are Catholics in the pews still giving millions of dollars to CRS?
And, on a happier note than most of the news, did you catch the Michael Voris for Easter? http://www.churchmilitant.tv/daily/?today=2014-04-17
Hi Diane,
They do because the bishops, either are in cooperation with CRS, or are too timid to do anything.
And the people in the pews. I don’t think any news of this is disseminated to the average lay person. It’s the same with the CCHD. So much evil, cooperation with evil by the bishops, and little if any education of the laity. So the abuses continue.
I believe our own Bishop approves of CRS.