Catholic Fire

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. NEW YORK, February 5 (C-FAM) The Vatican accused a UN committee of interfering with Church doctrine and violating religious freedom after it was asked to change its teaching on abortion and homosexuality. The Church should change its teaching on abortion, according to a UN committee that monitors the rights of children. The Church should no longer automatically excommunicate those who perform or assist in the performance of an abortion, the UN experts said in observations published Wednesday following a year-long review of the Vatican’s child protection practices. Church teaching on marriage and sexuality should also change according to the observations, because it prevents adolescents from accessing contraception. In addition the experts said Church teaching on homosexuality contributes to “social stigmatization and violence” against homosexual adolescents and children raised by same-sex couples. The Vatican immediately issued a press release say...

LifeSiteNews Managing Director Steve Jalsevac interviews Dr. Peter Kreeft. This interview took place June 8, 2013 while Dr. Kreeft was in Toronto on a speaking engagement for Catholic Chapter House.

Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, has sent a letter to the bishops of the world with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI reaffirming the norms established by the Congregation for Catholic Education in the 2005 document, “Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocation with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders,” as universal and without exceptions. In the brief “Rescriptum ex audientia” –a written response to various queries—Cardinal Bertone said the norms establishing the selection of candidates to the priesthood are valid “for all houses of formation for the priesthood, including those under the Dicasteries for Eastern Churches, for the Evangelization of Peoples, and for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.” The letter, which Cardinal Bertone said was issued in response “to numerous requests for clarification,” implies that the prohibition against...

The Chicago Board of Education is being sued after a 12-year-old girl was shown the movie Brokeback Mountain in class--the film depicts a homosexual affair between two cowboys and contains graphic scenes of homosexual sex . I can hardly believe that anyone in a position of authority would display such poor judgement, and lack of commonsense as this teacher did by showing a sexually perverted film like this to a 12 - year - old child. What motivated her to do this? No, don't tell me, let me guess. You don't suppose Planned Parenthood had anything to do with it? To express concerns to the IL State Board of Education contact: http://webprod1.isbe.net/contactisbe/

GENOA, Italy, April 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Genoa’s Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, president of the Italian bishops’ conference, has been placed under police protection after homosexual activists spray-painted death threats against the senior church official across the city, the BBC reported April 10. Archbishop Bagnasco recently issued a strongly-worded condemnation of the government’s proposal to give legal rights to unmarried couples in civil unions, including homosexual pairs. “Why not say no to various forms of living together, to the creating of alternative forms of the family?” Archbishop Bagnasco said, warning that legalization of homosexual unions would make it difficult to prevent the further breakdown of family life and sexual morality, reported Spero News. “Why not say no to the incest of a brother and a sister who live together and have children in Great Britain? Why not say no to the party of pederasts in Holland?” Following his remarks, “Shame on you, Bagnasco” was sc...

Officials at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Illinois are forcing 14-year-old freshmen to sign a confidentiality agreement saying they will not tell anyone, not even their parents, what they are taught in a pro-homosexual sensitivity training seminar . Martha Kleder spoke with Laura-Sue Hauser, head of North Shore Student Advocacy, a group of concerned area parents, and Matt Barber, CWA’s Policy Director for Cultural Issues. Listen Download Via CWA. This is a violation of IL state law and civil rights and if I were a parent of a student at that school, they would defintely be hearing from both me and my attorney. I would also mobilize other parents to act, just as the parents in this situation are doing. You can't give a student aspirin for a headache in the schools without parental permission. This is also a violation of student rights - to be subjected and indoctrinated into the homosexual life style and to be forced to sign a "contract" of this nature. No one can...

Now I know why I am so grateful to God for relocating us in Kansas rather than California when my husband was job-hunting a couple of years ago. It seems that in the state of California - more specifically, San Francisco, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that city employers can completely censor the terms "natural family," "marriage" and "family values" as hate speech . Hate speech? You've got to be kidding! Is there a distortion of the truth here or what? These are sacred words - hate speech?!!! I must be missing something here. I can hardly believe that in this Christian nation of ours that anything like this could ever happen. The 2003 lawsuit by Rederford and Christy claimed the city's anti-discrimination policy "promotes homosexuality" and "openly denounces Christian values." When I was in grade school, we learned about Communism and how evil it was. We read comic books that explained that Commun...