A Kennedy Lectures The Pope on Catholicism

Has any single family done more to damage the cause of Catholicism in America than the Kennedy clan?

Let's see... Bobby and JFK, married men, taking turns with Marilyn Monroe. Fat Teddy killing a woman. He couldn't help it, he was drunk at the time, and he was too busy saving his political career to save her life. Then there was that inbred retard nephew (Kennedy Scion, I think the press called him) who killed a girl by bashing her brains in with a golf club...

Now comes Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to carry on the family tradition. This time, it's just words, no sleazy sex or lurid murders. She must be one of the classier ones.

Townsend stupidly declares in Newsweak magazine:

"Barack Obama represents American Catholics better than The Pope does."

This statement itself is nonsense, since Catholics do not believe The Pope represents them. They believe he represents Christ here on earth. As such, he is the guardian of what Jesus passed on to the disciples, charged with the duty of faithfully teaching those under his care.

She goes on to excoriate the church for stubbornly refusing to cave in to popular opinion on women priests and gay marriage. Obama is soooo much more enlightened!

Here's my favorite excerpt from her article. Talk about a tangled up ball of illogic:

Yet polls bear out that American Catholics do not want to be told by the Vatican how to think. Despite the rhetoric of love and truth, the Vatican shows disdain (if not disgust) toward gays. But 54 percent of American Catholics find gay relationships to be morally acceptable, according to a 2009 Gallup poll.

Why be Catholic (or any religion) when you disagree with the basic tenets? Are they crazy? You "don't want to be told what to think" by The Vatican? Then stop listening! This is America! You won't have your toenails pulled out by Torquemada for denying the faith.

Even more ridiculous is her proposition that religious leaders should rewrite church doctrine and basic moral beliefs based on public opinion. This is just new-age self-worship.

The Catholic Church believes it is carrying out the true teachings of Christ as passed down through the ages from The Lord Himself, through Peter and his successors to the present-day leaders. They believe themselves to be the faithful guardians of this deposit of faith.

This is a grave duty, and anyone so charged who attempted to modify God's law would surely burn in hell. Bishops on such an existentially important mission will not be swayed by random new-age blather from left-wing kooks in the US.

Can we stop referring to the Kennedy's as "American Royalty?" They're looking more like court jesters.

MRC - Matthew Balan
NewsWeak -Another Kennedy Blatherskate

The Pontiff & The Supermodel

According to The Telegraph, First Lady of France Carla Bruni has taken the Pope to task over his stubborn, rigid, ultra-conservative stand on contraception. How dare he not sway with the winds of popular opinion!

The Italian-born former supermodel risked angering believers in France and beyond by declaring that the Pontiff's proclamations showed that the Church needed to "evolve".

In March, the Pope sparked controversy while on an Africa tour by saying that the AIDs pandemic which has crippled the continent "can't be resolved with the distribution of condoms; on the contrary, there is the risk of increasing the problem".

Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy said: "I was born Catholic, I was baptised, but in my life I feel profoundly secular.

"I find that the controversy coming from the Pope's message – albeit distorted by the media – is very damaging.

"In Africa it's often Church people who look after sick people. It's astonishing to see the difference between the theory and the reality.

"I think the Church should evolve on this issue. It presents the condom as a contraceptive which, incidentally, it forbids, although it is the only existing protection," she told Femme Actuelle, the women's magazine.

A French Catholic (is that an oxymoron?) currently pulling duty as Sarko's third wife is standing on a very rickety podium from which to criticize the leader of the Catholic Church. How can a human being "evolve" the law of God, anyway?

I will agree with her on the point concerning AIDS and condoms. If people are already engaging in immoral behavior, it's futile to proscribe condom use. That's like telling a bank robber to not light up during the crime because state law prohibits smoking in public buildings.

Society is increasingly hostile to religious messages. We don't like being told what to do. I admire Pope Benedict, Rev Billy Graham, Rabbi Boteach, and any other religious leader who speaks God's truth regardless of its popularity. When's the last time you heard anyone criticize Eminem's morality?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5345389/Carla-Bruni-criticises-Pope-Benedict-XVI.html