Month: June 2013

If Catholics could decide morality with a vote . . .

. . . Rome would bend on same-sex marriage etc. Yes, but.

A survey released recently has shown proof that the everyday Catholics in America actually accept marriage equality and equal rights for LGBT people more than any other branch of Christianity in the US, while the Roman Catholic hierarchy continues to be rabidly against marriage equality. [Italics
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Sez who? Link (from GLAAD-affiliated San Diego Gay & Lesbian News) is to GLAAD (was Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation until bisexuals and transgenderites said what about us? now glad to be just GLAAD), but that’s a page-not-found site. So we must ask, sez who?

For sake of argument, however, who thinks Catholic morality is a matter of plebiscite?

–>”Ballots found in back of church, people; fill yours out and put it in the box; we’ll have the results in a week or so.”<–

And if favorable to abolition of sexual morality restrictions in this matter, yahoo! New rules! (Sing “Happy Days are here again,” loudly.)

Media dishonesty

For people who once prided themselves on equal opportunity, in this case for news coverage, our mainstreamers manage to look unrecognizable to those with honesty in mind.

For instance, Dennis Byrne on same-sex marriage:

A Pew Research Center study found that media coverage is heavily skewed (by 5-t0-1) in favor of same sex marriage marriage–to no one’s surprise except, of course, much of the media. In a fight [flight?] of bashfulness, some media ignored the news.

It began many years ago, with regards to another hot-button issue, black crime, as in my book Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968, page 180:

. . . . At [St.] Ignatius [as a young priest] . . . . I wrote on the summer’s civil rights agitation [tagging] along with a Newsweek intern whom bureau chief Hal Bruno introduced me to. I’d got to know Bruno through my brother Paul, who headed the Chicago ad office. . . . .

Bruno was a good guy. It was fun sitting in his office talking about the job he was doing. They had done a major story on crime in the cities but had to wait for a cover picture showing a white criminal. It took a while, and the story was put on hold. Bruno did not sympathize with this 1965 correctness, but the news industry was already minding its p’s and q’s in that matter. Dishonesty was replacing hostility to blacks, then still “colored” or “Negroes,” of course. . . .

A fuller treatment of the problem may be found in William McGowan’s Coloring the News; how crusading for diversity has corrupted American journalism.

From evil good can come, even from bad hymns

How to Recycle the Worst Hymns in the Church | Bad Catholic’s Bingo Hall.

Provocative opening ‘graph:

Theologians of divine providence such as Jean-Pierre de Caussade have speculated that the permissive will of God allows great evils to occur to plant the seeds of some greater good.

To further that end, we’d like to propose some wholesome uses for some of these musical productions of the post-conciliar liturgical renewal and the Oregon Catholic Press.