A Fort Wayne Story in the Baltimore Sun...
From baltimoresun.com - Speaker Uninvited for Abortion Comments:
"The University of St. Francis has told former ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman that it no longer wants her as commencement speaker because of comments she made about abortion seven years ago.
In a letter faxed Tuesday to Snyderman, the Roman Catholic university's president cited comments Snyderman made on ABC's 'Good Morning America' in 1997 as its reason for rescinding her invitation to speak Saturday to the graduating class."
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
50,000 Expected To Greet Medjugordje Visionary in Alabama
From nbc13.com - News - More Than 50,000 Expected At Lunetti Visit:
" A woman who claims to see apparitions of the Virgin Mary and who has attracted thousands of people to a field in Shelby County, is coming back to Alabama.
In previous visits, an estimated 50,000 people turned out to pray with Marija Lunetti off County Road 43. With the Bruno's golf event going on just a few miles away this weekend, many businesses on Highway 280 are anticipating doing banner business.
Lunetti is returning to Caritas of Birmingham for her first public visit there in three years.
'There is an excitement, a joy, an anticipation we didn't feel in '99, so it could be very big,' said Ruth McDonald, of Caritas.
Lunetti claims to be one of six people who started seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, more than 20 years ago. She came to Birmingham to donate a kidney to her brother in 1988 and had a vision here. Since then, she's visited every few years, with the largest crowd gathering in 1999.
With six months advance notice of this upcoming visit, Caritas officials have sent out 80,000 packets of information. They believe crowds could top 50,000 this week.
'Right now, we average three to five people on our phones at all times,' McDonald said."
" A woman who claims to see apparitions of the Virgin Mary and who has attracted thousands of people to a field in Shelby County, is coming back to Alabama.
In previous visits, an estimated 50,000 people turned out to pray with Marija Lunetti off County Road 43. With the Bruno's golf event going on just a few miles away this weekend, many businesses on Highway 280 are anticipating doing banner business.
Lunetti is returning to Caritas of Birmingham for her first public visit there in three years.
'There is an excitement, a joy, an anticipation we didn't feel in '99, so it could be very big,' said Ruth McDonald, of Caritas.
Lunetti claims to be one of six people who started seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, more than 20 years ago. She came to Birmingham to donate a kidney to her brother in 1988 and had a vision here. Since then, she's visited every few years, with the largest crowd gathering in 1999.
With six months advance notice of this upcoming visit, Caritas officials have sent out 80,000 packets of information. They believe crowds could top 50,000 this week.
'Right now, we average three to five people on our phones at all times,' McDonald said."
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Amy in The Tennessean
See More books on market set out to debunk 'Da Vinci Code' - Saturday, 04/24/04:
"A Vanderbilt University graduate, Amy Wellborn, has also written De-Coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of the Da Vinci Code."
"A Vanderbilt University graduate, Amy Wellborn, has also written De-Coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of the Da Vinci Code."
Dan Brown, Theologian
Amy on Belief.net...Dan Brown, Theologian -- Beliefnet.com: "Dan Brown, Theologian
People who take The Da Vinci Code's claims seriously need to crack open a Good Book. "
People who take The Da Vinci Code's claims seriously need to crack open a Good Book. "
Satanic Worship Involved in Murder of Nun by Priest
The article below specifies "bizarre rituals", CBS news did a story on this last night and reported that it was a "satanic ritual".
FromOhio News Network:
"Authorities say they decided to re-examine the case after a woman accused Roman Catholic priests of sexually abusing her during bizarre rituals.
The 66-year-old Robinson wore a brown jail jumpsuit and stood silently during the hearing, his arms at his sides and hands folded.
A preliminary hearing is set for next Monday. "
FromOhio News Network:
"Authorities say they decided to re-examine the case after a woman accused Roman Catholic priests of sexually abusing her during bizarre rituals.
The 66-year-old Robinson wore a brown jail jumpsuit and stood silently during the hearing, his arms at his sides and hands folded.
A preliminary hearing is set for next Monday. "
Monday, April 26, 2004
Cardinal Speaking for the Pope
I'm in Ohio and they are running Kerry ads almost non-stop.
From Cardinal's Communion ban backed:
"Cardinal Francis Arinze, a top Vatican official who said Friday that Roman Catholic lawmakers who support abortion rights should not receive Holy Communion, was speaking for the pope, local Catholic leaders said yesterday.
'He is the highest-ranking person in the whole chain under the pope with regard to the sacraments,' said the Rev. Joseph Koterski, head of the philosophy department at Fordham University.
Pope John Paul II said virtually the same thing in an encyclical fairly recently, he added.
'You can be confident that he is speaking also for the pope' and about Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Jack Healey of Bronxville, the retired director of the Archbishop Hughes Institute for Religion and Culture at Fordham.
'This has been bothering the bishops and it has obviously been bothering the Vatican that Catholic politicians are responding to the 'American situation' and not trying to impose Catholic understanding of abortion and human life. I think it will be a storm in the church,' he said. 'Short-lived.'' "
From Cardinal's Communion ban backed:
"Cardinal Francis Arinze, a top Vatican official who said Friday that Roman Catholic lawmakers who support abortion rights should not receive Holy Communion, was speaking for the pope, local Catholic leaders said yesterday.
'He is the highest-ranking person in the whole chain under the pope with regard to the sacraments,' said the Rev. Joseph Koterski, head of the philosophy department at Fordham University.
Pope John Paul II said virtually the same thing in an encyclical fairly recently, he added.
'You can be confident that he is speaking also for the pope' and about Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Jack Healey of Bronxville, the retired director of the Archbishop Hughes Institute for Religion and Culture at Fordham.
'This has been bothering the bishops and it has obviously been bothering the Vatican that Catholic politicians are responding to the 'American situation' and not trying to impose Catholic understanding of abortion and human life. I think it will be a storm in the church,' he said. 'Short-lived.'' "
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