Bettnet.com - Musings From Domenico Bettinelli Jr.Catholic news and opinionDO NOT USE THIS PAGE ANY LONGER- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Bettnet has moved to a new page and I'm leaving this one here only for now. All new posts will be placed on the new page. All new comments should be posted there as well.http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5881 In the Forum: "Who owns the Church" from Catholic World Report, October 05- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Apropos of the entry I posted yesterday about the fight over the Polish parish in St. Louis, I have now posted in the Bettnet Forum an article from the October 2005 issue of Catholic World Report called "Who owns the Church" It's an examination of the...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5868 The Fifth Column inside the Church- (Found July 8, 2008 ) It is becoming more clear every day that whatever good work is done by diocesan ministries to homosexuals and lesbians that actually remain faithful to the Church's teachings, that good work is overwhelmed by those who only seek to undermine those teachings. The alternative Catholic newspaper San Francisco Faith had a correspondent at the latest annual meeting of the National Association...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5870 Denouncing Da Vinci Code- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The "new" news comes so quickly these days that if I don't blog on something right away it ages very quickly. This is something I set aside last week to blog on, but it got lost in the shuffle. During the first of a series of Advent meditations at the Vatican, <a href="http:www.cwnews.comnewsviewstory.cfmrecnum=41050" >Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the papal household, spent some time denouncing <em>The DaVinci...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5869 CWR, October 2005: "Who owns the Church"- (Found July 8, 2008 ) This article originally appeared in the October 2005 issue of Catholic World Report Who owns the Church By Thomas A. Szyszkiewicz With bishops closing parishes by the dozens in some US dioceses, while other bishops, facing massive lawsuits, claim parishes are not diocesan assets, the question of who owns...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/forum/forum.php?id=P5867 Boston College supports Church teaching, cancels gay dance- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Well, what do you know A Jesuit Catholic college stands up for the Church's teaching-- on homosexuality, no less!--and tells students they can't publicly defy that teaching with a university-sanctioned event. Of course, BC's own muddled approach to Church teaching leaves both sides equally unprepared for its decisions. No one knows...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5866 Schism forming in St. Louis- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The case of St. Stanislaus parish in St. Louis has taken a decidedly strange, but not wholly unexpected, turn. (I've written about this situation before: 1, 2, 3) In a nutshell, Archbishop Raymond...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5865 Eileen McNamara joins the parade of misleading facts- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Just so that last week's tiny blurb about female victims of clergy sex abuse complaining about the Instruction doesn't get lost in the shuffle, the Boston Globe's Eileen McNamara devotes her column to it. McNamara takes the same falsehoods...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5864 There's an online Menino petition- (Found July 8, 2008 ) For those of you who said you wished you could have signed the open letter to Boston Archbishop Sean O'Malley regarding the invitation of Mayor Tom Menino to be honored at a Catholic Charities dinner, and for anyone who would like to be heard on this, you can now sign and send an open letter to Menino asking him to withdraw from...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5863 Atheists just like to be mean jerks- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The thing about atheists is that are not content simply to ignore religion, but they usually actively attack it. I suppose they often believe that religious believers are responsible for most of the suffering in the world and that it's their duty to "save" the world from religion. Okay. Christians (and most religious people) also have a sense of mission about what they believe too. The difference is that <span style="color:FF0000;">atheists are often just mean...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5871 |