Kristof and the Catholic Church
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: Kristof and the Catholic Church
Date: May 27, 2010 9:25 AM
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Okay, I think it is become they're
dumb and don't know the theology (and
the revelations of saints), but the
Catholic priests in America simply
never convey this theology-behind-the-
dogma to us'n plebes. A sign of the end
times and a sign of the Evil One is the
diminution of the value of human life,
often/mostly through desensitizing us.
As an example, homos-in-our-faces
(and not in the closet) desensitize us
to perversions. It apparently desensitized
the priests in training, too, resulting in
the pedophilia epidemic. [This was all
a result and the intent of Vatican II by
the psychiatric modernists perverts:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PSYCHIA_SATANISM.htm
*as revealed*:
http://www.tldm.org/news4/warningsfrombeyond.2of3.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/FATIMA_VATICAN2_CONFUSION_APOSTASY.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/EXORCISMS.htm
(Catherine ^^Emmerich, for example)
However, a better comparative position
than the ones used by Kristof below
would be this:
"Novak did not succeed in convincing Church leaders-in fact, some
commentators reflected that his efforts might have had the opposite
effect. Novak's credibility in this argument was perhaps under-mined
by his employment at the American Enterprise Institute, heavily funded
by oil companies, some of whom began advertising in the Houston
Chronicle for em-ployees to work in Iraq even before the war began.
Administration officials denied for months that the goal of the war on
Iraq was related to oil. On June 4, 2003, however, The Guardian
reported the words of the U.S. deputy defense secretary, Paul
Wolfowitz (one of the major architects of the war). Wolfowitz had
earlier commented that the urgent reason given for the war, weapons of
mass destruction, was only a "bureaucratic excuse" for war. Now, at an
Asian security summit in Singapore he has declared openly that the
real reason for the war was oil: "Asked why a nuclear power such as
North Korea was being treated differently from Iraq, where hardly any
weapons of mass destruction had been found, the deputy defense
minister said: "Let's look at it simply. The most important difference
between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no
choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil."
http://www.cjd.org/paper/jp2war.html
The millions of people we killed for
their oil is an example of the devaluing
of Iraqi or Arab human lives for oil.
Or, the use of Czech children as vaccine
guinea pigs:
http://www.actionlyme.org/UCONNS_ABUSE_OF_CZECH_CHILDREN.htm
Or, duh CT DCF kidnapping children to
hand over to Yale, Tom McGlashan and
Patricia Leebens to perform psychotropics
experiments for BigPharma:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DIABOLICAL_PERVERSION_PSYCHOANALYSIS.htm
Or Yale stating that Sex Cures All Diseases
and that no one with a tick bite and
the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
should even have money to live on, much
less be treated towards wellness, and that
we should simply ignore children with
Lyme and congenital Lyme, altogether:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_JE_PERVERT.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
Or, since Yale patented a scientifically
valid test which detects 95% of all Lyme
http://www.actionlyme.org/SV_PPT_2_files/v3_document.htm
cases, Allen Steere went to Europe to
come up with a "case definition" for the
case that needs no treatment:
http://www.actionlyme.org/STEERE_IN_EUROPE.htm
THOSE ^^^ are better examples of the dogma
of the Catholic Church as *not* revealed to
the local priests who might otherwise then reveal
it to the commoners... who might then have a
clearer understanding of what we're supposed to be
doing.
If they don't - and they didn't - we'd be left to the
wolves who tell us "Sex Cures All Diseases," and who
promote this dogma without any proof whatsoever.
UConn asked for a hospital, not a brothel:
http://www.actionlyme.org/UCONN_NO_HOSPITAL.htm
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/opinion/27kristof.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
Sister Margaret’s Choice
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
We finally have a case where the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy is
responding forcefully and speedily to allegations of wrongdoing.
But the target isn’t a pedophile priest. Rather, it’s a nun who helped
save a woman’s life. Doctors describe her as saintly.
The excommunication of Sister Margaret McBride in Phoenix underscores
all that to me feels morally obtuse about the church hierarchy. I hope
that a public outcry can rectify this travesty.
Sister Margaret was a senior administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital in
Phoenix. A 27-year-old mother of four arrived late last year, in her
third month of pregnancy. According to local news reports and accounts
from the hospital and some of its staff members, the mother suffered
from a serious complication called pulmonary hypertension. That
created a high probability that the strain of continuing pregnancy
would kill her.
“In this tragic case, the treatment necessary to save the mother’s
life required the termination of an 11-week pregnancy,” the hospital
said in a statement. “This decision was made after consultation with
the patient, her family, her physicians, and in consultation with the
Ethics Committee.”
Sister Margaret was a member of that committee. She declined to
discuss the episode with me, but the bishop of Phoenix, Thomas
Olmstead, ruled that Sister Margaret was “automatically
excommunicated” because she assented to an abortion.
“The mother’s life cannot be preferred over the child’s,” the bishop’s
communication office elaborated in a statement.
Let us just note that the Roman Catholic hierarchy suspended priests
who abused children and in some cases defrocked them but did not
normally excommunicate them, so they remained able to take the
sacrament.
Since the excommunication, Sister Margaret has left her post as vice
president and is no longer listed as one of the hospital executives on
its Web site. The hospital told me that she had resigned “at the
bishop’s request” but is still working elsewhere at the hospital.
I heard about Sister Margaret from an acquaintance who is a doctor at
the hospital. After what happened to Sister Margaret, he doesn’t dare
be named, but he sent an e-mail to his friends lamenting the
excommunication of “a saintly nun”:
“She is a kind, soft-spoken, humble, caring, spiritual woman whose
spot in Heaven was reserved years ago,” he said in the e-mail message.
“The idea that she could be ex-communicated after decades of service
to the Church and humanity literally makes me nauseated.”
“True Christians, like Sister Margaret, understand that real life is
full of difficult moral decisions and pray that they make the right
decision in the context of Christ’s teachings. Only a group of
detached, pampered men in gilded robes on a balcony high above the
rest of us could deny these dilemmas.”
A statement from the bishop’s office did not dispute that the mother’s
life was in danger — although it did note that no doctor’s prediction
is 100 percent certain. The implication is that the church would have
preferred for the hospital to let nature take its course.
The Roman Catholic hierarchy is entitled to its views. But the episode
reinforces perceptions of church leaders as rigid, dogmatic, out of
touch — and very suspicious of independent-minded American nuns.
Sister Margaret made a difficult judgment in an emergency, saved a
life and then was punished and humiliated by a lightning bolt from a
bishop who spent 16 years living in Rome and who has devoted far less
time to serving the downtrodden than Sister Margaret. Compare their
two biographies, and Sister Margaret’s looks much more like Jesus’s
than the bishop’s does.
“Everyone I know considers Sister Margaret to be the moral conscience
of the hospital,” Dr. John Garvie, chief of gastroenterology at St.
Joseph’s Hospital, wrote in a letter to the editor to The Arizona
Republic. “She works tirelessly and selflessly as the living example
and champion of compassionate, appropriate care for the sick and
dying.”
Dr. Garvie later told me in an e-mail message that “saintly” was the
right word for Sister Margaret and added: “Sister was the ‘living
embodiment of God’ in our building. She always made sure we understood
that we’re here to help the less fortunate. We really have no one to
take her place.”
I’ve written several times about the gulf between Roman Catholic
leaders at the top and the nuns, priests and laity who often live the
Sermon on the Mount at the grass roots. They represent the great soul
of the church, which isn’t about vestments but selflessness.
When a hierarchy of mostly aging men pounce on and excommunicate a
revered nun who was merely trying to save a mother’s life, the church
seems to me almost as out of touch as it was in the cruel and
debauched days of the Borgias in the Renaissance.
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