Absolutely fascinating account of the life of L. Ron Hubbard. I read almost all his books, never subscribed to his religion because I am a Christian. But I still found him fascinating and find this latest revelation about his life to be the definitive conclusion to his fantasy.
Tag: Pope Benedict
Christianity Promotes Science not Prevents it!!
An Answer to those who perpetuate the lie that religion and in particular, Christianity, are anti science.
Ace I will not answer such silliness except to say, read your history and realize that learning was carried over from Greek and Romans by the Christian monasteries, to include languages and mathematics. geology, archeology,botany, astronomy, etc. Second, Almost all major Universities in Europe, Asia, Africa, USA, indeed the world were founded by devout Christians, many of them Priests, Pastors or Evangelists. Third, the great scientists of the early discoveries were Christian monks, Pastors or Scholars to include Gregor Mendel the father of modern botany and plant genetics, Newton, the father of modern physics, Kepler and myriad others. The great hospitals and institutions of charity were founded by Christians to include the more secular ones such as the Red Cross, Boy and Girl scouts. The great abolitionists were Christians, as well as the Woman suffrage leaders. Note that the Civil rights movement was led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and the Reverend Dr. Ralph Abernathy, and the Rev. Fathers Berrigan were stanch anti-war protesters. So, Ace, please read your history, get enlightened and realize that you are merely repeating parrot like the mantra of ignorant anti religion and anti Christian bigots and those who promote anti religion intolerance.
Priest is not being Honest
Amazing to me that this former priest cannot honestly admit that his offense clearly was pointed out to him by his superiors. He says that he is bound by his conscience. Well, he also is bound by his conscience concerning his profession of vocation, his vows of ordination, and his profession of obedience to the Bishops, Archbishops and the Holy Father. Furthermore, his conscience is bound by his priestly position as a teacher of the official position of the Roman Catholic Church. His removal as a priest does not stop him from speaking, teaching or writing. It merely recognizes the fact that he has removed himself from any participation in the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. He did this by an action of his own free will and it would indicate his basic honesty to admit the fact and move on.
White Americans Versus White Americans
0users disliked this commentFrederick • 1 day 7 hrs ago
“We are in the midst of historic cultural and demographic changes,” What does that mean? And if it is true, how is President Obama the architect of cultural and demographic change? Surely, he is not the father of all those demographic people and he is not the author of their culture. Is this a reference to President Obama’s race? Isn’t that racist? Is it a reference to the Muslim influences on his life? Isn’t that also stereotyping and could be considered prejudice? Didn’t the father of modern racial attitudes say that we should judge a person by the content of their character and not the color of their skin? I am wondering how many media people see President Obama as a black man? Would MLK have preferred us to see Obama as a man who is is black? What does Obama himself want? Does he think of himself as a black man or a man who is black? Can a white person think of themselves as a white person or a person who is white and what’s the difference?
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M • 1 day 6 hrs ago
He is not their father but their representative. He is actually the architect because he is representing all of the different races and idealogies, instead of any other presidents who has only represented white christian bigots. And yes he is happened to be black.–Or is he?
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Sadly, you thing that White Christians are bigots. But that is the problems. White people are taught not to be proud that they are white and that they have a thousand plus years of illustrious history to include Christianity, Monasticism, the Universities, the hospitals, the Renaisance, the Enlightenment,Democracy, Industrial revolution, computer revolution, digital revolution and that white europeans are in the front of the latest innovations in every measurable field of human endeavor. But we are told to hand our heads down, and to stoop our shoulders and to recite the manta of Liberalism, namely, White and Christian is bad and black and Muslim is good.
Obama in His Own Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28 As I view this video I am concerned at why this information has been suppressed. Oh, Yes, I am able to get it on the Tube (at least for now) but it is not broadcast and this part of President Obama’s story has successfully be covered up. There is so much about the President that we do not know and this very troubling video indicates that his real agenda is much more influenced by “…my Islamic faith…” than it is by his love for America. At times, as I listened, I wondered if he had anything good to say about anybody other than Moslems and Islam. It would seem that Mr. Obama sees it as his duty to promote, extend and defend the religion of Islam as being, “…from the beginning of our nation…” a vital part of the development of Democracy and the Constitution. Is this some kind of academic dribble from Harvard? It may be it is that because the Harvard of today, founded and funded for two hundred years by Christian Congregationalists is already divided between the secular anti Christian University and the modernist revisionist liberal protestant Theological School. I would not be surprised if a student of the secular Harvard was taught that Islam and Moslems were as important, or even more important for the founding of Western European civilization and the same for the founding of the USA than our Judaeo Christian founders. At any rate, this is must watching for anyone who wants to know about President Obama in his own words. Yes, this is an edited video but the portions shown cannot be ignored or excused by a claim against the editors. After all, the words are Obama’s words and no one else’s. Judge for yourself, dare to watch the video. Is Obama lying to us about everything? For ther Bush haters, just remember how you regarded President Bush and ask if your judgements are not duplicitous?
Roman Catholic Church Largest Helping Organization
http://www.romereports.com/palio/aid-to-church-in-need-brings-in-100-million-dollars-in-2011-says-report-english-7252.html Amidst all the criticism of the actions of misguided priests, this larger picture is often overlooked, but it is not overlooked by the millions of people who get the help. It is happening everyday and overshadows the paltry work done by many mega political powers.
Caravaggio Discovery
http://www.romereports.com/palio/is-that-a-caravaggio-100-unpublished-drawings-could-be-the-work-of-the-late-artist-english-7230.html This one minute video shows some of the art work being expalined. Very Interesting.
Pope to visit Philadelphia 2015
s: What’s at stake in Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Philadelphia
Jun. 08, 2012
By David Gibson, Religion News Service
Pope Benedict XVI leaves his general audience Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Nearly lost amid ongoing reports about the Vatican leaks scandal, Rome’s battle with American nuns, the American bishops’ battle for religious freedom, and the priest on trial in Philadelphia, was the news that, by the way, Pope Benedict XVI plans to visit Philadelphia.
Benedict made the announcement at the end of his visit to Milan on Sunday for the church’s triennial World Meeting of Families. The next meeting would be in Philadelphia in 2015, he said, and he planned to be there, “God willing.”
True, the trip won’t happen until 2015, and it may well not happen at all — Benedict would be 88 by then. Even if there’s a new pope in 2015, the City of Brotherly Love is still almost assured of getting a papal visit — new popes like to underscore continuity, and respect the plans their predecessors had in place.
In a larger sense, the visit would be about more than promoting family life, and in many ways it’s related to other Catholic issues now dominating the headlines. Here’s why.
It’s practical
Benedict’s only other visit to the United States, in April 2008, was to New York and Washington. One might think that he would want to visit the South or West, where the Catholic flock is actually growing, and to give those folks there a chance to see the Holy Father.
But Philadelphia is on the Eastern seaboard, and about the closest point in the United States to Rome. That’s no small consideration for a pope who has never been terribly vigorous and who now suffers from a painful arthritis-like condition that drains his energy.
The pope likely will face intense lobbying from U.S. bishops who want him to visit their diocese, too. While papal aides will try to resist such entreaties, another logical stop would be Baltimore — the “mother church” of all U.S. dioceses — and now headed by Archbishop William Lori, who has no small amount of influence in the hierarchy these days.
It’s pastoral
Philadelphia’s Catholics have been rocked by years of increasingly horrific revelations about sexual abuse by clergy, and the former head of priest personnel, Monsignor William J. Lynn, is awaiting a jury’s verdict on whether he will be the first church official ever convicted for helping cover up for clergy molesters.
Moreover, the Philadelphia archdiocese — one of the most storied and solidly Catholic in the nation — faces an unprecedented wave of closures and mergers, as well as a sobering $12.3 million operating loss for the last fiscal year. Philadelphia’s new archbishop, Charles J. Chaput, warned that those money troubles would mean a significantly downsized event — a papal rally of just 60,000 to 80,000.
Chaput said Benedict still wanted to go because of what it could mean to the city’s Catholics. “Philadelphia is in the midst of a very difficult time and I hope that (the 2015 meeting) will be a way of celebrating our commitment to be a church of the new evangelization that looks forward to the future with confidence and joy,” Chaput said after he appeared with the pope in Milan.
It’s personal
Chaput has emerged in recent years as a leading champion of the Vatican’s “new evangelization” as he uses his bully pulpit to argue forcefully for a strong Catholic voice in the public square.
Chaput has also undertaken a number of sensitive missions for Rome: leading an investigation of an Australian bishop who was eventually sacked for his liberal views, and helping to clean up the conservative, scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ order. This visit is a papal pat on the back for Chaput.
Will the visit help Chaput earn a cardinal’s red hat? There are no guarantees, but retired Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali would be 80 in 2015, making Chaput eligible — and appealing.
It’s political
Even if the trip does not come off, the image of Benedict standing next to the Liberty Bell or other icons the city of America’s founding freedoms dovetail perfectly with the bishops’ campaign for religious freedom, which they say is threatened by government policies like the health insurance mandate for birth control coverage.
The bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom,” which runs June 21 to July 4, consciously tries to link the Catholic faith with the American founding, and the prospect of a papal visit to Philadelphia drives the point home.
“It’s fitting that this gathering, which celebrates the cornerstone of society, will take place in America’s cradle of freedom,” Chaput said.
Pray the Rosary daily with Pope Benedict xvi
http://us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=1382689498&action=showLetter&umid=2_0_0_1_23478741_AMANw0MAAN29T9UgIwhRVRhxHMM&box=Inbox In these our times of stress, uncertainty and turmoil, this is an invitation to meditation and prayer with the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic church. The writer of this blog is a Lutheran but he has found that praying the Rosary is a powerful method of focused spiritual prayer.
Belonging to an Organization on your own terms?
The Nuns agreed to belong to an organization ruled in a monarchial fashion by a top man and administered by his male agents. Their agreement to part of the Roman Catholic Church was not forced on them. It was part of their belief system. They trained not as Presbyterian or Lutheran Nuns but as Roman Catholic. They vowed faithfulness not to the magisterium of the Episcopal Church but to the Roman Catholic. That system has a very clearly defined and easily understood set of rules. These rules are not secret and they are not imposed on adherents by force. The key concept being that the Pope, his Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops are the teachers of the Roman Catholic church and that these persons are entrusted with the duty and responsibility to teach and to protect the universally accepted doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. When the Nuns and their leaders were accepted into the Order of the Church they willingly and publicly accepted this system, its procedures and the oversight of the Magisterial hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Now, in this last days, this magisterial hierarchy has examined the leadership of the Nuns and found it lacking. The Pope and his agents have conducted an open, transparent and public examination of the Leadership Conference and published its findings openly with a recommendation that the Leadership Conference accept a more direct management by a trio of bishops appointed by the President (Pope) of their organization. To this writer, the intention here is to right any wrongs and foster a more collegial decision-making process which by definition will be consonant with the Pope and the whole Church. In conclusion, this writer is not proposing that the Process, procedures or organizational structure of the Roman Catholic Church is the only right or good one. However, when a nun or any other person freely joins such an organization and additionally seeks to be a Nun- teacher of that organization then they should abide by the rules of oversight. Granted, that his Holiness and the bishops have invited a response, however, in the end, the nuns must decide if they will remain in the organization they love or chose to become members of one of the many Protestant organizations. However, it will be intellectually impossible to remain a Roman Catholic Nun in rebellion against the Church. Why? Because of their vows.
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