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Posts tagged "Catholic"

Trayvon Martin, NBA brutality and a Catholic bishop's words distorted

I tuned in to CNN on Friday to get the news. Saw Rodney King being interviewed. The host asked: Do you think that race figured into the Trayvon Martin shooting? I turned off CNN. There’s King, the guy beaten by Los Angeles cops two decades ago, dragged out of obscurity (except for an arrest last... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 23, 2012 at 10:39 pm
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U. of Chicago's Martin Marty and me. He lets me have it.

I’m used to having my columns misread or intentionally distorted by readers whose closed minds keep them from trying to understand my point. (Examples are posts following two of my recent columns, here and here.) But for a distinguished scholar like Martin Marty, the highly regarded emeritus professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 19, 2012 at 1:19 pm
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Catholic bishop exposes himself in public park

Oh,wait. It was a president and CEO of Planned Parenthood. Now, be honest, would you have bothered to look at this post if the headline didn’t say that a Catholic bishop was the flasher? When I Googled the story, I found only seven local stories about the arrest of Tony Ray Thornton, 56, president and CEO of... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 14, 2012 at 1:58 pm
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The claim that 98 percent of Catholic women use contraceptives? Wrong, says FactChecker.

The popular site called FactChecker.org looked into the assertion, made by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and repeated without qualification by liberal media acolytes and awarded it two Pinocchios*. The claim is a “media foul,” FactChecker said. Here’s what else FactChecker said in part: But while the study says that 98 percent of “sexually experienced... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 21, 2012 at 3:57 pm
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Another grossly political decision from the Obama administration

The Chicago Tribune reports: The Obama administration announced it would give Catholic hospitals and other religiously affiliated institutions an extra year to comply with a new rule requiring employers to provide free birth control in their health plans. But the administration held fast to the underlying rule, despite vigorous objections from Catholic bishops and other officials who... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 21, 2012 at 4:07 pm
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Newt Gingrich: The next Catholic president?

It came as a surprise to me to, even though I’m Catholic, that he is a convert. Here is a very informative article about the man. Hat tip to Blithe Spirit... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 21, 2011 at 11:54 am
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Do Catholics want to 'impose their morals on America?'

No. Catholics as much as anyone understand that this is a democracy. So when it comes to “imposing,” it won’t happen. Yes, Catholics, as citizens, have as much of a right to seek a moral society as they see it as do “progressives,” athetists and others do–through the democratic process. How else do you think... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 20, 2011 at 12:07 pm
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Gov. Pat Quinn's quandary on abortion

Faith versus public service Gov. Pat Quinn’s planned appearance Thursday at the pro-choice Personal PAC annual awards luncheon is a sharp stick in the eye of his professed faith, and Illinois’ Catholic bishops have every right to poke back. The bishops, including Chicago Cardinal Francis George, questioned the collaboration of Quinn, a Catholic, with the organization. “We do... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 15, 2011 at 12:11 pm
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University of Illinois professor found to be teaching Catholic thought, fired.

Howell A University of Illinois at Champaign student was outraged, outraged I say, to discover that an adjunct professor teaching “Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought” was actually teaching Catholic thought (based on natural moral law) on  sexuality. He/she (the student was not identified) fired off an e-mail to the head of the university’s... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 13, 2010 at 4:39 pm
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Correction: Catholic Citizens of Illinois

In an earlier post, I misidentified the Catholic Citizen’s of Illinois as a Catholic Church advisory committee. In fact, it is an independent, lay-Catholic group, not connected in any way to the Archdiocese of Chicago... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 6, 2010 at 10:38 am
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