No Islamic Prayers in Catholic Schools

Please go here to add your name to a letter to the Archbishop of Westminster to stop Catholic Schools providing "prayer rooms" for Muslims:

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Linen on the Hedgerow

Habemus Papem: & The Secularists Unroll Their Agenda

Hooray!

We have a new Pope. Pope Francis.

He will have a heavy burden. We should keep him always in our prayers.

The media portrayed the appearance of Pope Francis with all its pageant, but already the secularists, within and c/o the media, are circling.

This morning I have heard a great number of them busy in the media suggesting what the new Pope must do. So far (and still counting) I've heard:

• The sanctity of marriage must be undone by allowing divorcees to re-marry. This would mean marriage is no longer for life, an Oath to God is meaningless, and Catholics could swan in and out of marriage as their whims take them with the blessing of the Church.
• An homosexual militant saying the Church must stick to caring for the poor (as if it ever stopped!) and leave moral matters to... well... the homosexual lobby, I guess. Of course, the very thought that the Church should step aside and leave the wolves to move a midst the sheep is unthinkable.
• The Church should sell all its artwork to feed the poor. The - let me be charitable - numbskull who suggested this clearly didn't know the pharisees already tried this one on Our Lord Himself, and He gave them short thrift.
• Of course the homosexual priests/paedophile scandal was uttered in every other sentence; yet it seems the very thing that needs to be done (defrocking homosexual priests) is the exact opposite of what the secularists want. Hmmm. The secularists forget that it was Catholic children assaulted by these monsters, it is the Church and its most innocent members that has suffered.
• Contraception and wymmins rights were high on the agenda of one (feminist) lady. Of course most ladies such as this care not for Our Lady nor the message of the Magnificat. Their agenda is widespread use of contraception which would see the world die (as in European countries where there are not enough children being born) not to mention increased spread of sexual diseases (which are not curtailed by contraceptives) not to mention increased abortion - because when contraceptives fail, abortion rises - hence the RISE in abortion figures where contraceptives are widely distributed, especially to children.

It seems the secularists won't be happy until we get a Pope that isn't Catholic. God forbid. Literally.

But let's join their mad hatter's tea party for a moment. Imagine we got that very abomination. Imagine the Catholic Church were no longer catholic or a church. They would skip away happily knowing they had destroyed the institution left on earth by Christ to ensure we could all (if we desire it) receive his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity via the Blessed Sacrament.

They would leave behind just another floppy, wet, happy clappy, let's hug each other, social working, pressure group. If we all want that we can join Oxfam, Amnesty or any other secularist group whose impact pales in significance to Holy Church that raises up the poor and cares for the weak by way of its schools, hospitals, infirmaries, retirement homes, throughout the world.

Once upon a time in the UK Catholic adoption agencies were the most successful. They helped home the most difficult cases wiuth loving families. The secularists then changed the law. Bodies could not adopt out children if they were unwilling to do so to homosexuals. At the stroke of a pen the best adoption agencies were closed.

This is what the secularists would love to do to Holy Church. They don't care if the poor suffer. They don't care if the very best schools are closed (ask Nick Clegg!). They don't care if the homeless, hungry, ill and dying are left without the best care.

They want the Church disemboweled.

Expect the attacks on our new Pope to increase...

Posh Public School Boy Attacks Faith Schools - Dan Snow, Twitter and the BBC's Impartiality

Today on Twitter the ex-school captain of St Paul's School London (a fee-paying, posh school) and BBC regular employee on the One Show and more (he works on the Discovery Channel and other outlets too), Dan Snow was using his own Twitter account - which (and this is the important part) is publicised on the BBC - to attack Faith schools.

He announced to the world (or the Twitteratti) that he had donated money to the British Humanists (BHA) for their campaign against Faith Schools (actually a campaign to pay one of their number £30K for one year).

Snow and the BHA spin the line that Faith schools sow division and that tax money should not go to divisive schools ("public money should not be spent on segregation").

There are some important points here of course. Certainly when it comes to higher education in the UK we have the Catholic Church to thank as a trail-blazer. But history aside, it is a blatant truism that Faith schools regularly and consistently out-perform state schools as a rule. Of course there are aberrations to this rule, but generally everyone knows this is true, especially in the inner cities. That is why faith schools generally have waiting lists, and why even atheists and the like "get on their knees and avoid the fees" by pretending to be Christians to get a good, free education that they would otherwise have to pay out for to get the equivalent in a non-religious school.

Now let me lay my cards out here. I am lucky enough to live in (semi) rural Wales where the standard of education is excellent. I didn't go to a Catholic school, and my children don't go to a Catholic school. We all go to Mass, and Catholicism is part of our daily lives. If we lived in London or one of the big cities I think our children probably would have gone to a Catholic school.

So I have no particular vested interest as far as my education or my children's education is concerned; but what I detest is this:

• 1. That Dan Snow uses his BBC promoted Twitter account to attack Catholic (and other) schools.
• 2. He uses the excuse that others in a similar situation promote "beer and crisps" - but if the BBC is meant to be impartial it should not promote any of these Twitter accounts (and politics and religion are more edgy than mere comestibles!).
• 3. That Dan Snow and the BHA think that Catholics (and Anglicans, Muslims, Jews etc.) don't pay taxes, or that the taxes these people pay should only go to schools that Snow and the BHA approve of! It smacks of more state control. 
• 4. That Snow and the BHA want to close the best-performing free schools, the age-old way of the atheist-left is oft repeated: lowering to the lowest common denominator for the many, whilst the uber-rich and privileged can continue to pay for their education.

Only most are - & want to protect Marriage!

Catholic schools take working class kids and give them a superb, in-depth, cultured education. It may not be as perfect or as Catholic as some may like, but as a rule it is ahead of the state equivalent.

Now ask yourself why Snow and the BHA want to shut down the best performing free schools; why they don't think Catholics pay taxes like everyone else; why the BBC is happy to promote the personal accounts of people like Dan Snow who promote campaigns that bash Catholicism and Christianity based on their twisted atheist political outlooks.

Is "segregation" really such a big problem in the UK??? Moreso than non-performing schools? Than poorly educated pupils? Than school leavers unable to read, write and do maths to a decent level? Than pupils who think Hitler was a goalkeeper or D-Day happened in 1812?

Mr Snow has regularly assaulted Christianity in his tweets, and in promoting the BHA is clearly promoting and persuing an agenda. That is his inalienable right. It's called free will.

The BBC however is meant to be neutral.

It should either stop promoting the personal Twitter accounts of its employees - especially if they are used for politicised ends or offensive campaigns like the BHA's - or it should drop the pretence of being impartial and neutral.

After all, if a BBC employee used his Twitter account to attack homosexual "gay pride" rallies as being offensive, blasphemous and indecent (all of which break at least one law each), do you think the BBC would remain impartial on the matter - or that medialand would stay subdued on the matter? The fact is that person would probably get a knock on the door from a pc pc, despite breaking no law.

Yet here we have a BBC employee attacking faith schools and pushing a highly politicised campaign with impunity.

Meanwhile the rest of us can simply expose the lies, half-truths and political agenda of posh boys like Snow (who don't forget went to a posh, private school - 'twas ever thus!) and the BHA which simply hates Christianity in any form.

Simples.



Notes:

• According to Wikipedia, St Paul's School (where Dan Snow was school captain) "has numerous sports facilities, and sport plays a major part in the everyday lives of the boys. There is a large sports hall, gymnasium, dojo, fencing salle, 25m swimming pool, 6 fives courts, a rackets court, three squash courts, a fitness centre, a 100m sprint straight and ten tennis courts. There is also a large boathouse, and extensive playing fields which consist of 11 football or rugby pitches during the winter months, or seven cricket pitches during the summer months."
• The BHA's Richy Thompson (who will receive the £30K) says religious schools result in "...discrimination based on both religion and socio-economic standing, and pupils being denied a high quality education in, for example, SRE [fancy acronym for Sex Ed], which would enable them to make informed, responsible decisions later in life." In other words he sees nothing wrong with rich schools giving the likes of Dan Snow the privilege of working for the BBC whilst comprehensive kids struggle to get dead-end jobs; but the truth of this is a humanist assoc keen to make Catholic schools promote abortion, contraception and homosexuality. [my emphasis] The BHA has a specific "gay" section (GALHA) - clearly segregation is not an issue for them!

Schools and Sex Ed: Are Times A Changing?

Sorry for the dearth of posts recently. Being self-employed, a dad and it being exam-time and the start of our family's "birthday season" all has combined to makew everything a bit of a whirlwind this week.

I listened to BBC Radio 4's Any Questions and I have to say there seems a groundswell of support for the moves by Conservative MP Nadine Dorries to promote abstinence in "sex ed" lessons. of course we get the usual backlash from the "usual crowd" but isn't it funny that most people think the idea of sex and promiscuity being pushed on children of 13 or 14 years of age (and sometimes younger) just is not right.

Deep down we all intrinsically know that. Even the "usual suspects" (with a handful of contrarian exceptions) don't want their own young children being promiscuous at an early age.

We have put up with Revolutionary anti-Christian, anti-societal and anti-child ideas being pushed as "mainstream" values in our schools for too long. usually it is just a handful of activists, via education authorities and councils, who have warped whole generations of innocents.

I really hope things are changing. We all want it to change. So why not?

Doctrine, Education, Creation and Salvation

A fellow Catholic was telling me of how he overheard another Catholic loudly dismissing Creation in that all so modern "as if" way, that dismisses Creation in the wave of a hand and brings in evolution as the fact-of-the-matter 'so obvious' historical fact that we should all just wake up and accept.

I had all but forgotten about this tale when this week I was flicking through a book lent to me by a kind soul. Archbishop Sheehan's Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine is quite a tome, but what a treasure trove! I have already learnt so much from it and reminded myself of facts I'd forgotten from way back when. Heaven and Hell, Angels, Purgatory, Indulgences - and much more besides. There was also a great section on 'Sola Scriptura' which I'd spoken to fellow parishioners about just the other week - how the Bible itself (in the Gospels and St Paul's letters) proves the argument against Sola Scriptura and thus undermines the Protestants own arguments! Plus as our parish priest keeps reminding us: who put the Bible together - but the Catholic Church herself!

Anyhow, just last night I was flicking through the book (a great way to see what catches your eye and what you'll delve into for a 10 minute read) and I noticed a section on evolution. Being in a rush I cherry picked a few points. My plan is to return to it tonight, having bookmarked the section, and read it in-depth.

What I found interesting is that Archbishop Sheehan makes it clear that not only is Evolution a theory, as such it is an UNPROVEN theory.

So why is it taught as a fact in our schools? Why do scientists etc. talk about it as a fact? Why on the news programmes are billions of years and evolution broadcast as concrete-facts? And why do so many Catholics rush to embrace evolution?

Is it because believing in evolution for the former groups help disprove God? And for the latter group is it because they then think Catholics will be more "modern" and less "medieval?"

Evolution is a theory. It is an unproven theory. So why the rush to promote it and embrace it?

I have a theory of my own.

Christ became incarnate and was crucified for our sins. He was the second Adam to undo the harm done by Adam and open the gates of Heaven for us. We have all (I hope) heard this in sermons. It is in our catechisms.

So logically if the modern world can "prove" by sheer force of weight ('the bigger the lie...') that we were all newts, then fish, then reptiles, then mammals, then apes, then men -- then Adam was not created by God, did not exist. Eden becomes a fantasy and history is rewritten.

There is no Original Sin (and the atheists love that as we can all then wallow in our concupiscent nature in a sea of filth) and therefore the Incarnation and Passion of Our Lord becomes meaningless.

With no Original Sin, there is no Redemption. No first Adam, no second Adam in Our Lord Jesus Christ.

That is why the theory of evolution is pushed as undeniable fact. That is why anyone who doubts evolution is painted as a one-toothed backwoodsman who's married his sister.

Our Faith is undermined in the media, in the schools, and in the precincts of our own churches by those who promote the infallibility of the evolutionists.

Our One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church has given us the ammunition to fight back against this onslaught, against this unproven theory that undermines the Salvific nature of Christ's Incarnation and Passion; it would be helpful if Catholics in the pews read their Catechisms and other works so that we, at least can be well informed and answer the lies and distortions of the media and the "experts."

Perhaps some kind readers can point out some handy online resources which help push the correct Catholic line on Creation, natural science etc. I would especially like to see materials that can be used with children and.or of a easy-to-understand nature for adults not especially theologically or scientifically minded.

I have read in many places that Catholic education is not what it used to be (i.e. Catholic). In fact the friend who lent me Archbishop Sheehan's book told me that it "used to be" used in Catholic schools. What a shame this thoroughly Catholic blockbuster that nails so many lies and puts forward so many Truths in a clear, concise and yet profound way (which is so easy to dip in and out of) is no longer used in Catholic schools.

Sometimes I do wonder why we as Catholics make it so easy for the enemy to undermine our Faith and our Church... when we should fighting the good fight to defend the rights and Kingship of Christ, including against those who might wish that Jesus Christ, like Adam, had not existed - and the useful idiots they have brow-beaten or cajoled into believing one of the biggest lies in history: the unproven theory that is evolution.

God's Creation is Sublime and Beautiful - and Cheesy!

There is much debate about the creation of the universe. The atheists talk-up the big bang theory as if it were fact (hint: a theory is a theory). Part of this is the theory of evolution (again a theory).

These days, from the BBC to the classroom, these theories are promoted and pushed as established facts, not theories. Anyone who thinks otherwise is painted as a backwoodsman or a nutty extremist (professors, scientists and others who do not follow the money are airbrushed out of the equation, of course).

The Human Eye

To me it is a matter of faith. We can choose between two religions. Each involve leaps of faith. Both entail belief in something that cannot, in and of itself, be proven (though I would argue, of course, that the evidence of God is all around us, and of His Son Jesus Christ is well documented). Yet there is no doubt that the evolution religion is in the ascendancy.

Personally I have always thought that the human eye proves creation. It proves the hand of a sentient being, creating things of such sublime beauty, such individuality, and such intricate complexity - that there is no way it could have happened by happy chance, with lightning hitting a lump of mud x billions of years ago. Everything about the human eye screams that is was made, designed and perfected by God.


I wasn't feeling very well this afternoon, a bit tired and sick, so early evening I thought I'll have a little pick-me-up (I happen to have a dispensation from fasting) and when I went to the kitchen I saw a sight which made my heart leap for joy. There, sat on the side was some Italian cheese, but not just any Italian cheese, it was Parmigiano Reggiano. I cut off a small piece (part of its beauty is you only need a small piece, such is its maturity and taste), and nibbled on it. Oh the wonderful taste of that cheese! Not even Caerphilly cheese comes close.

And I got to wonder at the beauty of God's creation.

A Sign From the Good Cheese's region

Sometimes we search for perfect examples of God and his creation. Sure we have intricate examples such as the human eye, and for us Catholics we have the sublime wonder that is transubstantiation and the miracle of the Real Presence -- though I fully admit that the latter is difficult for non-Catholics to grasp.

Sometimes I think that the beauty of more "ordinary" things can reflect the beauty of creation and the Creator. It can sound 'schmaltzy' I know, but a leaf on a tree, a bumble bee in flight, a catfish in a rockpool, sometimes these can stir the soul. And do you know what? When I tasted that Parmigiano Reggiano today, when its flavour burst in my mouth, I thanked God. That fullness of flavour, that glorious texture. What a gift from God's bounty!

I have a mug, which I use every day for my many cups of tea (much to my good lady's chagrin, for she likes her tea in far daintier receptacles) which bears the legend:

"Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,

There’s always laughter and good red wine. 

Though the quote continues:

At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!"

It also has the image of Hilaire Belloc, the Catholic writer, journalist, MP, social commentator and defender of the Common Good and the Faith, from whom the quote comes. It hardly seems fair to drink such an abstentious drink as tea in a vessel bearing such a quote, though at Lent it does seems more apt.

God created this world and all that's in it, of that I am sure. There is so much of beauty in it,so much for which to thank our Creator. And so it is that I can see Almighty God reflected in a small nugget of Italian cheese.

So, with huge apologies to Hilaire Belloc, may his soul rest in peace, here goes:

God's Creation can stun and please,
'Tis mirrored in fine Italian cheese. 
At least I’ve always found it so. 
Benedicamus Domino!

Welsh Shame as Homosexuals Target School Children

Homosexual lobbyists in Wales are targeting children in schools by promoting the idea that children, that may be going through emotional turmoil, trouble at home, hormonal imbalances, 'relationship issues' (e.g. being jilted) or 101 problems that teenagers face, and who think they are attracted to someone of the same sex should be "helped" by the same lobbyists and those with an agenda to embrace their "homosexuality."

According to the BBC:

Their new campaign 'It gets better ... Today' tackles homophobic bullying. 

They have swallowed the homosexual militants' li(n)e that it is about bullying. In reality it is about promoting homosexuality as a 'lifestyle' to impressionable schoolchildren, and in pushing those who may be emotionally, hormonally or mentally imbalanced - temporarily or otherwise - into a fully fledged homosexual mindset.

That all the political parties are supporting this nefarious campaign is scandalous in and of itself.

Where is the voice of reason, the voice of tradition, the voice of the family, to oppose this targeting of our children by militants whose ultimate aim is to recruit more children and lie to them that being "gay" is normal, as opposed to being a gross abnormality and an affront to nature and God.

When reading Fr Gabriele Amorth's book, An Exorcist Tells His Story, it struck me how much the sordid homosexual underworld is involved in Satanic possession. Surely that should tell Catholics all they need to know!

Bears Still Go in the Woods, but are Peace Mala Catholic?

I was looking at an old Damian Thompson post about the Cardinal Vaughan School 'argument' and this comment - the first in reply to his post struck a chord:

The problem is that the Diocese of Westminster employs so many people who do not believe in the vision of the Church, that being the vision of Jesus our Lord and Saviour. They readily employ people who have a beef with the Church and its teachings on so many issues. You wonder why these people flock to the Church to a body that they seemingly hate so much. I know this is the case because I work in the Diocese in an influential department and only probably a few people believe in the Church teachings. And you wouldn’t believe how many souls these people get to effect with the rubbish they sprout. We need to good orthodox Catholics to apply for jobs with the Diocese. But also to box clever in the interview for such jobs and not come across as too rigid or not ‘mainstream’ enough, otherwise these left-wing trendies who interview will never employ you. Above all we must pray and pray and do penance, the Lord is punishing us for turning away from Him and apostasy is sadly rampant in the Church endangering many souls.
Andrew

The article and comments are here

When I consider recent articles I've read on the Diocese of Westminster allowing the homosexual "Soho Masses" and the uproar over the Catholic Education Service (plus the fact that the ex-head of CAFOD thinks he is "married" to the man who acts (or has acted) as an "Eucharistic minister" at the Soho Masses... it doesn't take a genius to work out that there are far too many homosexuals, atheists and (literally) God-knows-whats working in the Catholic Church in England & Wales.

As Andrew says above, "You wonder why these people flock to the Church to a body that they seemingly hate so much."

Today is apparently Epiphany (5 days early I make it) or as Catholic and Loving It blog says, How the Bishops Stole Christmas. We only get 12 Days of Christmas as it is and I'd like to celebrate all 12.

I am not Super Catholic. Far from it. I am just another miserable sinner who needs all the help that God gives us, especially through the auspices of His Church. That is why I feel betrayed when bits of the Church are taken away, when I hear that Catholic education is being whittled away.

You see when I enter a Catholic church with a High Altar, with a tabernacle smack bang in the centre, with the altar rail in place, with statues to the Saints, with stain glass windows, and the other 'essentials' to a Catholic Church it lifts my soul.It helps me pray. It helps me feel that I am in the presence of God (as I said I need all the help I can get).

But when I enter a Catholic church that looks like a roller-disco, with the tabernacle tucked out of the way, with "God 'hearts' U" tapestries etc. I find it does not lift my soul at all. I feel like I am in a waiting room to see a social worker, not in the presence of Almighty God.

All I want my Catholic church to be is... Catholic.

For millennia the Church fine tuned its ceremonies and buildings. Corruption could come and go. Heresies could come and go. Saints and sinners, empires and monarchies could all come and go - but the Church would stay, would raise up wonderful Cathedrals, churches and chapels, all designed to raise the minds of the faithful to the Holy Trinity and bring focus to Our Lord in the Tabernacle and the Holy Eucharist.

Countless Saints have told us of the many Angels present during Mass, when Our Lord comes to us in Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. Do we envisage that when we are in a "roller-disco" church? I certainly do when I am in a beautiful Catholic church.

I know the Mass can take place in a back room as in Elizabethan England & Wales. I know it can take place on a rock in the wilderness as in Elizabethan and Cromwellian Ireland. But surely when we have the opportunity to do so, with a Church hierarchy in place, we should be making the church per se, from its altars, to its schools, to its orders as Catholic as possible?

Just today I picked up a copy of Menevia News from my own diocese and front page news was how a Catholic youth group was given a talk by a (Catholic?) group called Peace Mala which 'promotes friendship, respect and peace between people of all faiths and none, regardless of race, colour, religion, sexuality, size age or ability'

To quote their own website:

Peace Mala (The Peace Mala Youth Project for World Peace) is an award winning, non-political, non-religious charitable organisation. We do not support any political party, movement or belief system over any other.

Our aim is to contribute to education for global citizenship by inviting all people to treat each other with respect regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, size, age or ability. Our compassionate wish is for people, animals and the environment to be at peace.

A Peace Mala is a symbolic bracelet that focuses on the Golden Rule. It promotes friendship, respect and peace between people of all faiths and none; all cultures and lifestyles. Its intention is to educate and remind everyone that this rule is recognised by many scholars, teachers and philosophers. It is also universal to all compassionate faiths.

I think the above speaks for itself and there are several aspects to the above that make me, as a simple, stumbling Catholic trying to lead a Catholic life and give good example to my own children, deeply uneasy.

It even has a Rainbow coloured logo. It's also supported, according to Menevia News, by "many national and international religious leaders" with many wonderful and exotic names (Anglican, Buddhist and Muslim included).

And we are celebrating this on the front page of our own Catholic newspaper?

What are we teaching Catholic Youth Groups? That Catholicism is one of a pick n mix group of religions? Or that the rights of homosexuals are to be defended?

Whatever it is - it's not Catholic

Can't we just teach them that they belong to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church? That the ultimate charity is to bring homosexuals, Anglicans and Muslims into that fold and away from sin, heresy and idolatry, not to fawn to them or make them think their false ways are equal to or acceptable to the Church established by Jesus Christ.

My worry is that their are others out there like me: poor Catholics, ill-educated Catholics, Catholics who need help, struggling sinners trying their best and often failing. If there are, and I'm sure there are, then we need a Catholic church, with Catholic principles, with Catholic youth groups etc.

The Church should be the one dependable in this mad, materialist, all too atheist world. Sadly, in many instance it seems that the Church is not as dependable as we'd like.

From Westminster to Menevia, from the Soho Mass to Peace Mala.

Can I please just have a Catholic church that's Catholic?

Link:
Peace Mala (It's not Catholic!)

P.S.Among the links on the Peace Mala site (You know, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Taoism and 101 other types -- what is Yungdrung Bon? Is it legal?) are the following "Earth Religions":

http://www.witchvox.com http://www.paganfed.org http://www.druidry.org http://www.druidnetwork.org http://www.darkforce.com/wicca/  

Should the Catholic Church be promoting such evil links to our own young folk, as well as on the front page of the Diocesan newsletter?

 

Is Our English Catholic Leader letting Down the Troops?

An insult to God and man.

Certainly many Catholics in London feel so.

There has been a furore over the treatment of a Catholic school in London:

A Letter to Archbishop Nichols

Meanwhile the latest issue of Christian Order has a blistering editorial and article on the "Soho Masses" put on for homosexuals (running to some 50 pages all-in).

I don't know all the ins and outs of the Cardinal Vaughan School saga, but I have read quite a bit on the 'Soho Masses' and the fact that a practicing homosexual is a "Eucharistic Minister" (in and of itself a grave sin against Our Lord in the consecrated species in my humble opinion) is shameful in the extreme.

Archbishop Nichols has been informed of many of the scandals around the 'Soho Masses,' and has failed to act other than to call on Catholics not to be judgemental.

These Masses do not seek to reinforce Mother Church's line on homosexuality or call the sad souls mired in this sickness to a life of chastity.

Some of those who organise and attend boast of living active homosexual lives, and even of being "married" to their homosexual "partners."

Christian Order (CO) goes so far as to say that the Church in England & Wales is acting in opposition to the guidance on these matters given by the Vatican (certainly the Holy Father was crystal clear on relativism, atheism and immorality on his recent visit to Britain).

The journal asks why is it that the 'Extraordinary Form' of the Mass is not yet freely available to those who want it, against Vatican rules, whilst Masses that promote homosexuality as a 'valid choice' for Catholics are allowed?

If you get the chance, do read the November issue of CO, it makes for disturbing reading!

Am I alone in finding the following deeply disturbing. It includes nothing about homosexuals being celibate and gives the impression that active homosexuals are welcome to receive Communion (they are not according to Church rules!). The interviews herein smack of the double-speak and lack of clear Catholic leadership that CO says is an outrage against God and His Church:

Soho Masses

And here is a site that gives bidding prayers for "Civil Partnerships" at an official Soho Masses site:

Civil Partnerships

Note the images of icons of women and male Saints embracing.

Where are our Catholic leaders to condemn homosexuality and to help the homosexuals out of the horrid world of sin and hatred they dwell in?

All they have to do is obey and follow the Holy Father! Surely for Catholic Archbishops, Bishops, priests and laity, following the Pope can't be that difficult?