Before reading this it is important to realize that the Roman Catholic Church is not a Christian Church. If you examine the following table you will see where the Roman Catholic belief structure originates.
DOCTRINES OF THE PAGAN SUN GODS
DOCTRINES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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SAN DIEGO • Documents recently released by a San Diego judge in conjunction with a sex abuse lawsuit reveal that a former St. Joseph Catholic Church priest who was convicted of molesting a 13-year-old boy in Barstow 23 years ago was transferred to a Diocese in Mexico, where he still ministers.
Pope Benedict XVI will bind the Vatican to implementing European Union laws against money laundering and financial fraud, the European Commission said, after the Holy See’s bank was tainted by a series of scandals. (Bloomberg)
Children trick-or-treating Thursday at a Newberry Township mobile-home park got a terrible fright when they discovered a man who had committed suicide on his front stoop
Woman accused of sexually molesting girl captured
A Harrisburg woman accused of sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl in the woman's home and at a Fairview Township motel was captured Sunday in Milwaukee, police said.
Renia Chester, 23, whose last known address was in the 1700 block of Susquehanna Street, was arrested after police there responded to an assault and checked the names of several people at the scene, Harrisburg Police said. Chester was one of those people, and Milwaukee Police arrested her on her fugitive warrant.
Harrisburg Police have filed charges against Chester including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and illegal contact with a minor.
Police said that on April 16, Chester arranged for a
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taxicab to drive the Harrisburg girl to the Motel 6 at 200 Commerce Drive in Fairview Township, where Chester allegedly engaged in various sex acts with the girl. Police said there were several other sexual assaults prior to that, all at Chester's home.
Don't Waste Time With The Unrepentant Sinner
But there really is no choice on the ballot! The Devil in red or the Devil in blue?
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Middle East synod reveals east-west tensions in the Catholic church
Behind the platitudes, this synod showed the old power struggle between eastern and western Catholic churches remains
Eastern politicalisation … bishops from the Middle East attend a mass marking the conclusion of the synod. Photograph: Alessia Pierdomenico/REUTERS
The Vatican hoped to use the unprecedented Synod for the Middle East to reinvigorate the eastern Catholic hierarchies and strengthen their loyalty to Rome. A show of solidarity with Christians in the region was to encourage spiritual revival around revitalised churches.
The stated reason for the synod was to help stem the tide of Christian emigration from the Middle East. This is a genuine concern for the Catholic church. The continued Christian presence in a Muslim-dominated region keeps alive the model of coexistence as a viable alternative to a "clash of civilisations" view of religions as destructive forces. It also maintains a link to Christianity's Semitic heritage and holy places.
Another motive for convening the synod, however, has become apparent during the last two weeks of intense discussions: the Vatican wants to curb the politicisation of the eastern Catholic churches. Its officials repeatedly raised concerns that Catholicism in the Middle East is being fragmented and weakened by parochialism among its various branches. In more veiled terms, they accused Eastern clergy of letting sectarianism go unchecked and fostering isolationist ethnic churches.
It is a classic case of the sprawling Catholic church's centre-versus-periphery dilemma. The Vatican views the regional situation from above, through its representation at the UN and the Arab League, and its near-global diplomatic network. The local churches' perspectives are grounded in the politics of their communities and countries.
The Vatican held a similar Synod for Lebanon in the 1990s. It put the spotlight on Lebanese Christians, politically marginalised and thoroughly demoralised under the post-war Pax Syriana. It bolstered their flagging sense of community, with the church as focal point. As such, it also succeeded in restoring the authority of the hierarchy headed by Maronite Patriarch Sfeir, to the extent that he was able, in 2000, to start a movement against Syrian domination that would culminate in the "Cedar Revolution" of 2005, with Christian politicians once again partners in government.
The Synod of Lebanon created a strong Maronite hierarchy, loyal to Pope John Paul II and his Middle East policy. In the process it marginalised ethno-nationalist elements within the Maronite church that had actively supported a federal solution for Lebanon. These were objectives that the Vatican had tried and failed to achieve through a decade and a half of heavy-handed interventions in the Lebanese church.
Pope Benedict XVI may have wanted to mimic John Paul II's approach this month, but the Arab delegates had other ideas. The patriarchs and bishops of the eastern Catholic churches were not interested in being told how to run their own shops. On the contrary, it looks like they went into the synod hoping to mobilise the Vatican's considerable political and diplomatic resources for their own ends. Time and again they turned the discussions – which the pope sought to keep to pastoral, not political, issues – towards the Palestinian question. Certain comments in the statements issuing from the synod have caused offence in the Israeli establishment, potentially shaking the fragile relationship on which the Vatican relies to fulfil its policy objectives in Jerusalem and other holy sites.
Eastern patriarchs are also frustrated with the limitation of their power within the Catholic communion as a whole. Their authority is limited in Catholic canon law to local patriarchal territories in the Middle East. More than a century of emigration has, however, left large parts of their Eastern-rite congregations under the territorial authority of the "Patriarch of the West" – the pope.
Barely concealed beneath the official rhetoric is an age-old gripe about the distribution of power. Some of the eastern patriarchs have long felt that their status as heads of churches should give them parity with the pope as head of the roman church, or at least a clear superiority over western bishops. These aspirations are based on claims to direct succession from the apostles, who founded churches in the Middle East before going on to European centres such as Rome. Several Arab delegates used the synod to call for the eastern patriarchs to be "ipso facto members" of the college that elects the pope.
For all the heart-warming platitudes about unity, hope and coexistence that have and will come out of the Synod for the Middle East, the eastern and western churches have serious differences to settle.
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Vatican Criticizes Rich Countries’ “Excessive Zeal” for Copyright Enforcement
Delegation of the Holy See tells gathering of the World Intellectual Property Organization that although it affirms the right of authors to be recognized and rewarded for their work, it’s important to remember that the whole purpose of intellectual property protection is the “promotion of literary, scientific or artistic production and, generally, of inventive activity for the sake of the ‘common good.’”
As copyright holdings become the bedrock of profits for an array of business interests, multinational corporations like those in the movie and music industry in particular, there’s been an increasing push to protect them at all costs, even to the detriment of society and culture.
The Vatican, like arguably a majority of the rest of the world, hasn’t taken these developments lightly. Late last month a Delegation of the Holy See told a gathering at the 48th World Intellectual Property Organization General Assembly that Pope Benedict is troubled by the “excessive zeal” with which rich countries have been protecting their intellectual property rights, especially when it comes to health care in developing countries.
“The raison d’être of the protection system of intellectual property is the promotion of literary, scientific or artistic production and, generally, of inventive activity for the sake of the ‘common good,’ said the delegation. “Thus protection officially attests the right of the author or inventor to recognition of the ownership of his work and to a degree of economic reward. At the same time it serves the cultural and material progress of society as a whole.”
Exactly. Music, movies, and other copyrighted material doesn’t exist in a vacuum. After it’s released it becomes part of the cultural fabric of society, and then owned by the artist in name only. In some cases an artist’s work has shaped the consciousness of an entire country, generation, or those artists that follow, and it’s hardly proper to protect their work in a way that inhibits this flow.
“According to article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author,” added the delegation. “In the end, intellectual property protection recognizes the dignity of man and his work that becomes an expression of, and a contribution to, the growth of the individual personality and to the common good.”
Lest we forget, musicians have been around as long as humans have, but recorded music is a relatively new invention.
Moreover, copyrighted material shouldn’t be an inanimate piece of real estate that is handed down from generation to generation. Current copyright law allows for copyright protection for 70 years after the artist’s death. However, if the work was “made for hire,” a new tactic employed by the RIAA that claims artists were on the company payroll, the duration of protection is 95 years from first publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter.
“On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property, especially in the field of health care,” Pope Benedict says in an Encyclical Letter quoted by the delegation.
With a number of countries already using copyright infringement accusations to disconnect people from the Internet, and others soon to follow, I can think of nothing more “excessive” than the “zeal” with which societies are deciding that the best way to protect artists is to remove their fans from the online community.
Stay tuned.
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