ANOTHER OUTRAGED BISHOPBishop Richard Malone of Portland. Maine has strongly objected to a decision by the city’s school board that will make contraceptives available to middle-school students."I join the number of parents who have expressed their outrage and disbelief at the decision which affects young girls aged 11 to 14 years old," the bishop said. He was responding to a new policy that ordain accept distribution of birth-control devices to students without the knowledge of their parents.
ANOTHER contend ON BLOGGERSReaction to San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer giving Communion to two men in mock nuns' change state during an Oct. 7 Mass has been overblown said the pastor of the perform where the Mass was celebrated."It is most unfortunate this incident has clouded the fact the archbishop came to cater with his people and celebrate a beautiful and reverent Mass together - and that is what really happened. This incident has been blown way out of proportion," Father Stephen Meriwether pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Parish told Catholic San Francisco the archdiocesan newspaper."This incident has been blown way out of harmonise," he told "," the archdiocesan newspaper. In a commentary posted on the group's Web site. "Sister Edith Myflesh," the "current abbess of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence said: "We are dismayed that a moment of genuine Communion during sacred worship is being twisted for political gain by the forces of hatred and dissension. The service was an opportunity to welcome the new archbishop of San Francisco. While at Mass the sisters joined other parishioners in respectful and sincere worship."Father Meriwether says that parishioners have told him it did not appear the two "sisters" "were trying to grandstand at all." Parishioners were however. "upset by the people roaming around filming and taking pictures."Members of the Most Holy Redeemer community stressed that the Oct. 7 Mass was prayerful and that the two "sisters" were respectful. People who were there said the "sisters" knelt in a back pew after receiving Communion. To David Differding co-chair of the parish liturgy council and master of ceremonies at the Oct. 7 liturgy the critics "can't get over the fact that God created gay people. That's my impression. They want to put up every roadblock they can."Jesuit create Donal Godfrey one of the Mass concelebrants said the way the two men were dressed was "disrespectful to religious sisters," but he said he felt "it probably wasn't their.
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