Cardinal says barring the teaching of ' intelligent design' is censorship | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

By Richard Zoll

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Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, Austria, said in a lecture that restricting debate about Darwin's theory of evolution amounts to censorship in schools and in the broader public.

"Commonly in the scientific community every inquiry into the scientific weaknesses of the theory is blocked off at the very outset," Schönborn said of Darwinism. "To some extent there prevails a type of censoring here of the sort for which one eagerly reproached the church in former times."

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The cardinal said he found it "amazing" that a U.S. federal court ruled in 2005 that the Dover, Pa., public school district could not teach the concept of "intelligent design" as part of its science class. The judge had said that the theory, which says an intelligent supernatural force explains the emergence of complex life forms, was creationism in disguise.

He said the Dover ruling meant that schoolchildren would be taught only a materialistic, atheistic view of the origin of the universe, without considering the idea that God played a role.

"A truly liberal society would at least allow students to hear of the debate," he said.

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Well spoken.  The Cardinal is doing a great job of speaking out on the subject.  This is priestly leadership helping to bridge the gap of ignorance, expose the false barriers built by the Darwinist Inquisitors and their chant, "Who are you to say."  I say, "God bless you, Cardinal. 

I wonder if Cardinal Schonborn recognizes the value of another bold Catholic leader, Archbishop Milingo?

 

 

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SOUTH KOREA Milingo in Seoul to study Moon’s theology - Asia News

 

SOUTH KOREA
Milingo in Seoul to study Moon’s theology
by Theresa Kim Hwa-young
The former bishop, who was excommunicated in September, will take part in a “Unification Church” conference and Rev Moon’s birthday party.

Seoul (AsiaNews) – Mgr Emmanuel Milingo is in Seoul to study the religion of the Unification Church, founded by the Rev Moon Sun-Myung. Excommunicated in September of last year for ordaining four Catholic bishops, Milingo showed up at a Unification Church gathering held in a central Seoul hotel on January 30, urging in an address that the Vatican allow Catholic priests to marry.

He is reportedly staying at a hotel near Seoul.

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After a period of reconciliation with the Catholic Church, he ordained four priests members of the “Married Priests Now”, a movement he founded in July 2006, as bishops on September 24, 2006. Two days later he incurred excommunication latae sententiae.

Source: SOUTH KOREA Milingo in Seoul to study Moon’s theology - Asia News

The media loves to focus on the controversial froth, ignoring the purpose and motivation behind the events.   That world take real journalism.  If I were the managing editor I would challenge Kim to seek out answers to these questions. 

• Why does Milingo insist on going beyond a dictum for a celibate priesthood made in the 12th Century? 
• What is the status of vocations in the Catholic Church? 
• Why does Milingo want to bring other priest who have left the celebrate life style back into the mainstream of the priestly vocation?  
• Why is Moon Sung Myung a key part of Milingo's desire to do the will of God, "living for others"?
• Why did Milingo start MARRIED PRIESTS NOW?
• Is Milingo getting "brainwashed" or is he being protected for a more ' protective and pro-active' aspect of Catholic community?

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Bering Strait Peace Tunnel

Peace Bridge Tunnel

World Railway experts estimate it will cost about $200 billion to connect the East and West Hemispheres. Find out why an 85-kilometer tunnel through some of the harshest environmental conditions on this planet is not only economically possible, but maybe one of the greatest economically-sustainable building projects in the world. 

 

Rev. Moon has encouraged this project since 1981.  Lack of jobs, resources, understanding can be overcome by the growth of commerce at all levels of society, East and West.

 

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Universal Peace Television

A good video is here to open the door to the possibilities to unite the East and West through the building of the Peace King Tunnel Bridge. 

Peace King Tunnel Project

Bering Strait: Capitol Hill

The UPF has co-sponsored a special forum at the US Capitol Hill Building highlighting US and Russian relations, including a proposed bridge across the Bering Strait. Experts such as former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Thomas Pickering, declares that global actions must come to link the world closer then ever before.

Source: Universal Peace Television

Lift Christ from the Cross: My 2 cents

My Way News - Cross Removal Stirs Va. College Campus

"WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - As a Catholic, Vince Haley often went to Mass at the College of William and Mary's historic Wren Chapel when he was an undergraduate in the 1980s. Also a Catholic, school President Gene R. Nichol often goes to the 120-seat chapel alone at night
to think in the quiet.

Both agree the chapel is a sacred space meaningful to students, alumni, faculty and staff of the public school who use it for religious services and secular events.

They clash, though, over what to do with an unadorned, 18-inch brass cross that had been displayed on the altar since about 1940. Nichol ordered the cross removed in October to make the chapel more welcoming to students of all faiths. Previously, the cross could be removed by request; now it can be returned by request." Follow the link to read the rest of this article.

My 2 Cents:

1) Diversity meltdown; as a desire to make everyone happy, is detrimental to the real growth in a religious community, regardless of whose religious culture is being affected.

2) The removal of the crucifix is a desirable deed as I see it. Someday, the reminder of a vicious, murderous act executed in ignorance, propelled by the maintainers of the status quo must be separated from love undeterred by persecution. Miserable murder does not have to befall the harbinger of more truth and responsibility in our relationship with our creator, our families and the creation.

3) The removal of the crucifix should be a ceremony honoring the determination to persevere to live and bring the message of living for others at the price of one's own life. The ceremony would lift the Christ from the cross of murderous ignorance and bury the instrument of that sad deed and resolving to continue to live and bring the message: living for others.