Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Time Magazine Goes After the Vatican on Women Priests (Update)

and other matters!! Father Z has a good take on this deceptive piece. See “Catholic” MSM pundits and getting things dead wrong . Did these people even watch the Vatican Press Conference? Did they attend the Press Conference the American Catholic Bishops did on this? I suspect they did but decided not to talk about that. In other words they are misleading their readers.

We see
About the concern in the media that sexual abuse against minors was being equated with the attempted ordination of women in the eyes of canon law, Msgr. Scicluna said in English, "They are not on the same level." Serious sins are divided into those against Christian morality and those committed during the administration of the sacraments, he explained.
Sexual abuses of minors and child pornography are the graver sins and represent "an egregious violation of moral law." And while the attempted ordination is grave, it's "on another level," he said, explaining that it is a wound that goes against the Catholic faith and the sacrament of Holy Orders.
"So they are (both) grave but on different levels," Msgr. Scicluna said, noting in Italian that their comparison is incidental as both "are found in the only document that attempts to put in order all of the competence on the delicts that are reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
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Now as a simple PR matter I would have had two press conferences one dealing with the Sexual abuse norms and then perhaps a week later roll out the other new updates as to other matters. But to be honest would it have made a difference to the MSM.

Why does Time magazine care so much about what the Catholic Church teaches on the Priesthood and other matters?

Last time I looked the Eastern Orthodox , that number 300 million people, have the exact same viewpoint as to the issue of women priest and homosexual conduct. YET YET I rarely see Op-EDS blasting the Eastern Orthodox Church. Why is that?

Update
Also see First Things has A Lesson in Graviora Delicta for the Church Haters and
Media Matter's has Time's Padgett Likens 'Misogynous' Catholic Church to Segregationists.
OSV has Despicable enormities-Media’s snide attacks and refusal to see Church’s genuine and far-reaching reform efforts must stop

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