In a speech to priests of the diocese, Pope Benedict XVI reiterated Catholic teaching that members of the flock who have been divorced and remarried are in an irregular situation regarding the sacraments and may not receive Communion.
The Catholic Church still holds that remarriage after divorce, though extremely common, is the moral equivalent of adultery, and so bars a person in such circumstances from receiving Communion.
“I would say that a particularly painful situation is that of those who were married in the church, but were not really believers and did so just for tradition, and then finding themselves in a new, nonvalid marriage, convert, find the faith and feel excluded from the sacrament,” he said.
Protecting the feelings of people in such situations, however, is not held as sufficient reason to admit them to Communion. Calling modern marriage a sacrament that is frequently “celebrated without faith,” the Pope reiterated that for a priest to give Communion under such circumstances would only serve to further undermine the integrity of marriage.
Catholic Schools Punish Students for Opposing Homosexuality
Two Catholic universities have tried to censor students during the past week for defending the church's teachings against homosexuality, actions the head of one Roman Catholic organization called "ridiculous."
One incident took place in Pittsburgh, where a Duquesne University student used an independent website to voice his opposition to a proposed "gay-straight alliance" on campus and described homosexual sex as "subhuman actions."
According to the school's website, several students complained to Duquesne's Office of Judicial Affairs, which held a hearing and concluded that Miner had violated the university's Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct by failing "to respect the rights, dignity and worth of other individuals."
A similar incident took place in Spokane, Washington, where Gonzaga University ordered students not to advertise a lecture on the medical implications of homosexual sex.The College Republicans club invited John Diggs, a physician with the Massachusetts Physicians Resource Council, to speak about "The Medical Effects of Homo-Sex" on Oct. 27.
Responding to concerns that the event might stir up anti-homosexual sentiments, university officials refused to approve the event and ordered students not to advertise it on campus.
CNSNews.com
One incident took place in Pittsburgh, where a Duquesne University student used an independent website to voice his opposition to a proposed "gay-straight alliance" on campus and described homosexual sex as "subhuman actions."
According to the school's website, several students complained to Duquesne's Office of Judicial Affairs, which held a hearing and concluded that Miner had violated the university's Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct by failing "to respect the rights, dignity and worth of other individuals."
A similar incident took place in Spokane, Washington, where Gonzaga University ordered students not to advertise a lecture on the medical implications of homosexual sex.The College Republicans club invited John Diggs, a physician with the Massachusetts Physicians Resource Council, to speak about "The Medical Effects of Homo-Sex" on Oct. 27.
Responding to concerns that the event might stir up anti-homosexual sentiments, university officials refused to approve the event and ordered students not to advertise it on campus.
CNSNews.com
Terrorist Escaped
Once a top lieutenant of the al Qaeda terror network in Indonesia until his capture in the summer of 2002, U.S. officials have verified that Omar al-Farouq escaped from a U.S. detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, on July 10, 2005. al Farouq escaped with three other terrorists and all remain on the loose. It is possible that al Farouq and others are engaged in planning attacks against western and Australian interests in Indonesia concurrent and in conjunction with planned attacks in Australia.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard today warned that Australian intelligence officials have uncovered information about a detailed, specific threat of a terrorist attack planned against Australia. Refusing to publicly disclose any specific details of the threat for fear of hampering the investigation and response, Howard admitted that he has reviewed the intelligence data and confirmed that the threat is to assets within Australia. To date, there have been no successful terrorist attacks inside Australia, although Australian interests have been targeted in Indonesia.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard today warned that Australian intelligence officials have uncovered information about a detailed, specific threat of a terrorist attack planned against Australia. Refusing to publicly disclose any specific details of the threat for fear of hampering the investigation and response, Howard admitted that he has reviewed the intelligence data and confirmed that the threat is to assets within Australia. To date, there have been no successful terrorist attacks inside Australia, although Australian interests have been targeted in Indonesia.
Copying CDs becomes harder
UPDATE: ADD DVD's TO THE LIST:
Hollywood has unveiled a powerful new technology which it hopes will help kill the pirating of movies. The system relies on sound – not vision – and was unveiled at a conference held by the international DVD Forum in Paris, France last week.
NewScientist.com news service
I've been buying the same song for over 20 years now. Take any group that's been around for a while. Let's use the the Eagles for our example. You liked "Desperado" so you bought the 45. You remember those little round things. Then you bought the whole album because you got tired of changing the single song 45's. When I say album, I mean those large round black things that spun around.
Some of you true fans may have even had the 8 track. You had to be a true fan because once "Desperado" played you had to wait for it to come around again.
Then they came out with the cassette. It was great. You could fast forward, rewind and record! So you recorded the album of your choice on cassette. But you knew if you just bought the cassette it would sound better and so it was off to the mall. Now you have bought the same song 3 or 4 times. But you are not done.
CD's came out and and there went another 20 bucks to hear "Desperado" in digital audio, even thought it was recorded years ago in analog. So now we are broke, the record companies laugh at us because they sold us the same thing 5 times and we have "Desperado" in every available recorded format on the planet. If you are really insane you also have the mini disc, reel to reel, mp3, ringtone, and maybe the video disc and beta max of the live concert.
Once that whole sharing music thing hit, it was a chance for the music buyers to even things up a bit. We could now download that song we already bought 7 times! Well the game is not over yet. From the PPG:
Two of the nation's four major music companies have introduced CDs to the U.S. market that can be copied only three times and that, in some cases, prohibit the CD from being directly "ripped" onto Apple's popular iPod music player.
Critics charge that the maneuvers, which the companies say are intended to fight piracy, unfairly lump those who legally purchase music with those who don't.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hollywood has unveiled a powerful new technology which it hopes will help kill the pirating of movies. The system relies on sound – not vision – and was unveiled at a conference held by the international DVD Forum in Paris, France last week.
NewScientist.com news service
I've been buying the same song for over 20 years now. Take any group that's been around for a while. Let's use the the Eagles for our example. You liked "Desperado" so you bought the 45. You remember those little round things. Then you bought the whole album because you got tired of changing the single song 45's. When I say album, I mean those large round black things that spun around.
Some of you true fans may have even had the 8 track. You had to be a true fan because once "Desperado" played you had to wait for it to come around again.
Then they came out with the cassette. It was great. You could fast forward, rewind and record! So you recorded the album of your choice on cassette. But you knew if you just bought the cassette it would sound better and so it was off to the mall. Now you have bought the same song 3 or 4 times. But you are not done.
CD's came out and and there went another 20 bucks to hear "Desperado" in digital audio, even thought it was recorded years ago in analog. So now we are broke, the record companies laugh at us because they sold us the same thing 5 times and we have "Desperado" in every available recorded format on the planet. If you are really insane you also have the mini disc, reel to reel, mp3, ringtone, and maybe the video disc and beta max of the live concert.
Once that whole sharing music thing hit, it was a chance for the music buyers to even things up a bit. We could now download that song we already bought 7 times! Well the game is not over yet. From the PPG:
Two of the nation's four major music companies have introduced CDs to the U.S. market that can be copied only three times and that, in some cases, prohibit the CD from being directly "ripped" onto Apple's popular iPod music player.
Critics charge that the maneuvers, which the companies say are intended to fight piracy, unfairly lump those who legally purchase music with those who don't.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
CARTER’S NEW BOOK HARD ON BUSH, SOFT ON SADDAM
Titled “Our Endangered Values,” the book includes the “value” of “separation of church and state.”
From the review: “Everything about "Our Endangered Values" is wrong, beginning, obviously, with the title. The values Mr. Carter says are "ours" are certainly not mine and probably not yours and therefore, necessarily, not ours. In fact, it is not at all obvious that the things Mr. Carter speaks of even qualify as values, properly speaking, unless you believe that "economic justice" is a value, or you subscribe to Marxist liberation theology (Mr. Carter considers the Catholic priests who practiced this theology to be "heroes"), or you would like to pay your "personal respects" to Syria's dictator (never mind that he just had the prime minister of Lebanon assassinated), or you can think of nothing bad to say about Saddam Hussein except, perhaps, that he is "obnoxious."
WSJ
From the review: “Everything about "Our Endangered Values" is wrong, beginning, obviously, with the title. The values Mr. Carter says are "ours" are certainly not mine and probably not yours and therefore, necessarily, not ours. In fact, it is not at all obvious that the things Mr. Carter speaks of even qualify as values, properly speaking, unless you believe that "economic justice" is a value, or you subscribe to Marxist liberation theology (Mr. Carter considers the Catholic priests who practiced this theology to be "heroes"), or you would like to pay your "personal respects" to Syria's dictator (never mind that he just had the prime minister of Lebanon assassinated), or you can think of nothing bad to say about Saddam Hussein except, perhaps, that he is "obnoxious."
WSJ
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