Smile & Grimace

Kudos To:

#1 Miss America 2003,
Erica Harold

Miss Harold was ordered by pageant officials not to talk publicly about sexual abstinence. This was a cause she had advocated as Miss Illinois.

"I will not be bullied", said Miss Harold at a National Press Club meeting. Through the years she had advocated premarital chastity on behalf of Project Reality, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that has been a pioneer in the field of abstinence education.

Miss Harold said she "is still in the process of coming up with what I can say."

After winning the crown, a young girl from an inner-city Chicago school sent her an e-mail asking her to continue the abstinence campaign. "You changed my life because of what you said….and I think it can change a lot of others."

# 2 The Kentucky
Knights of Columbus

On July 25, 2002 Talk Show Host John Ziegler’s expressed anti-Catholic venom on his radio program. No other religion could be so maligned on a radio broadcast without the host suffering the most serious consequences.

The Knights sent a letter to WHAS station management saying in part, "Attacking our most sacredly held beliefs is unconscionable".

Especially offensive to all believing Catholics was Mr. Ziegler’s remark "..eating your God and having him travel through your digestive system was a rather strange way of honoring your deity."

Knights of Columbus officials organized a meeting with station management, John Ziegler and a committee of local Catholics. Following the meeting Mr. Ziegler agreed to apologize for his remarks on his radio broadcast and WHAS Radio agreed to post an apology on its website.

An excellent example of standing up for the Faith!

#3 Several Local Priests

Several archdiocesan priests also took a strong stand on the John Ziegler anti-Catholic broadcast. These priests informed their parishioners by playing bits of the program during their Sunday homilies and asking people to write or call the station. (We hesitate to mention the priests by name for fear of omitting someone.)

Oh No We Don’t Censor

Says The Record

Numerous readers have e-mailed Catholics In Action to note the irony of The Record’s advertising policy. Many people remember when a group of local women attempted to place a paid advertisement in the archdiocesan newspaper saying that they, the undersigned, supported the Holy Father and the teaching authority of the Magisterium. Joe Durr, Cecelia Price, Brian Reynolds, and Archbishop Kelly all said no way to such an ad. It was far too controversial.

It seems that a different standard is now in place. A full-page advertisement in the October 17th issue promotes an appearance of Deepak Chopra, "the poet prophet of alternative medicine".

How utterly ridiculous that you can pay to advertise "alternative" faiths in our Catholic paper but the paper refuses to take money to "advertise" support for our very own Holy Mother Church.

 

Question: To whom did Jesus Give the Keys of the Kingdom, St. Peter or Jeannine Gramick?

The Vatican ordered Sister Jeannine Gramick to end her ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics. Rather than comply she continues her ministry saying, "the hand of God was not in what the Vatican had done."

After the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its ruling on Sister Gramick in 1999, members of her order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, advised her to find a new ministry. Instead, she joined the Sisters of Loretto. (Apparently the "hand of God" is not in Sister’s former order either.)

Referring to the Vatican process ordering her to cease her ministry to gays, Sister says, "..the process was not fair and I did not believe that God would use an unfair process to call me to another ministry for which I had no attraction." (This begs the question -Does God only call us to ministries to which we have an "attraction"?)

Sister Gramick will serve as keynote speaker for the 25th anniversary banquet of Dignity Toledo. Dignity is a national group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Catholics.

Local Catholics are very familiar with Gramick who has been invited into this diocese at least three times in the last few years. Most recently she was honored at the National New Ways Ministry Conference held at the Galt House earlier this year.

At each of her Louisville appearances she has, according to eyewitnesses, spoken our against Church teachings on homosexuality, advocating that homosexual acts are not sinful.
 
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