Comments on: Catholic Bishop Goes Off Script About Religious Liberty, Warns of U.S. Despotism

By: Cath

Cath — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:40:29 +0000

The entire video of the religious freedom conference that includes Bishop Salvatore Cordileone’s remarks is found here:

To view the segments by Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, choose speaker in the drop down menu. As evident in the video, Bishop Cordileone is excellent and measured in his rhetoric, his speech argumentative yet to the point. He is a renowned public servant, leader in ethics…. and that is evident in the whole remark in the video.

This blog and article took part of the beautiful speech, out of context, and changed it to make into something entirely different. Catholics would never act in such an unfair way.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:28:42 +0000

#5 -It’s not just the taking of gov’t money. The church is an employer and it refuses to follow the laws our (flawed) democratic process created to provide those employees with health insurance.

By: Dolores

Dolores — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:41:50 +0000

Anyone who knows Bishop Cordileone, knows that calling his public statements “melodramatic” is grossly inaccurate. He is very measured in what he says. Clearly the person who wrote this article has had no interaction with him and seems to be interjecting his own bias on the issue.

Regarding the comment about not taking tax dollars – I suggest a review of consitutional law and what it says about religious liberty and the separation between church and state.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:51:42 +0000

I am SOOOOO PROUD of the Catholic nus for standing up to the absolutely antediluvian, retrograde, bigoted, in-the-pocket of wealth, and morally bankrupt jokes that pass for the American Catholic Bishops–especially the right-wing mouthpieces like Jenky and Cordolione.

It’s time the mass of Catholic laity join the Nuns in brining back the New Testament of Christ to the Catholic Church. I say this as a cradle Catholic of 50 years. It’s time for a Catholic Spring.

By: Elizabeth Sholes

Elizabeth Sholes — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:30:13 +0000

Oh for heaven’s sake – if you do not wish to respect other people’s deep and committed religious and moral values, do NOT take tax dollars to do your work. Exempt organizations – churches, dioceses, organizations propagating a specific faith – are EXEMPT. Those that are not must hire diversely BECAUSE they take our tax money to operate. The Catholic Church or any other religious organization has to decide – use our tax dollars or isolate their work and be exempt. The Church may self fund every single thing they do, use charities, hospitals, and universities to pursue just their own world view. But once they open the doors to others who are not Catholic and take tax funds to do so, they cannot build their religious “liberty” on the backs of everyone they hire and everyone who funds them. Bishop Cordileone – you have a choice. Make it. Do not abuse OUR religious liberty to protect your ideology then make us pay for it.

By: Kevan Brion

Kevan Brion — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:58:49 +0000

Toxic rhetoric? What is so toxic in what that bishop said? That is an absurd description. Save the hyperbole for something significant.

By: Mandy Cat

Mandy Cat — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:26:02 +0000

I’m beginning to wonder exactly what it will take for religious bodies to lose their tax exempt status. Installing voting machines at the alter rail? Handing out campaign literature along with the communion wafer?

Certain denominations have turned into wholly owned subsidiaries of the GOP. Those that haven’t condone with their silence.

A plague on all your houses.

By: Byo

Byo — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:49:44 +0000

This bishop talks about sexual licence, ethics and revolution in the same breath. He must still be living in the glorious 60′s.
The USCCB/RCC know that once sex is divulged from procreation, their whole teaching on sexuality collapses on its face.

By: BobN

BobN — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:02:59 +0000

The Catholic Church has done without “religious liberty” for a long, long time. It’s time for them to lay out what it is they want.

The right to fire a doctor at a hospital they run if he divorces? No, they’re OK with that.

The right to fire a gym teacher if she converts to Buddhism? No, they’re OK with that.

The right to keep a gay man out of the room of his dying partner of 40 years? Yep, that’s one.

The right to fire the doctor in #1 if he then marries another man? Yep, that’s one.

The right to fire that teacher if she comes out of the closet? Yep, that one, too.

I’m noticing a pattern. Violate the absolutely most basic tenets of Catholicism like belief in God, no problem. Violate a teaching and break your vows of Matrimony, no problem. Gay, PROBLEM.

It’s so pathetically transparent…