We can sit in your pews, but be denied burial:
A second U.S. diocese has suggested Catholic funerals be denied to people in same-gender civil marriages, going so far as to suggest the deceased person be remembered without being named at all.
...Msgr. James Bartylla, Vicar General of the Diocese of Madison [Wisconsin] which is headed by Bishop Robert Morlino, offered diocesan priests this new guidance in a communication which was then reported on by the blog Pray Tell. In a section titled “Consideration of Funeral Rites for a Person in a Homosexual Civil or Notorious Union,” Bartylla addressed people in same-gender civil marriages or, what he described as, “an otherwise notorious homosexual relationship gravely contrary to the natural law. . .”
To minimize scandal, should there merely be a short scripture service at the funeral home? Or maybe merely a graveside service? Maybe a later ‘Mass for the Dead’ with or without explicit mention of the name of the deceased or ‘partner’ could alternatively or in addition be offered at the parish or even at another parish (to avoid scandal), with or without family members present.
“Any surviving ‘partner’ should not have any public or prominent role at any ecclesiastical funeral rite or service.
“A great risk for scandal and confusion is for the name of the celebrating priest and/or the parish to be listed in any public (e.g., newspaper) or semi-public obituary or notice that also lists the predeceased or surviving ‘partner’ in some manner. This can’t happen for obvious reasons.
“There should be no mention of the ‘partner’ either by name or by other reference (nor reference to the unnatural union) in any liturgical booklet, prayer card, homily, sermon, talk by the priest, deacon, etc…
“It may be wise to keep the priest or deacon involvement to the minimum (i.e., limited to one priest or deacon and at merely essential times of a service or rite, if one occurs).”
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In Raleigh, a 71-year-old state representative says his constituent want him to come out of the closet and he wants to continue on the public payroll. So Rep. Bill Brisson will run in 2018 as a Republicans. The GOP now outnumbers the Democrats 75-45.
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MOTUS- who avoided service in the military- has learned one useful lesson from the Vietnam War:
Wa correspondent Peter Arnett wrote in an article about the provincial capital Bến Tre- published on 7 February 1968- "'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,' a United States major said today."
The *resident has long maintained he did his own form of military service:
“It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider,” Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern asked how he handled making sure he wasn’t contracting STDs from the women he was sleeping with.
The business-mogul-turned-politician elaborated on the fact in the interview, calling women’s vaginas “potential landmines” and saying “there’s some real danger there.”
Also appearing on Stern’s show in 1993, Trump bragged about his promiscuous lifestyle while single and stated that men who didn’t go to Vietnam didn’t need to feel guilty because dating during the AIDS epidemic in the ’80s was also dangerous.
“You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam — it’s called the dating game,” Trump said to Stern in a 1993 interview. “Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam.”
“It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider,” Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern asked how he handled making sure he wasn’t contracting STDs from the women he was sleeping with.
The business-mogul-turned-politician elaborated on the fact in the interview, calling women’s vaginas “potential landmines” and saying “there’s some real danger there.”
Also appearing on Stern’s show in 1993, Trump bragged about his promiscuous lifestyle while single and stated that men who didn’t go to Vietnam didn’t need to feel guilty because dating during the AIDS epidemic in the ’80s was also dangerous.
“You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam — it’s called the dating game,” Trump said to Stern in a 1993 interview. “Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam.”
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There are very fine people among the Nazis, the *resident assured us after Charlottesville. The father of one in Washington- a former Milo intern- called him out for that, and the son, a 33-year-old loser, stabbed him to death.
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THe *resident and Mrs. FLOTUS read speeches about drug addiction today. Both said they will do many, many big, wonderful things to end drug addiction, including the exhumation of Nany Reagan, Michael Jackson, and Gary Coleman.
Mrs. FLOTUS's speech was especially heartening, given her tremendous success with the elimination of bullying in just nine months.
Many people say both of them read their best words very, very well.
Mrs. FLOTUS's speech was especially heartening, given her tremendous success with the elimination of bullying in just nine months.
Many people say both of them read their best words very, very well.
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A panel of federal judges told the Raleigh Republicans, "Bless your hearts" and took drawing fair legislative district lines away from them after another unconstitutional gerrymander. A Stanford law professor will advise the court on where to draw the lines.
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The *resident's class is having a good decade:
The world’s super-rich hold the greatest concentration of wealth since the US Gilded Age at the turn of the 20th century, when families like the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts controlled vast fortunes.
Billionaires increased their combined global wealth by almost a fifth last year to a record $6tn (£4.5tn) – more than twice the GDP of the UK. There are now 1,542 dollar billionaires across the world, after 145 multi-millionaires saw their wealth tick over into nine-zero fortunes last year, according to the UBS / PwC Billionaires report.
Josef Stadler, the lead author of the report and UBS’s head of global ultra high net worth, said his billionaire clients were concerned that growing inequality between rich and poor could lead to a “strike back”.
“We’re at an inflection point,” Stadler said. “Wealth concentration is as high as in 1905, this is something billionaires are concerned about. The problem is the power of interest on interest – that makes big money bigger and, the question is to what extent is that sustainable and at what point will society intervene and strike back?”
Stadler added: “We are now two years into the peak of the second Gilded Age.”
The world’s super-rich hold the greatest concentration of wealth since the US Gilded Age at the turn of the 20th century, when families like the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts controlled vast fortunes.
Billionaires increased their combined global wealth by almost a fifth last year to a record $6tn (£4.5tn) – more than twice the GDP of the UK. There are now 1,542 dollar billionaires across the world, after 145 multi-millionaires saw their wealth tick over into nine-zero fortunes last year, according to the UBS / PwC Billionaires report.
Josef Stadler, the lead author of the report and UBS’s head of global ultra high net worth, said his billionaire clients were concerned that growing inequality between rich and poor could lead to a “strike back”.
“We’re at an inflection point,” Stadler said. “Wealth concentration is as high as in 1905, this is something billionaires are concerned about. The problem is the power of interest on interest – that makes big money bigger and, the question is to what extent is that sustainable and at what point will society intervene and strike back?”
Stadler added: “We are now two years into the peak of the second Gilded Age.”
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