Church Kills Gays?

Elton John is at it again. This time he is accusing the Catholic church of being responsible for the death of 60 of his friends who have died from aids. Lifesitenews is reporting a story where by Elton believes that the best way to prevent aids is sex education.

Speaking at a business awards ceremony, he said, "We don't have a medical vaccine but we have a social vaccine and it's called education." He failed to include in his so-called education platform that condoms may be a leading reason for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Even leading health experts at the United Nations have acknowledged that condoms have an estimated 10% failure rate.

It is sad but true, that some people are so blinded by there prejudice that they cannot see the truth for the lies. The catholic position is that homosexuality is a disorder. The church teaches that someone who suffers with homosexual tendencies should abstain from those activities (remain celebite) from sexual contact outside of a traditional marriage. This same advice applies to heterosexuals as well. This advice, if followed, will save millions of people from aids and other sexually transmitted diseases. The advice that he would have you follow, which is the position of almost all countries, has not slowed down the spread of these STD's and in fact has helped spread them. This happens as many adopt a sexually permisive lifestyle which leads to either a failure of the condom, or a failure of the individual to be 100% consistant. This is a sure recipe for failure.

My prayers are with any and all sufferers of this dreadful disease. I pray that the Lord will give them comfort and peace in this world and in the next. And that Sir Elton John will find the love of our Lord. Amen.

Litergical Reform: Arinze to the Rescue

As Reported by Catholic World News:

Cardinal Arinze has come down hard on the United States Council of Bishops on an issue that many of the laity have been complaining about for many a year. The faithfulness of the the english translation of the mass from the latin. The U.S. Council of bishops it seems made the arguement that

we faithful are so besottedly in love with the 1974 ICEL Sacramentary that it would be cruel for the Holy See to make us change it for a translation closer to the Latin

It Seems that the Cardinal held strong in this and reminded the bishops of why Liturgiam authenticam was issued to begin with. Here is the letter from Cardinal Arinze to the U.S. Council of Bishops (also courtesy of Catholic World News)

2 May 2006

The Most Reverend William Skylstad
Bishop of Spokane
President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Prot. n. 499/06/L

Your Excellency,

With reference to the conversation between yourself, the Vice President and General Secretary of the Conference of Bishops of which you are President, together with me and other Superiors and Officials when you kindly visited our Congregation on 27 April 2006, I wish to recall the following:

The Instruction Liturgiam authenticam is the latest document of the Holy See which guides translations from the original-language liturgical texts into the various modern languages in the Latin Church. Both this Congregation and the Bishops’ Conferences are bound to follow its directives. This Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is therefore not competent to grant the recognitio for translations that do not conform to the directives of Liturgiam authenticam. If, however, there are difficulties regarding the translation of a particular part of a text, then this Congregation is always open to dialogue in view of some mutually agreeable solution, still keeping in mind, however, that Liturgiam authenticam remains the guiding norm.

The attention of your Bishops’ Conference was also recalled to the fact that Liturgiam authenticam was issued at the directive of the Holy Father at the time, Pope John Paul II, to guide new translations as well as the revision of all translations done in the last forty years, to bring them into greater fidelity to the original-language official liturgical texts. For this reason it is not acceptable to maintain that people have become accustomed to a certain translation for the past thirty or forty years, and therefore that it is pastorally advisable to make no changes. Where there are good and strong reasons for a change, as has been determined by this Dicastery in regard to the entire translation of the Missale Romanum as well as other important texts, then the revised text should make the needed changes. The attitudes of Bishops and Priests will certainly influence the acceptance of the texts by the lay faithful as well.

Requesting Your Excellency to share these reflections with the Bishops of your Conference I assure you of the continued collaboration of this Congregation and express my religious esteem,

Devotedly yours in Christ,

+Francis Card. Arinze

Prefect, Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

I think this letter says it all.