{"id":4,"date":"2014-06-14T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=4"},"modified":"2014-06-14T21:26:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T21:26:06","slug":"catholic-news-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Catholic News Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart News highlights the Pope&#8217;s opinion that it would be a mistake for Scotland to secede from the United Kingdom, calling his words<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-London\/2014\/06\/14\/Argentinian-Pope-says-No-to-Scottish-independence\"> &#8220;an extraordinary and by some measures outrageous interference in the constitutional debate.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>The National Catholic Reporter has detailed events at the Bishops&#8217; meeting in New Orleans.\u00a0 Law professor Helen\u00a0 Alvare&#8217;, who spoke at the assembly,\u00a0 wonders if the government will continue to agree with the USCCB that it is\u00a0 &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/news\/faith-parish\/bishops-receive-stark-image-state-american-society\" target=\"_blank\">eminently possible and good<\/a>&#8216; for the Church to partner with public authority.<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>Human Life International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/melinda-gates-claim-to-not-fund-abortion-is-outright-deception-pro-life-gro?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LifesitenewscomLatestHeadlines+%28LifeSiteNews.com+Latest+Headlines%29\" target=\"_blank\">disagrees <\/a>with Melinda Gates, noting she has claimed the foundation doesn&#8217;t support abortion for the past four years.\u00a0 Meanwhile tens of millions have gone to numerous pro-abort groups.<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her half million dollar salary, Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richard&#8217;s husband, SEIU Vice President Kirk Adams, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2014\/06\/13\/planned-parenthood-pays-cecile-richards-husbands-firm-1-1-million-for-telemarketing\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifenews%2Fnewsfeed+%28LifeNews.com%29\" target=\"_blank\">brought in 1.1 million in Planned Parenthood marketing fees to his LLC<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no surprise Lila Rose claims they will<a href=\"http:\/\/p.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jun\/10\/rose-keeping-abortion-safe-legal-and-deceptive\/\"> tell any lie<\/a> to keep the money flowing.<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Bernard Adura of the Pontifical Council of Sciences has been tasked with honoring the centennial of the death of Pope St. Pius X through research, teaching, and perhaps some revision?\u00a0 Apparently history has neglected the pope&#8217;s true legacy.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/en\/articles\/pius-x-is-misunderstood-says-leader-of-pontifical-committee-for-historical-sciences?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zenit%2Fenglish+%28ZENIT+English%29\">&#8220;He was remembered as a Pope of condemnation, but, instead was truly a great reformer, a great innovator. Yes, he condemned modernism, but he, in fact, was very modern.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 When asked if he found any similarities between Pope Pius X and Francis, Fr. Adura responded, &#8220;There are. There absolutely are,&#8221; even claiming that they look alike.<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>Gates of Vienna is reporting that the Pope&#8217;s Peace-Prayer event in the Vatican Gardens included an Islamic prayer calling for &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/gatesofvienna.net\/2014\/06\/who-edited-the-tape\/\">victory over infidels<\/a>&#8216;.\u00a0 An Arabic-speaking ex-Muslim blogger claims that the segment has been edited from the official Vatican tape.<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis revealed that his Peace-Prayer event in Rome had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/1.598623\">almost no support in the Vatican<\/a>.\u00a0 Less that 1% agreed with him at first but that figure began to grow when they realized he was going through with it.<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>Reporting on the USCCB Meeting in New Orleans, the New York times suggests the bishops are following Francis by being more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/Catholic-NYT-bishops-meeting\/2014\/06\/13\/id\/576832\/\">humble<\/a>.\u00a0 NOLA Bishop Gregory Aymond recommends that they continue to talk more about the poor, the economy, and maybe reach out to those with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>See more Catholic News at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsitter.com\/page_1.html\">PewSitter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart News highlights the Pope&#8217;s opinion that it would be a mistake for Scotland to secede from the United Kingdom, calling his words &#8220;an extraordinary and by some measures outrageous interference in the constitutional debate.&#8221; ********************** The National Catholic Reporter has detailed events at the Bishops&#8217; meeting in New Orleans.\u00a0 Law professor Helen\u00a0 Alvare&#8217;, who <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=4\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-newsupdates","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}