The Diocese of Scranton took another major step toward what will almost certainly be the closing of dozens of churches, with Bishop Joseph Martino receiving the “Final Recommendations” from a central planning commission, according to an article in Thursday’s Catholic Light.
Here's a good one, too: Diocese foundation gets less for tuition grants. Foundation doled out $338,100 in Luzerne County, which is about $93K less than last year.
Here's another crackpot doing his best to further lower the Catholic membership:
A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama.
The Fonz says: "Aaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! The Bishop Martino needs a bailout!!!"
What's wrong with religious people and Republicans? They're at it again! Republican Georgia congressman compares Obama to Hitler & Marx. When are they going to stop this? Don't they know that's why no one's going to church and the Republicans lost by a landslide? I guess not!These people are acting like it's 1408 instead of 2008! Because they're still doing it! If you keep doing the same thing and expect different results.........
Georgia congressman calls Obama Marxist, warns of dictatorship
Bishop Martino doesn't say a word about Bush's war crimes, he's worried about Democrats taking communion!
Bush with one of the 100,000 American troop casualty victims of the war he knowingly lied us into...Members of the Bush administration and George W. Bush personally conspired to violate the Geneva Convention, US obligations to it as well as US criminal codes! When it became apparent to Bush that he and high ranking members of his administration were culpable and could be put to death upon conviction, Bush tried to make his crimes legal --but only after he had committed them.
Clearly --the Bush administration itself is aware that it is in deep, deep trouble.
...there is one group of people that has always taken the war crimes charges seriously--the members of the Bush administration themselves. They have good reason for doing so, because they have exposed hundreds of Americans to possible prosecution for violating US law.
As long as George Bush is president and controls the Department of Justice, there will no prosecutions for war crimes, but after Bush is gone, anything could happen and hundreds of Americans could be charged with war crimes.
--David Wallechinsky, Is George Bush Guilty of War Crimes...and Who Cares?
Unless Bush plans to make his escape to Paraguay while still 'President', his exit from the Oval Office will make him vulnerable to process for violations of the War Crimes Act of 1996 passed by both houses of Congress without dissent. The act covers every crime that may be charged to Bush as of this moment and as of the time Bush will exit the 'cover' of the Oval Office. The act deals specifically with his deliberate "killing, torture or inhumane treatment" of 'detainees' at Abu Ghraib, GITMO and the gulag archipelago of 'detention centers' throughout Eastern Europe. Violations of the War Crimes Act that result in the death of a detainee carry the death penalty and there is no statute of limitations.
Bush Could be Executed For War Crimes
Vincent Bugliosi: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder:
