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| Cherie Blair to speak at Pontifical Uni; St Thomas Angelicum | |
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| Topic Started: Thursday, 4. December 2008, 23:31 (657 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Thursday, 4. December 2008, 23:31 Post #1 |
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Joanna Bogle posts that Cherie Blair has been invited to speak at a major Pontifical University in Rome and is none too happy about it.
The subject of Mrs Blair's speech is to be "Religion as a Force in protecting Women's Human Rights." Perhaps she has changed her views on abortion. KatyA |
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| CARLO | Friday, 5. December 2008, 00:03 Post #2 |
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Tut tut KatyA! Let her speak and let us consider what she has to say. Oremus CARLO Edited by CARLO, Friday, 5. December 2008, 00:03.
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| Deleted User | Friday, 5. December 2008, 00:11 Post #3 |
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Yes, Monsignor
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| Rose of York | Friday, 5. December 2008, 01:04 Post #4 |
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No doubt the university students will have an opportunity to questions whatever Mrs Blair says in her lecture. If her views are problematical, let her speak about them, openly, and let others defend the Church's position. Nothing is to be gained from restricting students to hearing only the points on which they agree. |
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| JRJ | Friday, 5. December 2008, 18:41 Post #5 |
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True, Rose, but here in the US it will appear (as always) to the nominal Catholic that it is acceptable to be Catholic and be for the killing of the unborn in their mothers' wombs. I am leery of her speaking at a Catholic institution. Let us pray that the students prepare well and expose her lack of concern for the human rights of unborn girls. Unless she has changed her position on abortion. I am not aware of a public retraction of her previous public support for abortion. Edited to include possibility that Mrs. Blair no longer supports abortion. Edited by JRJ, Friday, 5. December 2008, 18:44.
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| Karin | Friday, 5. December 2008, 18:42 Post #6 |
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I agree with you, Rose. Perhaps Mrs. Blair has some new insights into the subject. I know she certainly has her own views and a right to have them, but as I've always said, you can't be Catholic and pro-abortion. There is a lot to be said for women's rights on topics other than abortion...and who knows, perhaps someone in the audience at the Pontifical University might say something prophetic which will change HER mindset? One never knows. I wonder if anyone has considered offering her a green cardigan? Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
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Karin Hvaljen Isus i Marija. Kraljica Mira, moli za nas. "Praised be Jesus and Mary. Queen of Peace, Pray for Us." | |
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| Timothy | Saturday, 6. December 2008, 00:12 Post #7 |
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Although this is true, the phrase "women's rights" is often a euphemism for family planning issues. I wouldn't be too interested in what she has to say, as I am sure we have heard it all before from her, though I don't see the problem in her speaking. |
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"An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelty." "Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labelled as fundamentalism." Pope Benedict XVI | |
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| Rose of York | Saturday, 6. December 2008, 01:06 Post #8 |
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Family planning affects men, too. Abortion is the hot topic with the militant feminists. For all we know Cheri may be including pay, education, employment, arranged marriagess and housing, worldwide. |
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| Deleted User | Sunday, 7. December 2008, 00:13 Post #9 |
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Fr. Phillip OP received this response to his enquiry concerning Mrs Blair's invitation to speak
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| CARLO | Sunday, 7. December 2008, 18:42 Post #10 |
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![]() Tony: "Now they're bitching about her again on these Catholic chat sites!" Cherie: (Sniff, Sniff) Cleric: "Leave it with me Eminence!"
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| MickCook | Sunday, 7. December 2008, 21:36 Post #11 |
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Now whosoever should think that Cherie Blair could have any kind of influence over the Pontifical University in Rome, does not credit the University with the tremendous understanding it has of the basic value of human life and the right to live afforded to every human being from the moment of conception. The one to be influences is more likely to be Cherie Blair through her exposure to a greater sense of humanity, especially if grounded in the person of Jesus Christ reflected in the hearts of those she meets. |
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| Quicunque vult | Sunday, 7. December 2008, 22:09 Post #12 |
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But why invite her? As a Catholic, she surely has no standing, with her notoriously dissident views. She is not a politician, other than being married to one of the most dishonest politicians of recent times and one who has done untold damage to standards of Christian morality in this country. As an "academic" what credentials has she got, other than the spurious feminist and "human rights" views she espouses? I would expect her to be invited to secularist academies, but to a Pontifical University? A puzzle. QV |
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| Emee | Sunday, 7. December 2008, 22:15 Post #13 |
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She's a qualified barrister; that merits more than putting the words academic in inverted commas as if it's a qualification in knitting or something... |
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| Quicunque vult | Sunday, 7. December 2008, 22:45 Post #14 |
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Emee You've evidently more faith in barristers than I have! They have to argue whatever case is given to them, whether they believe it or not! QV |
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| Emee | Sunday, 7. December 2008, 23:03 Post #15 |
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I'm just saying she would be quite educated and therefore academic, that's all. I'm not making a comment on her morals... |
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