The Vatican Business of Religion

The Vatican Business or Religion

Vatican Orders Records Withheld from Mormons
The Catholic News Service has published an article about new Vatican orders to not cooperate with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the microfilming of records. The Vatican wishes to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a practice that Catholics, Jews, and some others find objectionable.
Catholic dioceses throughout the world have been directed by the Vatican not to give information in parish registers to the Mormons' Genealogical Society of Utah.
An April 5 letter from the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, obtained by Catholic News Service in late April, asks Episcopal conferences to direct all bishops to keep the Latter-day Saints from microfilming and digitizing information contained in those registers.
The order came in light of "grave reservations" expressed in a January 29 letter from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the clergy congregation's letter said.

When did religion become like private businessman’s clubs, it seems to me that religions are public in the United States that is one of the reasons the don’t pay taxes. So it should be up to the local governments who can access their records.

The Vatican though the years has trouble with their faith, first with the pre-Christians, then the non-Christian in Spain (Muslims and Jews) and now with the Mormons. They obviously they do not believe in Jesus Christ and his wisdoms

Anti-Vatican is not anti-Catholic the local church do a lot of good work and maybe not even listen to this ban at all. It is the Vatican that keeps supporting every dictator that comes along so they can still operate within the country.

The Supreme Court decisions

Supreme Court decisions

The Supreme Court handed down three landmark decisions lately

The Supreme Court recently decided that non-American citizens have the same rights to defend themselves in a court of law as do American citizens by a 5 to 4 vote
The Supreme Court recently decided that the Death Penalty is cruel and Unusual Punishment for People found Guilty of the rape of a child therefore is Unconstitutional by a 5 to 4 vote.
The Supreme Court recently decided that an individual has the right to own guns under the second amendment of the US Constitution by a 5 to 4 vote.

I agree with the first two, first I don’t think you can say some people have rights and others don’t. Everyone in the world should have the same rights as anyone else maybe there should be a World Constitution that guarantees that everyone no matter what your local government says has rights agreed to by a world vote. Second the Death Penalty is barbaric no matter what the crime. Only six states had the death penalty for child rape (the death penalty for adult rape was already declared unconstitutional) and most of them never used it. This decision is a step in the right direction.
The third decision was on the second amendment which reads; A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. I think the Supreme Court decision that this some how give individual the right to a hand gun is be on me. When it say Militia and people means Local governments not individuals and they must be “well regulated” admittedly this has to be the worst written of the amendments. This decision was purely political and will cost lives. The US Constitution should updated to make it a lot clear or even better a World Constitution with a World Police force that all countries contribute both people and money not just one country.

Obama vs McCain on recent Supreme Court decision

Obama vs McCain

The Supreme Court recently decided that non-American citizens have the same rights to defend themselves in a court of law as do American citizens. Obama rightly says that this is the right decision and that it helps bring back up the reputation of the United States of America. McCain says that it is the wrong decision that only Americans or people that agree with the American Government should have those rights. He says they may hurt Americans if they are let free and they may or may not, but that has nothing to do with the fact that they are human. You either believe in freedom for all or you really don’t believe in it at all. American will be safer if we help protect the rights of all the people of this world and not make American citizens some how better than anyone else. Obama is right on this issue.

The McCain Ad

McCain Ad

A new McCain ad that says we should be sorry for him because he was a prisoner of War in Vietnam so we should elect him our president. He says he hates war and loves peace that is why he wants to keep the Iraq oil war going for another hundred years. We are suppose to believe that we are now “winning” as if war was like a sporting event where one side wins and the other loses, but in actually reality both sides always loses in both lives and money. We can not afford to be the world’s policeman any longer. We have lost too many poor young people who have sir come to false patriotism or the College trap only to die a “hero”. Now McCain went off to war in ‘Vietnam for the same reasons only he thought that joining the Air force was a safer way than to crawling through the jungle with the workingman’s sons, but he got himself shot down and then captured by people that only wanted to be free of foreigners like him.