Picked this up from The Blaze and Adrienne's Corner:
The news outlets CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and Newsweek have come under fire by Philadelphia’s incoming Archbishop, for a lack of “trustworthiness” where matters of religious faith are concerned.
“And with relatively few exceptions,” he said, “the mass media tend to cover these disputed issues with a combination of ignorance, laziness, and bias against traditional Christian belief.”
The Archbishop continued: “We make a very serious mistake if we rely on media like the New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, or MSNBC for reliable news about religion. These news media simply don’t provide trustworthy information about religious faith — and sometimes they can’t provide it, either because of limited resources or because of their own editorial prejudices.”
Archbishop Chaput also criticized the lack of media coverage for widespread anti-Christian violence in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, and Pakistan.
“Christians face frequent discrimination, slander, beatings and even murder,” the Archbishop added.
In addition, Archbishop Chaput warned that it is dangerous when democracies attempt to erase religion from the public arena:
“Forcing religious faith out of a nation’s public square and out of a country’s public debates does not serve democracy,” said the Archbishop. “It doesn’t serve real tolerance or pluralism. What it does do is impose a kind of unofficial state atheism. To put it another way, if we ban Christian Churches or other religious communities from taking an active role in our nation’s civic life, we’re really just enforcing a new kind of state-sponsored intolerance — a religion without God.”
Preach on, Archbishop. The problem is that it isn't "cool" or mainstream to be Christian anymore, unfortunately. Christians are continually marginalized and more and more, treated as a minority, "right-wing", extremist segment of our population. And, most Christians are too classy and focused on working hard for their families to rise up against this alarming trend.
Archbishop Chaput can give the Mary Immaculate Center to the SSPX as its new Seminary:
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Only a man of courage and obedient to our Holy Mother would do such a thing towards the formation of holy Priests.
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We are just beginning to see the harvest of decades of cultural Marxism. I fear those who follow the teachings of Jesus will in the coming decades suffer the harsh persecutions of the ancient church.
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