SPUC still not blogging about unborn babies

Yet another day and more babies die while Mr Smeaton of SPUC carries on other campaigns, forgetting the one issue that SPUC is there for. It's increasingly clear that the Charities Commission should consider whether money raised to fight abortion is being properly used in a continued campaign against same sex marriage. It would be a pity if yet another row tears SPUC apart. Mr Smeaton should get off his hobby horse and on with his real job which is to save those babies. Others can fight the gay marriage battle. He should be working simply and solely for the noble cause for which he is paid.

Two more SPUC blogs - neither about the Unborn Child

John Smeaton has resumed blogging but again there's no resumption of the battle for the Unborn Child. Yet, that's what we give our money and time for. Back to the day job John - there's a battle to be won to stop babies being killed in their hundreds of thousands. You can leave the campaigns against French Justice and Same Sex marriage to others. You've a big enough job already and its looking neglected.

No Iraq repeat in Syria

Won't they ever learn. Outsiders can't solve Syria's problems. We're quite wrong to try to intervene. Iraq war was illegal immoral and plain stupid. Intervention in Syria could be worse. 

The Triumph of the Snail

East Angla ought to be thrilled with their new bishop. Bishop Hopes is an ideal man for the job. But why do we have to wait three years for the choice. Even the immigration service is quicker than the labarynthine process of appointing a bishop. This is one reform that could unite traditionalists and liberals alike. Leaving dioceses vacant is a dereliction of duty. We all need a Father in God.

PS Still no news from SPUC as to whether they're reverting to their campaign against abortion

Had SPUC given up fighting abortion?

Yet another blog from John Smeaton with no mention of the unborn child. It's time to get back to the day job and battle for the innocents. If he allowed comments on his blog he'd see how many of us want a single and effective campaign to stop abortion. Perhaps we need a new organisation that doesn't get distracted. 

Loving Gay People as Jesus Commands

We Catholics really must come to terms with the fact that gay people are only attracted to people of their own sex and not disorientated heterosexuals. That means that they should not be scapegoats but fellow children of a loving God. The constantly negative language of so many Catholics is a serious impediment to our witness to that central fact. Do we look loving to gay people or are we better defined as disapproving, carping, and condemning. The people of Jesus should never be characterised  in that way. 

Making the best of Same Sex marriage

Now that its passed by huge majorities in both Houses of Parliament, we know that Members have decided that our concerns are not real. There isn't any doubt now that we will have State same sex marriage.

How do we face up to this new world.? We have to represent Christian marriage as the life-long, indissoluble union that it is and contrast that with what the State offers. Our failing has been to try to link the secular form of marriage with the Christian sacrament. It hasn't been so connected since Henry VIII hijacked the institution to get a divorce.

Interestingly, there were many Catholics and other Christians who voted for the change. If we are to come to a sensible position which defends Catholic marriage while helping gay couples to seek and celebrate fidelity and permanence, we must try to understand why they thought it right to support the Bill.

The one thing that won't work is to dismiss those with a different view. It is particularly important that we remember that the young cannot understand the problem and that it is the old for who this is an issue.