Quote:though i'm surprised no one resists the herb 'propaganda'.......

(04-26-2010, 03:28 PM)Twin-Skies Wrote: Dude, I'm Chinese - I grew up being taught that herbs are our friends.

(04-26-2010, 03:52 PM)NiX Wrote: We've gone OT so what the hell. Have they worked for you guys?

Quote:Speaking at a Brazilian bishops' conference, Archbishop Dadeus Grings - a conservative priest who has made controversial statements in the past said that society's woes are being reflected in the sex abuse scandal enveloping the Roman Catholic Church.

"Society today is paedophile, that is the problem. So, people easily fall into it. And the fact it is denounced is a good sign," said Archbishop Grings.

The comments come as the church is under fire for a sex abuse scandal touching all corners of the globe - and three weeks after Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the No. 2 official at the Vatican, said at a news conference in Chile that the sex scandals were linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests

Quote:A CATHOLIC nun and long-time administrator at St Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix has been demoted because she had been part of a team that decided to end the pregnancy of a critically ill patient.

St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

The decision drew a sharp rebuke from Bishop Thomas J Olmsted, head of the Phoenix Diocese, who indicated that the nun – Sister Margaret McBride, the highest-ranking member of the Sisters of Mercy at the hospital – was “automatically excommunicated” because of the action.

Neither the hospital nor the bishop’s office would address whether the bishop had a direct role in her demotion. He does not have control of the hospital as a business but is the voice of moral authority over any Catholic institution operating in the diocese.

The actions involving the McBride followed a last-minute, life-or-death drama in late 2009. The patient had a rare and often fatal condition in which a pregnancy can cause the death of the mother.

McBride, who had been vice president of mission integration at the hospital, was on call as a member of the hospital’s ethics committee when the surgery took place, hospital officials said. She was part of a group of people, including the patient and doctors, who decided upon the course of action.

(05-18-2010, 07:51 AM)HayWire Wrote: Edit:
I wonder if they allowed gay marriage owo...

(05-18-2010, 10:28 AM)Sforza Wrote:

(05-18-2010, 07:51 AM)HayWire Wrote: Edit:
I wonder if they allowed gay marriage owo...

Canada allows gay marriage!