<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Kedves Lista<br>Az én gyors értelmezésem szerint tipikus liberális, csúsztatós sajtó produktumról van szó: az abortuszpárti civil szervezet 'Catholics for Choice' vezetőjétől (John O'Brian) vett két hosszú idézettel kezd, miszerint itt az ideje, hogy a pápa elkezdje járni a nyitottabb utat. Az evangélium ehelyett a keskeny ösvényről beszél.<br>
</div>Továbbá, mielőtt Ferenc pápa szavait idézné az abortuszról, tehát, hogy a gyermeket elutasítani az életből (=abortálni), v. elutasítással fogadni az életbe bűn, ezt megelőzően idézi a pápa köv. szavait, miszerint "Nem ragaszkodhatunk csak az abortusz, a homoszexuálisok házassága és a fogamzásgátlás kérdésköreihez."<br>
</div><div>Aztán jönnek a felmérések eredményei.<br></div>A cikk legvégén, amikor már kifújt a figyelem idézi az USA érsekének szavait, hogy a pápa azt érthette ezalatt, hogy nem szabad csak elítéléssel fordulni a bűnösökhöz, hanem itt a gyengéd szeretet, az irgalom, és a szeretet hangján kell szólni.<br>
</div>Szeretettel,<br>Emőke<br><div><br><div><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></font><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Elizabeth Csordas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ecsordas@rcn.com" target="_blank">ecsordas@rcn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica" color="#ffffcc"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2013/0921/American-Catholics-like-what-they-re-hearing-from-Pope-Francis-video" target="_blank">http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2013/0921/American-Catholics-like-what-they-re-hearing-from-Pope-Francis-video</a></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:white"><font face="Georgia" size="6" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#333333">American Catholics like what they're hearing from Pope Francis
(+video)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;font-weight:bold">Pope Francis said in an interview this
week that the Catholic Church's emphasis needs to turn from sexual issues to
the ‘freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.’ Polls show most
American Catholics agree.</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><font face="Arial" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666">By</span></font><font face="Arial" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666"> </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666"><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/About/Staff/Brad-Knickerbocker" target="_blank"><font color="#205d87"><span style="color:#205d87;text-decoration:none">Brad Knickerbocker</span></font></a>, </span></font><i><font face="Arial" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;font-style:italic">Staff writer</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666"> </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666">/ </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666">September 21, 2013</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica" color="#ffffcc"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Pope+Francis" title="Title: Pope Francis" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#205d87"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#205d87;background:white;text-decoration:none">Pope Francis</span></font></a></span></font><span><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background:white"><span style="float:none;word-spacing:0px"> </span></span></font></span><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background:white">shook up the Roman Catholic world this week with his comments
about abortion, contraception, and gay marriage, saying such moral and
doctrinal issues should not be overemphasized at the cost of “losing the
freshness and fragrance of the Gospel."</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">In the<span> </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+States" title="Title: United States" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="#205d87"><span style="color:#205d87;text-decoration:none">United States</span></font></a>,
many Catholics hailed what the pope had to say in a lengthy interview in a
Jesuit publication, which may not be surprising given attitudes here seen as
more liberal than official church doctrine from </span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">Rome</span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">• By 55-43 percent, most American Catholics say abortion
should be legal in “all or most cases,” according to a Washington
Post/ABC poll in July.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">• Eighty-two percent of Catholics in the US say birth
control is morally acceptable, Gallup found last year – not much less
than the 90 percent approval among all adults polled.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">• In March, a Quinnipiac University National
Poll found that most Catholic voters (54-38 percent) support same-sex
marriage – higher than the 47-43 percent general approval rate.
"Catholic voters are leading American voters toward support for same-sex
marriage," said<span> </span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">Peter</span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">
Brown, assistant director of the<span> </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Quinnipiac+University+Polling+Institute" title="Title: Quinnipiac University Polling Institute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="#205d87"><span style="color:#205d87;text-decoration:none">Quinnipiac University Polling Institute</span></font></a>. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">• Also, according to the Quinnipiac Poll, most American
Catholics say priests should be allowed to marry (62-30 percent), say the
church’s ban on contraception should be relaxed (64-28 percent, including
68-24 percent among women), and support Present Obama's position that religious-based
institutions, such as hospitals and universities, must arrange for their
insurance companies to provide birth control coverage for employees (51-41
percent).</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">“We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay
marriage and the use of contraceptive methods," Francis said in the
article published Thursday in Jesuit journals in 16 countries. "We have to
find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to
fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the
Gospel."</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">In a move no doubt intended to answer those church members and
clergy – including some bishops – holding to a more traditionally
conservative view, the pope on Friday spoke out on abortion.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">Speaking to Catholic doctors at the<span> </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/The+Roman+Catholic+Church" title="Title: The Roman Catholic Church" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="#205d87"><span style="color:#205d87;text-decoration:none">Vatican</span></font></a>,
Pope Francis condemned the “throwaway culture” abortion promotes,
saying, “Our response to this mentality is a ‘yes’ to life,
decisive and without hesitation.”</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">“Every unborn child, though unjustly condemned to be
aborted, has the face of the Lord, who even before his birth, and then as soon
as he was born, experienced the rejection of the world,” he said.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">Still, liberal Catholics in the </span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">US</span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333"> welcomed the
pope’s message in the earlier interview</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;background:white"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;background:white">“This message resonates with so many
Catholics because it reflects our personal experiences—Catholics are gay
and lesbian; Catholics use birth control and Catholics have abortions,”
Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, said in a statement.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">“We truly hope
that this is just the start; that Pope Francis doesn’t only talk the
talk, but also walks the walk,” Mr. O’Brien said. “We hope he
takes steps to ensure that his more open view of how the church should deal with
people trickles down to his brother bishops around the world, who oversee large
numbers of hospitals and medical centers.”</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">“We also hope
that this attitude starts to take effect immediately at the United Nations,
where the </span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">Vatican</span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333"> continues to take extreme positions against contraception,
abortion and sexual and reproductive rights, having a very negative impact on
the lives of Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world,” he said.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">As the Pew Research
Center’s Religion & Public Life Project pointed out last week, the
pope has made headlines by condemning the use of chemical weapons, leading
a prayer vigil for peace in Syria, vowing to reform the Vatican
bureaucracy, washing the feet of young prisoners (including two
women) during a Holy Thursday ceremony, and taking a humble approach to the
trappings of the papacy, including his decision to reside in a modest
residence rather than more spacious accommodations. </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">A Pew poll taken Sept.
4-8 shows that 79 percent of US Catholics view Pope Francis favorably.
“Francis receives his strongest support from those who say they attend
Mass at least once a week, with 86% of this group expressing a favorable view
of the pontiff,” Pew reported.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">The pope’s
evident popularity is not lost on the church hierarchy in the </span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">United States</span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">Bishop Thomas Tobin of
</span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">Providence</span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">, </span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">Rhode Island</span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">, last week said in an interview with his diocesan
newspaper that he was "a little bit disappointed" that Francis hadn't
spoken out about abortion.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">On Friday, in an
official statement responding to the pope's remarkable interview in La Civilta Cattolica,
Bishop Tobin said he admired Francis' leadership.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">"Being a Catholic
doesn't mean having to choose between doctrine and charity, between truth and
love. It includes both. We are grateful to Pope Francis for reminding us of
that vision," Tobin said.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">Cardinal<span> </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Timothy+Dolan" title="Title: Timothy Dolan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="#205d87"><span style="color:#205d87">Timothy Dolan</span></font></a>, who as head of the US
Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken a lead role in voicing the </span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">U.S.</span></font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">
church's opposition to contraception and gay marriage, said the church isn't
the only one obsessed with such issues – today's culture is.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">"Every pope has a
different strategy," Cardinal Dolan told "CBS This Morning."
''What I think he's saying is, those are important issues and the church has
got to keep talking about them, but we need to talk about them in a fresh new
way. If we keep kind of a negative finger-wagging tone, it's
counterproductive.”</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">“I think what
he’s saying is those are important issues, but we need to talk about
those issues in a fresh, new way,” Dolan said. “Instead of talking
about these hot-button issues, why don’t we talk about tenderness and
mercy and the love we have for one another?”</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">To which most American
Catholics evidently say, “Amen.”</span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;word-spacing:0px"><i><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;font-style:italic">This report includes material from the
Associated Press.</span></font></i></p>
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