Welcoming the Olympics - by the Carmelites

Scotland, the SNP, and same-sex Marriage

Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Deputy First Minister, today confirmed she will bring forward legislation but said it will include “important protections” for clergymen, teachers and parents who oppose the move.

She said she is working with the Home Office to amend UK equalities laws to ensure that celebrants cannot be prosecuted by gay couples if they refuse to conduct a marriage service.

But the SNP administration faces a backlash from religious leaders after the results of a public consultation, published to coincide with the announcement, showed 64 per cent of respondents opposed the change.

Only 36 per cent backed the move but Miss Sturgeon argued that other surveys showed a majority are in favour. A record 77,000 people responded to the consultation, three times as many as gave their views on the independence referendum.

The Deputy First Minister said the first gay marriages in Scotland are likely to take place at the start of 2015, the same year that the Coalition Government wants to make the change south of the Border.

This is ridiculous. I never liked the SNP from the get-go, and this just makes me want to cry. It's ridiculous, utterly ridiculous.
Here is the full thing.

Please pray

My cousin is to be married on Friday. He's currently in hospital in Toronto (yes, they flew him all the way to Toronto for something that they could have done here) for his heart. It's too weak for a transplant, though he's been given a pass to come home to be married. Please pray. That's why I've been away.

A note for Rochester

Readers, please pray for the Diocese of Rochester, New York, USA. We're all aware of the antics of ...certain people, and today, their Bishop had to submit the mandatory resignation letter. Please pray that orthodoxy, tradition (tried and true) and restored as belongs!

Troubling news for the Liverpool Dioese

Please pray for the Catholics of Liverpool, there is some bad news.
Read it here.

Pray for us!

St Richard, Ora Pro Nobis!

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In what has been called a “dangerous” precedent, Ontario’s Liberal government reached a key contract agreement on July 5th directly with the pro-homosexual Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) after the Ontario Catholic School Trustees Association (OCSTA) left the bargaining table late Wednesday night. OCSTA, which represents all Catholic school boards in the province, negotiates the contracts with its Catholic teachers, with the Ontario government acting as a go-between, but was stunned to find the province took over without any consultation.
Kathy Burtnik, vice-president of OCSTA, said negotiations broke off over concerns the deal on the table “did not represent the best interest of students.” She stated she was not aware that negotiations were under way between the government and the OECTA union after other unions representing elementary, high school and French school teachers walked away from the talks.
“At no point were we informed or was it even intimated that a potential agreement could be made between OECTA and the ministry, and we are absolutely opposed to any agreement made without our involvement,” Burtnik said, adding that cutting the school boards out of negotiation sets a dangerous precedent.
“We are dismayed at the dangerous precedent this agreement sets,” said Burtnik.
A spokesman for Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) said the agreement between the McGuinty government and the Catholic teachers’ union is an undemocratic attempt to make board trustees, who are the elected representatives of parents, irrelevant.
“By cutting out local government, that is the local boards of education, McGuinty has perverted democracy,” CLC’s Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews. “This move represents a hostile takeover of the education system by big government, and McGuinty is making the role of elected school officials totally irrelevant. The contempt McGuinty has for democracy is astounding.”

And on top of this, Toronto stopped funding Catholic education.

See my quote in the banner.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ontario-gvnt-sets-dangerous-precedent-of-bypassing-catholic-boards-in-teach 

A threat to the Sacred Liturgy...

and to people everywhere

Father Hunwicke has be ordained, and you can find pictures of his Priesting, here http://papastronsay.blogspot.ca/

Happy Dominion Day!