John Hagee Apologizes For Referring to Catholic Church as ‘Great Whore’
May 14, 2008
John Hagee, a popular US televangelist who backs Republican presidential candidate John McCain has apologised for calling the Catholic church “a great whore”.
“I want to express my deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful,” Texas-based preacher John Hagee wrote to Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights president William Donahue, who made the letter public.
Mr Hagee, 68, said that after speaking with Catholic friends and officials, “I now have an improved understanding of the Catholic Church, its relation to the Jewish faith, and the history of anti-Catholicism.”
A staunch supporter of Israel, Mr Hagee, leader of John Hagee Ministries, has in the past accused the Catholic Church of being anti-Semitic, in addition to branding it “the great whore”.
“In my zeal to oppose anti-Semitism and bigotry in all its ugly forms, I have often emphasised the darkest chapters in the history of Catholics and Protestant relations with the Jews,” he wrote.
“In the process, I may have contributed to the mistaken impression that the anti-Jewish violence of the Crusades and the Inquisition defines the Catholic church. It most certainly does not.”
Mr Donahue’s response was positive. “The tone of Hagee’s letter is sincere,” he said.
Mr Hagee is known for controversial statements. In 2006 he said Hurricane Katrina, that killed some 1,500 people the year before in Louisiana, was God’s way of punishing New Orleans for scheduling a gay parade the day the storm struck, August 29.
Senator McCain has publicly condemned Mr Hagee’s comments, but has not refused his endorsement, made on February 27.
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Blood Moon Eclipses, Signs In The Skies
May 9, 2008
Will Jesus Christ return to Earth in the year 2015?
And can studying NASA’s website provide evidence for such a scenario?
A minister who promotes the Old Testament roots of Christianity suggests a rare string of lunar and solar eclipses said to fall on God’s annual holy days seven years from now could herald what’s come to be known as the “Second Coming” of Jesus.
“God wants us to look at the biblical calendar,” says Mark Biltz, pastor of El Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Wash. “The reason we need to be watching is [because] He will signal His appearance. But we have to know what to be watching as well. So we need to be watching the biblical holidays.”
In a video interview on the Prophecy in the News website, Biltz said he’s been studying prophecies that focus on the sun and moon, even going back to the book of Genesis where it states the lights in the sky would be “be for signs, and for seasons.”
“It means a signal, kind of like ‘one if by land, two if by sea.’ It’s like God wants to signal us,” he said. “The Hebrew word implies … not only is it a signal, but it’s a signal for coming or His appearing.”
Biltz adds the word “seasons” implies appointed times for God’s feasts and festivals.
“When we hear the word feast, we think food. But the Hebrew word has nothing to do with food. It has to do with a divine appointment, as if God has a day timer, and He says, ‘OK, I’m gonna mark the day and the time when I’m going to signal My appearance.’”
In the Old Testament, the prophet Joel states, “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.” (Joel 2:31)
Catholics Have Become Key Clinton Base: Analyst
May 6, 2008
White Roman Catholics have become a key base for Sen. Hillary Clinton in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination and one she needs to win by huge margin, a conference on faith and politics heard on Monday.
William Galston of the Brookings Institution presented one of the most detailed portraits to date of the Catholic vote in last month’s Pennsylvania primary, which the New York senator won to keep her battle with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama alive.
It is a portrait that has relevance as she campaigns before crucial primaries on Tuesday in North Carolina and Indiana.
“Catholics have emerged in the course of this primary season as part of Clinton’s base that she not only has to win but win with a strong majority,” Galston said.
Reno’s Swarm of Quakes Defies The Odds
May 3, 2008
Residents of the Reno suburb of Mogul are so shaken by an intense swarm of earthquakes over the past two months that some have taken to sleeping outside in campers and trucks.
Since an April 25 temblor knocked pictures off the walls and broke the family crystal, Phil Oberlander has spent nights in his Cuddy Cabin boat parked in front of the house.
“I was in a car wreck that was less violent than the earthquake,” Oberlander said. “When you get a hundred of them in one day, you start to feel like you are in Berlin in 1944.”
Since Feb. 28, more than 1,000 earthquakes have struck the small community about 2 miles west of Reno. The strongest one, of 4.7 magnitude, hit a week ago, knocking over furniture and cracking walls. Along with California, Nevada is one of the most seismically active states in the country. Nevada experienced magnitude 6 quakes in Verdi, west of Reno, in 1948 and in Reno in 1914.
But scientists say the “Mogul earthquake sequence” is unusual.
“Normally, Nevada and California earthquakes are 5 to 10 kilometers deep, and these here are unusually shallow,” said Rasool Anooshehpoor, research associate professor at the Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada. “Hopefully, we can learn and see what causes them, but right now I don’t think we have enough information.”
Scientists are also puzzled over the progression of the swarms - usually, the main shock is followed by a series of smaller quakes that eventually fade out. In the Mogul sequence, smaller temblors led to a large one, Anooshehpoor said.
On April 25, for example, the area was hit by a magnitude 3.3 quake, followed by a 4.7 and at least 30 smaller ones. Since then, the scientists have counted more than 600 quakes.
“It is certainly intriguing, and it will be interesting to see when all this comes together,” said David Hill, a veteran seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. “We see a lot of sequences like this in volcanic areas, where they are associated with stresses as the magna moves around.”
US Sends Second Aircraft Carrier To The Gulf
May 1, 2008
America said it had despatched a second aircraft carrier group to the Gulf on Wednesday, as the State Department branded Iran the world’s “most active” state sponsor of terrorism.
Robert Gates, the defence secretary, said the deployment of two aircraft carrier battle groups in the Gulf was a “reminder” to Tehran of US determination to defend its interests in the region.
The Abraham Lincoln moved through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday to join the Harry Truman, which is not due to leave the Gulf until the weekend.
The nuclear-powered Lincoln takes over as the flagship of a massive multi-nation fleet policing the world’s most important oil transit corridor at a time of increasing tension with Iran.
Over 80% of US Christians back Israel
April 14, 2008
Over 80 percent of US Christians - including Evangelicals, mainstream Protestants and Catholics - say they have a “moral and biblical obligation” to support Israel, according to the results of a recent poll released last Thursday.
Commissioned by bestselling author Joel Rosenberg’s Joshua Fund aid organization, the poll showed that while support for Israel was strongest among Evangelical Christians at 89 percent, an overwhelming 76 percent of Catholics also agreed they have a divine mandate to back the reborn Jewish state.
Well over half of the 1,000 Christians polled said Israel should not divide Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians, and a 76 percent majority warned that a sovereign Palestinian state either could or certainly would become a terrorist and terror-supporting entity.
Two-thirds of American Christians believe Israel is completely justified in its concern that a nuclear-armed Iran would attack the Jewish state or facilitate others in the region in doing so.
And finally, 45 percent of respondents said that US presidential candidates’ support for and commitment to defending Israel from regional threats would influence their votes in the upcoming American presidential election.
Physicist Says Time Travel Is Not Only Possible, but Likely
April 3, 2008
Time travel? Teleportation? No problem, says renowned physicist Michio Kaku.
Kaku, a professor at the City University of New York, is creating quite a stir in Britain with the release of his new book, “The Physics of the Impossible.”
On this side of the pond, outlandish claims in books are recognized as, well, a good way to sell books.
But in Blighty, Kakus being treated as if hes Doctor Who informing dim-witted humans about the wonders of the Universe, with front-page treatment Wednesday in both the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. Even the normally staid Economist is chiming in.
Vatican: Islam Surpasses Roman Catholicism as World’s Largest Religion
March 31, 2008
Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.
“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican’s yearbook.
He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
“It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer,” the monsignor said.
Formenti said that the data refer to 2006. The figures on Muslims were put together by Muslim countries and then provided to the United Nations, he said, adding that the Vatican could only vouch for its own data.
When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, Formenti said.
Spokesmen for the Vatican and the United Nations did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment Sunday.
Canadian Hate Crime Laws Shuts Down Christian Ministry
March 22, 2008
The Canadian government has ordered a Christian ministry that teaches doctrine and the differences between Christians and cults shut down because its reference materials were “critical” of the beliefs of those who are not Christian, WND has learned.
So what used to be called MacGregor Ministries with offerings in how to recognize and eliminate “faulty fads” in Christian churches has been re-created in the United States, and now operates under the name MM Outreach Media Ministries.
Lorri MacGregor, who has dedicated her life to explaining the straight and narrow of Christian beliefs since she found her way out of the Jehovah’s Witness system years ago, told WND Canada’s version of a “hate crimes” law prevented their work from continuing as it had for nearly 30 years.
“Canada is no longer a Christian nation,” she said. “And watch out America!”
The issue of the ministry’s charities license in Canada, allowing it to operate as a ministry, came up during a routine audit of the ministry’s finances, which was uneventful.
“The auditor that originally looked at our books told us her supervisor had said she wanted us shut down,” Mrs. MacGregor told WND. “Canada has very strong hate laws.”
She said the ministry points out the differences between Christianity and various cult beliefs, but also with respect, and never as a proponent. She said the work always is in response to a question or issue.
“When a group such as Jehovah’s Witnesses said of our doctrine we’re worshipping a freakish three-headed God (the Trinity), we should be able to respond,” she said. “We say, ‘Here’s the doctrine of the Trinity and here is where it is in the Scripture.’”
That, however, violates Canada’s hate crimes laws, and the ministry was ordered to either make wholesale changes in its presentations, or shut down.
Hillary’s Secret Weapon - Catholics
March 18, 2008
Hillary Clinton’s hopes for saving her candidacy by winning in Tuesday’s crucial primaries in Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, and Texas may hinge on a specific voting bloc — Catholics.
According to CNN’s Anderson Cooper show on Monday night, Catholics vote for Democratic candidates by substantial margins, and this year exit polls showed that Hillary has won the Catholic vote in every Democratic primary but that in Connecticut.
In general elections, Catholics vote Democratic over Republican by 44 percent to 41 percent, and have favored Hillary over Obama in this year’s prinaries.
In California, Hillary won 66 percent of the Catholic vote to Obama’s 30 percent and took New York by the same lopsided margins.
In Massachusetts, it was 64 percent for Hillary and 33 percent for Obama, despite Ted Kennedy’s and John Kerry’s endorsements of Obama. Both Kennedy and Kerry are Catholics.
Obama, CNN’s Gary Tuchman recalled, won his home state of Illinois but even there lost among Catholics.
Professor Wendy Schiller, who teaches political science at Brown University, explained “The Catholic vote today in America, particularly Democratic Catholics, is dominated by older women.” She said that such women are key to Hillary’s success among Catholics.
“There are more women who identify themselves as Catholic than men, and they are more predictable in their voting behavior. They tend to vote more and they sometimes dominate the household. They volunteer more; they tend to get involved in campaigns more; and they care about the kinds of issues that Hillary Clinton has been emphasizing.
Said Tuchman, “Catholics have become the ultimate swing vote. Since 1972, the presidential candidate who received the most votes in the general election, received the most Catholic support. In the 2000 election, a very interesting example, Al Gore lost it, but won the popular vote but also won the Catholic vote.”
CNN noted that of the 10 states in the country with the highest percentage of Catholics, Obama has only won one state overall, Connecticut.
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