{"id":520973,"date":"2010-04-08T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011557400_portlandarchbishopcitesridiculeofcatholicchurchinmedia.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-08T18:19:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:19:43","slug":"portland-archbishop-cites-ridicule-of-catholic-church-in-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520973","title":{"rendered":"Portland archbishop cites ridicule of Catholic Church in media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Same thing happened in 2008 \u2018Death with Dignity\u2019 campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n

After reading the Catholic Church called recent media coverage of how the church handled sexual-abuse cases involving priests part of an \u201canti-Catholic hate campaign\u201d [\u201cPortland archbishop assails news media,\u201d NWWednesday, April 7], I was reminded of a similar experience during the \u201cDeath with Dignity\u201d Initiative 1000 campaign in 2008.<\/p>\n

When the Yes On 1000 campaign issued a news release that questioned how the bankrupt Archdiocese of Portland could afford to contribute $5,000 to the opposition campaign here while simultaneously claiming to be too poor to compensate victims of sex abuse there, we were accused of Catholic bashing.<\/p>\n

No wonder they have such a serious public-relations problem.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robb Miller, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n

The bishops are the victims<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fairness dictates a response to your scathing editorial unjustly excoriating the Catholic Church [\u201cA Vatican on defense,\u201d Opinion, April 5].<\/p>\n

Consider first, inflicted on the world is a depraved sexual revolution that reduces sacred human sexual expression to a puny erotic game in which all, including children, are urged to participate. Then the institutions of the Catholic Church are infiltrated by homosexual activists who deny the Catholic faith, proclaim there are no sexual sins and sexually abuse pubescent boys.<\/p>\n

Then those attempting to silence the church and Christ\u2019s teachings of love persecute the victim \u2014the Catholic Church \u2014when its spiritually oriented bishops make mistakes in how best to subdue this evil while also trying to protect the church from great harm.<\/p>\n

Today, the Catholic Church surpasses all in having the most widespread and effective programs in place to eradicate this evil. Yet no credit is given for the remarkable progress that has been made in fighting the deadly cancer inflicted upon the church. Have you no shame?<\/p>\n

The old liberal maxim lives on \u2014 persecute the victim and not the perpetrator.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jack Stockman, Mill Creek<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Same thing happened in 2008 \u2018Death with Dignity\u2019 campaign After reading the Catholic Church called recent media coverage of how the church handled sexual-abuse cases involving priests part of an \u201canti-Catholic hate campaign\u201d [\u201cPortland archbishop assails news media,\u201d NWWednesday, April 7], I was reminded of a similar experience during the \u201cDeath with Dignity\u201d Initiative 1000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}