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Issue Date: 09/06/03

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Sidestep

Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops, speaking at the annual convention of the Religion Newswriters
Association in Seattle, attempted to divert the world's attention from the
Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal last week by stating that sex-abuse is
a societal problem and is not confined to the RCC. He said in part,"If society
has any hope of eliminating this terrible exploitation of our youth, then
we also have to face up to this scourge as it exists in the family, in school
systems and in all forms of professional and volunteer work with young
people." 

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Celibacy Continues

160 Roman Catholic priests from the Milwaukee (WI) archdiocese had recently
called for opening the priesthood to married men because of the shortage
of priests (especially straight priests). Bishop Wilton Gregory, the president
of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to Milwaukee Archbishop
Timothy Dolan which affirmed his support for celibacy. Gregory wrote, in
part, "It is by no means clear that, as their letter states, a change in
the discipline of clerical celibacy would necessarily bring about an increase
in the numbers of candidates for priesthood." It was reported that Dolan
wholeheartedly agreed.

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Burning Man

Some 30,000 people gathered the week leading upto Labor Day for the annual
"Burning Man" event. The event was held this year in the Black Rock Desert,
120 miles north of Reno, Nevada. The official webpage for the rally says
that "Burning Man is an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated
to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance."

The website described the theme of this year: "This year's theme is an attempt
to reinvent the quality of faith as it inspires the creation of religion.
Our purpose is to disregard assertions of belief and concentrate instead
on the experience of play. Beliefs contain, define, and limit meaning. They
reduce truth to a rational commodity. But play can free us to envision truths
of which we have no proof or warrant. Such play, as we conceive it, breaks
down the distinction that divides belief from make-believe. Whole-hearted
play induces self-surrender to realities beyond the scope of reasoned thought.
Beyond Belief invites you to attend to what is deep within you and unite
it with a world we can't possess."

The annual temporary "city" is shaped like a pentagon and houses several
"temples" with the main temple being a giant pyramid. Atop the 80 ft structure
is the wooden effigy of a man outlined in blue neon. On the last day of the
vent (Sept 1) the "Burning" of the effigy took place. Tickets for the event
increase in price as the start date approaches causing some attendees to
pay hundreds of dolars per admission. The event is like a Mardi Gras, without
the merchandising, attracting hedonists from many sinful walks of life.

James 4:3-4 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask
amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with
God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of
God.

lusts = Strong's Greek 2237.
hedone -
(hay-don-ay') from handano (to please); sensual delight;
by implication, desire:--lust, pleasure.

The Greek word means "the pleasure for right now." Instant gratification.
Hedonists want it their way RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW! Living only for the moment
hedonists refuse to consider consequences or eternity.

2 Timothy 3:1-9 This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying
the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep
into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with
divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist
the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they
shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men,
as theirs also was.

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Historical Happenings

August 31

1181 - Death of Pope Alexander III, Under Alexander a council confirmed the
exclusive right of papal elections to the college of cardinals.

1216 - Pope Honorius III is crowned in Rome

1534 - Jan of Leyden declares himself King David as he leads a peasant revolt.

1535 - Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII who had
been declared by an earlier pope as "Most Christian King" and "Defender of
the Faith."

1688 - Death of English Puritan clergyman and writer John Bunyan, 69. Imprisoned
several times between 1660 and 1672, Bunyan used these periods of isolation
to pen his two literary masterpieces, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
(1666) and Pilgrim's Progress (167 .

September 1

0069 - Traditional date of destruction of Jerusalem

1159 - Adrian IV, [Nicole Breakspear], only English pope (1154-59),dies

1598 - Spanish king Philip II ("Scourge of Heretics") receives last
rites/sacraments

1739 - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal

1803 - In Boston, the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
(SPCK) was instituted. It was the first tract society established in North
America.

1807 - Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason charges growing out of an alleged
plot to set up an independent empire in the nation's south and west. At the
time, Burr was vice president of the United States during the Thomas Jefferson
administration.

1938 - Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews

1939 - Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill

1941 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Star of David

1948 - Communist form North China People's Republic

1948 - UN's World Health Organization forms

1962 - Population Control promoter The United Nations warns Earth population
has hit 3 billion.

September 2

1547 - Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians

1732 - Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome

1789 - US Treasury Department established by Congress

1919 Communist Party of America organized in Chicago

1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)
anchored in Tokyo Harbor. Foreign Minister Shigemitsu led the Japanese
delegation, with General Douglas MacArthur accepting their surrender on behalf
of the US government

1990 - Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF

September 3

0590 - Gregory the Great was consecrated the 64th Catholic pope, ruling 14
years. Gregory's administration took responsibility for converting the
Anglo-Saxon tribes in England, chiefly through the work of St. Augustine
of Canterbury.

1189 - England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster,
30 Jews are massacred

1658 - James I, king of England (1603-25), dies at 92 1752 - This day never
happened nor next 10 ... we explain: This date became September 14th, when
Great Britain (including Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the American colonies)
officially implemented the Gregorian Calendar (developed by Pope Gregory
XIII in 1582 to replace the Julian calendar). British people riot thinking
the govt stole 11 days of their lives.

1783 - Treaty of Paris signed (ending the US Revolutionary War) 1852 - Anti
Jewish riots break out in Stockholm 1940 - Nazi Germany's SS bans Free masons,
Rotary & Red Cross

1946 - Founder Sidney N. Correll established United World Mission. This
inter-denominational agency focuses on evangelism, church planting and
'Christian' education in 13 world countries.

1954 - Pope Pius X canonized a saint

1978 - Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff

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Dalai Lama Honored by Jesuits

The Dalai Lama presided over an interfaith service comprised of representatives
from 25 religions at the University of San Francisco. The Dalai Lama was
invited to the Jesuit-operated university to receive an "honorary doctorate
of humane letters." The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader preached his ecumenical
message trying to unite the world's faiths saying "peace, peace." On a sixteen
day tour the Dalai will end up in Washington D.C. on ... yes, you guessed
it ... Sept. 11th ... to meet with members of Congress and the Bush
administration.

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Knock Down The Strawman

Not to be outdone by some Tibetan prophet ... Pope John Paul II told the
Coptic Church of the Assembly of the Catholic Hierarchy of Egypt that religions
of the world should unite to denounce terrorism to counter the possibility
that people may think religion has something to do with such violence. JPII
said that public opinion "could be tempted to impute [terrorism] to causes
of religious origin." He advised "that the religions of the world join forces
to denounce terrorism and to work together in the service of justice, peace
and fraternity among men."

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More Historic Happenings

September 4

0422 - Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

0476 - Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in West, is deposed

1553 - Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at the
stake

1645 - The first Lutheran church building erected in America was dedicated
at Easton (near Bethlehem), Pennsylvania.

1813 - "The Religious Remembrancer" (later renamed "The Christian Observer")
was first published in Philadelphia. It was the first weekly religious newspaper
in the U.S., and in the world.

1939 - The Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated

1973 - The Assemblies of God opened its first theological graduate school
in Springfield, MO, making it the second Pentecostal denomination to establish
its own school of theology. (The first such school was opened by Oral Roberts
in Tulsa.)

September 5

1566 - Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71

1622 - Richelieu becomes Cardinal

1634 - Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III & Catholic Spain beat
Sweden & German protestants

1750 - Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all
Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods

1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia

1870 - Three Roman Catholic universities were founded in the United States
on this exact same date: St. John's in New York City, Loyola in Chicago,
and Canisius in Buffalo, New York -- They who control the youth control the
future.

1950 - Baptist Bible College was founded in Springfield, MO, under auspices
of the Baptist Bible Fellowship. With an enrollment of over 2,000, it is
today one of the largest Bible colleges in America.

1990 - Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West

1997 - Mother Teresa, Nobel (1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87

September 6

1620 - 149 Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England to the New World

1628 - Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony.

1901 - Pres William McKinley, shot by alleged anarchist Leon Czolgosz at
Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, died eight days later - and vice president
Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency. Jesuit involvement highly suspected.
From 1841-1901 no less than four US Presidents were killed by means of the
fulfillment of the Jesuit Oath.

1907 - Pius X issued the encyclical "Pascendi dominici gregis," in which
he condemned the "modernist" movement within the various branches of Christendom.
The document also established councils to combat these "modern errors."

1940 - The National Christian Council of Japan organized its churches into
a single body, with complete autonomy from Western church control. The single
Protestant structure thus formed was named the United Church of Christ in
Japan.

1941 - All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star

1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto

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Virgin Birth Over Evolution

The notion that people mostly believe in evolution and that a relative few
believe in the bible was contradicted by a recent survey that appeared in
the New York Times. Most Americans are not quite ready to "throw out the
miracle baby with the primordial bath." According to "PreachingToday," Americans
are three times as likely to believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus (83 percent)
as in evolution (28 percent)….Not only do 91 percent of [American] Christians
say they believe in the Virgin Birth, but so do an astonishing 47 percent
of U.S. non-Christians. ~ Citation: Nicholas D. Kristof, "Believe It,
or Not," N.Y. Times (8-15-03)

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Pure as Ivory

In 1879, a careless worker at Proctor & Gamble accidently overchurned
a batch of soap causing it to float. The public called for this new pure
P&G white soap. Harley Procter was thinking that "P&G White Soap"
would not sell as well as something with more of a catchy phrase. One day
in church, Procter read from Psalm 45:8 "All your garments are scented with
myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the IVORY places, by which they have made
you glad." From that day on, the floating soap was to be called Ivory.

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Searching For A Vessel  
 [submitted by Steve Bruns - Moses Lake,
WA]

The Master was searching for a vessel  to use;

On the shelf there were many - which one would He choose?

Take me, cried the gold one, I'm shiny and bright,

I'm of great value and I do things just right.

My beauty and luster will outshine the rest

And for someone like You, Master, gold would be the best!

The Master passed on with no word at all;

He looked at a silver urn, narrow and tall;

I'll serve You, dear Master, I'll pour out Your wine

And I'll be at Your table whenever You dine,

My lines are so graceful, my carvings so true,

And my silver will always compliment You.

Unheeding the Master passed on to the brass,

It was widemouthed and shallow, and polished like glass.

Here! Here! cried the vessel, I know I will do,

Place me on Your table for all men to view.

Look at me, called the goblet of crystal so clear,

My transparency shows my contents so dear,

Though fragile am I, I will serve You with pride,

And I'm sure I'll be happy in Your house to abide.

The Master came next to a vessel of wood,

Polished and carved, it solidly stood.

You may use me, dear Master, the wooden bowl said,

But I'd rather You used me for fruit, not for bread!

Then  the Master looked down and saw a vessel of clay.

Empty and broken it helplessly lay.

No hope had the vessel that the Master might choose,

To cleanse and make whole, to fill and to use.

Ah!  This is the vessel I've been hoping to find,

I will mend and use it and make it all Mine.

I need not the vessel with pride of its self;

Nor the one who is narrow to sit on the shelf;

Nor the one who is bigmouthed and shallow and loud;

Nor one who displays his contents so proud;

Not the one who thinks he can do all things just right;

But this plain earthy vessel filled with My power and might.

Then gently He lifted the vessel of clay.

Mended and cleansed it and filled it that day.

Spoke to it kindly. There's work you must do,

Just pour out to others as I pour into you.

~ Author Unknown

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Prayer Request Update

[excerpted from Rose Halleys Prayer List]
ARMSTRONG, GARNER TED has been moved from ICU into a
room, where he will probably stay through the weekend.  No visitors
are allowed except family.  After going home he has been advised that
he should attend ONLY one Feast site (no traveling around) and take it very
easy.  Continue your prayers on his behalf.

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