Scotland is pushing to become the first UK nation to introduce legislature approving same-sex marriage, though their plans are being opposed both by the Catholic Church and the Church of Scotland. Currently, Scotland allows for same-sex civil partnerships, but an entire “rainbow coalition” of organisations, which includes the Equality Network, Amnesty International, Unison and the Read more
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Imams tell all Muslims: vote to defend marriage
Friday, April 20th, 2012Imams in Glasgow have told all Muslims throughout Scotland not to vote for any local election candidate on 3 May who supports redefining marriage. The news will trouble the leaders of major parties, all of whom have indicated their personal support for the plan. A statement was issued yesterday by the Council of Glasgow Imams Read more
Britain’s top Catholic urges all Christians to wear cross
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric has urged Christians to wear a cross every day, following a number of cases in which people say their employers have barred them from doing so.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, will call in his Easter Sunday homily for Christians to “wear proudly a symbol of the cross of Christ on their garments each and every day of their lives”.
“I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ’s standards in your own daily life,” he will say in a service in the Scottish capital Edinburgh.
“I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.”
Read the article...Scotland’s labour wards: Catholics midwives need not apply
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012Two Catholic midwives in Scotland have been told by a court that they must supervise and support staff in the labour ward of their hospital who perform abortions irrespective of their religious convictions. As reported by Catholic News Agency, Scotland’s highest civil court ruled that the women’s religious liberties were not being infringed because “the Read more
Cardinal asks why not redefine marriage as three men or women
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Madness, a grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right, and a redefinition of reality is how Cardinal Keith O’Brien, leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland described proposals to redefine marriage so as to allow same-sex unions. In a hard-hitting column in the Sunday Telegraph, O’Brien went on to ask: ‘If marriage can be redefined so that it Read more
Catholic bigot jailed for eight months
Friday, October 21st, 2011Stephen Birrell, 28, from Glasgow, admitted posting the religiously prejudiced abuse earlier this year.
Sheriff Bill Totten said what Birrell had done was a hate crime which would not be tolerated by “the right thinking people of Glasgow and Scotland”.
Read the article...“Torchwood” star criticises Scottish Church
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011The openly gay actor John Barrowman has criticised the Catholic Church in Scotland for its recent attacks on gay marriage.
Read the article...Scottish archbishop tells Catholics not to kneel for communion
Friday, September 2nd, 2011The Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland has told Catholics in his archdiocese not to kneel to receive communion.
“The Faithful should follow the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, namely coming to communion in procession and standing to receive Holy Communion,” wrote Archbishop Mario Conti in a letter to all his priests, dated August 25.
“Standing in our Western culture is a mark of respect: kneeling at the altar rails (where they continue to exist) is not the practice envisaged by the instructions in the Missal,” he stated.
Read the article...UK nuclear weapons labelled “Shameful”
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Addressing a rally outside the Faslane naval base on Gare Loch, Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien labelled the UK Government’s nuclear weapons “shameful.” He urges the govenment to “do the right thing” and give up the weapons. Quoting the words of Pope Benedict XVI, he said: “In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only Read more