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Secondly, despite any impressions to the contrary, Jesus Christ in and through His Church, teaches that legal recognition of unions between homsexual persons is also against the objective moral law and must be opposed by every proffesed Catholic:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030731_homosexual-unions_en.html

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But I reserve the right to criticize those organizations when they set arbitrary and capricious boundaries. IMO, in less the School has also kicked out children from divorced or single parent homes they are being hypocritical.

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Regarding your comments about Bishop Morlino and your flawed interpretation of Diocesan funding —

I know many Catholics who label Bishop Morlino not only outstanding, but also very holy.

Diminished fund-raising results are due not to the Bishop, but to the economy – for example, in the last 2002 “recession,” which was much smaller than this one, tithing to Evangelical Churches was down 62% (http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/121-tithing-down-62-in-the-past-year ). In the present recession, (September of 2009), numerous religious groups,including Jewish, Lutheran, Evangelical and Baptist, experienced millions of dollars in reduced income which forced them to close seminaries, campuses, and retrench their organizations (http://articles.latimes.com/2009/sep/07/local/me-beliefs7 ).

Compared with these reports, the Diocese of Madison is not doing too badly right now in the midst of a severe recession.

Bishop Morlino’s own Cathedral Parish had a 18% INCREASE in donations last year. Cathedral Parish members contributed 175% of the amount requested by Bishop Morlino in last year’s Annual Diocesan Appeal, in the midst of the recession.

This holy man knows what he is doing, and his numerous supporters understand his and their mission.

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You really seem to have a vendetta against the good Bishop!

If the Bishop had $100,000 and it costs $350,000 annually to operate the Multicultural Center ((http://www.madisoncatholicherald.org/news/around-diocese/811-happy-reopening-of-catholic-multicultural-center.html), how could the Bishop keep it open? Can you pay less than 1/3 of your mortgage and expect to keep living in your house?

If the plight of the Multicultural Center moved the hearts of one particularly rich parish in Madison to reach deeper into their pockets in order to reopen the Center, may God bless them, and you don’t need to search for ways to bad-mouth the Bishop of Madison, who cooperated with, helped them, and gave them $100,000.

You also seem to have a poor understanding of the mission of the Catholic Church – the mission of the Church, the same as the mission of Christ, is primarily to TEACH the gospel. The charitable efforts are necessary, important, but secondary.

Just as UW Madison primarily TEACHES students what they should do in life, and does not open food pantries, so also the Church primarily teaches. Jesus Christ primarily taught, and did not organize His apostles to open soup kitchens to assist the poor as a primary focus.

The main focus of Christ, His apostles, and the Church, is to TEACH people to love God and one another – so that ALL people, not just Catholics or Christians, would carry out this work — so, yes, Madison SHOULD love and contribute to Haiti just as much as the Catholic Church does.

The Catholic Church does NOT exist for the purpose of doing the good deeds that the rest of the world (and Madison) does not feel like doing. It exists to TEACH and persuade the rest of the world (yes, and to teach and persuade Madison) the love of God and of neighbor, which is the message of the gospel, so that we ALL shoulder the responsibilities toward our fellow humans.

This teaching is not popular with some, who do not wish to shoulder these responsibilities, and prefer to leave that job to “religious” people.

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Kudos for the Haiti assistance – it sounds like the people of the Madison-based church were generous, unlike their leaders who willingly closed a mission in their own hometown. I wouldn’t expect the City of Madison to contribute anything to Haiti, that isn’t their mission unlike the mission of the Catholic Church.

How do you know what “Christian Charity” any of us practice? It is hard to believe that you impugn someone without having done your homework.

I know many Catholics who would not give the label “outstanding” to Bishop Morlino. Your welcome to your opinion, but I suspect the diminished fundraising results are in large part due to protests against his leadership.

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You shouldn’t bad-mouth the Bishop of Madison when he cuts spending in a recession. He cannot borrow from China or print extra dollars like Obama can. That is what reasonable people do when their budget shrinks — they cut spending what they don’t have.

Incidentally, when the Catholic Multi-Cultural Center was reopened one month after its closing, the Bishop was first in line with a $100,000 donation to the center. The City of Madison contributed $13,500. (http://www.madisoncatholicherald.org/news/around-diocese/811-happy-reopening-of-catholic-multicultural-center.html)

The Diocese of Madison also collected over $500,000. to assist Haitian earthquake victims (http://www.madisondiocese.org/). How much did Madison contribute?

Be careful whom you badmouth — again, the pot should not be calling the kettle black.

Hard to believe how people who practice little Christian charity can be the first to criticize others for not practicing Christian enough charity!

God has blessed us with an outstanding Bishop in Madison, and you should do more homework before you accuse him publicly and falsely.

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Meanwhile these parents pay the taxes for public schools they do not use in addition to the tuition for parochial schools. Most of these parents are not wealthy, but place a value on a Christian education. And they keep YOUR taxes down too.

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