Catholic bishop

Yeah.

You gotta be a Catholic Bishop.

Exactly.

And at the same

And there's a document circulated called the Castle Document, which was actually a contingency plan, it seems, by the British that they were going to arrest all the separatists and seize their arms.

And they were also going to do things like they were going to arrest the Catholic Bishop of Dublin and stuff just for, you know, they were just going to keep them.

Just to pour petrol on the fire.

Yeah, and so on, you know.

That to me is a sign things are actually going in a better direction.

This also from zeal.com, which is operated by catholicvote.org. CatholicVote.org president and CEO Kelsey Reinhart is calling on Catholic bishops to speak out after former...

White House occupant Joe Biden accepted an award from Planned Parenthood of Delaware at its September 24th fundraising banquet.

Quote, I am begging Catholic bishops to stand against this public scandal for the good of the soul of Joe Biden, battling cancer and for the spiritual health of our nation.

Even now, more lives are at stake in Virginia, Nevada, Idaho, Missouri, all because this was tolerated for far too long by far too many.

This referring, of course, to Canon 915, which says those that persist in obstinate public sin basically must be excommunicated.

I think.

I have an article here about the United States Conference of so-called Catholic Bishops issuing this greeting to the Jewish people for their Yom Kippur holiday, extending their warmest wishes for a meaningful and peaceful day, and all of this silly stuff.

I'll just read this one little thing here.

He says, these themes... of the jewish holidays also uh resonate deeply with us as catholics and our relationship with the jewish people is not simply a matter of dialogue between two religious communities it is rooted in the deep spiritual bonds that unite us um goes on to say all other kinds of silly stuff but you have things like this where they are exchanging all of their lovely fraternal greetings with the Jewish people.

It was attended by experts in scripture and other participants who reflected on the Bible and its relevance to the life and mission of the Church.

A representative of the Catholic Bishops of Angola and Saotome, Bishop Esther Nislau Chindekase of Dundu Diocese and Vice President of the Bishops' Conference, said that the Biblical mission cannot focus exclusively on a person's spiritual needs while overlooking material and social realities.

He called for a pastoral approach that is attentive to Africa's concrete realities as the church seeks to respond to the different forms of hunger affecting people across the continent.

You are tuned to the English-Africa service of Vatican Radio.

He arrived in Malawi last Thursday as a special envoy of Pope Leo XIV.

at the celebrations marking the 125 years since the establishment of the Catholic Church in the country.

A few hours after his arrival, he met with the country's Catholic bishops.

And on Friday, he met with the representatives of the Catholic Women's Association, Catholic Men's Association, youth, Catholic members of Parliament, and other lay groups.

Castro is due in federal court Friday on charges that he lied to investigators about the shooting.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops creating a task force on artificial intelligence.

NPR's Jason DeRose reports on the move in response to Pope Leo's encyclical on AI earlier this year.

The bishops say the task force will promote policies and practices that protect human dignity, religious liberty, democratic institutions, workers, families, and vulnerable populations.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says damage assessments are underway and the pipeline should be back online soon.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is launching a task force on human dignity as AI develops.

The bishops met with tech companies and AI specialists to discuss preventing misuse and ensuring human oversight.

More than a dozen bishops also went to Capitol Hill to urge Congress to adopt AI safety standards and protections for children online.

And that's fucked up.

So, uh, Catholic bishop, Cardinal, you know, priest, I don't care.

Like you don't, you don't overrule God, dude.

Like you just don't.

Um, and if you think you do, you're wrong.

So there's that.

And especially if you've lived in the United States and you're a United States Catholic bishop, then what the fuck are we doing here, bud? Like, what are we doing? Like, you know, better, you know, better.

So very disappointing, very frustrating, honestly, to see that happen.