Say a Hail Mary and Join Amnesty.....

could have left the picture of Mel Gibson on the poster
he's just as bonkers!

Hello everybody! I've been very busy with the end of year play. We are performing "Alice in Wonderland." Which should be interesting as more than half the cast are off their tiny little minds on Ritalin. But despite being a very busy bee I still have time to get annoyed with Cardinal Renato Martino of the Catholic Church. With a name like that he was hardly going to be a Presbyterian!

Cardinal Martino, an unmarried and probably celibate man but you never know, has announced that the Vatican will not be providing any more funds for Amnesty International. And he has gone on to add that Catholics throughout the world should desist from giving any money to them as well. There was no direct threat to all our souls if we continued to donate to Amnesty but you know it's implied. Amnesty's crime was to make a slight change to it's abortion policy to one that states "We are saying broadly that to criminalise women's management of their sexual reproductive right is the wrong answer."

Cardinal Martino says, too much, but also that abortion is murder and "to justify it selectively, in the event of rape, that is to define an innocent child in the belly of its mother as an enemy, as 'something one can destroy'."

So according to the Catholic Church donating to Amnesty International is a big no no. That's Amnesty International who "is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. "

There has been no mention from Cardinal Martino yet on this gruesome story.

Amnesty's response to Cardinal Martino.

Little Miss Manuel says Join/Donate to Amnesty. Let's deal with the living now and worry about our souls later.