Sound Off!

Here's a sampling of recent comments from Sound Off! Also located at the foot of every news Feature Story and Off the Record, Sound Off! gives every donor the chance to post a small "editorial" regarding any news item.

• Today 12:53 PM EST Posted by: Defender | Story:

  This is what happens when you only have the NY Times to read when you're overseas...

• Today 12:06 PM EST Posted by: Patricia | Story:

  I`m sure the EU nations will fall in line just as all parts of The Soviet Union did.

• Today 10:49 AM EST Posted by: John J Plick | Story:

  Simple answer...,

  They (the Bishops) "fear" "the Bomb" more than they fear God... JP

• Today 10:45 AM EST Posted by: benjohnfischer4971 | Story:

  As I read all these apoplectic comments from certain Anglicans, it demonstrates what a sham the old Ecumenism was. The supposed "good faith" discussions were papering over deep seated resentments and vitriol. It's as if both sides were signing their agreements while holding daggers behind their backs.

• Today 10:13 AM EST Posted by: Mary8163 | Story:

  Amen! As partner in a business consulting firm, we are selective about engaging new clients. If we perceive that key leadership wants to "fix" others without being open to exploring how their own behavior impacts the rest of the organization, we will rarely engage. Issues below the top frequently mirror the top, including the practice of doing the "heavy lifting" of seeking/giving honest & caring feedback and healthy conflict, or not. Willingness to begin go there is a sign of hope. Mary

• Today 9:43 AM EST Posted by: jjleventis7768 | Story:

  Time to dismantle USCCB, Inc., which has become a left wing PAC, and time for the bishops to move out of Sodom and return to their parishes and strengthen the brethren with the truth. The lay serpents control the message coming out of the USCCB.

• Today 7:36 AM EST Posted by: peggyann | Story:

  Should we be surprised? When have we heard Obama or anyone from his administration or others who surround him speak the truth about anything? I've always believed it's only practical to be skeptical of what our government officials tell us. This president and his minions have convinced me that that is a radical position. I've come to the conclusion that one would have to suspend all reason to believe anything coming from the White House. If they pass the new health care bill Lord help us.

• Today 12:38 AM EST Posted by: romy1274329 | Story:

  If the priest quoted by Sullivan had any self-respect, he would leave the priesthood for anything - street sweeping or academia - rather than live a lie. These are the vestigial symptoms of a time, long-gone, when unmarried siblings opted for a "vocation" to keep mom and dad happy. It was a safe option and way too convenient but the declining true vocations meant letting immature men into the seminaries. I don't think there was a gay agenda. it was a conflation of events.

• Today 12:05 AM EST Posted by: paulmay6949 | Story:

  I am sorry to have to vote "All of the above." The power structure in place at the USCCB has for so long been totally absorbed in protecting their own individual power and individual comforts, and have turned their responsibilities over to a lay staff of increasingly dubious faith and direction.

• Today 10:34 PM EST Posted by: Gil125 | Story:

  Obviously. This is the outfit that ordered Italy to take down the crucifixes in classrooms. And the Italians will do it.

• Today 10:30 PM EST Posted by: Yvonne | Story:

  This Sister obviously does not believe in the church's position on the sanctity of all human life and would encourage women to kill their baby. She should resign from the religious life and/or her order should expel her.

• Today 10:29 PM EST Posted by: Gil125 | Story:

  Surely they don't think Obamacare will pay for it.

• Today 10:26 PM EST Posted by: JJF | Story:

  I agree with TheJournalist64. The slow greenhouse warming trend will produce better crop yields and expand arable land. These are benefits to mankind.

• Today 10:03 PM EST Posted by: ltluca7192 | Story:

  Can you see the hovering shadow of 'the anti-christ'. I never believed it would happen but it is here. There is only one thing that can change destiny, and that is Prayer. Everyone should get down on their knees and pray for God's forgiveness. Prophecy is not etched in stone. It can be changed and only by prayer. Our God is the only god that has given mankind free will. Will we use it wisely?

• Today 9:23 PM EST Posted by: Phil_Homer7612 | Story:

  Randall who?!!

• Today 8:56 PM EST Posted by: Pseudodionysius | Story:

  "midnight madman with a saliva-bespattered keyboard venting into the comboxes"

  I heard someone ring the dinner bell.

• Today 7:25 PM EST Posted by: TheJournalist64 | Story:

  This man will someday be called the Father of His Country.

• Today 7:24 PM EST Posted by: TheJournalist64 | Story:

  Get real. The last time we had a warming cycle in the world, roughly 800-1300 AD, food production increased worldwide, leading to a great period of population growth and material prosperity, including the Crusades and construction of the great cathedrals. No one has yet showed us that global warming, if it is real, is evil. What we do know is that in the last big period of global cooling, we got the Black Death along with it. As usual, the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

• Today 4:10 PM EST Posted by: amjpagano7936 | Story:

  Whose angry? I'm glad someone is willing to get arrested over tax dollars going to murder babies, srs, the sick and disabled. Didn't Jesus cleanse the temple--leading to his arrest? Last yr my aunt was on purposeneglected nearly to death in a CATHOLIC home. When released from hospital forced by home onto Catholic Hospice, whose staff said if she was on Hospice she wasn't supposed to WANT to eat. She was Medicaid.

• Nov. 06, 2009 4:02 PM EST Posted by: patriot6908 | Story:

  There are several bishops in California who could do with a "Visitation" themselves, especially one who built his own cathedral.

• Nov. 06, 2009 2:55 PM EST Posted by: Hal | Story:

  They never fail to disappoint, do they?

• Nov. 06, 2009 11:09 AM EST Posted by: daughertyb6547 | Story:

  Typical bishopspeak - deserved by the many thousands of faithful women and their orders who really are imitators of the Blessed Mother, but broad enough to include the renegade others who are the only ones with something to fear from the visitation.

• Nov. 06, 2009 11:03 AM EST Posted by: Lucius49 | Story:

  This undermines the Holy See and is disloyal. Despite this treachery there is the judgment of reality, most of these women religious congregations are dying and will cease to exist precisely because they abandoned the essence of religious life and lost their way. The CA bishops are willfully blind to this. The unfortunate thing is that the Holy See visitation is 30 years too late!

• Nov. 06, 2009 2:40 AM EST Posted by: Chestertonian | Story:

  What else can one expect from a man who would compromise Catholic morals and ethics to work with and for the likes of Obama? I doubt that Obama would ever pick an ambassador who would represent faithful US Catholics, as that person would have to be diametrically opposed to virtually everything for which Obama stands and works. We must pray that the Vatican will see Obama clearly--not thru' Diaz's rose-colored glasses.

• Nov. 05, 2009 10:57 PM EST Posted by: Pseudodionysius | Story:

  Archbishop Weisgerber displayed all the ascetic discipline of a flighty teenage girl trying to pop a surprise facial zit an hour before prom night begins when he attacked LifeSite News for their expose on the Development and Peace fiasco. He's hit the big time now that he's appeared in the Cross hairs of Uncle Di's tank turret. He has his reward.

• Nov. 05, 2009 10:18 PM EST Posted by: bobm51997 | Story:

  I agree with all the comments posted. Dr.Diaz has not presented a truthful representation of the accomplishments of President Obama. I pray the Vatican will suggest that Dr.Diaz leave as quickly as possible.

• Nov. 05, 2009 8:59 PM EST Posted by: jere3812 | Story:

  Will the day ever come when I won't see this man's name in print again? I am so sick of hearing about him I could throw up.

• Nov. 05, 2009 8:56 PM EST Posted by: jere3812 | Story:

  Archbishop Williams, are you listening? You have it within your power to tip the scales. I urge you to meet with the Holy Father. He will help you lead your sheep back into the fold. Do that and you will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the greatest of saints.

• Nov. 05, 2009 8:53 PM EST Posted by: pwrosey2737 | Story:

  Arguably, the best way to support worthy charity whose work is, "fully in agreemtn with Church teaching" is to simply disband CCHD and have a special collection in each diocese to support CATHOLIC charitable groups that actually help to feed, clothe and shelter the poor. Community organizers are generally leftist in nature and it is contrary to my conscience to donate money that will support such groups.

• Nov. 05, 2009 7:52 PM EST Posted by: unum | Story:

  It's nice to know that Dr. Diaz has become and expert in economics, finance, international relations, public health, environmental sciences, and military affairs since he was named ambassador to the Vatican.

  Who knew a Presidential appointment carried such miraculous properties.