No to "Red masses".Denver, CO -- Archbishop Charles Chaput and his archdiocese arch·di·o·cese n. The district under an archbishop's jurisdiction. arch  di·oc will no
longer support the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Colorado, including
providing a church and celebrant for its annual Red Mass. The archbishop
will have no further annual "Red Masses", which are held at
the return of court sessions after the summer holidays.
The guild awarded its 2003 St. Thomas More award to a newly elected pro-abortion Catholic senator over the archbishop's protest, and the guild refuses to allow Chaput veto veto [Lat.,=I forbid], power of one functionary (e.g., the president) of a government, or of one member of a group or coalition, to block the operation of laws or agreements passed or entered into by the other functionaries or members. In the U.S. power over whom it honours. In Canada the now retired Archbishop of Vancouver, BC, Adam Exner Adam Joseph Exner (born 24 December, 1928 at Killaly, Saskatchewan) was the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver from 1991 to 2004. Exner entered the religious order of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1950 in St. , adopted the same position earlier and cancelled the annual Red Mass there. In Toronto, ON, the custom has allowed pro-abortion personalities to be invited and honoured despite protests from pro-life groups. The problem stems from the fact that many lawyers and judges Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political scientist, historian, and politician, is best known for Democracy in America (1835). A believer in democracy, he was concerned about the concentration of power in the hands of a centralized government. who belong to the guild are nominal Catholics only and unwilling to adopt "politically incorrect politically incorrect adj. Disregarding or unconcerned with political correctness. political incorrectness n. Adj. 1. " stands. |
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