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Clinton has gone too far with blatant disregard for Catholic concerns in Luxembourg, pulls sneaky one by railroading in homosexual anti-Catholic bigot Hormel to foreign post

     Living up to his moniker "Slick Willie," Bill Clinton waited for a loophole to bypass senate approval and personally appoint avowed homosexual heir James Hormel to the post of ambassador to the tiny country of Luxembourg which is 96% Catholic with 402,000 out of a total population of 419,000 expressing loyalty to Rome. Clinton's criminal action of appointing a proven anti-Catholic to a Catholic country is paramount, according to the head of a family pro-life organization, of appointing "Larry Flynt as ambassador to the Vatican." Please don't give this ammoral head of state any ideas. For more, click on Embassy of embarassment

      WASHINGTON, DC (CWNews.com) - President Bill Clinton, taking advantage of a constitutional loophole, made a rare "recess appointment" to name a prominent homosexual as ambassador to mainly Catholic Luxembourg, avoiding a Senate vote.

      James C. Hormel, heir to the vast Hormel Foods fortune, has been a frequent contributor to radical homosexual causes, including the anti-Catholic gay group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, causing many Catholics to oppose his nomination. "It's not the man's sexual orientation, but his record of anti-Catholic bigotry," said William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

      A provision of the Constitution allows the president to temporarily fill certain positions that would normally require a Senate vote when the Congress is in recess. The Congress is on Memorial Day recess until later in the month. The appointment would normally have to be confirmed within 24 months, but all ambassadorships come up for grabs at the end of the Clinton's term in 2001.

      "I think that by forcing Americans to be represented by a radical homosexual activist like Hormel, Clinton is showing his contempt for traditional morality, marriage, sexual fidelity and any concept of honor," said Robert Knight of the Family Research Council, a pro-family group. "Who's he going to appoint next? Larry Flynt as ambassador to the Vatican?"

Despite releasing five yesterday, Colombian NLA guerrillas still hold over 75 hostages as a quarter of a million march in the streets of Cali to protest

      A drop in the bucket. That is the impression left on Colombian and Church officials after the National Liberation Army released five hostages taken from a Cali church during Holy Mass on Trinity Sunday. Over a quarter of a million Protesters marched in demanding the release of all the hostages and displayed signs as they chanted "No mas" in calling for an end to this nonsense. For more, click on For Colombian people enough is enough .

      CALI, Colombia (CWNews.com) - Tens of thousands of Colombians marched in the streets on Sunday, protesting the country's epidemic of kidnappings, even as Marxists rebels who abducted more than 140 people from a Catholic church last week released five of their captives.

      Up to 250,000 people marched in Cali where the abduction took place last Sunday, carrying white flags emblazoned with "No More." The march and many of the banners and shirts carried and worn by the marchers were sponsored by the Free Country Foundation, which is dedicated to opposing kidnapping.

      On May 30, guerillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) abducted 143 people from a church in a wealthy residential area, but abandoned 84 of them as soldiers pursued them into the mountains. Five more captives -- two men, two women, and a child, all of them in poor health -- were released on Saturday. Fifty-four hostages from the church remain in their custody as well as 25 others, including an American, who taken during the hijacking of an Avianca Airlines jet in April.

Australian Catholics crying over spilled beer ads that are salient and sacrilegious

     While the brand "Fosters" may be advertised as being Australian for beer, the Tooheys brand is Australian for bitter controversy in lieu of an ad running on Sydney networks that mocks the Church with sacrilegious spots on the Sacrament of Penance. Cardinal Edward Clancy spoke out strongly against the ad campaign that not only condones sins of the flesh, but mocks the seal of Confession. The cardinal has called for a nationwide boycott to hit Tooheys where it hurts and cripple any other attempts to promote in that secular, sacrilegious vein. For more, click on Salient and sacrilegious on tap!.

      SYDNEY, Australia (CWNews.com) - A controversial beer advertisement has caused Catholic clergy to warn of a boycott to protest the mocking of the Sacrament of Confession.

      A spokesman for Cardinal Edward Clancy of Sydney said many Catholics may exercise their consumer choices when deciding whether to buy Tooheys New Brand beer. The controversial television advertisement depicts a young man entering a confessional, confessing a sexual sin, and receiving the names of three women who had confessed to extramarital sex from the priest. The commercial ends with the man going to a pub with his friends and ordering a round of beer as he seeks out the women.

      Representatives of brewer Lion Nathan said the advertisement had been cleared by the advertising standards board and that sales of the beer had risen. "There's already been a response (to the advertisement)," said Father Brian Lucas, a spokesman for Cardinal Clancy. "Many people are now exercising their choices (against Tooheys) when it comes to the brand of beer they purchase."

Holy Father greatly disheartened by breakdown of peace accord

      The Holy Father, during his pilgrimage to Poland, expressed great distress and sadness at the breakdown in peace talks between Serbia and NATO forces as bombing resumed Sunday. Sadly what was greatly missing during the weekend talks was what the Pope had called for: human dignity. But with NATO making demands and the Yugoslavs, with their backs to the wall, both parties balked, blaming the other with no progress as pride took over, much to the chagrin of the humble Sovereign Pontiff. For more, click on The prideful obstacles to peace.

      VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- Pope John Paul II is extremely concerned about the news that peace talks aimed at ending the Kosovo crisis have apparently broken down.

      Speaking from Poland, where he was accompanying the Holy Father on his pastoral trip, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls released an official statement: "We hope that with the agreements being accepted in advance by all parties concerned, we will arrive as quickly as possible at a stable peace in the region." That statement was issued at a time when the latest news reports indicated a possible breakdown in negotiations.

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    In honor of the Pope's pilgrimage to Poland and tying in with Pope Saint Pius V's Quo Primum and our editorial today, we present a Polish site which provides English translation. It is called VERBUM TRADITONIS which provides a journal of Catholic Tradition and keeps one up to date on the traditions of the Church in Poland.

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June 8, 1999 volume 10, no. 110   DAILY CATHOLIC