A great time to take a Cruise.

[Once was lost]

no Catlicks on board!

CELEBRITY CRUISES STIFFS CATHOLICS

January 14, 2010

Bill Donohue explains why the Catholic League is sharply critical of Celebrity Cruises:
Ten days before Christmas, we learned that Celebrity Cruises had just announced that beginning in 2010, it would no longer have priests on board to celebrate daily and Sunday Masses. We immediately followed up by questioning the cruise line about its new policy. Just this week we received a reply that said, “Out of respect for our guests of all religious faiths, Celebrity has chosen to align the religious services provided for Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Interdenominational faiths effective January 4, 2010.” It added that religious services would be provided for “the major High Holy Holidays of each respective faith.”
What this statement failed to note is the reason for the new policy. The following is an excerpt from the letter it sent to Catholic priests affected by the change in policy: “While we do meet the needs of many guests onboard by supplying a priest, we have recently encountered a great deal of negative feedback pertaining to the ‘selective’ support of one particular religion/faith. After many internal discussions, external research, and marketing investigations, Celebrity Cruises will only place Roman Catholic Priests on sailings that take place over the Easter and Christmas holiday.”
In other words, because some anti-Catholics objected to daily Mass onboard the ship, Celebrity Cruises threw the priests—and the lay Catholic men and women with them—overboard. Instead of standing on principle and telling those generating the “negative feedback” that no one is forced to go to Mass, and that tolerance demands respect for religious freedom, officials at Celebrity Cruises decided to yield to the bigots.
The Catholic League advises all Catholics to shop around the next time they plan to take a cruise, but not to waste their time checking out Celebrity Cruises.

[Aristotle]

Re: A great time to take a Cruise.

I suggest that Landover Baptist Church plan a group cruise with these people. However, they would have to agree to let LBC staff ride free at all times and put Bibles (KJV 1611) in all the staterooms.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Re: A great time to take a Cruise.

I must say those cathylicks can be insufferable, what with their jangling beads, death wafers, mumbo-jumbo Latin, and constant genuflecting.

What turns my stomach about the "Celebrity Cruises" is the term "Interdenominational" – it smacks of compromise.

“Out of respect for our guests of all religious faiths, Celebrity has chosen to align the religious services provided for Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Interdenominational faiths effective January 4, 2010.”

Those Somali pirates might have the right idea about one thing, we should hijack one of those ships and not turn it back until everyone on board has been converted to a True Christian™.