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Celebrate the Ball for Life

04/28/2013

It’s that time of year again. The annual Ball for Life to benefit Good Counsel Homes, helping unwed mothers, is scheduled for Thursday, May 9. It is Ascension Thursday, a holy day of obligation. Mass takes place at 5:30 pm at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

The ball starts at 7 pm at the Racquet and Tennis Club at 370 Park Avenue in New York City. There will be a cocktail reception followed by dinner and dancing. It is black tie optional.

This year the ball will honor Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor and columnist and pro-life advocate.

Whether one is pro-life or pro-abortion, one can support this wonderful cause of helping women in need. We all agree that women who need assistance should be helped. Good Counsel is a leader in providing this aid to women who have nowhere else to turn.

Please consider going and celebrating this great cause. You can also donate to this group if you are unable to attend.

May God bless the good work of these good-hearted people who seek to help women and babies.

 

 

 

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Gosnell Versus Arias: Only One Alleged Murderer Makes Headlines

04/14/2013

The conservative media have been covering the Kermit Gosnell murder trial. It has all the elements of a big media story: a man killing numerous people. Plus he is a doctor. The only fly in the ointment? He is an abortionist. And the most important issue to any modern liberal, particularly in the mainstream media, is abortion.

They must preserve it, cover up for it, deny it does what we all know it does.

And so they cannot cover the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who is alleged to have murdered seven babies who survived abortion and were viable. This is a dirty little secret that the media and liberals want to keep a secret.

Planned Parenthood can call Gosnell an “outlier” but the reality is every abortionist legally kills babies. It is just that he is alleged to have violated the law that allows abortion by killing babies that the law says he cannot legally kill. Because they are 24 weeks and older and because they survived the abortionist’s tools.

Remember that President Obama when he was a state senator in Illinois opposed the ban on “completing” abortions on babies who survive. He voted to deny healthcare to babies who survived the butcher’s knife.  Under his vision, perhaps Kermit would not be on trial? He would just be finishing his evil work with the approval of the government.

Perhaps it is in that spirit that the media ignore Kermit the Killer and embrace Jodi Arias, whose story has made national headlines for months. Why do they cover her? She is a young, attractive woman who allegedly brutally murdered her handsome Mormon boyfriend.

A typical news story that the media loves except for the Mormon angle. That makes it better for them. The only thing they would like even more is if the story involved a Catholic priest.

So we endlessly hear the story–albeit an interesting one–of the alleged murderess. We know this is fascinating and even newsworthy. But does this one murder case have so much more appeal than an abortionist who allegedly slaughtered over half a dozen little people?

We know the media love stories involving dead children–think Newtown massacre–but their interest does not extend to babies who die during or after an abortion. Which is shameful but part of the agenda.

If you need further proof that there is a pro-abortion agenda which includes covering up the evil of abortion–the taking of a human life–you have it with this trial. So you have to educate yourself and not rely on the mainstream media. They cover up and they tell you what they want you to know, not what you need to hear.

Don’t remain ignorant of reality. Education and knowledge empower. Know that all abortions are bad and that those who favor this brutal practice don’t want you to know this basic truth.

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Baby Boomers Love Death

04/12/2013

The generation that wanted to have death via abortion now wants death via “assisted dying.”

Baby boomers are retiring in droves and are facing age-related illnesses in increasing numbers. Just as Obamacare is going to gut Medicare which the retirees will be relying on.

Maybe they are not thinking of it that way but the baby boomers–who have caused such cultural harm–are leading the way to exit this life when sickness comes their way.

I have suspected that baby boomers will not want to live unless they are perfect–by their standards anyway. I now have proof. I saw this article about boomers from organizations like Compassion and Choices–yes, they are still pushing this false choice argument!–who want to be able to kill themselves with the help of medical professionals if they get sick and cannot handle it.

They cannot just refuse treatment. They want to corrupt the medical profession. They don’t get the concept of the Hippocratic Oath. They have pushed abortion which of course violates the Hippocratic Oath. And now they are doing it proudly at the opposite end of the life spectrum.

Abortion is about selfishness and convenience. Suicide is also about selfishness and about fear. Fear of pain and suffering.

The baby boomers largely rejected the Christian faith that their parents bestowed on them. They embraced materialism. And unrestrained sexuality. Which led to 55 million abortions over the last 40 years.

Now that they are old and facing their mortality, they are still all about avoiding pain and seeking the easy way out.  Even if it means death for them and not just death for innocent babies.

A life spent worshipping death leads to destruction for these folks, who largely are responsible for ruining this country by their sheer numbers and evil choices. And even as they face their end they want to justify their “lifestyle choices” by making it the law. They want to go so others should as well.

What they don’t get is that what may start out voluntary will eventually become obligatory. When Obamacare doesn’t work and costs go through the roof, people who are old and sick–thus worthless according to a post-Christian society–will be the next to go. Like innocent babies, the ill elderly will be called inconvenient and burdens.

Society will not want to pay for them and they won’t have the money to do so. Former governor Richard Lamm advocated years ago that elderly people had an obligation to die.

What was once silly–kind of like killing children is somehow a woman’s right–becomes accepted over time.

Be afraid. Be very afraid, especially if you are getting on in years. Because even if you and I don’t love death, their love of death will put the final nail in the coffin we once called America.

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The Morning After Pill: Young Teens at Risk

04/07/2013

Federal court–and even state–judges can go either way but usually they are not pro-America or pro-decency. They tend to be liberal elitists.

While we occasionally have victories, like the defeat of the soda ban that the imperious Mayor Bloomberg tried to inflict on unwilling citizens, we got a slap in the face by another New York judge, Judge Edward Korman. He struck down the ban on the sale of the morning after pill–which has the ability to be an abortifacient–to females 17 and under.

Girls are menstruating earlier and earlier and they are becoming sexually active sooner and sooner. This means girls who are 11 or 12 years old–who cannot even get a Tylenol at school without parental permission nor see an R-rated movie without an adult with them–can purchase the morning after pill to terminate or prevent a pregnancy as if it were Advil for a headache.

Why do I use Advil as an example? Because some immoral person I saw on TV compared purchasing the morning after pill to purchasing Advil. Advil treats headaches and minor pains. The morning after pill either prevents or terminates a pregnancy.

A rational person can see the difference. An abortion rights zealot cannot since they love abortion, the killing of unborn children, more than life itself. Pun intended.

They don’t want to help women–or girls–as much as they want to advance an agenda that is deleterious to them. And they have a friend in Judge Korman, who called the decision to restrict this killer medication to adult women “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable.”

Is it unreasonable to protect young ladies, girls, from a medication that could transform their lives forever? Is it capricious or arbitrary to say that children are unable to make such serious decisions about their health without assistance from their parents? Children are different from adults. Teenagers cannot legally have sex and yet this judge and his abortion-loving supporters think they can give the guys a pass by letting girls get rid of their “problems” without any adult knowing about it.

This is unreasonable and immoral. This is an anti-girl, anti-female, anti-life decision. Besides the pro-aborts and pharmaceutical companies, no one benefits from this decision, especially young, vulnerable ladies. They are further victimized–first by sex they are not emotionally ready for and then by medical poison that affects their body and mind and soul.

We owe the next generation more than political correctness. Shame on Judge Korman! This is another wake-up call. If we are going to save this nation and the next generation, we need to oppose and challenge this kind of immorality wherever we see it.

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The Pope and CPAC: Who Helps the Poor?

03/16/2013

This was an eventful week with the cardinals electing a new leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis. While my initial reaction was concern when I found out he was a Jesuit–after many years of Jesuit education, I know the order has become dominated by liberals–I have been pleasantly surprised at his condemnation of abortion and so-called same-sex marriage, the biggest moral crises of our times.

In addition, he has a reputation for helping the poor–imitating Christ by ministering to them. While some call this liberal, I call it Christian. In our American political battles, the poor have become a group that is used by the liberals to advance their agenda. They are one of the many reasons the government has grown out of control as it allegedly takes care of them.

What I like about the pope is that he is saying that we as Christians, people of faith, are the ones who should take care of the poor. This is what Jesus calls us to do. He never said the government should help the poor; He said we should if we are to follow Him.

What have we done in our society? We have shifted the burden to the government and abdicated our responsibility. Churches  and local communities are in a better position to help the poor because they know them and have a good motivation to assist them. When the federal government helps them, the poor become victimized by bureaucracy as well as their poverty. They do not get the help they need and the assistance provided tends to enslave them.

Jesus said we would always have the poor but He didn’t say that the government should promote policies that keep people poor and downtrodden. Which brings me to CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.

The conservative view has a two-fold interest in the poor: there is a motivation to help our fellow man because we are people of faith and there is the desire to allow everyone in this great nation the opportunity to improve their personal situation and to live out their dreams.

Many of the CPAC speakers made the point that it is the conservatives among us who actually care about the poor. Turning them over to the government takes away their personal responsibility and makes them slaves to liberal elitists who give to them to ensure their vote and increase their power. They don’t care about the poor; they want power, pure and simple.

Conservatives advocate a safety net but one that is limited and encourages people to succeed on their own. I heard countless stories of people who went from poverty to success and kept the love of God foremost in their hearts, knowing we are here to serve Him and our fellow man.

It is this message that conservatives need to promulgate. We need to make this message known far and wide, but we have let the media and the other elites set the narrative that conservatives are mean because we want low taxes and personal responsibility. I hope this focus on the new pope will shine a light on our obligations to the poor and show that we people of faith, not a faceless government bureaucracy, are in the best position to assist our brothers and sisters.

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The Catholic Church Won’t Change with the Next Pope

03/03/2013

In light of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, many are questioning what will happen to the Church. Liberals hope in vain the Church will “evolve” and suddenly turn into something she is not.

They hope, like President Obama, she will suddenly embrace gay marriage.

They delude themselves that suddenly she will allow artificial contraception and perhaps abortion.

They want married priests and women priests and a Church that is no longer Roman Catholic.

It is not going to happen. The Catholic Church has an eternal message of truth that does not change with the times…or with the election of a new pope.

So liberals–particularly those in the media–can wish and hope and fantasize and speculate. But their dreams will not come true.

And it makes me wonder why they, usually non-Catholics, are obsessed with who the next pope is. Knowing the Catholic Church, they know that she won’t change. So if they cannot change her, they want to malign her.

They want to sew dissatisfaction among the faithful to advance their agenda. What institution other than the Church stands up for traditional morality–also known in politics as the social issues–on a consistent basis, unwavering and uncompromising?

You cannot think of one, can you? Not the Republican party. Not mainstream Protestantism. Not the government or the schools.

So that is why the liberals–in their never-ending quest to destroy what is right–want to finally tackle the Catholic Church. But Jesus Himself said the gates of Hell will never prevail against her.

Let the liberals try but know that whoever the cardinals elect as pope the Church will not change her positions. Because the truth does not change.

For those Catholics who do not accept the truth because it is inconvenient for them or because they have a poorly formed conscience, they don’t have to stay Catholic. And non-Catholic liberals who want to destroy the Church can blather on for naught.

Let us pray for the Catholic Church and for the cardinals as they enter the conclave that they may be inspired by the Holy Spirit to elect a good and holy man as the next pope in accord with God’s will.

Let us also pray for Benedict for his lifetime of faithful service to the Church. May God bless him and His Church.

Finally, let us pray for Catholics during this time of reflection that we may be better people and repent as God calls us to do.

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Ash Wednesday, Abortion & the Pope

02/13/2013

Even though there is no mainstream effort to outlaw abortion–there should be, of course–liberals are paranoid about it. They are convinced that every Republican–even RINOs–is trying to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Ironically, outlawing Roe would not end legalized abortion. It would just return the decision back to the states. So New York and California would still have abortion even if Kansas and Mississippi banned it.

I mention this because for someone in New York, where many crazed libs live, the idea that abortion could be in imminent danger of being criminalized is ridiculous.

As you know from my prior post, my elderly relative survived her hospital stay for the flu. She is now doing rehab in a Catholic nursing home. Tonight she got a new roommate, an elderly woman who seemed pleasant enough upon our meeting.

But then as I was talking to my relative, both of us sporting ashes, the topic of Mitt Romney came up.  The neighbor–about 75 years old–criticized Chris Christie and then said Romney scared her. She was so glad he was not elected president. I could not imagine why so I had to ask.

I thought she was going to mention the dog on the roof or foreign policy or maybe even the economy–as silly as all those reasons are. But she surprised me by saying she was afraid Romney was opposed to abortion and would ban it.

Mr. Romney was not exactly known for his pro-life position even though I believe he was sincere in espousing life. But realistically if he were elected, he was going to try to fix the economy, not limit abortion.

I was so horrified that she would say such a thing. As an elderly woman. In a Catholic nursing home. On Ash Wednesday.

And I told her so. My relative and I said we are Catholic and oppose abortion. I also said that Obama loves abortion. The other lady shut up. What a silly thing to say and how stupid people are. The result: four more years of disastrous Obama policies that are destroying the country for something that was not going to happen.

So I wonder, what is wrong with people and then I wonder, why are the media obsessed with the pope’s announcement he is retiring because he does not feel physically able to continue in the position?

The answer is, as always, abortion. Liberals believe that if we could just get a liberal pope–one they consider progressive and modern and willing to change with the times–the Church would abandon her position on abortion (and gay marriage and every other hot button social issue that drives these people).

The thing is, it will never happen. The Church’s teachings do not change. Liberals who have no legitimate interest in our religion can pine away for their ultimate enemy to capitulate, but it will never happen. Jesus Himself said so.

Pro-abortion advocates will not be happy until everyone sees things their way. But they seek the impossible. And it makes them crazed. Like the lady who would fear Romney because he might take away an abortion she will never need as an elderly lady sans uterus.

And on a day like this, the holy start to the Lenten season, we who have faith and embrace the truth need to pray for God’s will, including an end to abortion and for the next pope to be brave and bold in proclaiming the gospel. And we should also pray for those obsessed by promoting the death of the innocent. They are to be pitied and we should seek their conversion, especially during this holy season.

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Forty Years of Roe v. Wade: Shame on Us!

01/22/2013

I keep seeing things in the media and the world that make me feel ashamed to be an American. Whether it is seeing gay men get married under state law or politicians exploiting children to ban guns or Hollywood using its award shows to slam conservatives like Sarah Palin, I cringe.

This is not the nation I grew up in. But maybe I am wrong. Maybe this is exactly the country of my birth. I was born not too long after the Supreme Court upended our nation’s laws and legalized the killing of innocents.

Since I was old enough to know abortion was wrong, I have opposed it. It has defined me and horrified me. The pro-choice arguments have angered and puzzled me. Angered me because they were untrue and puzzled me because they were so blatantly wrong and evil that I could not see how people could be misled by them–unless they wanted to be misled.

Abortion is ultimately about being selfish. Being a mother–or even giving a child up for adoption–is a selfless act. Killing a baby because the child is inconvenient is the most selfish thing I can imagine. My favorite argument that used to be prevalent was that abortion prevented child abuse. So one kills the child so he will not live to be abused!

It is like when former Attorney General Janet Reno ordered the Waco compound raided, killing the people inside, including the children, to save them from child abuse. By killing them!

To liberals this makes sense but it cannot make sense to a rational human being. Unfortunately, using reason is going the way of the typewriter. We are instead in the age of emotion and feelings.

I don’t feel like having a baby, a woman can think, but instead of zipping up her pants, she engages in inappropriate sexual behavior and becomes pregnant. A good time to man up and take personal responsibility–also verboten in our society–but often it leads to ending a baby’s precious life.

The worst thing one can do–kill the innocent.

Yet, unfortunately, this is not considered the worst thing a person can do. Among things that are considered evil in our society are not recognizing sodomy as a civil right, being fat, making a woman pay for her own contraceptives, and judging liberals for their lifestyle choices.

Abortion doesn’t even crack the top ten of social sins in post-reason America. And it is a shame on the level of slavery, which we all recognize as the worst thing this nation had done prior to the legislation from the bench known as Roe v. Wade.

For forty years we have seen our nation deteriorate and few dare link the decline to a society where women kill as often as they nurture, a nation that glorifies violence while trying to blame it on guns and not perpetrators, and a country where unloving sexual activity is celebrated at the expense of intact family units and traditional values. Values that helped to develop this land into the greatest nation the world has ever seen.

In light of the moral decline, which can be attributed to abortion on demand combined with unrestrained sexuality, I am not only ashamed of my country for what it is now but for what it has been all my life. It just took this long to fully bear the evil fruit.

We must outlaw abortion, embrace traditional morality and repent if we hope to have a country we can be proud of again. Like ending slavery, making abortion illegal is a very important first step.

All righteous movements must start with the tiniest step like that of a little baby. Do enough of us have the moral fiber not to give up and to continue to advocate for our unborn brothers and sisters?

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The Second Term: Pray!!!

01/20/2013

Many thanks to Gov. Mike Huckabee for promoting “A Day to Pray” today, which also happens to be Inauguration Day. The president is having a private ceremony today because it is Sunday and public festivities tomorrow. We should pray for him and for our other representatives who clearly are in desperate need. And we must repent because we have to show God we are willing to transform ourselves in order to effect change in our country.

The reason I believe Gov. Mitt Romney did not win despite the many prayer campaigns on his behalf is that so many Americans prayed and fasted and sacrificed but did not change their hearts and behaviors. Repentance is the only answer to the massive problems facing us. I don’t mean the economic collapse which will surely come with continued fiscal irresponsibility. I mean the evil we tolerate and even celebrate in the form of legalized abortion and gay marriage among other immorality that is on the rise in this nation.

We need to live moral lives before we can expect our politicians to do so. We have to be God-fearing, decent people who warrant assistance from our Savior. But we expect Him to save us from ourselves when He has given us free will. He has saved us, but we need to accept His grace by letting it transform our lives.

We start with prayer, begging God’s mercy and asking for help to change. And asking for his blessing and grace on our political leaders. According to the website:

Join … “A Day to Pray”, where we will ask God to grant our leaders, from the local school houses to the White House, the wisdom they need for the road ahead. We will gather to ask God for forgiveness and healing of our land and to bless our Country and her people. This will not be a political rally but a spiritual event and hopefully one that can help bring us together as we move forward as a nation.

The first thing we must do is pray and then act through personal repentance. I am convinced that if enough people repent and realize our problems are spiritual and not political, we can change the otherwise inevitable outcome, which is the end of a free nation that was once the hope of the earth.

It is Sunday so I hope you go to church and pray and make it a part of your life. Daily prayer will empower you to make the changes in yourself and others so that this nation may realize that we should not squander this beautiful inheritance that we have been blessed to receive as Americans.

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National Cathedral Sanctifies Sin

01/09/2013

I was shocked–but not really–by the announcement by the National Cathedral that it will allow gay weddings. The Episcopal church now allows its ministers–if they choose–to “marry” two men or two women where it is legal to do so.

Apparently no one told the Episcopalians that the Bible–the basis for their church–disallows homosexual activity, let alone marriage.

We all know marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Liberals have tried to convince us that because gays can be nice and funny and smart that means their desires are normal and should be recognized by calling their union something it is not–you know, marriage.

Unfortunately, liberal elites–including gay fellow travellers most of whom are liberal–have convinced many Americans, particularly the young, that homosexuality is natural and since they are born this way, it is discrimination to deny them the right to marry.

One does not lead to another. And there is no definitive proof that people are born gay anyway.

As everyone used to know, homosexuality is not normal. It certainly isn’t biblical. The Bible is quite clear that sodomy is a no-no. There is no basis for thinking it is Christian to marry two people of the same sex even if they supposedly love each other.

The Catholics know this. I wish our leaders were stronger about telling the truth but no Catholic can claim not to know the truth. People do but they are disingenuous. Catholic teaching is clear.

Episcopal teaching is confused–leading to many Anglicans jumping ship for the Catholic Church. What the Episcopalians are doing is not only bad for membership, it is an affront to God. They are sanctifying sin by calling sodomy sacred.

This is not the case. All unmarried sex is sinful but the American people for the most part don’t believe that and have severed themselves from traditional Christian thought. To their own spiritual detriment.

In fact, not only are the Episcopalians calling sin good, they are making it a civil rights issue. I was offended to read an Episcopal lady bishop compare so-called marriage equality to the fight against discrimination against blacks.

There is no comparison. Yet I fear when the Supreme Court takes up the marriage issue in March and rules in June that we will experience another Roe v. Wade moment wherein all the pro-traditional marriage laws will be struck down under the guise that they violate the Constitution.

Despite the understanding of what marriage is for over two millenia, I suspect the Court will make up a right to gay marriage just like it made up a right to abortion. Considering the Court reversed itself in one generation on the “right” to sodomy and in light of the pro-homosexual agenda pushed by the media and Hollywood, I think we are losing this issue and worse we are losing what it means to be a Christian nation.

Many will say that is good–the Obama voters and their compatriots–but for Christian Americans we know that our great nation cannot survive any more embrace of immorality.

May God have mercy on us and may our religious leaders lead us in this time of distress!

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