The Egyptian is on a rant today

I felt like a rant today, boy is this refreshing

Pro Abortion (in name only) Catholics are the ones politicizing the Eucharist by receiving it in the state of SIN and confusing the weak minded by their blasphemous statements, and the Bishops and Priests are complicit in the matter by serving them. The Bishops or Priests, if they refuse to give them Communion are doing their duty. Think about the word Communion, are these Politicians in COMMUNION with the Catholic Church and its precepts and teachings,,,,NOT!!! To be blunt, USCCB, grow a set, stand up like men and stop worrying about offending a Non Catholic-catholic Politician, We Catholics admire resolve and spirit, we detest weasel words and hair splitting.

See also my earlier post USCCB are you LISTENING

Do YOU see a Pattern Here?

To get a grasp how bad the situation really is read the synopsis below by Father John McCartney of Saint Matthew's on Long Island, He sums up the sad state of Catholic politicians pretty well:

Two days after the inauguration of President Obama, I traveled down to Washington with fifty-one parishioners for the annual March for Life on the 36th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade.

It was a wonderful trip, and the march was the largest seen in years. It was also a decidedly young march, with vast numbers of high-school and college-aged young people participating.

Of course, hundreds of thousands of peaceful pro-life protesters marching in the nation’s capital did not make it on any of the news channels, nor was it reported in the print media.

Meanwhile, Caroline Kennedy, a pro-abortion Catholic, dropped out of her quest for the open New York Senate seat last week. Instead, Gov. Paterson, a pro-abortion Catholic, chose Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, a pro-abortion Catholic, to fill the vacancy. This so angered Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a pro-abortion Catholic, that she has announced she will challenge Sen. Gillibrand in the primary in two years. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a pro-abortion Catholic, is now set to challenge a weakened Gov. Paterson, a pro abortion Catholic, in the primary for governor in two years as well. There was talk of Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, a pro-abortion Catholic, for the senate seat, and perhaps making a future run for governor.

Whoever gets the Democratic nomination for governor may well face Rudolf Giuliani, a pro-abortion Catholic, in the state-wide race.

Meanwhile, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a pro-abortion Catholic, said on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, that some $200 million dollars in taxpayer money, a part of the economic stimulus package, was earmarked for subsidizing artificial contraception. Previously describing herself as
an “ardent Catholic,” Pelosi said that increased spending on contraception “will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government” -- thereby implying that children are a burden to taxpayers. When Stephanopoulos asked the Speaker whether she was comfortable with that argument, she replied: “No apologies.” Thankfully, President Obama later dropped this from the stimulus package.

President Obama has made some interesting political appointments: Joseph Biden, a pro-abortion Catholic, to be Vice-President; Leon Panetta, a pro-abortion Catholic, to run the C.I.A.; Tom Daschle, a pro-abortion Catholic, to run the Department of Health & Human Services; Janet Napolitano, a pro abortion Catholic, to run the Department of Homeland Security; Ken Salazar, a pro-abortion Catholic, to run the Department of the Interior; Tom Vilsack, a pro-abortion Catholic, to run the Department of Agriculture; Hilda Solis, a pro-abortion Catholic, to run the Department of Labor; Tim Kane, a pro-abortion Catholic, to head the Democratic National Committee; and Ray LaHood, a pro-life Maronite Catholic (how did that happen?) to run the Department of Transportation.

In other news, the U.S. Bishops have begun a postcard campaign to stop the passage of the Freedom of Choice Act, which would undo every restriction placed on abortion during the last 36 years, including removing consciences clauses which would compel Catholic hospitals and doctors to perform abortions.

I am pleased to note that here at St. Matthew’s we began an anti-FOCA letter writing campaign more than a month ago. For those of you who have not yet sent in your letters, please go to www.smrcc.org, our parish website, where you may download them. In the meantime, pray.
—Fr. McCartney

Socratic questioning applies in abortion debate

Story available at http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/02/07/features/life/24-socratic.txt?submitted=true

Published on Saturday, February 07, 2009.
Last modified on 2/7/2009 at 1:17 am

Socratic questioning applies in abortion debate

By MONTY CASEBOLT
For The Gazette

Socrates (born in 470 B.C.) was called the savior of Western civilization.

He realized that knowledge and virtue are inseparable; so much so that virtue could be defined as right knowledge. Right thinking and right doing can be distinguished from each other, but they can never be separated.

Therefore, Socrates realized that the death of truth would mean the death of virtue and that the death of virtue would spell the death of civilization. Without truth and virtue the only possible outcome is barbarianism.

Socrates used an analytical method by which he sought the logic of facts. For him the logic is what is left after the facts are exhausted.

"Beauty remains," he said, "after the rose fades."

Using the Socratic method of discerning truth is to ask provocative questions.

Let's allow the reverse order of this proven method from the "gadfly of Athens" to probe deeper into the moral logic that opposes abortion:

Claim: Don't interfere with abortion unless you're willing to adopt the unwanted infants.

Q: Is that like saying, "Don't interfere with wife-beating unless you are willing to marry the victimized woman?"

Claim: Every child has the right to be a wanted child.

Q: Is a person's value determined by another person's desire or evaluation? What if aged parents or discarded lovers are "unwanted"?

Claim: Every woman should be allowed freedom of choice.

Q: Is that like saying, "I wouldn't abuse a child or commit rape, but I will grant freedom of choice to others in these matters?

Claim: Every woman has the right to control her own body.

Q: Shouldn't it have been exercised earlier? Proof of no control?

Q: Since when does anyone have absolute right of control over his/her body? Police will limit if drunk, naked, contagious, etc.

Q: When another body is involved, aren't rights restricted? (as with rape, murder, etc.)

Claim: Termination of pregnancy, fetus, embryo, product of conception, etc.

Q: Don't labels often deceive? Why not "poisoned," "mutilated," "shredded," "killed"? (The newest proposal is to inject preborn babies with a lethal dose of potassium chloride, used to execute death row inmates, into the baby's heart so as to steer clear of the federal partial-birth abortion ban.)

Claim: Some communities reportedly have extended a warm welcome to the idea of housing abortion clinics.

Q: Where are the voices of those who so adamantly denounced ills committed against puppies and kittens, dogs and cats? We're talking human life now.

Claim: There are increasing numbers of clergy, politicians and citizens who state that abortion, gay marriage, and other cited moral ills are a matter of religious freedom.

Q: Could the words of the Roman philosopher and statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4? B.C. - 65 A.D.) be prophetic of this age in history, when he said that, when vice (an evil or wicked action) becomes a society's custom or accepted convention, it is almost impossible to remove?

Claim: This is a free country where people have the right to reject religious constraints and practice a new morality (such as sex while not married and the right to eradicate any unwanted consequences/pregnancy).

Q: Is there any truth to Ronald Reagan's quote, "If we ever forget that we are 'One Nation Under God,' then we will be one nation gone under?"

The Rev. Monty Casebolt leads the Livingston Bible Church.

The Faith & Values column appears regularly in the Saturday Life section of The Billings Gazette.




Copyright © The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises.

USCCB are you LISTENING

Do you think our Priests and Bishops will listen or just cave in again to be popular, all we can do is pray

http://causa-nostrae-laetitiae.blogspot.com/2009/02/archbishop-burke-no-communion-for.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
4 February 2009

VATICAN: BISHOPS MUST REFUSE COMMUNION TO PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANSWashington, DC (4 February 2009) –
Judie Brown, president of American Life League, issued a statement today in response to an interview in which Archbishop Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican's highest court, stated,"There's not a question that a Catholic who publicly, and after admonition, supports pro-abortion legislation is not to receive Holy Communion and is not to be given Holy Communion … This is a law of the universal Church and it should be applied."

About the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Burke commented,"I think this argument [that this matter should be decided by theUSCCB] too is being used by people who don't want to confront theissue, this whole "wait 'til the Conference decides"...well the Conference has been discussing this since at least 2004. And nothing happens…
Individual bishops and priests simply have to do their duty.They have to confront politicians, Catholic politicians, who are sinning gravely and publicly in this regard. And that's their duty.
"Statement by Judie Brown:"It has long been American Life League's contention that canon law applies within the Church in the same way that state, federal or local law applies to the citizens of the United States. At American Life League, our focus has been on Canon 915, which is written for the express purpose of protecting the body and blood of Christ from sacrilege.We have repeatedly called on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to enforce this law, abide by this law and deny the Holy Eucharist to any public figure who claims to be Catholic while at the same time supporting abortion. Abortion is an intrinsically evil act,and no Catholic who supports that act in any way should be permitted to receive Christ.

We are deeply grateful for the definitive words of Archbishop Raymond Burke. Archbishop Burke was also asked about Catholic bishops who claim that denying Holy Communion to a pro-abortion politician "makes the Communion rail a [political] battleground." He simply and succinctly responded, "Nonsense."
We extend our sincere gratitude to Archbishop Burke for once again making it clear why every single Catholic bishop and priest not only should enforce Canon 915, but is obliged to do so for the sake of souls and for the sake of protecting Christ in the Holy Eucharist from sacrilege."

American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death.
For more information or press inquiries,
CONTACT: Katie Walker540.659.4942
kwalker@all.org
Fr Angelo at Mary Victrix makes some vital points about pro-abortion politicians, and those who support them.
"In our Supreme Court and in our Congress, we have a plethora of so-called Catholics who are failing to live their Catholic identity. Over 50 percent of our electorate voted for a president who is one of the most pro-culture-of-death candidates from a major party to run for the highest office of the land."
Yes, we can thank one-half of our Catholics for bailing out on their faith!

give an opinion

what do these two comics have in common , any guesses

This is Great

Get a Load of this readers, lets help support these folks at www.moralaccountability.com.”

I didn't think Princeton had any pro life people

Credit the Philadelphia Bulletin

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/02/04/top_stories/doc498946ae42131796698681.txt

Academics To Hold Obama Supporters Accountable

By Susan Brinkmann, For The Bulletin

Published:

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

A group of academics from around the country have joined forces with Princeton political science professor Robert George to launch a new Web site that will hold anti-abortion Obama supporters accountable for their vote by presenting the facts about the president’s policy decisions.

“[With this Web site], everyone who offered an opinion on these issues, the effect of Obama’s policies, the sincerity of his claims, could be held accountable,” Dr. George told The Daily Princetonian.

Called The Moral Accountability Project, the site features President Barack Obama’s complete record on the life issues. It also documents his promises to fund embryonic stem cell research, enact the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would overturn every existing abortion restriction in the country and to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which protects states against being forced to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in other states.

The Web site will also feature news updates and articles about the president’s decisions on these issues.

As the Web site states: “With each assault by the Obama administration on laws and policies upholding the sanctity of human life and the dignity of marriage, we will ask all Catholics and Evangelicals, including those who supported Obama, to join us in resisting these assaults. That is our mission at www.moralaccountability.com.”

Everyone is invited to the project, especially those who are against abortion but who “joined with Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League and similar organizations” and voted for Mr. Obama because of the economy, the site states.

They need to not only see the consequences of their actions, but to be given an opportunity to “join us now in repelling the attacks that will be launched against life and marriage by this administration.”

Joining Dr. George in this effort is a long list of distinguished academics, including Drs. Francis Beckwith of Baylor University and Gerard V. Bradley of the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. George is concerned that Mr. Obama has already acted in favor of the pro-abortion position, revoking the Mexico City Policy that prohibited all non-governmental organizations receiving government money from promoting or performing abortions internationally.

“That’s the first thing he did because he could do it by executive order,” Dr. George said. “So now American taxpayers’ money will fall into the coffers of abortion clinics, Planned Parenthood and other organizations that make abortions more widely available abroad.”

Should the death toll mount during the coming administration, “In solidarity with the victims, we will document it as best we can,” the site states, “and we will demand moral accountability.”

Susan Brinkmann can be reached at fiat723@aol.com.

Copyright © 2009 - The Bulletin

Sic'em boys

Praise the Lord finally some are growing the hangy down things to publicly state the facts about VII and the way "progressives have twisted it and its documents to further the work of Satan.

Sic'em boys

Sunday, February 01, 2009

A RORATE CÆLI Editorial: Standing with Peter.

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just, ... Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. ... You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city." (St. Matthew, xxiii, 27-34)

Shame on you, "Liberal Catholics", Pharisees of the "New Springtime"! You proclaim to tolerate all, and to respect diversity, but you loathe those whose only wish is to preserve the purity of what was always taught and of the prayers that were always offered, because their continued presence in the Church contradicts the new "house" you tried to build.

Shame on you, "Progressives", official Scribes of the "Spirit of the Council"! You build monuments to the "Good Pope John", but reject all that he stood for, in traditional doctrine and in liturgical beauty. You hail Paul VI, but have done all you could to ignore his greatest magisterial document, Humanae Vitae, and discredit him in the eyes of the world. You maligned John Paul II every single day of his pontificate, but now you praise him, for you have found your new scapegoat - Benedict XVI, a man who, as his last work on earth, has accepted the heavy burden of the Fisherman, trying to bring unity to the flock God entrusted him.

You crucify Peter in the global public square. You deliver him to the enemies of the Church of Christ. You hate him for his struggle to rehabilitate what the Church has always believed and the way the Church has always prayed. You persecute him for he removed the scarlet sign of "excommunication", which you used to despise, but which you now view as good!

You hypocrites! You are accommodating towards abortionists and you pander to politicians dedicated to the culture of death - but you misrepresent Peter's legitimate gesture of mercy as an act of uninformed weakness. Liberal serpents, pseudo-Conservative vipers, you are "witnesses against yourselves" for your relentless persecution of Peter. Yet, Peter will keep working for unity with charity, charity in Truth.

Those who love the Vicar of Christ will keep praying daily for him, so that he "will not flee for fear of the wolves", so that he may persevere in the mission he set out to accomplish. What about you? "Your house shall be left to you, desolate."

posted by New Catholic at 11:59 PM

Relevant Quotes From Thomas Jefferson

Thanks Kyrie Eleison


Relevant Quotes From Thomas Jefferson

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. Thomas Jefferson