CNS STORY: Church announces dates for 2010 exposition of Shroud of Turin

CNS STORY: Church announces dates for 2010 exposition of Shroud of Turin

I REALLY WISH I COULD GO TO SEE THE SHROUD!!

God bless!

Andrew Klavan on the Culture -- Shut Up

I had no recollection of having heard of this man before, but I have now seen him on TV again, since viewing this video.

I have watched it several times, and each time, it gets better.

God bless!




OH, Andrew Klavan has a website and a blog to check out, as well. He is an author (for those of us who like to read... I am checking his site out now.


God bless!

Governor Sarah Palin at Vanderburgh County Right to Life

This is why I still like Governor Sarah Palin. She has class. This article goes with the video. The video seems to cut off in a poor spot (IMHO). However, her entire speech can be found here (at least at this writing!).

St Joseph, The Worker (Prayer for Employment)

Prayer to St Joseph for Employment

Dear Saint Joseph,

You were yourself once faced with the responsibility of providing
the necessities of life for Jesus and Mary.
Look down with fatherly compassion upon me in my anxiety
over my present inability to support my family.

Please help me to find gainful employment very soon,
so that this heavy burden of concern will be lifted from my heart
and that I am soon able to provide
for those whom God has entrusted to my care.

Help us to guard against bitterness and discouragement,
so that we may emerge from this trial spiritually enriched
and with even greater blessings from God.

Amen.

Changes for Mass -- Related to Swine Flu

Ok, I can understand the rest of the article, but I think this part is going just a little too far.

In the Diocese of Dallas, Bishop Kevin J. Farrell also asked pastors to "consider suspending in your parish the reception of the holy Eucharist under both species." In the letter, Bishop Farrell reminded pastors and ministers of holy Communion to maintain proper hygiene when handling the Eucharist.

Fight For Marriage Should Have Started in 1969

Ok, I give Bishop Tobin credit for speaking out. I really do. But if one substitutes NO FAULT, FORCED, UNILATERAL divorce in every area that he speaks about same sex marriage, THIS is the stance that our Bishops SHOULD HAVE TAKEN LONG AGO, as in 1973, when the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act came into being. Or even better, when then Gov Ronald Reagan signed the CA law into being in 1969-- an act that his son Michael has said he lived to regret in his book, Twice Adopted. Where have our Bishops been since this happened? Unfortunately, allowing US Tribunals to aid via 1095-2 null verdicts to increase on a daily basis, 'divorced and separated' groups to prosper, teaching people that they have a right to nullity (while denying that what they are really preaching is 'catholic divorce'). This battle for marriage really should have begun over thirty years ago!

November 3, 2003

Why is the Church Abandoning Marriage?

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of two legal tragedies for families.

While the Church loudly protests one of them — Roe v Wade — the other — the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act — is completely ignored.

Marriage is cutting a wider swath in the news these days, now that the possibility of same-sex marriage is on the horizon.

Until recently, "marriage" news came mostly by way of its dark counterpart — divorce — when word leaked out about a high-profile breakup. But that has changed. Several recent High Court rulings have put "marriage" on the front page.

Recently, the Catholic Church in this country weighed in on this issue. U.S. Bishops made their position unequivocally clear — that the sacrament of marriage would not be opened to same-sex partners.

But, this country's secular leaders will continue to grapple with this contentious issue, and as a result, they may let another cat out of the bag.

The current rhetoric surrounding the threat to marriage posed by same-sex partners neglects a far more serious threat unleashed thirty years ago — the same year that Roe v Wade sent shock waves through the Church. While most people know the date of the historic legal opinion giving women the right to abortion — January 22, 1973 — the other legal milestone is hidden in obscurity.

But, on August 2nd that same year, a select group of lawyers meeting in Hyannis, Massachusetts, approved the final version of their five-year project — the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act.

There is much more to that article at the website, and it is an important read.
My comments are interspersed below:

www.catholicnewsagency.com

Bishop Tobin: Catholic apathy on same-sex 'marriage' must end

Bishop Thomas Tobin

Providence, R.I., Apr 29, 2009 / 06:33 am (CNA).- "Abysmal" Catholic apathy must be overcome to oppose those who are "fiercely determined" to impose homosexual "marriage," Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island Thomas J. Tobin has warned. Reasserting Catholic teaching on sexual morality, he also said that same-sex "marriage" will endanger religious freedom.

snip SO DID NO FAULT DIVORCE! We cannot object, cannot defend our marriages, cannot bring up indissolubility in the courts, and get LITTLE help from our pastors/Bishops -- and this INCLUDES non-Catholic pastors -- to reconcile, save marriages. In fact, MANY times, it is those very people who ENCOURAGE spouses to divorce and hint that Nullity is not only possible, but PROBABLE! That, without ever having spoken to the unsuspecting Mate who will be served first, the divorce papers, and then, the petition of Nullity later.

However, he said the typical Rhode Island Catholic's response was indifferent and cited not wanting to judge people. Tobin also said that Catholics give rationalizations about the decline of Catholic influence.

snip This is also true for no fault, forced, unilateral divorce, OFTEN brought about by the PETITIONERS's INFIDELITY! A further insult is when the same Church who now bemoans the destruction of marriage by same sex unions often grants NULL verdicts to those very UNFAITHFUL spouses who skirted around Church Law by marrying outside the Church, then want to return, and are told to live as brother and sister for the sake of THEIR children while the process of 'investigation' into Nullity is underway, instead of being told to separate for the sake of THE FIRST set of Children, and to follow the Lord's command of 1 Cor 7:10-11, which is to live singly or RECONCILE to that first spouse. Further, though it is clearly in Canon Law (and in many Papal teachings, writings, etc) that the FIRST MARRIAGE is to be presumed to be VALID until proven to be Null... yet in all cases, the first spouse is continually referred to as 'former', or worse, the depersonalizing 'EX'.

Further, there is NEVER any homilies on the evil of divorce or the permanency of marriage, INCLUDING the one time in three years that Mark 10 is read in the Sunday Mass (Cycle B). Why? It may offend some people in the pews?

Yes, it MAY, but it may also save some souls who may lose salvation if they continue to live in Sin! OOPS..that is another topic we hear little about today! We hear all about the Love and MERCY of God, but very little about His Justice. Does no one understand His words in Malachi? He hates divorce. He hates what it does to His children.

Bishop Tobin explained that "homosexual activity is unnatural and gravely immoral. It's offensive to Almighty God. It can never be condoned, under any circumstances. Gay marriage, or civil unions, would mean that our state is in the business of ratifying, approving such immoral activity."

snip Yes, just as it is today in its divorce law. Divorce is equally as offensive to Almighty God. Our own Catechism calls it a GRAVE MATTER, and an offense against Natural Law. Yet it is defended, and often encouraged by our own Church in many ways, and those who attempt to defend their marriage are often slammed in very Catholic forums by not only the Lay people, but also by others. Our children are leaving the Church, cohabiting, etc, and the 'solution' offered is BETTER MARRIAGE PREP. That will not do a single thing until the evil of today's divorce is recognized. Why? Because those same people offering the Marriage Prep also condone (and frequently encourage) no fault divorce, and 'throw their hands up', saying nothing can be done.

Bishop Tobin introduced what he called the "champagne principle." Saying that not every wine has the unique characteristics of champagne, the bishop argued that someone who relabeled a bottle of Chianti and tried to sell it as champagne would be arrested for fraud.

Similarly, those who seek to redefine marriage and "to usurp the title 'marriage' for their morally bankrupt relationships," are "committing an act of fraud,"he charged. "It's insulting to those who have entered the authentic, sacred and time-honored institution of marriage over the years."

snip So is the treatment of those who are victims of UNILATERAL divorce!! So is the frequency of Null verdicts given under increasingly poor 1095-2 'grounds' . So has the high numbers of Null verdicts, which JPII and BXVI have both spoken against.

He closed with a warning about the implications the recognition of same-sex "marriage" would have for religious liberty.

"We're familiar with other examples of the gay agenda infringing on religious freedom," he said, noting how Massachusetts required the Catholic Church to place children for adoption with homosexual couples and how some countries have charged Christian preachers of hate crimes for voicing Christian doctrine about homosexual practices.

snip So where was the awareness in 1969, or August, 1973???

Bishop Tobin said that if only five or ten percent of Rhode Island's Catholic population became involved on this issue "we could have an enormous impact and help Rhode Island maintain its moral sanity."

He encouraged Catholics to become aware of political action on the issue, to write letters to the editor, and to encourage their representatives to "defend marriage and family values.

"And you can pray fervently that God will help us in this critical struggle on behalf of morality and common sense," he added.

If the imposition of homosexual marriage happens in Rhode Island, the bishop concluded, "It'll be our fault… simply because our abysmal apathy allowed it to happen."

My Final thoughts:

That final paragraph says it all, as far as I am concerned. HAD THIS SAME type of action been taken LONG ago, perhaps we would not be fighting THIS fight for Marriage TODAY! Had ANY of the Church taken action way back then, in 1969 or Aug, 1973, we may have had an entirely different world than the one we have today.

For those who want to write to defend 'their' situation... I am sorry, but I have heard those stories a myriad of times.

This time, I deserve to have MY opinion heard, and would ask you to look into the UDMA transcripts that Judy Parejko took the time to find and transcribe which document how evil that Law is.

Read her book, Stolen Vows.

Read the transcript that is in the Ways and Means Archives --ROOTS OF THE AMERICAN CULTURE AND COMMUNITY IN DISARRAY Statement of Bill Wood, Charlotte, North Carolina House Committee on Ways and Means

--
"Divorce tears marriage apart. It desolates both husband and wife. It leaves the children not only in tears but also in misery. We do not deny that there can be serious disagreement between husband and wife, but divorce is not the solution. When husband and wife have a disagreement, they should reflect, pray, sit together and discuss. Accept fault where you are wrong, ask for pardon, or consult a priest or other spiritual adviser, but do not divorce."
~~Francis Cardinal Arinze

Jill Stanek--100 Days of Death

Jill's latest column lists the anti-life moves of the present administration.

On Jan. 20, 2009, Barack Obama began his death march as the most anti-life president in U.S. history.

Today marks Obama's 100th day in office. This list substantiates Obama's personnel and policies to that end. He actually started way before Day 1:

It took me a little to realize that she begins with a Negative number--
Day -75: Names pro-abortion Rahm Emmanuel as chief of staff, who earned a 100 percent approval rating from NARAL while congressman

-- and builds to the latest.

God bless!

Na Zdrowie! The Kloska Family Blog: Hope Reigns on the Quad at Notre Dame!

Na Zdrowie! The Kloska Family Blog: Hope Reigns on the Quad at Notre Dame!

Many good photos and good narration of the Eucharistic Procession at Notre Dame.

More here, at another site.

Got there from americanpapist amazing fotos of ND Eucharistic procession: http://tinyurl.com/dfkh33

Canon Law Blog Update: Beyond parody: a priest wearing a Nazi arm-band

This is absolutely appalling! I tend to totally agree with Edward Peters on this one!

I have been in yahoo groups with some who have anti-semitic beliefs, yet call themselves 'good' and 'devout' Catholics, including one who prays continually for wisdom and discernment. With that type of discernment, I have to wonder whose voice she (and others of the same persuasion) has been listening to.

One cannot--CAN NOT-- be a good Catholic and despise the very people that our Lord, Jesus Christ, His Mother, and His Foster Father, St Joseph came from! NOT ALL rejected Him. All of the first Apostles and followers were Jewish.

That picture is disgusting, and his facial expression is smugness, not holiness.

Forgive him, Lord. Bring him to the full realization of who You are, and why it is important to reject not only anti-semitism, but also any false teachings of socialism, fascism, communism.

Lord, have Mercy!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Edward Peters
Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:33 AM

Beyond parody: a priest wearing a Nazi arm-band
 
The stunt pulled by a priest who was recently pictured outside a Catholic Church sporting a Nazi swastika armband is beneath contempt. But is the only response available to us expression of derision for his behavior? Maybe not.
 
See: http://www.canonlaw.info/2009/04/beyond-parody-priest-wearing-nazi-arm.html
 
 
LightoftheLaw URL: http://www.canonlaw.info/blog.html

National Catholic Register coverage of Notre Dame Scandal.

National Catholic Register coverage of Notre Dame Scandal. If you want to read in chronological order, read bottom up. If you prefer to start with the latest (as of today), then start at the top.

http://www.ncregister.com/daily/tags/university_of_notre_dame
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/tags/university_of_notre_dame/P7/
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/tags/university_of_notre_dame/P14/

Air Force One Photo Op Creates Terror Scare In NYC

Angry. Downright ticked.

That is what I felt as I watched this video, and then the one to the RIGHT of it on this website, done by people who lived very near the WTC and videotaped it as it was happening. The entire time I watched their video, I remembered what I felt, safely in Wisconsin, far away from Manhattan, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon.

Fear, shock, horror, numbness....

And then some IDIOTS plan a photo op with a HUGE PLANE being followed by a FIGHTER JET? And they don't make it PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE ahead of time that they are going to DO this??

Angry. Downright ticked. Disgusted. How stupid can anyone be?

For a photo op....



While the people of Manhattan and surrounding areas remembered this:






The one I watched is at the website, on the right, and is taken from a home near the WTC, as it was happening. It apparently does not imbed, even though it was the one running when I got the code. If you are interested, go here. Otherwise, you get my point, I am sure.

God bless!

Canadian Archbishop: Early Induction on Babies with Lethal Fetal Anomaly is DIRECT ABORTION

The other day, I read a story online dated April 9th about a young woman who has lovingly chosen to have her baby and is doing an excellent job of caring for her, and the final paragraph of that story really bothered me.

I went back to it several times, wanting to email the author, but unable to immediately find a way to do so. Then, I went to the link of Life Site News, and had to do a search for Hillary White and the story. I finally found it, and realized that nearly the first site was nearly word for word, with the exception of a very small part of the first paragraph.

What bothered me about that article?

Mostly the last paragraph!

Even some Catholic ethicists believe that such children should be "allowed to die" prematurely. In London, Ontario, a Catholic hospital maintains a policy offering "early inducement" for children with "fatal anomalies," including anencephaly, claiming that early termination of pregnancy is not contrary to Catholic teaching.

Not one word in that article to clarify what Catholic Teaching really IS! As I was reading it, I thought... this is outrageous! An early induction for ANY child that could not survive outside the womb is abortion...

To the credit of Life Site News, right under the article, they have linked THIS article (but not on the Christian Telegraph website! So those who read ONLY there will think that this is acceptable! NOT SO!

SADLY, this article was published BEFORE Hilary White's was, and before the Christian Telegraph copied her article!!

Read the good Archbishop's article below:

Canadian Archbishop:
'Early Induction' on Babies with Lethal Fetal Anomaly is
"Direct Abortion"

By John-Henry Westen

TORONTO, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The scandal of Catholic priests advising expectant mothers, whose babies are diagnosed with lethal fetal anomalies, that having an early induction in such cases is not opposed to Catholic teaching, is not new. The problem was already apparent in 2002, and denounced then by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast in a column in The Catholic Register.

The full text of the story is available at:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09040612.html


Ok, so I read that article, and I get to the priest's JUSTIFICATION for his advising... for 20 years...

Read on:

Conflicting testimony on the matter from Church authorities can in these cases cause the death of unborn children. While the teaching of the Church on the matter is clear, when described by Fr. Prieur, the procedure was made to sound more than acceptable.

Describing his thoughts In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com in December, Fr. Prieur said: "[The babies with a lethal fetal anomaly] are dying and basically here's what happens, and I've been doing, we've been doing these for, like I said, for almost twenty years. People who are pro-life to their fingertips want the baby, get the diagnosis, find out that the baby is dying, will say, 'Is there any way we can hold that child while the child dies?' And I've often felt in my heart of hearts that's a signal from God, that what we're doing is the right thing. And there's a factor, and this is a technical term in theology - the instinct of the faith - and it's like, you know, in your heart of hearts you say, you know that makes sense. This is not your normal abortion, where we want to get rid of the baby. Not at all. See what I mean. And here's where we've got Catholic obstetricians here in town that say, 'Yes, this is the right thing to do.'"

The National Catholic Bioethics Center, which is reviewing the procedures at St. Joseph’s hospital now, states in their position paper on early induction of labour: “induction of labor before term performed simply for the reason that the child has a lethal anomaly is direct abortion.” (see the full statement here: http://www.ncbcenter.org/04-03-11-EarlyInduction.asp )

See related coverage:

Exclusive: Twenty Years of Eugenic Abortion at Ontario Catholic Hospital
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/dec/08121111.html

Mother "Pressured" to Terminate Pregnancy of Trisomy 18 Child at Catholic Hospital
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09022507.html

Mother Rejected Advice to Terminate Pregnancy Given by Priest at Centre of 'Early Induction' Scandal
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09031810.html

MY COMMENT TO FR PRIEUR:

Fr, You can sugar coat it anyway you want to, but what you have been telling those people for all these years is WRONG.

Remember:

"Right is right, even if no one is right.

Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is wrong."

~~Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

American Papist -- all ND coverage on one page

@americanpapist all of today's notre dame craziness compiled here: http://tinyurl.com/cqzk2t

Tom has all of his posts about N D marked so you can scroll to the bottom and go up, reading in order, or just start at the top with the most recent and go back as far as you would like.

OH, and I forgot!! Do you facebook?

americanpapistis thrilled the "I Support Mary Ann Glendon and her Noble Refusal!" Facebook group has almost 500 members! http://tinyurl.com/cfem39

Just part of continuing training....over Manhattan

The stupidity of this really irks me! Can they NOT THINK about how the people LIVING NEAR GROUND ZERO would react??

"This mission, involving the VC-25 and an F-16, was conducted in conjunction with normally scheduled continuation training for assigned aircrew members," officials said.

OHH?? Over Manhattan?? STUPID!




One comment by Bloomberg, especially, really hits the nail on the head:

"Had I known about it I would have called them right away and asked them not to," he said. "The good news is it was nothing more than an ill considered, badly conceived, insensitive photo op - with the taxpayers' money."

Archbishop Timothy Dolan Speaks

Trying to clear up my many 'to be blogged on' things, as if you could not tell...

Archbishop Dolan speaks to tough issues in an interview with DAN MANGAN



And another:



I do have some comments. I do like this man, and I do admire him. It is therefore not just to him, personally, that I want to make my comment, but to the Catholic Church in the US period, and I will do that either here, later, or in a separate post. I have not yet decided.

Til then, God bless!

Pius XII. A Book and an Essay

This article includes the essay that is noted in the title.

God bless!

Pius XII. A Book and an Essay Shed Light on the Black Legend

The image of Pacelli as "Hitler's pope" is contested by a growing number of scholars. There were many responsible for creating this image, including Catholics. But Soviet propaganda was decisive. A Jesuit historian reveals the strategy

by Sandro Magister

ROME, April 3, 2009 – Recently the Vatican has produced two new texts in defense of Pius XII, the most controversial pope of the 20th century. Both of them are aimed at dismantling the "black legend" about him.

The first is a book that went on sale in Italy yesterday, printed by a non-Catholic publishing house, Marsilio, and written by authors who are also of various cultural and religious backgrounds, including two Jews – but all of whom agree in exonerating pope Eugenio Pacelli.

The second contribution is the essay that opens the latest issue of "La Civiltà Cattolica," the journal that is examined by the secretariat of state before publication. Its author is Jesuit Fr. Giovanni Sale, an historian who specializes in the 20th century Church. Here as well, the title goes to the heart of the question: "The birth of the black legend of Pius XII."

***

Read the rest of this article HERE.



Addendum (same day, 5:27 PM)
Another article, archived:

A story from www.chiesa with a previous article by Fr. Sale and the essay by Giovanni Maria Vian on the Catholic prehistory of the negative image of Pius XII:

> The Black Legend of Pius XII Was Invented by a Catholic: Mounier (20.6.2005)

Shin Bet: 'Pope mobile' not good enough to protect pontiff

How did I miss this?? I follow both, and had not seen it yesterday when haaretzonline tweeted.  I guess I had not checked in on Twitter until now, after seeing Patrick Madrid's alert!

@patrickmadrid Israeli Security Agency Worried About Assasination Plot Against Pope Benedict — http://tinyurl.com/d228qo #Catholic
@haaretzonline Shin Bet: 'Pope mobile' not good enough to protect pontiff http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1081019.html
1:28 AM Apr 26th from web

Given the propensity for suicide bombers, and the May 14th anniversary pointed out in the haaretz article, we need to pray for protection of all concerned. Remember, as well, the anniversary dates (2) of May 13th! See Patrick Madrid's blog for clues.

God bless!

Interesting article, but why the disparaging 'it was claimed' in the second headline?? Ah, well.... God bless!

Shared by @thecompassnews

Vatican planned to move to Portugal if Nazis captured wartime Pope

Secret plans were drawn up by the Vatican to elect a new Pope and flee to a friendly country should Hitler have carried out his threat to kidnap the wartime Pontiff, it was claimed yesterday.

By Nick Squires in Rome and Simon Caldwell

Last Updated: 3:25AM BST 22 Apr 2009

Pope Pius XII told senior bishops that should he be arrested by the Nazis, his resignation would become effective immediately, paving the way for a successor, according to documents in the Vatican's Secret Archives.

The bishops would then be expected to flee to a safe country – probably neutral Portugal – where they would re-establish the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church and appoint a new Pontiff.

That Hitler considered kidnapping the Pope has been documented before, but this is the first time that details have emerged of the Vatican's strategy should the Nazis carry out the plan.

"Pius said 'if they want to arrest me they will have to drag me from the Vatican'," said Peter Gumpel, the German Jesuit priest who is in charge of researching whether Pius should be made a saint, and therefore has access to secret Vatican archives.

Pius, who was Pope throughout the war, told his advisers "the person who would leave the under these conditions would not be Pius XII but Eugenio Pacelli" – his name before he was elected Pontiff – thus giving permission for a new Pope to be elected.

"It would have been disastrous if the Church had been left without an authoritative leader," said Father Gumpel.

"Pius wouldn't leave voluntarily. He had been invited repeatedly to go to Portugal or Spain or the United States but he felt he could not leave his diocese under these severe and tragic circumstances." Vatican documents, which still remain secret, are believed to show that Pius was aware of a plan formulated by Hitler in July 1943 to occupy the Vatican and arrest him and his senior cardinals.

Read the rest of this article here

Michael Coren -- Open Season on Benedict

Michael Coren of The National Post has written a very good column entitled "Open season on Benedict".

He makes five points:

None of this is mentioned when Pope Benedict is attacked for his condemnation of the condom fetish. If we read the man's statements, however, what we see is a sophisticated deconstruction of Western double-standards and a thoughtful critique of the failed attempt to control AIDS.

First, it's not working. In countries where condoms are state-distributed, free and ubiquitous AIDS has not been controlled and is often spreading.

Second, even where AIDS is less of an issue, such as in North America, the increased availability and use of condoms has coincided with an annual increase in STDs and so-called unwanted pregnancies.

Third, one failure of a condom to work -- and the failure rate is significant if not overwhelming --is not a mere mistake but a death sentence.

Fourth, condoms enable promiscuity rather than encourage abstinence. And sexual activity is about more than mere intercourse; a cut finger or a small body wound can allow infection to occur.

Fifth, how dare we treat black people as if they were children. They are capable of self-control and all over Africa, most successfully but not exclusively in Uganda, there are elaborate, empathetic and extraordinarily successful abstinence programs that emphasize humanity rather than lust -- a philosophy that runs directly contrary to the sexual gratification cult so favoured by some of the people in the West now so apoplectic at Pope Benedict's comments.

But to really understand the points he is making, you need to read the rest of his column, here.

Obama's Image By Dry Bones

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Abortion Industry Seeks to Discredit Adoption

Abortion Industry Seeks to Discredit Adoption

by LifeForAll on Tue 21 Apr 2009 12:05 PM EDT  |  Permanent Link 

The Washington Times (WT) wrote a fascinating two-part story on the status of adoption in the United States. Today we take a look at part 1. The series begins by looking at the falling number of infant adoptions. In fact, according to the WT, only one percent of all pregnancies out of marriage lead to an adoption. Meanwhile, a new report shows that there are 10 million American couples looking to adopt. Why the discrepancy?

One reason is abortion. Since 1973, the percentage of unwed pregnant women who seek abortion has skyrocketed to 35 percent. We live in a culture now that encourages women to "get rid" of their problems and seek "quick" solutions. For the millions of post-abortive women, however, these lies have painful, unforeseen consequences. Instead of feeling "relief" like the abortion industry would have them think, many women are still suffering from guilt, depression and trauma decades after an abortion.

But the abortion industry continues to lie, not only about the traumatic experience of abortion, but about adoption as well. The WT spoke with several anti-adoption activists who had this to say:

"No one wants to be an adoptee. No mother who has lost a child [to adoption] fully recovers."

"The adoption system is now virtually a North American phenomena - most other countries realize how barbaric it is     toward mothers and children."

 "[Adoption] is an industry [in which] young, unwed (and thus powerless) parents are persuaded, through force,     coercion or outright lies, to transfer parental rights of their children to older, more affluent couples."

You can read the rest of this article here.

My comments:

The abortion industry discourages adoption, but also does not ENCOURAGE mothers choosing Life, and keeping their children.

No one wants to be an adoptee? My daughters would VEHEMENTLY tell you that they GREATLY prefer that over the alternative of losing their life by abortion while in their birth mothers' wombs!!!

Barbaric?? And ABORTION isn't?? Cutting and ripping apart a living human being without anesthesia ISN'T??? For MONEY?

Force, Coercion, LIES??? I am SIX years older than my oldest daughter's birthmother, Karen. She did NOT need coercion, persuasion or lies to choose to place her daughter, NOR DID MY SECOND DAUGHTER's birth mother who chose that option TWICE for her two daughters!!

As for LIES... the abortion industry does NOT protect children from abusers in cases of INCEST or Pedophiles impregnating a minor! Not only does the Abortion industry protect the violators, they aid and abet them by covering and lying, even to the point of teaching a minor HOW to get around the parental consent laws!

MY DAUGHTERS have BOTH been able to tell their birthmothers THANK YOU FOR GIVIING ME LIFE. No aborted child can ever do this. MY OLDEST DAUGHTER has hugged both of her birthparents! NO aborted child can do this -- in THIS life!

Barbaric?

God bless! 

This is what the real faith looks like -- by DaTechguy

Excellent roundup and summary of others' view of Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon's action of turning down Notre Dame's award!

There is also a followup regarding Miss California that is another example.

God bless!

American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic!: Flash: Mary Ann Glendon *turns down* Notre Dame Laetare Medal

American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic!: Flash: Mary Ann Glendon *turns down* Notre Dame Laetare Medal

Canon Law Blog: Mary Ann Glendon brings good out of evil

I agree with this wholeheartedly (except am not a Canon Lawyer, so on that part I take his word).

God Bless!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Edward Peters
Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM

Mary Ann Glendon brings good out of evil
 
I see Dr. Mary Ann Glendon's refusal to provide cover for Notre Dame's inexcusable conferral of honors on a prominent pro-abortion politician as an application of Canon 209.1 "The Christian faithful, even in their own manner of acting, are always obliged to maintain communion with the Church", or of Canon 225.2 "According to each one's own condition, [laity] are also bound by a particular duty to imbue and perfect the order of temporal affairs with the spirit of the gospel and thus to give witness to Christ, especially in carrying out these same affairs and in exercising secular functions."

The evil that ND President Jenkins and his Board of Trustees committed has, Deus laudetur, occasioned one of the most striking displays of episcopal fortitude I can remember, mobilized hundreds of thousands of American Catholics against another quiet surrender to the Culture of Death, and effected notice to several once great Catholic institutions that it's time, finally, to decide where they stand.

I say, God bless Ambassador Glendon.
 
From: http://www.canonlaw.info/2009/04/mary-ann-glendon-brings-good-out-of.html
 
LightoftheLaw URL: http://www.canonlaw.info/blog.html

Declining Notre Dame: A First Things News Flash

Just checking my email, found this one.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joe Carter <jcarter@firstthings.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM

Mary Ann Glendon has declined the Laetare Medal, the annual award from Notre Dame, which she was to receive this spring at the university's graduation ceremonies. 

At 9:30 this morning, April 27, 2009, Mary Ann Glendon faxed to the university's president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and published online at First Things (http://www.firstthings.com/blog/2009/04/27/declining-notre-dame-a-letter-from-mary-ann-glendon/) a letter explaining her decision to refuse the medal.

Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A member of the editorial and advisory board of <em>First Things</em>, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican from 2007 to 2009.

--
Joe Carter
Web Editor
First Things
firstthings.com

Integrity over Prestige

Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon's letter refusing the Laetare Medal is very clear, and shows that she refuses to be used, as Fr Jenkins had intended to do. Again, Integrity.

She could have simply accepted. She deserves this Award. She could have simply acquiesced, accepted it, and spoke her beliefs to the Graduates and to everyone else that attends the event. Bishop D'Arcy had apparently left the door open for her to do so.

But principle has won out over prestige. In doing so, IMHO, she has increased her already very high level of prestige.

Her letter, in part, explains her decision:

Then I learned that "talking points" issued by Notre Dame in response to widespread criticism of its decision included two statements implying that my acceptance speech would somehow balance the event:

• "President Obama won't be doing all the talking. Mary Ann Glendon, the former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will be speaking as the recipient of the Laetare Medal."

• "We think having the president come to Notre Dame, see our graduates, meet our leaders, and hear a talk from Mary Ann Glendon is a good thing for the president and for the causes we care about."

A commencement, however, is supposed to be a joyous day for the graduates and their families. It is not the right place, nor is a brief acceptance speech the right vehicle, for engagement with the very serious problems raised by Notre Dame's decision—in disregard of the settled position of the U.S. bishops—to honor a prominent and uncompromising opponent of the Church's position on issues involving fundamental principles of justice.

Finally, with recent news reports that other Catholic schools are similarly choosing to disregard the bishops' guidelines, I am concerned that Notre Dame's example could have an unfortunate ripple effect.

It is with great sadness, therefore, that I have concluded that I cannot accept the Laetare Medal or participate in the May 17 graduation ceremony.

God bless you, Mary Ann Glendon!

Integrity. Courage.

Integrity is something that does not often rear its head in today's world of 'tolerance'. Courage is something that it takes to stand up for one's beliefs in a day when 'tolerance' is preached and cheered. 'Tolerance' with a small 't', means that anything and everything must be accepted, regardless of the inherent rightness or wrongness, for today, there 'is no right or wrong'. Today, what one wishes to do or believe is ok, for that person, and should never be pressed upon another, UNLESS it involves the "PC" viewpoints of the day.

Relativism--what is right for you may not be right for another..

Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon has integrity and courage. CONGRATULATIONS!

An EXCELLENT article, here, in National Catholic Register needs to be read in full, as it gives the history of Notre Dame's activities over the past several decades in flaunting Catholic teaching.

The article ends:

Mary Ann Glendon Bears Witness
It could not have been easy for Glendon to decline the Laetare Medal — after all, she is deserving of it, and the people who nominated her for it are now put in an awkward position. Glendon is proud of her Notre Dame connections, including the 1996 honorary degree that she was awarded. No doubt she is proud of her former student Barack Obama for his laudable achievements. No doubt she would have preferred a quieter honor, one which would not have forced her to choose sides. It is to Father Jenkins’s shame that he tried to use Glendon. It is to her great credit that she refused to be used.

In her life of extraordinary accomplishments, the witness given by Glendon by not going to Notre Dame next month is something of a crowning achievement. It matters a great deal that a celebrated laywoman is rejecting this honor. Notre Dame long ago learned how to disregard the advice, admonishment and even the explicit will of the American bishops. For this they paid no apparent price, as there were always those who were willing to take what Notre Dame was offering, including successive presidents of the United States.

Now someone has finally said No. And not just someone, but a woman who has ennobled everything she has lent her name to. It will be noticed on May 17 that someone thought some things more important than Notre Dame’s honors; that someone thought some things more important than basking in the glow of a popular president; that someone thought 25 years of deliberate confusion, evasion, equivocation and deception from Notre Dame on abortion politics was enough.

Glendon will not collect her Laetare Medal. In not doing so, she has proved worthy of the honor; please God, her courageous decision will make Notre Dame more worthy of the honors it seeks to give.

"Right is right, even if no one is right.

Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is wrong."

~~Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

We the People Do So Know...

And some people try to say that We the People are too stupid to know what the Tea Parties have been all about...

This song is ONE reason.

What's my line? Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

After watching this, I think I SAW it as a child on TV!

Enjoy!



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God bless!

UNICEF Tells Domincan Republic to Liberalize Abortion

The Dominican Republic is a very Catholic nation. This newsletter had two articles in it.

UNICEF Calls for Legal Abortion in Dominican Republic

By Piero A. Tozzi, J.D.

http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1118/pub_detail.asp

Nations Balk at Billion Dollar Global Gender Policing Agency

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.

http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1119/pub_detail.asp

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Austin Ruse <austin.ruse@c-fam.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:04 AM

Dear Colleague, We report today on the recent interference of UNICEF into the internal abortion debate in the Dominican Republic. UNICEF insists that it is neutral on abortion yet once more they have told a Member State of the UN that they must liberalize abortion. We also report on a behemoth of a new UN agency, this one to promote radical women's rights globally. Member States are pushing back. Spread the word. Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse President Editor in Chief - Austin Ruse Managing Editor - Piero Tozzi Assistant Managing Editor - Hannah Russo Chief Correspondent - Samantha Singson Contributors - Susan Yoshihara / Katharina Rothweiler © Copyright 2009 Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 495, New York, NY 10017 www.c-fam.org