Fr. Corapi's Election Novena starts Monday October 27.
Help Pro-Life candidates by going door to door. Contact me.
I strongly urge you all to support John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin as the
Pro-Life candidates. Other recommendations:
Please vote for pro-life US Senator candidate Jeff Beatty for US Senator from Massachusetts. Prevent John Kerry from returning to the Senate given his absolute defense of abortion on demand
Please vote for Nathan Bech for US Congress 1st District, who is a veteran (Afghanistan and Iraq) and Pro-Life candidate, over
Planned Parenthood’s other pocket warmer (100% NARAL rating) John Olver.
Please vote for Southbridge Town Council Chairman, leader in the fight against higher property taxes, and pro-life candidate Ron Cherninsky, for MA State Rep in Southbridge, Charlton and Brookfields over neophyte darling of the abortion and homosexual lobbies, Geraldo Alicea (back stabber on Traditional marriage too).
MA State Rep in Uxbridge, Webster Please vote for Kevin Kuros over double-speaking (even when sober) current rep Paul Kujawski
Please vote for Pro-Life Republican Stephen Comtois for MA State Rep in 5th Worc (Brookfield, Barre, Hardwick)
Please vote for Pro-Life independent Carolyn Kamuda for State Rep in the 2nd Worcester district of Athol, Royalston Gardner area, over Pro-choice incumbent Robert Rice who voted against Traditional marriage. She needs help this weekend before the election.
Please vote for pro-family Republican Kurt Hayes for state representative in the 37th Middlesex district in Acton and Lunenburg over political insider Jen Benson, who was recently found guilty of breaking the campaign finance law.
Please vote for Paul Avella He is a Marriage Amendment supporter, Littleton School Committee and former Air Force pilot. His opponent is Political insider, longtime Beacon Hill staffer and probable Democratic
nominee from Westford.
Please vote for Sandi Martinez for the Senate in 3rd Middlesex District
Please vote for Marlborough Republican and city councilor Steven Levy for the
Middlesex and Worcester state Senate seat over Jamie Eldridge (D-Acton).
Please vote for Pro-Life, marriage amendment supporter Rep. Paul Frost in Auburn
Please vote for Pro-Life, marriage amendment supporter Jeff Perry of Sandwich, MA for State Representative.
Please vote for Rep. Lew Evangelidis (R-Holden) who is Pro-Life and voted to defend Traditional Marriage.
For once a good choice: Pro-Family Independent Clare Freda is running for Representative against Pro-family Dennis Rosa up in Leominster.
Please Vote Mike Franco (R East Longmeadow) for Governor’s Council
Please vote for Pro-Life Republican Arthur Vigeant in 4th Middlesex Marlborough
Please vote for Pro-Marriage candidate John Dwyer
Please vote for pro-marriage Rep. William Lantigua (D-Lawrence)
Vote marriage supporter incumbent Rep. Mike Rush (D-West Roxbury)
Vote Rep. Paul Donato (D-Medford)
Vote Pro-Marriage Sen. Scott Brown
Please vote for Pro-Family candidate Rep. Vinny deMacedo (R-1st Plymouth)
Please vote for Pro-Family, Pro-Life Candidate for State Representative Lawrence “Lonnie” Brennan in 18th Essex
Please vote for Pro-Family Attleboro City Councilor George Ross to replace retiring Rep. John Lepper (R-Attleboro) as State Representative.
Please vote for Pro-Family Sonny Parante in the 3rd Middlesex (Marlboro) over his pro-same-sex marriage oppenent.
Please vote Traditional Marriage defender Jon Rockwood (R-Walpole)
Also please vote for John Mahoney in Worcester running on stickers against Bob "My mortgage" Spellane: Considering that Spellane is wrong on everything; ESCR, Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage, I think you could justify through Prudential judgment anyone, even someone as bad as Spellane, just to send a message that these guys are not life appointments. It would disrupt the Democratic Machine on Beacon Hill. I do not know where Mahoney stands on abortion, but a vote for Mahoney sends a message.
Difficult Prudential Judgment in the Senate race for the Second (South and West) Worcester District Michael O. Moore is completely in the tank for same-sex marriage and the homosexual lobby, ESCR and abortion on demand and is part of the monolith of deceit (Culture of Death), while John Lebeaux might vote to restrict some late term abortions. This is a comment, not an endorsement.
What's at stake this fall: "I predict that the outcome of the presidential election will depend not on the economy, not on the Iraq war, not on the price of gasoline or the issue of national health insurance, but on the issue of the right to abortion." - Abortion advocate and former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch.
Oct 30, 2008
Oct 25, 2008
The USCCB doesn’t speak for me.
Harsh words you might say, but they did not come from me, but from Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton, PA (Biden's birthplace).
At a panel discussion on faith issues and the presidential campaign at St. John’s Catholic Church, where the Bishop arrived unannounced, Martino told the audience "No USCCB document is relevant in this diocese," he was quoted as saying in the Wayne County Independent, a Honesdale-based newspaper. "The USCCB doesn’t speak for me."
Read the whole story if you want a glimpse of Apostolic succession in action, and follow up with a Steve Skojec piece about a Bishop who recognizes his "God-given teaching authority has long been usurped by a collective body with no authority of its own"
Bishop Martino's pastoral letter can be read here, and this is binding on Catholics in Scranton.
"While the Church assists the State in the promotion of a just society, its primary concern is to assist men and women in achieving salvation. For this reason, it is incumbent upon bishops to correct Catholics who are in error regarding these matters. Furthermore, public officials who are Catholic and who persist in public support for abortion and other intrinsic evils should not partake in or be admitted to the sacrament of Holy Communion. As I have said before, I will be vigilant on this subject.
It is the Church’s role now to be a prophet in our own country, reminding all citizens of what our founders meant when they said that “. . . all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” The Church’s teaching that all life from conception to natural death should be protected by law is founded on religious belief to be sure, but it is also a profoundly American principle founded on reason. Whenever a society asks its citizens to violate its own foundational principles – as well as their moral consciences – citizens have a right, indeed an obligation, to refuse."
At a panel discussion on faith issues and the presidential campaign at St. John’s Catholic Church, where the Bishop arrived unannounced, Martino told the audience "No USCCB document is relevant in this diocese," he was quoted as saying in the Wayne County Independent, a Honesdale-based newspaper. "The USCCB doesn’t speak for me."
Read the whole story if you want a glimpse of Apostolic succession in action, and follow up with a Steve Skojec piece about a Bishop who recognizes his "God-given teaching authority has long been usurped by a collective body with no authority of its own"
Bishop Martino's pastoral letter can be read here, and this is binding on Catholics in Scranton.
"While the Church assists the State in the promotion of a just society, its primary concern is to assist men and women in achieving salvation. For this reason, it is incumbent upon bishops to correct Catholics who are in error regarding these matters. Furthermore, public officials who are Catholic and who persist in public support for abortion and other intrinsic evils should not partake in or be admitted to the sacrament of Holy Communion. As I have said before, I will be vigilant on this subject.
It is the Church’s role now to be a prophet in our own country, reminding all citizens of what our founders meant when they said that “. . . all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” The Church’s teaching that all life from conception to natural death should be protected by law is founded on religious belief to be sure, but it is also a profoundly American principle founded on reason. Whenever a society asks its citizens to violate its own foundational principles – as well as their moral consciences – citizens have a right, indeed an obligation, to refuse."
Oct 24, 2008
Just Look
Just LookThe picture on this page is an untouched photograph of a being that has been within its mother for 20 weeks. Please do me the favor of looking at it carefully.
Have you any doubt that it is a human being?
If you do not have any such doubt, have you any doubt that it is an innocent human being?
If you have no doubt about this either, have you any doubt that the authorities in a civilized society are duty-bound to protect this innocent human being if anyone were to wish to kill it?
If your answer to this last query is negative, that is, if you have no doubt that the authorities in a civilized society would be duty-bound to protect this innocent human being if someone were to wish to kill it, I would suggest—even insist—that there is not a lot more to be said about the issue of abortion in our society. It is wrong, and it cannot—must not—be tolerated.
But you might protest that all of this is too easy. Why, you might inquire, have I not delved into the opinion of philosophers and theologians about the matter? And even worse: Why have I not raised the usual questions about what a "human being" is, what a "person" is, what it means to be "living," and such? People who write books and articles about abortion always concern themselves with these kinds of things. Even the justices of the Supreme Court who gave us "Roe v. Wade" address them. Why do I neglect philosophers and theologians? Why do I not get into defining "human being," defining "person," defining "living," and the rest? Because, I respond, I am sound of mind and endowed with a fine set of eyes, into which I do not believe it is well to cast sand. I looked at the photograph, and I have no doubt about what I saw and what are the duties of a civilized society if what I saw is in danger of being killed by someone who wishes to kill it or, if you prefer, someone who "chooses" to kill it. In brief: I looked, and I know what I saw.
But what about the being that has been in its mother for only 15 weeks or only 10? Have you photographs of that too? Yes, I do. However, I hardly think it necessary to show them. For if we agree that the being in the photograph printed on this page is an innocent human being, you have no choice but to admit that it may not be legitimately killed even before 20 weeks unless you can indicate with scientific proof the point in the development of the being before which it was other than an innocent human being and, therefore, available to be legitimately killed. Nor have Aristotle, Aquinas or even the most brilliant embryologists of our era or any other era been able to do so. If there is a time when something less than a human being in a mother morphs into a human being, it is not a time that anyone has ever been able to identify, though many have made guesses. However, guesses are of no help. A man with a shotgun who decides to shoot a being that he believes may be a human being is properly hauled before a judge. And hopefully, the judge in question knows what a "human being" is and what the implications of someone's wishing to kill it are. The word "incarceration" comes to mind.
However, we must not stop here. The matter becomes even clearer and simpler if you obtain from the National Geographic Society two extraordinary DVDs. One is entitled "In the Womb" and illustrates in color and in motion the development of one innocent human being within its mother. The other is entitled "In the Womb—Multiples" and in color and motion shows the development of two innocent human beings—twin boys—within their mother. If you have ever allowed yourself to wonder, for example, what "living" means, these two DVDs will be a great help. The one innocent human being squirms about, waves its arms, sucks its thumb, smiles broadly and even yawns; and the two innocent human beings do all of that and more: They fight each other. One gives his brother a kick, and the other responds with a sock to the jaw. If you can convince yourself that these beings are something other than living and innocent human beings, something, for example, such as "mere clusters of tissues," you have a problem far more basic than merely not appreciating the wrongness of abortion. And that problem is—forgive me—self-deceit in a most extreme form.
Adolf Hitler convinced himself and his subjects that Jews and homosexuals were other than human beings. Joseph Stalin did the same as regards Cossacks and Russian aristocrats. And this despite the fact that Hitler and his subjects had seen both Jews and homosexuals with their own eyes, and Stalin and his subjects had seen both Cossacks and Russian aristocrats with theirs. Happily, there are few today who would hesitate to condemn in the roundest terms the self-deceit of Hitler, Stalin or even their subjects to the extent that the subjects could have done something to end the madness and protect living, innocent human beings.
It is high time to stop pretending that we do not know what this nation of ours is allowing—and approving—with the killing each year of more than 1,600,000 innocent human beings within their mothers. We know full well that to kill what is clearly seen to be an innocent human being or what cannot be proved to be other than an innocent human being is as wrong as wrong gets. Nor can we honorably cover our shame (1) by appealing to the thoughts of Aristotle or Aquinas on the subject, inasmuch as we are all well aware that their understanding of matters embryological was hopelessly mistaken, (2) by suggesting that "killing" and "choosing to kill" are somehow distinct ethically, morally or criminally, (3) by feigning ignorance of the meaning of "human being," "person," "living," and such, (4) by maintaining that among the acts covered by the right to privacy is the act of killing an innocent human being, and (5) by claiming that the being within the mother is "part" of the mother, so as to sustain the oft-repeated slogan that a mother may kill or authorize the killing of the being within her "because she is free to do as she wishes with her own body."
One day, please God, when the stranglehold on public opinion in the United States has been released by the extremists for whom abortion is the center of their political and moral life, our nation will, in my judgment, look back on what we have been doing to innocent human beings within their mothers as a crime no less heinous than what was approved by the Supreme Court in the "Dred Scott Case" in the 19th century, and no less heinous than what was perpetrated by Hitler and Stalin in the 20th. There is nothing at all complicated about the utter wrongness of abortion, and making it all seem complicated mitigates that wrongness not at all. On the contrary, it intensifies it.
Do me a favor. Look at the photograph again. Look and decide with honesty and decency what the Lord expects of you and me as the horror of "legalized" abortion continues to erode the honor of our nation. Look, and do not absolve yourself if you refuse to act.
Edward Cardinal Egan
Archbishop of New York
What same-sex "marriage" has done to MA
What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts
It's far worse than most people realize
It's far worse than most people realize
Oct 15, 2008
Obortion
A new poll shows Americans overwhelmingly reject Obamavision when it comes to those cute little embryos who make something of their lives by being a person.
Of course I refer to CHOICE, the Choice that Planned Parenthood says all Americans want, and women must make if they visit.
Only 8% believe in Obamavision, that Abortion should be available to a woman any time she wants during her entire pregnancy (and I might add slightly after).
I'll do the math for those of you indoctrinated in Public Correctness, this means 92% believe there should be restrictions on Abortions in the US.
The breakdown:
8% believe no restrictions on abortion during first 6 months of pregnancy, but third trimester abortions (currently legal under Doe v. Bolton) should be restricted.
24% said no restrictions only during first 3 months of Pregnancy
32% said restrict all abortions except in cases of rape, incest and mother's life
15% restrict all abortions except to save the mother's life
13% abortion is always wrong and should not be permitted
No wonder UnPlanned Parenthood wants JOhbamma to pack the Supreme Court with Roeniacs.
Of course I refer to CHOICE, the Choice that Planned Parenthood says all Americans want, and women must make if they visit.
Only 8% believe in Obamavision, that Abortion should be available to a woman any time she wants during her entire pregnancy (and I might add slightly after).
I'll do the math for those of you indoctrinated in Public Correctness, this means 92% believe there should be restrictions on Abortions in the US.
The breakdown:
8% believe no restrictions on abortion during first 6 months of pregnancy, but third trimester abortions (currently legal under Doe v. Bolton) should be restricted.
24% said no restrictions only during first 3 months of Pregnancy
32% said restrict all abortions except in cases of rape, incest and mother's life
15% restrict all abortions except to save the mother's life
13% abortion is always wrong and should not be permitted
No wonder UnPlanned Parenthood wants JOhbamma to pack the Supreme Court with Roeniacs.
Catholic Vote
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Shut up Mario Cuomo, Joe Biden, Ted and Kerry, Nancy...
Invincible arrogance is not the standard you want to adopt, it is not helpful.
Oct 2, 2008
Vote Pro-Life
During these 40 Days for Life coming up to the Election, Please vote for Pro-Life and Pro-Family candidates and also attempt to be tireless in mentioning there Pro-Life candidates as well as consider donating your time or treasure to this is eminently a worthwhile cause of re-building a Culture of Life in Massachusetts and the USA.
Help elect John McCain President and Sarah Palin Vice President – volunteer at 149 Highland St, Worcester; make calls, hold signs, make a Pro-Life difference. 7 days a week.
MFI voter guide
Please vote for pro-life candidate Jeff Beatty for US Senator from Massachusetts. Jeff is a former Army Delta Forces (Grenada), FBI and CIA, as well as successful business owner and Pro-Life candidate Jeff Beatty. No Catholic of conscience could reasonably vote for John Kerry given his absolute defense of abortion on demand, as well as his fame as Planned Parenthood’s pocket warmer. But Jeff Beatty is not simply the other, he brings not only a Pro-Life attitude, but a can-do common sense sadly needed in our government, and he brings it at a time when John Kerry is vulnerable. Jeff Beatty needs money and volunteers. Please help and please vote for Pro-Life candidate Jeff Beatty over Planned Parenthood’s pocket warmer John Kerry.
Please vote for Nathan Bech for US Congress 1st District, who is a veteran (Afghanistan and Iraq) and Pro-Life candidate, over Planned Parenthood’s other pocket warmer (100% NARAL rating) John Olver.
Please vote for Southbridge Town Council Chairman, leader in the fight against higher property taxes, and pro-life candidate Ron Cherninsky, for MA State Rep in Southbridge, Charlton and Brookfields over neophyte darling of the abortion and homosexual lobbies, Geraldo Alicea (back stabber on Traditional marriage too).
MA State Rep in Uxbridge, Webster Please vote for Kevin Kuros over double-speaking (even when sober) current rep Paul Kujawski, who also pulled a Brutus move on Traditional Marriage supporters. Kuros accuses Kujawski of becoming an "insider."
"What is comes down to is this: Is he really in touch with his district anymore?" ask Kuros. "All signs point to his being an insider." Kuros specifically cites Kujawski's votes to not return $450 million promised to local cities and downs, to expand the buffer zone around abortion clinics, to support same-sex marriage and his vote against a Republican amendment that would have prohibited funding of "clone and kill" embryonic stem cell research. Please vote for Kevin Kuros
Please vote for Pro-Life Republican Stephen Comtois MA State Rep in 5th Worc (Brookfield, Barre, Hardwick)
Please vote for pro-family Republican Kurt Hayes for state representative in the 37th Middlesex district in Acton and Lunenburg over political insider Jen Benson, who was recently found guilty of breaking the campaign finance law.
Please vote for Paul Avella. He is a Marriage Amendment supporter, Littleton School Committee and former Air Force pilot. His opponent is Political insider, longtime Beacon Hill staffer and probable Democratic nominee from Westford.
Please vote for Sandi Martinez as a Candidate for the State Senate in the 3rd Middlesex District
Please vote for Marlborough Republican and city councilor Steven Levy for the Middlesex and Worcester state Senate seat over Jamie Eldridge (D-Acton). Levy is a supporter of traditional marriage and opponent of abortion for Senate in this district that covers Littleton, Shirley and Maynard.
Please vote for Pro-Life, marriage amendment supporter Jeff Perry of Sandwich, MA for State Representative.
Please vote for Rep.Lew Evangelidis (R-Holden) who is Pro-Life and voted to defend Traditional Marriage.
For once a good choice: Pro-Family Independent Clare Freda is running for Representative against Pro-family Dennis Rosa up in Leominster.
Please Vote Mike Franco (R East Longmeadow) for Governor’s Council
Pro-Life Republican Arthur Vigeant in 4th Middlesex Marlborough, has been endorsed by Marlboro Democratic Mayor Nancy Stevens, over either of the two Democrats; "No one is more dedicated, committed and knowledgeable of our community than Arthur Vigeant. His passion for our city is unsurpassed. I look forward as mayor (to) having Arthur represent this city on Beacon Hill."
Please vote for Pro-Marriage candidate John Dwyer
Please vote for pro-marriage Rep. William Lantigua (D-Lawrence)
Vote marriage supporter incumbent Rep. Mike Rush (D-West Roxbury)
Vote Rep. Paul Donato (D-Medford)
Vote Pro-Marriage Sen. Scott Brown
Please vote for Pro-Family candidate Rep. Vinny deMacedo (R-1st Plymouth)
Please vote for Pro-Family, Pro-Life Candidate for State Rep Lonnie Brennan in 18th Essex
Help elect John McCain President and Sarah Palin Vice President – volunteer at 149 Highland St, Worcester; make calls, hold signs, make a Pro-Life difference. 7 days a week.
MFI voter guide
Please vote for pro-life candidate Jeff Beatty for US Senator from Massachusetts. Jeff is a former Army Delta Forces (Grenada), FBI and CIA, as well as successful business owner and Pro-Life candidate Jeff Beatty. No Catholic of conscience could reasonably vote for John Kerry given his absolute defense of abortion on demand, as well as his fame as Planned Parenthood’s pocket warmer. But Jeff Beatty is not simply the other, he brings not only a Pro-Life attitude, but a can-do common sense sadly needed in our government, and he brings it at a time when John Kerry is vulnerable. Jeff Beatty needs money and volunteers. Please help and please vote for Pro-Life candidate Jeff Beatty over Planned Parenthood’s pocket warmer John Kerry.
Please vote for Nathan Bech for US Congress 1st District, who is a veteran (Afghanistan and Iraq) and Pro-Life candidate, over Planned Parenthood’s other pocket warmer (100% NARAL rating) John Olver.
Please vote for Southbridge Town Council Chairman, leader in the fight against higher property taxes, and pro-life candidate Ron Cherninsky, for MA State Rep in Southbridge, Charlton and Brookfields over neophyte darling of the abortion and homosexual lobbies, Geraldo Alicea (back stabber on Traditional marriage too).
MA State Rep in Uxbridge, Webster Please vote for Kevin Kuros over double-speaking (even when sober) current rep Paul Kujawski, who also pulled a Brutus move on Traditional Marriage supporters. Kuros accuses Kujawski of becoming an "insider."
"What is comes down to is this: Is he really in touch with his district anymore?" ask Kuros. "All signs point to his being an insider." Kuros specifically cites Kujawski's votes to not return $450 million promised to local cities and downs, to expand the buffer zone around abortion clinics, to support same-sex marriage and his vote against a Republican amendment that would have prohibited funding of "clone and kill" embryonic stem cell research. Please vote for Kevin Kuros
Please vote for Pro-Life Republican Stephen Comtois MA State Rep in 5th Worc (Brookfield, Barre, Hardwick)
Please vote for pro-family Republican Kurt Hayes for state representative in the 37th Middlesex district in Acton and Lunenburg over political insider Jen Benson, who was recently found guilty of breaking the campaign finance law.
Please vote for Paul Avella. He is a Marriage Amendment supporter, Littleton School Committee and former Air Force pilot. His opponent is Political insider, longtime Beacon Hill staffer and probable Democratic nominee from Westford.
Please vote for Sandi Martinez as a Candidate for the State Senate in the 3rd Middlesex District
Please vote for Marlborough Republican and city councilor Steven Levy for the Middlesex and Worcester state Senate seat over Jamie Eldridge (D-Acton). Levy is a supporter of traditional marriage and opponent of abortion for Senate in this district that covers Littleton, Shirley and Maynard.
Please vote for Pro-Life, marriage amendment supporter Jeff Perry of Sandwich, MA for State Representative.
Please vote for Rep.Lew Evangelidis (R-Holden) who is Pro-Life and voted to defend Traditional Marriage.
For once a good choice: Pro-Family Independent Clare Freda is running for Representative against Pro-family Dennis Rosa up in Leominster.
Please Vote Mike Franco (R East Longmeadow) for Governor’s Council
Pro-Life Republican Arthur Vigeant in 4th Middlesex Marlborough, has been endorsed by Marlboro Democratic Mayor Nancy Stevens, over either of the two Democrats; "No one is more dedicated, committed and knowledgeable of our community than Arthur Vigeant. His passion for our city is unsurpassed. I look forward as mayor (to) having Arthur represent this city on Beacon Hill."
Please vote for Pro-Marriage candidate John Dwyer
Please vote for pro-marriage Rep. William Lantigua (D-Lawrence)
Vote marriage supporter incumbent Rep. Mike Rush (D-West Roxbury)
Vote Rep. Paul Donato (D-Medford)
Vote Pro-Marriage Sen. Scott Brown
Please vote for Pro-Family candidate Rep. Vinny deMacedo (R-1st Plymouth)
Please vote for Pro-Family, Pro-Life Candidate for State Rep Lonnie Brennan in 18th Essex
$700 Billion down
Here is an excellent analysis of the Wall Street Crisis by Mike Flynn of Reason.com. This crisis is Wall Street's fault, and it may not make sense for Washington to bail these frat boys who were hungover during econ classes. Money Quote:"Because it was assumed that the [Mortgage Backed Securities] market was 'illiquid,' the government would become the buyer of last resort for these products. There is a certain simple elegance to the plan.
Except that no market is truly illiquid. It just isn't liquid at the price you want to sell. This summer, Merrill Lynch unloaded a bunch of bad debt at 22 cents on the dollar. There are likely plenty of buyers for the banks' bad debt, just not at the price the banks would prefer. Enter the government, which clearly intends to purchase MBSes at some premium above the market price."
This gives the term bailout a whole new perspecitve, doesn't it?
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