This week a statement of Christian values and political consciousness called The Manhattan Declaration was released, signed by over 150 Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant pastors, thinkers, and activists. Amongst the signatories are such luminaries as Archbishop Charles Chaput, Jim Daly of Focus on the Family, Dr. James Dobson, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Orthodox Metropolitan Jonah Paffhausen, Cardinal Justin Rigali, and Archbishop Donald Wuerl, . In addition to the 150 original signatories, over 130,000 individuals have added their names to the statement, which is available here:
http://manhattandeclaration.org/
The Manhattan Declaration can be summed up by its last paragraph:
"Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God's."
Nov 26, 2009
Nov 25, 2009
If SNL is with you, who can be against you
Saturday Night Live actually 'scorched' Obama's spending policies last Saturday night during the show's opening.
World Net Daily gets the hat tip on publishing this news.
Caution some vulgar humor towards the end of this 5 minute video.
Christmas Cheer
Want to have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD this year. As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world..
Make sure it says "Merry Christmas" on it, just don't be rude or crude. (It's not the Christian way, you know.)
ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York , NY 10004
Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they wouldn't know if any were regular mail containing contributions. So spend 44 cents and tell the ACLU to leave
Make sure it says "Merry Christmas" on it, just don't be rude or crude. (It's not the Christian way, you know.)
ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York , NY 10004
Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they wouldn't know if any were regular mail containing contributions. So spend 44 cents and tell the ACLU to leave
Nov 23, 2009
Nov 18, 2009
Campaign for humanist development
November 16, 2009
cfpnews@catholicfreepress.org
fax: 508 756-8315
The "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development, CCHD has a charter to donate to politcal and non-Catholic organizations that "work with the poor". Last year the CCHD had to stop funding for the voter fraud and prostitute promoting group ACORN (we await the forensic accounting report on that fiasco). This year, after calls from Catholic grass-roots organization Bellarmine Veritas Ministry, the CCHD defunded anti-life/pro-abortion groups such as the Chinese Progressive Association of San Fransico, which also supports same-sex marriage, the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, which worked with Planned Parenthood to sign a "wish-list" of reprductive rights, and Young Workers United, which in addition to same-sex marriage and abortion also promotes legalizing prostitution and whose 2008 Voting Guide counsels voters to vote against parental notification of abortion for minors. The Los Angeles Community Action Network, LA CAN, remains funded by CCHD even though LA CAN members worked with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force campaign to defeat Proposition 8, which repealed the right to marry for same-sex couples.
The CCHD continues to fund a long list of grantees, including PICO and the Woman's Community Revitalization PRoject, who are actively pushing for the current version of health care reform in Congress without qualifying that health care reform should not include federal funding for abortion.
The question is why are we even having this discussion concerning donations to CCHD? As Fr. Richard John Neuhaus (RIP) has said "The bishops could really help poor people by promptly shutting down [C]CHD and giving any remaining funds to, for instance, Catholic inner-city schools."
Jay G
cfpnews@catholicfreepress.org
fax: 508 756-8315
The "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development, CCHD has a charter to donate to politcal and non-Catholic organizations that "work with the poor". Last year the CCHD had to stop funding for the voter fraud and prostitute promoting group ACORN (we await the forensic accounting report on that fiasco). This year, after calls from Catholic grass-roots organization Bellarmine Veritas Ministry, the CCHD defunded anti-life/pro-abortion groups such as the Chinese Progressive Association of San Fransico, which also supports same-sex marriage, the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, which worked with Planned Parenthood to sign a "wish-list" of reprductive rights, and Young Workers United, which in addition to same-sex marriage and abortion also promotes legalizing prostitution and whose 2008 Voting Guide counsels voters to vote against parental notification of abortion for minors. The Los Angeles Community Action Network, LA CAN, remains funded by CCHD even though LA CAN members worked with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force campaign to defeat Proposition 8, which repealed the right to marry for same-sex couples.
The CCHD continues to fund a long list of grantees, including PICO and the Woman's Community Revitalization PRoject, who are actively pushing for the current version of health care reform in Congress without qualifying that health care reform should not include federal funding for abortion.
The question is why are we even having this discussion concerning donations to CCHD? As Fr. Richard John Neuhaus (RIP) has said "The bishops could really help poor people by promptly shutting down [C]CHD and giving any remaining funds to, for instance, Catholic inner-city schools."
Jay G
Nov 11, 2009
WBZ censors MCFL
Statement by Anne Fox, President, Massachusetts Citizens for Life, November 10, 2009
"Radio station WBZ, Boston's NBC affiliate, has refused to sell time to Massachusetts Citizens for Life to air ads on the health care plans. When asked to put their reasons in writing, the station declined.
"These ads and similar ads have already aired on WRKO in Boston, WTAG in Worcester, and WHYN in Springfield. They address abortion, rationing, and denial of care based on age or disability.
"At first WBZ told me that we had to substantiate our 'claims'. Even as I offered to do so, they decided they would not take the ads.
"This is a news station which should be dedicated to presenting all sides of an issue - especially one of such importance to their listening audience. The media, in general, is unquestioningly in favor of these bills, As a premier news station WBZ should be happy to air views that may not be exactly the same as theirs.
"When they hear the ad, I am sure people will agree that is a valuable addition to the health care debate"
"Radio station WBZ, Boston's NBC affiliate, has refused to sell time to Massachusetts Citizens for Life to air ads on the health care plans. When asked to put their reasons in writing, the station declined.
"These ads and similar ads have already aired on WRKO in Boston, WTAG in Worcester, and WHYN in Springfield. They address abortion, rationing, and denial of care based on age or disability.
"At first WBZ told me that we had to substantiate our 'claims'. Even as I offered to do so, they decided they would not take the ads.
"This is a news station which should be dedicated to presenting all sides of an issue - especially one of such importance to their listening audience. The media, in general, is unquestioningly in favor of these bills, As a premier news station WBZ should be happy to air views that may not be exactly the same as theirs.
"When they hear the ad, I am sure people will agree that is a valuable addition to the health care debate"
Nov 1, 2009
Chief Master Sergeant John Gebhardt, USAF
John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair.. The girl is coming along with her healing. He is a real Star of the war, and represents what America is trying to do.
This, my friends, is worth sharing. Go for it!! You'll never see things like this in the news. Please keep this going. Nothing will happen if you don't, but the American public needs to see pictures like this and needs to realize that what we're doing over there is making a difference. Even if it is just one little girl at a time.
James Gates U. S. Navy
Snopes verifies this
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