Just some quick notes. Truth is not to be found in consensus. Truth is not dependent upon "being positve" as opposed to "being negative". To the "love beads and sandals/kumbaya" crowd, I do suggest you take off the rose-colored glasses and tie-dyed shirts, grow up a bit and learn to love the truth of God as transmitted by His Church. Your eternal destiny hinges upon it.
In this Vortex episode, Michael Voris makes clear that salvation history cannot be properly understood outside the Catholic Church. Click here if you cannot see embedded video.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Circle Of Protection?? NOT!!!
Perhaps it would be more accurate to call that "Circus of Pandering".
Here are some quotes, from the USCCB site. "We are also committed to resist budget cuts that undermine the lives, dignity, and rights of poor and vulnerable people. Therefore, we join with others to form a Circle of Protection around programs that meet the essential needs of hungry and poor people at home and abroad."
Let's unpack that - shall we? Let's look at "resisting budget cuts". Ladies and gentlemen, thanks to the policies of the Messiah Most Miserable (and yes, the profligate spending that did precede him), there isn't the money to keep doling out willy-nilly. If these "religious leaders" are going to ascribe to the federal government the moral responsibility to meet the needs of the poor, how do they think the government will finance all these programs? Who will pay for them? Hint! Go look in the mirrror! That's right! You and I will be taxed - in fact, are being taxed - to the wazzoo. Who else is being bled to death by taxes? The poor! Maybe they aren't paying much income tax (at least not yet), but they are taxed via sales tax, gas tax, etc. Moreover, businesses are paying onorous taxes too, with dollars that they may have used to hire some of these impovershed people. I suspect many of these "leaders" are of good heart, but their logic and thinking is downright lousy, if not actually non-existent.
Notice the talk of "programs that meet the essential needs of hungry and poor people at home and abroad". Now whose task is it really to meet the real needs of the poor? Is it that of the federal government? As I recall various Church documents on that topic, "society" is so tasked. However, since when are "federal government" and "society" synonymous? Answer - they aren't!
In Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII set forth the principle of subsidiarity. Basically, that principle teaches that the fulfillment of human needs must be undertaken at the lowest level of society possible - starting with the individual. Leo was all too aware of the tendency of centralized government to arrogate to itself all manners of inappropriate functions and to grow into a behemoth. Our American founding fathers, although predominanty Protestant, seemed to have an instinctive grasp of that principle when they set strict limits on the scope of federal goverment in the United States Constitution - particularly the Tenth Amendment. Today we find that many progressives, many of them occupying high offices in church structures, are attempting to grow the federal government by ascribing to it all manners of responsibility - and thus authority.
On Thursday I posted about a planned bastardization of Rerum Novarum that will be run almost exclusively by socialists. One of the two liberal chairs of a discussion panel has, and probably still is, receiving funds from George Soros via the magazine that he edits. These are the sorts of people whom the Amchurch bureaucracy is allowing to interpret and mutate the authentic social teachings of the Church. This "circus/circle" is just one more manifestation.
ps HT to Pewsitter
Here are some quotes, from the USCCB site. "We are also committed to resist budget cuts that undermine the lives, dignity, and rights of poor and vulnerable people. Therefore, we join with others to form a Circle of Protection around programs that meet the essential needs of hungry and poor people at home and abroad."
Let's unpack that - shall we? Let's look at "resisting budget cuts". Ladies and gentlemen, thanks to the policies of the Messiah Most Miserable (and yes, the profligate spending that did precede him), there isn't the money to keep doling out willy-nilly. If these "religious leaders" are going to ascribe to the federal government the moral responsibility to meet the needs of the poor, how do they think the government will finance all these programs? Who will pay for them? Hint! Go look in the mirrror! That's right! You and I will be taxed - in fact, are being taxed - to the wazzoo. Who else is being bled to death by taxes? The poor! Maybe they aren't paying much income tax (at least not yet), but they are taxed via sales tax, gas tax, etc. Moreover, businesses are paying onorous taxes too, with dollars that they may have used to hire some of these impovershed people. I suspect many of these "leaders" are of good heart, but their logic and thinking is downright lousy, if not actually non-existent.
Notice the talk of "programs that meet the essential needs of hungry and poor people at home and abroad". Now whose task is it really to meet the real needs of the poor? Is it that of the federal government? As I recall various Church documents on that topic, "society" is so tasked. However, since when are "federal government" and "society" synonymous? Answer - they aren't!
In Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII set forth the principle of subsidiarity. Basically, that principle teaches that the fulfillment of human needs must be undertaken at the lowest level of society possible - starting with the individual. Leo was all too aware of the tendency of centralized government to arrogate to itself all manners of inappropriate functions and to grow into a behemoth. Our American founding fathers, although predominanty Protestant, seemed to have an instinctive grasp of that principle when they set strict limits on the scope of federal goverment in the United States Constitution - particularly the Tenth Amendment. Today we find that many progressives, many of them occupying high offices in church structures, are attempting to grow the federal government by ascribing to it all manners of responsibility - and thus authority.
On Thursday I posted about a planned bastardization of Rerum Novarum that will be run almost exclusively by socialists. One of the two liberal chairs of a discussion panel has, and probably still is, receiving funds from George Soros via the magazine that he edits. These are the sorts of people whom the Amchurch bureaucracy is allowing to interpret and mutate the authentic social teachings of the Church. This "circus/circle" is just one more manifestation.
ps HT to Pewsitter
Ron Paul And Libertarianism - Deadly For This Country
About six weeks ago, I posted my opinion that Ron Paul's position on abortion makes him unacceptable as a presidential candidate. I've no doubt that he personally abhors abortion, but he is of the libertarian mindset that the federal government has no say in the matter. In that earlier post, I explained why that mindset doesn't pass the "smell test".
It now turns out that Paul voted to repeal the "don't ask don't tell" policy. In other words, he would compromise the effectiveness of our military and allow gays in the armed forces.
The man is a libertarian, not a conservative. The two are NOT equivalent by a long shot. The true consersvative recognizes the indispensible role that morality plays in public life and in the government whereas the libertarian will turn a blind eye to all sorts of depravity as long as he/she perceives that his/her parade isn't getting wet.
Some of the Tea Party seem to be of the libertarian mindset. Some have gone so far as to advocate the setting aside of "social issues" in favor of "economic issues". They are dead wrong. As long as we fail to put God and His laws before all else, including our wallets, our nation will continue its slide towards oblivion. The libertarians of the Tea Party - and of anywhere else - had better wake up and do some serious soul-searching. If the Tea Party embraces libertarianism, it will have consigned itself to the dungheap of irrelevancy.
It now turns out that Paul voted to repeal the "don't ask don't tell" policy. In other words, he would compromise the effectiveness of our military and allow gays in the armed forces.
The man is a libertarian, not a conservative. The two are NOT equivalent by a long shot. The true consersvative recognizes the indispensible role that morality plays in public life and in the government whereas the libertarian will turn a blind eye to all sorts of depravity as long as he/she perceives that his/her parade isn't getting wet.
Some of the Tea Party seem to be of the libertarian mindset. Some have gone so far as to advocate the setting aside of "social issues" in favor of "economic issues". They are dead wrong. As long as we fail to put God and His laws before all else, including our wallets, our nation will continue its slide towards oblivion. The libertarians of the Tea Party - and of anywhere else - had better wake up and do some serious soul-searching. If the Tea Party embraces libertarianism, it will have consigned itself to the dungheap of irrelevancy.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Dissent-Fest At Catholic University Of America, May 2-3
Catholic University of America is hosting a conference entitled “120th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum: Church, Labor, and the New Things of the Modern World." It will be held at the Edward J. Pryzbyla Center from May 2 till May 3. More details can be found on this CUA page.
What we really have here is another venue from which to plug a progressive, socialistic mindset that masquerades as authentic Catholic social teaching. It is anything but real teaching. Let's look at the gang of usual supects that are some of the speakers at this thing. It is quite eye-opening!
What we really have here is another venue from which to plug a progressive, socialistic mindset that masquerades as authentic Catholic social teaching. It is anything but real teaching. Let's look at the gang of usual supects that are some of the speakers at this thing. It is quite eye-opening!
Good Riddance To Father Pfleger!
Finally! Cardinal George has suspended the faculties of Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of St Sabina. Fr Pfleger has earned his dubious distinction of being "Obama's other pastor". Apparently the straw that broke the camel's back was Pfleger's refusal of the Cardinal's transfer of him to a local Catholic high school. Because Pfleger threatened to leave the Church, the Cardinal informed him, "if that truly is your attitude, you have already left the Catholic Church, and therefore are not able to pastor a Catholic church", and, "this conflict is not between you and me ... You are not a victim of anyone or anything other than your own statements."
Time and space prohibit me from detailing all of Pfleger's antics throughout the years. I will highlight a few of them with links to previous posts:
http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com/2010/04/cardinal-george-to-honor-race-baiting.html
http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com/2010/04/real-catholic-tv-on-father-pfleger.html
http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com/2011/01/father-pfleger-joins-disarm-citizens.html
One lady did bemoan his suspension; she said that Pfleger "has done important work such as trying to stop gun violence." Hmmm... Important work! Does that "important work" include threatening to "snuff out" the owner of Chuck's Gun Shop?
Let us hope and pray that this suspension of priestly faculties will be a wake-up call to Father Pfleger. In so many ways he has insulted the God to whom he is vowed to serve. His immortal soul is in grave danger of eternal damnation. Pray for him and his misguided adulators, that they will repent and return whole-heartedly to Mother Church.
UPDATE - The full text of Cardinal George's letter to Father Pfleger is available online.
Time and space prohibit me from detailing all of Pfleger's antics throughout the years. I will highlight a few of them with links to previous posts:
http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com/2010/04/cardinal-george-to-honor-race-baiting.html
http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com/2010/04/real-catholic-tv-on-father-pfleger.html
http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com/2011/01/father-pfleger-joins-disarm-citizens.html
One lady did bemoan his suspension; she said that Pfleger "has done important work such as trying to stop gun violence." Hmmm... Important work! Does that "important work" include threatening to "snuff out" the owner of Chuck's Gun Shop?
Let us hope and pray that this suspension of priestly faculties will be a wake-up call to Father Pfleger. In so many ways he has insulted the God to whom he is vowed to serve. His immortal soul is in grave danger of eternal damnation. Pray for him and his misguided adulators, that they will repent and return whole-heartedly to Mother Church.
UPDATE - The full text of Cardinal George's letter to Father Pfleger is available online.
St Camillus Church Mocks The Stations Of The Cross
Apparently National Catholic Reporter is not the only institution that is on the "bastardize the Passion" bandwagon. My colleague at An Archdiocese of Washington Catholic (right side bar) alerted me to an unconventional and dare I say uncharitable absconding of the Stations of the Cross by St Camillus Church in Takoma Park MD. An article about the mess appeared in the Takoma Park issue of the Gazette.
We see that the parish is pushing the pastors' opinions of such matters as immigration and climate change on its parishioners. I leave it to my colleague to analyze that. I will say that at the end of the article, Mr. Mario Amleu uttered words of wisdom that the pastor would do well to heed - as would we all. Read for yourselves.
We see that the parish is pushing the pastors' opinions of such matters as immigration and climate change on its parishioners. I leave it to my colleague to analyze that. I will say that at the end of the article, Mr. Mario Amleu uttered words of wisdom that the pastor would do well to heed - as would we all. Read for yourselves.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
More On Wonkette Attacker Of Baby Trig
I wrote a bit on the Wonkette's insidious attack on baby Trig Palin. I thank my blogging colleague Dymphna (right side bar) who pointed out a pertinent fact regarding Jack Stuef, the slime-spewer who calls himself a writer.
Take a look at his Linkedin profile and notice the "education". Yes, that is Georgetown University. Does that surprise anyone? Recall the treatment that the so-called "faculty" meted out to Cardinal Arinze when he proclaimed the truth at a commencement there. Recall that pro-abortion Robert Drinan (a Jesuit priest) was on its law faculty till his death. When Pope Benedict XVI evicted Fr Thomas Reese from America magazine, guess what welcomed him with open arms? Recall, also, that when they allowed Barack HUSSEIN Obama to pollute their halls, they covered over any indication of their Catholic heritage - lest anyone be offended.
It helps to understand how Stuef's mind began to curdle.
Take a look at his Linkedin profile and notice the "education". Yes, that is Georgetown University. Does that surprise anyone? Recall the treatment that the so-called "faculty" meted out to Cardinal Arinze when he proclaimed the truth at a commencement there. Recall that pro-abortion Robert Drinan (a Jesuit priest) was on its law faculty till his death. When Pope Benedict XVI evicted Fr Thomas Reese from America magazine, guess what welcomed him with open arms? Recall, also, that when they allowed Barack HUSSEIN Obama to pollute their halls, they covered over any indication of their Catholic heritage - lest anyone be offended.
It helps to understand how Stuef's mind began to curdle.
Canadian Green Party Candidate "Got Rid Of It"
From Lifesite News..
A Green Party candidate for a local Canadian office, Roger Benham, stated that he got a woman pregnant and "thank god we decided to get rid of it". The man is brutally honest. Perhaps it's more accurate to say he's honest about his brutality. The original article had capitalized the "g" in the second word. I made it lower-case because he could not have possibly been thanking the One True God whose Fifth Commandment he had just mocked, as well as the child created in His image and likeness.
He whines “I am sick to death about hearing murdering babies." Well, Roger old boy, I have this to say.
As long as males (no one who advocates baby-murder is a true man) like you are running amok, we will be calling you on the carpet, and to your faces! Don't like it? That's just tough toe-nails! Our culture is devolving into barbarism thanks to "bloody selfish men" (your words!) like you. Moreover, Our Lord, whom you mocked, seeks your salvation. We just celebrated His death and resurrection. Will you heed Him - before it's too late?
By the way - Roger's murderous views are quite typical for environmentalists. Go to the first blog label, click on it, and do some fascinating reading.
A Green Party candidate for a local Canadian office, Roger Benham, stated that he got a woman pregnant and "thank god we decided to get rid of it". The man is brutally honest. Perhaps it's more accurate to say he's honest about his brutality. The original article had capitalized the "g" in the second word. I made it lower-case because he could not have possibly been thanking the One True God whose Fifth Commandment he had just mocked, as well as the child created in His image and likeness.
He whines “I am sick to death about hearing murdering babies." Well, Roger old boy, I have this to say.
GET USED TO IT!!!
As long as males (no one who advocates baby-murder is a true man) like you are running amok, we will be calling you on the carpet, and to your faces! Don't like it? That's just tough toe-nails! Our culture is devolving into barbarism thanks to "bloody selfish men" (your words!) like you. Moreover, Our Lord, whom you mocked, seeks your salvation. We just celebrated His death and resurrection. Will you heed Him - before it's too late?
By the way - Roger's murderous views are quite typical for environmentalists. Go to the first blog label, click on it, and do some fascinating reading.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Obama's Easter Breakfast Talk - And The Vortex Analysis
During an "Easter Prayer Breakfast" held at the White House on April 19th, Obama made these remarks. Click here if you can't see embedded video.
So "there's something about the resurrection of Our Savior Jesus Christ that puts everythng in perspective"? Well, yes, but let's put Obama's remarks "in perspective", that is, the perspective of how the unborn children fare. The Vortex commentary does an excellent job of that. Click here if you can't see embedded video.
So "there's something about the resurrection of Our Savior Jesus Christ that puts everythng in perspective"? Well, yes, but let's put Obama's remarks "in perspective", that is, the perspective of how the unborn children fare. The Vortex commentary does an excellent job of that. Click here if you can't see embedded video.
Pro-Abort Troll Rails Against Sonograms
In doing so, he inadvertently makes some key admissions. Read the piece at Broward/Palm Beach News Times. He is having a snit-fit at proposed legislation to make sonogram viewings mandatory before abortions.
What might be one problem he has with it? Yet they look vaguely like babies. Adult humans, with our visually oriented neo-cortices, will automatically ascribe them human characteristics. That's an inescapable fact of our biology. Now why, oh why, do we suppos that the look like babies? Here's an answer that anyone with more than submammalian levels of cognition (to use his condescending language) knows. It's because they are babies! Go back to Biology 101, Mr Thorp!
He also complains about slip(ing) a piece of pro-life propaganda into the abortion clinic, to give her side's argument one last pictographic airing before the deed is done. Since when is a sonogram screen "propaganda"? Might he consider it so, only because what's on that screen would show any pro-abortion argument to be the lying propaganda that it is? Do facts really cause their consciences to go into such violent tizzies?
The pro-baby-murder crowd is losing the moral argument. That is why they are getting so loud and full of knee-jerk vitriol. Keep on speaking the truth and keep on praying for God's mercy.
What might be one problem he has with it? Yet they look vaguely like babies. Adult humans, with our visually oriented neo-cortices, will automatically ascribe them human characteristics. That's an inescapable fact of our biology. Now why, oh why, do we suppos that the look like babies? Here's an answer that anyone with more than submammalian levels of cognition (to use his condescending language) knows. It's because they are babies! Go back to Biology 101, Mr Thorp!
He also complains about slip(ing) a piece of pro-life propaganda into the abortion clinic, to give her side's argument one last pictographic airing before the deed is done. Since when is a sonogram screen "propaganda"? Might he consider it so, only because what's on that screen would show any pro-abortion argument to be the lying propaganda that it is? Do facts really cause their consciences to go into such violent tizzies?
The pro-baby-murder crowd is losing the moral argument. That is why they are getting so loud and full of knee-jerk vitriol. Keep on speaking the truth and keep on praying for God's mercy.
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