Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Lesbian Activist at the (Rotten) USCCB

Moderator's Comment: Add this to your file on the USCCB, the monster
bureaucracy that attempts to short circuit the U.S. Church's normal
system of authority and replace it with a centralized Tower of
Bureaucratic Babble that falsely speaks in the name of all the
bishops. Hardly surprising to learn that it is infested with the
likes of lesbian activist Mary Kay Henry. It is high time the
disgraceful USCCB apparat was razed to the ground and its assets
distributed to the poor.

http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/archives/2009/12/strange-bedfell-1.php

Washington D.C., Dec 4, 2009 / 10:43 pm (CNA).- Conservative blogs
were buzzing on Friday with the discovery that a member of the USCCB's
Subcommittee on Catholic Health Care is an active homosexual and gay
rights activist. However, though Mary Kay Henry's bio states that she
is a labor adviser to the U.S. bishops, the USCCB communications
director told CNA "she is not a consultant."

Henry, the international executive vice president for the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) was recently named one of the
nation's "Top 25 Women in Healthcare" for 2009 by Modern Healthcare.
Her biography at the SEIU website explains that "Her faith and values
as a practicing Roman Catholic led her to pursue union organizing as a
vocation."

"Mary Kay is also active in the fight for immigration reform and
gay and lesbian rights. She is a founding member of SEIU's gay and
lesbian Lavender Caucus," her description continues.

According to SEIU, "The Lavender Caucus is the
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender (L/G/B/T) Caucus of the Service
Employees International Union whose purpose is to facilitate open and
respectful communication between the L/G/B/T community and the labor
movement."

The last line of Henry's SEIU bio reads, "She and her partner,
Paula Macchello, have been together for 20 years."

Henry is listed on the USCCB website as a member of the
Subcommittee on Justice, Peace, and Human Development who helped
produce the working paper, "A Fair and Just Workplace: Principles and
Practices for Catholic Health Care."

ModernHealthCare.com also mentions that Henry is a labor adviser
to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Catholic Health Care &
Work Subcommittee.

However, in an email asking to confirm Henry's advisory role at
the USCCB, Sister Mary Ann Walsh, the conference media director simply
told CNA, "She is not a consultant."

CNA spoke with another woman in the Justice, Peace and Human
Development office at the USCCB who said a press release on the topic
would be available on Friday afternoon.

But by Friday night, no press release had been posted on the
USCCB's website.

Similarly, a call from CNA to Henry was not returned.

So if not a consultant exactly what is her capacity within the USCCB?
Seems once more like bureaucratic double-speak. She has worked on
multiple sub-committees which submitted recommendations which were
accepted within the USCCB. So maybe not technically used as an
consultant but it is obvious her opinions were sought after. Or are we
to believe her job in these subcommittees were to make coffee?

This is just more effects of the relationships of staff at the USCCB
and left leaning organizations and unions. This relationship has
always turned up strange bedfellows. The USCCB has continuously sought
advice from Catholics less than faithful to the Church. When the
National Review Board in response to priestly abuse was established
they included a couple of problematic Catholics including Bob Bennett
the pro-abortion lawyer who worked for Bill Clinton.

A couple of months ago the coalition "So We Might See" which the
Office of Communications of the USCCB belongs to issued a petition to
investigate Rush Limbaugh. The USCCB later denied supporting the
petition of the group they still belong to.

Plus with the scandals within CCHD it just goes to show that the
bureaucracy within the staff of the USCCB has been heavily compromised
in some departments. Light though will continue to shine on these
problems and the rapid dissemination of such information will help to
some degree reform this.

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Discontinuing of CCHD collection by five bishops

http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/archives/2009/11/discontinuing-o.php

Discontinuing of CCHD collection by five bishops
from The Curt Jester

Have I mentioned how much I love my Bishop?

Bishop Victor Galeone of St. Augustine, Florida also decided to
discontinue the CCHD collection, LifeSiteNews.com has confirmed,
bringing the list of bishops who decided against holding this year's
collection to five.

In a November article for his diocesan magazine, Bishop Galeone
explains that he had made this decision in May - many months prior to
the controversy that erupted this fall over reports that the CCHD is
funding groups that support abortion, contraception, and same-sex
"marriage."

The bishop lists three reasons for his decision.

First, he says, "over the years some CCHD funds were disbursed to
certain organizations hostile to key Catholic positions." He
specifically highlighted the funding of ACORN as an instance of this.

Second, he explains, "Catholic organizations or groups cannot
receive CCHD funding since their guidelines exclude all 'organizations
controlled by governmental, educational, or ecclesiastical bodies.'"
While Catholic inner-city schools are "struggling to make ends meet,"
he says, "... they cannot receive a single dollar of our own CCHD
donations for that purpose!"

Third, he decries the fact that CCHD does not fund projects that
work to support family values. "If CCHD's mission is to address the
root causes of poverty in America, why are no funds earmarked to
address the greatest cause of poverty in our country today - single
motherhood?" he asks. "Moreover, 80% of the male inmates incarcerated
in America come from fatherless homes. Yet no CCHD funds go to groups
striving to strengthen family values."

Diocesan chancellor Fr. Michael Morgan told LifeSiteNews.com that
the bishop has replaced the annual CCHD collection with a new
"Diocesan Schools & Social Action Appeal," which is meant to support
similar initiatives as the CCHD, but at the diocesan level and without
funding activities contrary to Catholic teaching.

"I think that the concern was that it would be better to support
the same basic goals of the [CCHD], but to do it within the diocese
exclusively," Fr. Morgan said. "We would have more control to make
sure that the money collected went to, perhaps similar purposes, but
organizations that would not have the problems that surface with the
[CCHD]."

In his article, Bishop Galeone explains that the funds collected
from the new appeal will be disbursed equally between (1) local
pregnancy centers, (2) tuition assistance for needy students in
Catholic schools, and (3) self-help community groups.

The collection for the appeal was held this past weekend, in lieu
of the CCHD collection, and Fr. Morgan says Bishop Galeone plans to
continue this approach in the years to come. [reference]

Though the parish I went to for the Vigil Mass must not have gotten
the message since they specially mentioned the CCHD and so we did not
contribute to the second collection

Monday, November 30, 2009

J.R.R. Tolkien on the Blessed Sacrament and Enduring Love

J.R.R. Tolkien on the Blessed Sacrament and Enduring Love

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you
the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament…. There
you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of
all your loves upon earth, and more than that: Death: by the divine
paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and
yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in
your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or
take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every
man's heart desires….10

http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2009/11/j-r-r-tolkiens-sacramental-world-part-one/

Tolkien's Catholic Faith

Say a prayer for Tolkien's mother who loved the faith so that she
sacrificed everything for it and did everything she could to ensure
her children's continuation in the faith after her death:

http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2009/11/j-r-r-tolkiens-sacramental-world-part-one/

Of his mother Tolkien said:

For as a matter of fact, I have consciously planned very little
[concerning the religious element in The Lord of the Rings]; and
should be chiefly grateful for having been brought up (since I was
eight) in a Faith that nourished me and taught me all the little that
I know; and that I owe to my mother, who clung to her conversion and
died young, largely through the hardships of poverty resulting from
it….

But I am the one who came up out of Egypt, and pray God that none
of my seed shall return thither. I witnessed (half-comprehending) the
heroic sufferings and early death in extreme poverty of my mother who
brought me into the Church; and received the astonishing charity of
Francis Morgan. But I fell in love with the Blessed Sacrament from the
beginning–and by the mercy of God never have fallen out again….8

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Fwd: BREAKING NEWS: Kennedy barred

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Leo XIII <leoxiii@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Kennedy barred
To: Richard Freeman <rfreeman77@gmail.com>


Rich -

This is just in...

Report: Kennedy barred from Communion

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/ap/4/us_ri_bishop_kennedy_correction

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Rep. Patrick Kennedy says Roman Catholic Bishop
Thomas Tobin has barred him from receiving communion because of his
support of abortion rights.

The Providence Journal reports on its Web site Sunday that Kennedy
said in an interview that Tobin issued the order, further escalating a
simmering ideological dispute between the two men.


Under church rules, Tobin can prevent Kennedy from receiving communion
within his diocese, which covers Rhode Island. It's unclear whether
bishops outside Rhode Island will take the same path.


The dispute between the men began when Kennedy criticized the nation's
Catholic bishops for threatening to oppose an overhaul of the health
care system unless it included tighter restrictions on publicly
financed abortion. Tobin asked for an apology and questioned Kennedy's
faith.


We are following the story as it develops . . .

Your faithful reporter in the field. . . .A.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Daniel Moreno Muder Victim in Steger, Illinois

Please say a prayer for the repose of the soul of Daniel Moreno who
was murdered in a local store in Steger, Illinois...

A passion for music and a devotion to family shaped the short life of
Daniel Moreno, a singer and drummer who played in Mexican bands and
was raising his toddler son.

Moreno, 23, died from a single gunshot wound in the head during a
Tuesday evening robbery at Hair Trends, his family's hair salon at
3121 Chicago Road in Steger. Moreno's 17-year-old brother and a female
employee witnessed the shooting but were unharmed.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Remembering WWII Vets this Veterans Day

Happy Veterans Day to all. Remembering my dad, a WWII vet. Not too
many of those guys left alive...like our friend Bud who works cleaning
up tables at McDonalds. He marched into Paris just after de Gaulle.
Just about all the rest I've known are gone....Rudy who fought in the
Battle of the Bulge, Art who flew B47 missions over the channel and
ditched there twice, Hank who was in the Dutch underground and pulled
guys like Art out of the drink when they had to ditch..Bob White who
fought in Europe and was a stone mason after the war whose great pride
was the job they did renovating Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago....I
never had the heart to tell him that what he did was a
desecration....the guys we knew at the bakery.. and others. Say a
prayer for them and for all veterans today.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Deathscort Donna Gets International Attention

See an excellent article on the continuing scandal of our old Chicago
nemesis, harridan, freak nun, deathscort, Sister Donna Quinn, in the
very influential blog of Damian Thompson at the London Daily
Telegraph...he takes on both Anti-Sister Quinn and the corrupt
Sinsinawa Dominicans that spewed her forth and to this day have her on
the roles as a member of the order. Don't miss the freakish photo of
the Sicko Sinsy sisters at play:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100016242/dominican-nun-acted-as-volunteer-for-abortion-clinic/