Heart Warming Images of Institute Ordinations

This will give you a lift! The future is ours comrades!

Heart Warming Images of Institute Ordinations (I count 13)

http://tinyurl.com/l4r5ss

Abortionist's Oath to Replace Hippocratic?

The Abortionist's Oath

Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts,
Fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'

We suggest that medical schools and other institutions where one
studies to become an abortionist replace the outmoded Hippocratic Oath
with the above slightly amended version of Lady Macbeth's prayer to
the evil spirits. Whatever one might say about Lady Macbeth at least
she was not a hypocrite, ie., she did not attempt to convince herself
that murder of the innocent for gain or convenience was anything but a
purely evil undertaking. No prattling about beneficial "terminations"
and "procedures" and "freedom of choice" from her. She is almost
refreshing in her candor, at least when she's talking to herself.

Belloc on Protestantism and Hatred of the Mass and the Real Presence

Protestantism

"The issue was between two forces. On the one hand was the instinct
which we all have within us, that Europe is Catholic, must live as
Catholic, or must die; that in the anarchic religious rebellion was
peril of death to our art, our culture, to that from which they
proceed, our religious vision. On the other had arisen an intense,
fierce, increasing hatred against the Mass, the Blessed Sacrament, the
whole transcendental scheme; a hatred such that all who felt it were,
in spite of a myriad differences, in common alliance. That hatred fed
upon an original popular indignation against the corruption of the
clergy, and especially against their financial claims. But the hatred
was far older than any such late medieval trouble; it was as old as
the presence of the Catholic Church in this world."

----- Hilaire Belloc, HOW THE REFORMATION HAPPENED, p. 90

From the excellent Belloc-Chesterton Pages at:

http://www.catholictradition.org/Classics/belloc-chesterton.htm

Internal vs. External Attacks on the Faith

See an interesting thread on Rorate Coeli about the history of the
Church in China. Under Mao they were separated from Rome and thus were
spared the whole delightful Novus Ordo experience. Now that the
external persecutions have somewhat eased the traditional mass that
sustained them in the years of brutal communist persecution has been
taken away from them. To those who can't see why the Novus Ordo and
all that goes with it is a greater threat than the Chairman I posted
the following:

One of the best explanations of why internal persecution is more
deadly to the faith than external is in Pius X's encyclical on The
Doctrines of the Modernists:

(No one will)"err in accounting them the most pernicious of all the
adversaries of the
Church. For, as We have said, they put their designs for her ruin into
operation not from without but from within; hence, the danger is
present almost in the very veins and heart of the Church, whose injury
is the more certain, the more intimate is their knowledge of her.
Moreover they lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the
very root, that is, to the faith and its deepest fibers. And having
struck at this root of immortality, they proceed to disseminate poison
through the whole tree, so that there is no part of Catholic truth
from which they hold their hand, none that they do not strive to
corrupt."

One may read the complete encyclical at:

http://www.archive.org/stream/theencyclical00unknuoft/theencyclical00unknuoft_djvu.txt

One may disagree that what has happened to the Church since the
Council is an internal persecution, but it makes no sense to assert
that external persecution is the more deadly of the two.

Vatican's Pauline Chapel Catholic Again

Some heart warming photos of the ceremony rededicating the Vatican's
great Pauline chapel, complete with its Michelangelo painting of the
conversion of St. Paul, The Cranmer's table installed by Paul VI has
been removed and the altar which had been removed by the heretics
restored and placed close to its original position. Also to the
consternation of heretics, the altar rail has returned.

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2009/07/vespers-for-inauguration-of-newly.html

Obama Extols Bernardin's Influence on his Career

Moderator's Comment: Bernardin lives on in his evil offspring. It
amazes me how often the city of Chicago becomes the source of great
evils that afflict the whole world. Ah, yes, the old "seamless
garment" theory....Obama would go for that....and isn't it
heartwarming to note that had it not been for the Campaign for Human
Development donating funds to leftist political causes we might not
have been afflicted with this sociopath in the White House in the
first place. Greg Morrow was right! Righter than he knew.

Obama cites influence of Cardinal Bernardin, prepares to meet pope

U.S. President Barack Obama holds a roundtable briefing with
journalists from the Catholic press and the Washington Post in the
Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington July 2. The briefing
was held in advance of the president's scheduled meeting with Pope
Benedict XVI July 10 at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Lawrence Jackson,
White House)
By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama told a round table of religion
writers July 2 that he continues to be profoundly influenced by the
late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, whom he came to know when
he was a community organizer in a project partially funded by the
Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

Obama said his encounters with the cardinal continue to influence him,
particularly his "seamless garment" approach to a multitude of social
justice issues. He also told the group of eight reporters to expect a
conscience clause protection for health care workers currently under
review by the administration that will be no less protective than what
existed previously.

In addition to Catholic News Service, the round table included
reporters and editors from other Catholic publications: National
Catholic Reporter, America magazine, Catholic Digest, National
Catholic Register, Commonweal magazine and Vatican Radio. A religion
writer from The Washington Post also participated.

It was held in anticipation of Obama's audience with Pope Benedict XVI
at the Vatican July 10. The 45-minute session touched on his
expectations for that meeting as well as aspects of foreign policy,
the public criticism directed at him by some Catholic bishops and
others in the church, and the Obamas' own search for a church home in
Washington.

The president also clarified that he expects an ongoing review of
conscience clause regulations will result in a continuation of
protections that have long existed, allowing people who are morally
opposed to abortion or contraceptives to decline to provide them in
the line of work without repercussions.

Obama said in some ways he sees his first meeting with the pope as the
same as any contact with a head of state, "but obviously this is more
than just that. The Catholic Church has such a profound influence
worldwide and in our country, and the Holy Father is a thought leader
and opinion leader on so many wide-ranging issues. His religious
influence is one that extends beyond the Catholic Church."

He said he considers it a great honor to be meeting with the pope and
that he hopes the session will lead to further cooperation between the
Vatican and the United States in addressing Middle East peace,
worldwide poverty, climate change, immigration and a whole host of
other issues.

Several of the questions addressed the sometimes contentious relations
between the Obama administration and some U.S. bishops, notably
surrounding the president's commencement address at the University of
Notre Dame in May. The university's decision to invite Obama and
present him with an honorary degree led to a wave of protests at the
university and a flurry of criticism by more than 70 bishops who said
his support for legal abortion made him an inappropriate choice by the
university.

Statements by the U.S. bishops also have chastised Obama for
administrative actions such as the reversal of the Mexico City policy,
which had prohibited the use of federal family planning funds by
organizations that provide abortions or counsel women to have
abortions.

But Obama said he's not going to be deterred from continuing to work
with the U.S. Catholic hierarchy, in part "because I'm president of
all Americans, not just Americans who happen to agree with me."

"The American bishops have profound influence in their communities, in
the church and beyond," Obama said. "What I would say is that although
there have been criticisms leveled at me from some of the bishops,
there have been a number of bishops who have been extremely generous
and supportive even if they don't agree with me on every issue."

He said part of why he wants to establish a good working relationship
with the bishops is because he has fond memories of working with
Cardinal Bernardin when Obama was a community organizer, working with
Catholic parishes on the South Side of Chicago.

"And so I know the potential that the bishops have to speak out
forcefully on issues of social justice," Obama said.

On conscience clauses, the president said he has consistently believed
in them. As a state legislator, he said, he supported "a robust
conscience clause in Illinois for Catholic hospitals and health care
providers." Soon after he took office as president, the administration
reversed what Obama described as "eleventh-hour change(s) in
conscience clause provisions that were pushed forward by the previous
administration."

The Bush administration change, which took effect two days before
Obama was sworn in, hadn't been "properly reviewed and thought
through, he said, adding that there were some concerns about how broad
it might be and what its manifestations would be once implemented."

In general, that change codified longtime federal statutes that
prohibit discrimination against health professionals who decline to
participate in abortions or other medical procedures because of
religious or moral objections.

In his speech at Notre Dame, Obama called for a "sensible conscience clause."

He told reporters at the White House session that hundreds of
thousands of comments for the conscience-clause review had been
received.

"We will be coming out with, I think, more specific guidelines," he
said. "But I can assure all of your readers that when this review is
complete there will be a robust conscience clause in place. It may not
meet the criteria of every possible critic of our approach, but it
certainly will not be weaker than what existed before the (Bush
administration's) changes were made."

Obama said worries that the conscience protections would disappear are
an example that "there have been some who keep on anticipating the
worst from us, and it's not based on anything I've said or done, but
is rather just a perception somehow that we have some hard-line agenda
that we're seeking to push."

Jul 2, 2009

Maddy's Home at Last...Now Pray for the Moderator!!

My friend Madeline came home from the rehab center today after the
better part of 9 months in various hospitals and one very far away
nursing home. Thanks to all those who prayed for her. Her first act at
home in Lansing, Illinois was to check out the flowers her brother and
I have been tending for her and lean over and begin pruning some
geraniums. I can't tell you how good it was to see her back in her
element again. In the meantime I've managed to get myself in a bad
position concerning my license and plates for my car, etc. Please pray
for me that I can resolve these issues so that I can help drive Maddy
to her various medical appointments, dialysis, etc. Yes I am a
criminal....and my crime? Poverty and inability to pay for insurance
while continuing to drive, in the state of Illinois a most heinous
offense.