Dr. Beckwith allows that this quote contained therein, choked him up, “Our parents and grandparents did not come to these shores to help build America’s cities and towns, its infrastructure and institutions, its enterprise and culture, only to have their posterity stripped of their God given rights. All that has been built up over so many years in our Catholic institutions should not be taken away by the stroke of an administrator’s pen.” (more…) Read more
And kindly asks for your support. Hi Frank, I largely borrowed your wording from your original petition regarding the HHS Mandate. The one you wrote was taken down since the Administration “responded” to it. I’d appreciate your help in getting this one out again. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/rescind-hhs-mandate-requiring-catholic-institutions-provide-insurance-covering-contraception-their/mG8SwXxj Thank you! Theresa Give her a hand, folks. Sic semper tyrannis. Besides, most of you have accounts at the White House already. And don’t forget to sign the other petitions out there too. Links to... Read more
And here’s why: meet the real Freedom of Conscience petition, y’all. Because although the NARAL petition was indeed a Ferrari like the one we knew was behind us, the petition I was driving was good ol’ American Iron of the type that whipped the Ferraris at LeMans four consecutive times. Full of justice, freedom from oppression, and yearning for the good, the true, and the beautiful. Oh, and endowed with a very broad torque band. (more…) Read more
Sorry guys, but after reading the USCCB’s response to the ridiculous proposal by Seizure to rip our religious freedoms away, I just can’t help but share this tune with you. After all, we have a long standing tradition of holding fast, and not knuckling under. (more…) Read more
Deacon Greg Kandra shares the New York Times story where someone in the Administration admitted, “we were getting killed.” Any day now, we’ll probably get the shocking (not!) news that Kathleen Sebelius has decided to “resign from HHS in order to persue other interests.” That would not surprise me at all. But this did, and in a good way. From the folks over at Fox News, “The following is a statement ed. on Notre Dame letterhead) signed by more than... Read more
Call me Mr. Practical, but do you have a free hour and forty-five minutes? If so, I found a few instruction videos you may want to have a look at. Remember the Fifth Amendment? How about the Code of Conduct, where under the Geneva Convention you’re required to only give your name, rank, and serial number? Yes, think along those lines as we prepare for what just may be a Catholic Spring, even if only one of passive resistance. Remember... Read more
I reckon this can be considered “breaking news,” because the following note just landed in my e-mail inbox from the White House. It’s the official response to the little petition that can, written by the person in the photograph above. Take it away (but not our freedoms, please), Cecelia,< Protecting the Health of Women While Accommodating Religious Liberty By Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council (more…) Read more
for the tyrannically challenged. Why the HHS Mandate Is The Biggest Issue Since Roe V Wade. I told ya’ll I love Texans. Yes, this isn’t just about contraceptives and who pays for them. It’s about the Constitutional freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights for all Americans. Or is what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr saying below, you know, the night before he was assassinated, meaningless now? (more…) Read more
This is a power grab and a push to secularize our nation and ghettoize Catholics. His article appears in the National Review Online. Here is the beginning, The HHS Mandate: Anti-Catholic and Un-American By Rev. Robert Barron Decades ago, priests, religious brothers and religious sisters were colorfully visible features of Catholic hospitals, serving as nurses, chaplains, business officers, and chief administrators. With the decline in vocations, this obviously religious leadership largely disappeared, but Catholic values, for the most part, still... Read more
in the Op-Ed pages of the Chicago Tribune, The way President Barack Obama has started a war with Roman Catholics, you might think Obama never set foot in a predominantly Catholic town like Chicago. (more…) Read more
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