Phoenix, Ariz., Jan 13, 2010 / 12:11 am (CNA).- Using the example of St. Thomas More, Archbishop Raymond Burke exhorted legal professionals present at Tuesday’s Red Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral to keep God before their eyes as they strive to administer justice amidst a “society which is abandoning its Judeo-Christian foundations.”
Archbishop Burke flew in from the Vatican to celebrate the Mass at the invitation of his long-time friend, Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix. The Red Mass is the only event on the archbishop’s short itinerary….read the rest here.
Archbishop Burke is our best ally in the Vatican with the exception of the Holy Father. He is the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial authority in the Catholic Church below the Pope himself. He’s the guy who supported the critics of the Kennedy funeral quite robustly, I might add.
In the article linked above, Burke said the following:
In our culture, “the law more and more dares to force those with the sacred trust of caring for the health of their brothers and sisters to violate the most sacred tenets of their consciences, and to force individuals and institutions to cooperate in egregious violations of the natural moral law,” he said. “In such a society, the administration of justice is no longer a participation in the justice of God, an obedient response to the prompting of the Holy Spirit, but a façade cloaking our own selfishness and refusal to give our lives for the sake of the good of all our brothers and sisters.”
”…to force individuals and institutions to cooperate in egregious violations of the natual moral law…”
That’s one stone throw away from sending Catholic money to support pro-abort groups.
I’m sure we can all guess what the good Archbishop thinks about the Development & Peace Abortion Scandal.
Right now 88 pro-life activists (known as the ND88) are facing charges for “trespassing” onto the University of Notre Dame in May of 2009.
It is a source of the gravest scandal that this situation persists with the active cooperation of Notre Dame.
The ND88 were arrested for peacefully protesting the university’s decision to honor the most pro-abortion U.S. president in history at this year’s commencement. In many cases, their “protest” took the form of walking on your campus, praying the rosary, and holding pro-life signs. For this “crime” they were specifically targeted by Notre Dame’s security police, handcuffed, and dragged away and put in jail like common criminals.
Now these 88 peaceful pro-life heroes, many of whom are elderly, are facing up to a year in prison and a $5,000 fine, in addition to the many hardships and uncertainties involved in the trial process.
And yet, there is an easy and completely painless solution to this unconscionable situation. You, Fr. Jenkins, on behalf of Notre Dame, could publicly request that the charges against the ND88 be dropped.
Not only is such a request likely be heeded by the prosecutorial authorities, but it would go a long way to restoring Notre Dame’s tarnished image in the eyes of the pro-life and Catholic world.
Indeed, it is extremely shocking and disturbing that, despite repeated requests to do so, Notre Dame has not yet intervened in this way.
Our Lady’s University has no business cooperating in the prosecutions of pro-life individuals whose only crime is having prayed on the campus of a Catholic university, and standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.
Therefore we respectfully implore the University of Notre Dame to immediately and publicly request that the charges against the ND88 be dropped.
Actually both Huxley and Orwell apply today….even at the same time.
The West is losing its freedoms to totalitarian influences in part because it is simultaneously masturbating itself away.
We’re too busy having fun to notice that our pleasure is enslaving us and giving control to the State.
The State doesn’t have to resort to thug tactics, for the most part and certainly not on the majority of the population . In fact, most of our freedoms are being bought and paid for with sugar. We give up our freedoms and the State gives us the sugar i.e. socialism.
In some ways, Huxley and Orwell represent two sides of the same coin, and they parallel capitalism and communism which also represent the opposite sides of the same coin. While they are different in form, they share the same substance.
They operate under the same basic principle that man is not an end but only a means. They operate under the principle that God does not exist. And that man has no intrinsic dignity other than utility alone – an instrument to be used for manipulation and/or gratification, and then when their usefulness is no longer present, to be discarded like garbage.
Sometime this year, Ontario taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus payment i.e HST rebate. This is a very exciting program from the Ontario government. I’ll explain it using the Q&A format:
Q. What is Ontario’s Economic Stimulus payment? A. It is money that the provincial government will send to taxpayers. Q.Where will the government get this money? A. From taxpayers.
Q. So the government is giving me back my own money? A. Only a smidgen.
Q. What is the purpose of this payment? A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase consumer goods, for example a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the Ontario economy.
Q. But isn’t that stimulating economies in Asia? A. Shut up or you don’t get your cheque.
This is a snippet of their little blog section on their home page…
I noticed the Wal-Mart ‘seasonal’ aisles are filled with diet and exercise stuff, vitamins, boxes of Special K, and lycra clothing this week. Is that the type of New Year’s resolution you envisioned for 2010?
Maybe, but why not start the year off with something a little less narcissistic? My goal for 2010 is to make the world a better place to live. Because I am a stay-at-home mom, I don’t often get much beyond the white picket fence. I am firmly convinced, however, that I can still have an impact on the world.
The first step in making the world a better place is to become more aware of the problems faced by Canadians. Read newspapers, follow municipal/provincial/federal issues, and talk to neighbours about the news. Narrow or broaden your focus. It is hard to be a “single issue person” with all the interesting news going on around us.
Second, for those young women what aren’t active in their community, join a group. REAL Women of Canada is an obvious first choice. But there are many groups out there, all “fighting the good fight” with many of their members having many years of experience in political life. Join one….
Turns out that this fool had no idea that there were 250,000-300,000 people at the National March for Life while the pro-aborts were lucky to get a few hundred out to their rally (and that’s being very very generous).
1000:1
What a bunch of clowns. I suppose they think they are being clever by ignoring what their eyes see — as if by tapping their shoes and closing their eyes is going to make the reality of abortion’s future demise simply float away.
It’s a joke, but it’s actually a good thing for us. Why? Because when your opponent does not acknowledge the reality of living in the real world, he can’t fight effectively in it or have any real prospects of success. Let the blind lead the blind. Eventually, one of their steps will be over a cliff…and abortion will be no more.
Folks, we are living in age of virtual apostasy from the Faith which has flooded all levels of the Church.
Do not drink the Koolaid offered by the mainstream press, “Catholic” or otherwise, or the various mouthpieces for the bishops or their national conferences.
Stick with the Pope, those priests and bishops truly loyal to him (in word and in deed), and the credible independent news services and bloggers.
It looks like the whole “charity” gig business is starting to go belly up. I’ve known about World Vision’s seedier practices for some time now…including its support for condom distribution to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Feel free to do the same. My continued support of World Vision definitely hinges on the answer here.
In today’s Globe and Mail, the question of how Canada does maternal health continues. I’m not only concerned if the government is working with abortion-rights groups like Action Canada for Population and Development, but also be concerned if aid agencies are:
Mr. Morley said his organization and four others Care Canada, UNICEF Canada, World Vision Canada and Plan International realized when they met last February that they were all thinking the same way and decided to work together to get the government onside. Along with two Canadian aid agencies Results Canada and Action Canada for Population and Development that joined the cause in recent months, they were delighted when it was announced on Monday that Mr. Harper would take the opportunity of the June gathering to press the issue.
Since I have been a supporter of World Vision for some years now, I just placed a polite call, followed up with an email, to ask this:
Id appreciate it very much if you could get back to me on whether or not World Vision is happy to partner with the ACPD. The ACPD is an abortion-rights group, and this is in my view, violently opposed to maternal health. It is my hope that you can clarify this situation for me and confirm that World Vision would not now, and has not in the past, worked with ACPD.
This is the first comment in the thread. It reveals what we’ve all really suspected:
It’s looking like the Peruvian Catholic bosses are trying to control the Canadian Catholic Organizaton of Peace and Development. I’ve worked with CCODP folks and they are fantastic social justice workers. Many are pro-choice! This is appalling!!!
THE Era of Peace—a heresy? Two more antichrists? Has the “period of peace” promised by Our Lady of Fatima already happened? Was the consecration to Russia requested by her valid? These questions below, plus a comment on Pegasus and the new age as well as the big question: What do I tell my children about what’s coming?
THE ERA OF PEACE
Question: Isn’t the so-called “era of peace” nothing other than the heresy called “millenarianism” condemned by the Church?
What the Church has condemned is not the possibility of an “era of peace,” but the false interpretation of what it could be.
As I have written here on several occasions, the Church Fathers such as St. Justin Martyr, St. Irenaeus of Lyons, St. Augustine and others have written about such a period based on Rev 20:2-4, Heb 4:9 and the Old Testament prophets who refer to a universal period of peace within history.
The heresy of “millenarianism” is the false belief that Jesus will descend to earth in the flesh and reign as a global king with His saints for a literal one thousand years before the conclusion of history.
Various offshoots of this heretical and excessively literal interpretation of Revelation 20 also manifested itself in the early Church, e.g. “carnal millenarianism”, the added Jewish-Christian error of carnal pleasures and excesses as part of the thousand year reign; and “mitigated or spiritual millenarianism”, which in general retained the literal thousand year reign of Christ visibly in the flesh, but rejected the aspect of immoderate carnal pleasures.
Any form of belief that Jesus Christ will return in His resurrected body to the earth and rule visibly on earth for a literal one thousand years (millenarianism) has been condemned by the Church and must be categorically rejected. This anathema does not include, however, the strong Patristic belief held by many Church Fathers and Doctors of a “spiritual”, “temporal”, “second” (but not final) or “middle” coming of Christ to take place before the end of the world. —source: www.call2holiness.com; nb. this is an excellent summary of the various forms of this heresy.
Phoenix, Ariz., Jan 13, 2010 / 12:11 am (CNA).- Using the example of St. Thomas More, Archbishop Raymond Burke exhorted legal professionals present at Tuesday’s Red Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral to keep God before their eyes as they strive to administer justice amidst a “society which is abandoning its Judeo-Christian foundations.”
Fr. Jenkins,
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