VoteYesMarriage.com

VoteYesMarriage.com
California Marriage Initiative
The Voters’ Right to Protect Marriage Initiative
August 31, 2007
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Dear Friend of Marriage:

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Please help the families and churches of California override the bureaucracy and protect everything about marriage – permanently – in the California State Constitution. Our pro-active, energetic VoteYesMarriage.com needs 2.5 million for professional signature gathering to qualify for the ballot.

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Larry Bowler, President, Campaign
California Assemblyman (Ret.) for Children & Families
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P.S. Please send them a check of one dollar or more. They will have your name and in this way we can sign up ten or more for the initiative. (On Aug. 16th, I sent them $20.00)
This will resolve what occurred in Massachusetts where speaker CINOP Nancy Pelosi blocked the Marriage Amendment from being on the Massachusetts’ ballot in 2008.GHK.
George H. Kubeck, www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Duplicate or translate into Spanish

Praying Together Publicly with Other Christians

Praying Together Publicly with Other Christians

Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007

For years, The National Day of Prayer has occurred on the first Thursday of May each year. Next year it is on Thursday, May 1, 2008. It is a beautiful event which I have participated in a couple of times. Shirley Dobson is the National Chairman. She is the wife of America’s most outstanding family leader, Dr. James C. Dobson Ph.D. Founder and Chairman of Focus on the Family.

There are three special events coming up in the next few months in which all Catholics can participate in. Firstly, 40 Days for Life, secondly, Why Pray the Rosary at Abortion Mills?, thirdly, National Life Chain 2007:
1) More than 20 cities have signed up to participate in 24-hour prayer vigils outside their local abortion center. From Sept. 26 to Nov. 4, thousands of volunteers will spend over 960 hours interceding on behalf of children in the womb and their mothers and fathers. The model is based on the biblical 40-day periods in which God worked miracles through Noah, Moses, David, Elijah, and Jesus. As a testament to the event’s impact, seven cities are reporting results that range from a 28 percent reduction in abortion to recruitment of over 1,000 pro-life volunteers. In Dallas, 14 women reconsidered their abortions; Houston noted that area pregnancy care centers had over 120 appointments from Moms who did not follow through on their scheduled abortions. For more information, please log on to www.40daysforlife.com .

2) In his booklet, Our Media is the Streets, Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priest for Life, states:
“Prayer at abortion mills is absolutely necessary, and the Rosary is an especially appropriate form of prayer. We pray at these places to confront the killing, lies and exploitation that go in inside. Prayer unites us to the Lord of Life, and calls Him to make present the Victory of Life. We pray for our own and for the conversion of the mothers, fathers, the abortionists and the general public.
a) The Rosary has been constantly recommended by Popes and saints. It contains all of salvation history. It immerses us in Scripture. It has gained great victories for Christianity through the ages….” p. 34-5
The abortion mill at 3445 W. Chapman, Orange, Calif. needs your prayers. At this facility more than 100 women in 2006 changed their minds. Thanks to sidewalk counselors Joan Hosek and Walt Hill (714) 993-9549. Be mindful that about 400,000 Catholic women have abortions each year throughout the country. This site has easy access with three freeways cutting into it. Freeways 5 and 57 and indirectly Garden Grove Freeway 22: They do abortions on Sundays and alternate days of Thursdays & Fridays in the mornings. See you there if possible.

3) National Life Chain – 2007. Throughout the nation, there have been yearly Life Chains on the first Sunday in October. This year it is on the Feast of the Holy Rosary, October 7th, 2:30 to 3:30 P.M. In Orange County there are about 10 locations. (714) 963-4753) My wife, Michaelene and I are responsible for the one on the corner of Garden Grove Blvd., and Beach Blvd., Stanton, Ca.
Fraternally yours,
George H. Kubeck, www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Duplicate or into Spanish.

CINOPS BE GONE

CINOPS BE GONE
The Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, August 29, 2007
DEAR READER:
GREETINGS!

WELCOME: THIS BLOG IS DEDICATED TO THE EXPOSURE AND REMOVAL OF CATHOLIC-IN-NAME-ONLY-POLITICIANS.

ST. THOMAS MORE IS OUR MODEL AND PATRON.

(Witness to the Truth: Veritas: Justice is truth in action.)

1.) IT IS A RESOURCE CENTER FOR INFORMATION ON AND

ABOUT THESE POLITICIANS WHO ARE DIRECTLY AND

INDIRECTLY PROMOTING FIVE ABSOLUTE EVILS:

ABORTION, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ASSISTED-SUICIDE,
EUTHANASIA, AND EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH.

(Help, O Lord, for good men have vanished: truth has gone from the sons of men.)

2.) I BELIEVE THEIR DEFEAT IN 2008 WILL REMOVE THE SCALES FROM THEIR EYES. THEY DO NOT MERIT THE VOTE OF CATHOLIC AMERICANS OR ANY OTHER CITIZENS.

(Let us cast off the deeds of darkness…. Live honorably as in daylight. Rom.13:13)

3.) THERE IS NO CATHOLIC REASON TO VOTE FOR ANY
CINOP IN 2008 OR THEREAFTER.

4.) WE LOOK FORWARD TO OTHER WRITERS IN PRINT WHO
WILL DISCUSS THIS VERY SERIOUS FRAUD IN AMERICA.

5.) DURING THESE PAST TWO WEEKS (AUG. 14TH - 28TH), WE HAD A PAUSE THAT REFRESHES. THANKS TO OUR GUEST COLUMNIST. I HOPE HE WILL SEND US A PAUSE ON SUNDAYS.

George H. Kubeck, CINOPS BE GONE or http:///wwwcinopsbegone.blogspot.com/

A GIFT

FROM THE BRIDE AND THE BRIDEGROOM

Today, August 27, is the feast day of Saint Monica – who prayed herself and her son into becoming great saints. Her son, Augustine, who was brought to God by the tearful prayers of his mother, is one of the two most brilliant authors ever to write about our holy faith. This is why Saint Monica is the patron saint of mothers.

But today is also the birthday of a young woman born in 1975. Her name was Katherine Mary but she was always called Katie. Her parents, though raised by faithful Catholic parents and given wonderful Catholic educations, had fallen away from the practice of the faith. The girl was baptized a few weeks after birth but didn’t receive any religious education or her other sacraments.

When Katie was 11, God took matters into His own hands and through a number of direct interventions in the lives of her parents, they returned to the faith. A year later she received her First Communion. Her parents, as stupid as they had been, realized they had been blessed by God with a 2^nd chance so were fervent and devout in their faith. They have remained so till this day some twenty years later.

Katie’s parents knew that her grandmother (Dad’s Mom) had been praying hard for years for their return. They thanked her many times for her prayers. But she shared a little secret that they didn’t know about. She had secretly taught Katie to pray and told her to pray everyday for her parents to return to the faith. The prayers of a little child were heard and effective.

That little Katie, after receiving First Communion at 12, was confirmed at 15 and about that time started to hear Christ’s call to a life of total dedication to Him in religious life. She answered that call and today is a professed Carmelite sister.

Yes, Our Lord heard the prayers of that little girl. He knew she would be His bride someday and so showered the gifts of renewed faith and dedication to Him on her parents. This new faith was a gift….. a gift from both the bride and the bridegroom.

So today as my wife Mary and I meditate on this feast day of St Monica and the birthday of our daughter, we give tearful thanks to Jesus who gave us back the gift of faith and He did it by our little Saint Monica in reverse, our Katie who prayed her parents back into the church.

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If you want to read more about Gifts from the Bridegroom see my previous post at:

http://www.fightingirishthomas.org/2007/07/gifts-from-bridegroom.html

I want to thank the George Kubeck, the operator of this blog, for the opportunity to post these past two weeks. If there were 1,000 pro life warriors like George in the USA, abortion would have been blown away years ago.

INVITED TO THE WEDDING FEAST?

If you are, you better be prepared!

Today's, August 23, Gospel is the parable of the wedding feast from Matthew 22. Jesus is telling us both about the past of salvation history and the situation in our world today. . A king throws an elaborate wedding feast for his son. The invited guests make excuses, simply don’t show up, or even attack and kill his messengers. The king destroys these people and invites others. He tells his servants to invite all they find in the streets. One of these invitees is not properly dressed with a wedding garment, and so is thrown out. Jesus concludes by summarizing the parable: "Many are invited, but few are chosen."

God invites many to the wedding feast of his Son, an image of the Kingdom of God. Do we accept or reject the invitation? In salvation history, many of those originally invited, the Israelite people, did not accept, and the invitation was extended to all nations. Today, all people are invited by God into the wedding feast of his Son, the Eucharistic banquet which is found in the Church, called catholic because it extends to all nations. However, one cannot carelessly accept this invitation, but must make himself worthy to approach such a sacred feast. In Baptism, we are cleansed of sins and brought into the Church, and put on a white garment that calls to mind this necessary wedding garment. Further, as a wedding garment must be kept clean for the feast, and washed it if it gets dirty, we must prepare ourselves for the Eucharist through having our sins forgiven in the Sacrament of Penance. God's invitation does go out to all people: inviting them to the wedding feast of the Lamb of God, his Son, in the Eucharist.

Lord, give us the grace to accept your generous invitation. Help us, Mary and all the saints, to use the means He has given us to prepare and be ready when the call comes!

HIS KINGDOM WILL HAVE NO END!

Luke 1:33
He will reign over the house of Jacob for ever
and of His kingdom there will be no end.

Many aspects of the Christian faith are not easy to hold on to and this is one of them. The sheer proposition of the eternity of Christ and His kingdom is mind-boggling, particularly in an age where it appears that the old verities of Christian belief are under such continual seige from the surrounding culture. Surely the confidence in Christ will eventually go the way of an ancient Egyptian's belief in Osiris, won't it? The devil's trick here is to get us to assume we can see a future that is not really there while getting us to take our minds off the past and present, which we can see. If Christ rose from the dead and He did then that's that. He is God and the Resurrection and the Life and all the opinion polls in the New York Times make not a bit of difference to the truth of that fact. His kingdom shall have no end because His life shall have no end.

Just a Word of Encouragement from Mark Shea and Jeff Cavins.

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LEFT TO TELL

A STORY OF TORTURE, MURDER, AND GENOCIDE ALL CONQUERED BY FORGIVENESS

I have just finished a remarkable book. It is called Left To Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza. She is a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Over one million of her Tutsi tribe were murdered by Hutus in a three month killing spree. Her mother, father and two of her brothers were executed by people of their own village. Neighbors and friends were their executioners.

Immaculee survived by the kindness of a Hutu protestant pastor. He hid her and 7 other women in a four foot by three foot bathroom for 91 days. There was no room to move. They could only communicate by sign language. They could only flush the toilet when someone flushed the other toilet in the house. No one else in the house knew they were there.

They lived in constant fear. The house was searched by Hutu killing gangs several times. They knew little of what was happening outside, they had no knowledge if any of their family had survived.

Immaculee’s body was trapped in this horrible cell but her mind and her heart were not imprisoned. She found that the only relief from the bitterness and hatred she felt was in prayer. In the midst of terrible suffering, she lifted her soul to God in constant prayer. She prayed to Mary constantly. Somedays she prayed her rosary 14 hours a day. She recognized that despair and discouragement and hatred were tools of Satan. Mary heard her prayers and lifted her petitions to the throne of her Son. He heard and answered her prayers in remarkable ways and transformed her heart from a heart of stone to a heart of flesh.

After more than ninety days, she was able to leave. She found out that her parents and brothers had been executed by local killing squads. She visited their grave and their destroyed home. She even met the man who had led the killers and who had been searching for her. She had heard his voice when she was locked in the bathroom. Think of how you would feel meeting the man who killed your parents, brothers, friends and neighbors. Through the supernatural power of Mary’s intercession, Immaculee was able to forgive.

Please read this book and when you are done examine your conscience. Who are those people who have truly hurt you? Have you forgiven them? Have you looked into your heart and realized how much God has forgiven you? All the insults and offenses we have heaped upon Him and yet His mercy is always available to us. If this young woman can heal her heart by forgiving those who murdered her family, caused her unimaginable suffering and murdered one million of her countrymen, who are we to refuse Christ’s call to forgiveness.

Father, forgive me my sins, failings, cruelties, insults and betrayals exactly to the extent that I forgive those who have done these things to me or my family.

Originally posted at Friends of Fighting Irish Thomas http://www.fightingirishthomas.org/
reposted with permission.

SAINT OF THE DAY

St. Philomena (Virgin and Martyr)

August 16, 2007

Little is known of the life of St. Philomena before the discovery of her celebrated tomb in the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome. An inscription near her tomb read "Peace be with thee, Philomena." Near her bones was discovered a small glass vial, containing the remains of blood. Because it was a popular custom of the early martyrs to leave symbols and signs such as these, it was determined that St. Philomena was a virgin and a martyr. She was venerated by other saints such as St. John Vianney, St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, St. Peter Eymard, and St. Peter Chanel.

After hundreds of miraculous cures and other miracles, she was beatified in 1837. St. Philomena, who the pope named as the Patroness of the Living Rosary and the Patroness of the Children of Mary, is the only person recognized as a saint solely on the basis of her powerful intercession, although revelations regarding her life have been recorded.

Her feast day is celebrated on August 11, with St. Clare.

Prayer for the intercession of St. Philomena:

Illustrious Virgin and Martyr, Saint Philomena,
Behold me kneeling in spirit before you.
Full of confidence in your protection,
I beseech you to intercede for me.
From heaven, please look upon us.
Spouse of Jesus Christ,
console me in my troubles,
strengthen me in temptations,
protect me in the dangers which surround me;
obtain all the graces necessary for me,
especially [your intentions],
and assist me at my death.
Amen.

GOT SUFFERING?

Got suffering? Don’t we all? We suffer from the annoyances of life like a sore shoulder, or a flat tire. We suffer the pain of cancer or loss of a child, spouse, or parent. We suffer the memory of our mistakes and losses. We suffer from betrayals, false accusations, and a damaged reputation. We suffer when our hopes for ourselves, our careers or our children are crushed. Yes, we all have some suffering, small or large, every day that we are alive. It is one of the consequences of original sin so it is inherent in our fallen human nature.

So we all have it. Now, what do we do about it? How do we live with it? Prosper from it? Grow from it?

If we only consider suffering on the natural level of this world, then the answer is bitterness, disappointment, victimhood, anger, and revenge. That doesn’t sound like a fun way to live!

How about on the supernatural level? Are there better answers there? Of course there are. In the spiritual life, the choices we have are often on the basis of good, better, and best. So it is with the question of suffering.

A good answer to the suffering in our life is a patient acceptance. When we have the attitude that is the way things are and after all we have a lot of blessings too. In the big picture, we can manage this suffering. That is a good choice.

But what is a better choice? As Catholics, we often take that good attitude and build on it by saying to God: All right, Lord, I accept that I have these sufferings but I offer them up to you so that the graces earned can be used for the souls in purgatory or my other intentions. I don’t like the sufferings but I accept them as your will for your purpose. Now that is a far better answer……… but still not the best!

Both the good and the better choice see our sufferings as bad things that happen to good people (US!). But what if our sufferings aren’t bad but good and to be desired? What if every suffering we have is a blessing, a gift, a Kiss from the Cross? Our goal for our spiritual life is to live the Imitation of Christ. What did Christ do in his conception, birth, life, passion, and death? He suffered. Not even just in His passion and death but in becoming a baby, taking on human nature, living the life we know. He suffered from the instant of His incarnation!

So the best answer is to rejoice in our sufferings! Thank God for allowing us to share in Christ’s sufferings and thereby become even more closely united to Him! Is this an easy answer? NO! But it is the way of the saints. And we are all trying to be saints, aren’t we? Many of the saints went to horrible martyrdoms singing the praises of God for the privilege of their suffering and death!

Today’s saint, St. Stephen of Hungary, was a good and holy king who brought Christianity to Hungary 1,000 years ago. He was kind to the poor and was well known for his generous almsgiving. He would disguise himself so that he could distribute alms without being recognized. One time he ran out of money to give and the people who didn’t receive any money beat him and left in the mud, bleeding and broken. He laid there and sang God’s praises for the gift of being able to suffer like Jesus Christ. How like Christ he was.

His real identity was hidden, he was giving all he had for others, and he was beaten and humiliated just like his Lord.

Today, let us each get on our knees and beg for the grace of St. Stephen to rejoice in the sufferings God gives us. Let us pray that like Blessed Miguel Pro, we will die with Christ’s name on our lips giving him glory even as we suffer and die.

Praised be Jesus Christ! Now and Forever!

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Originally posted at Friends of Fighting Irish Thomas

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HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT!

Aren't we all on the road to Emmaus?


John 20:8-9
"Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed for as yet they did not know the scripture, that He must rise from the dead."

When people speak of Jesus "fulfilling" the Scripture, they often have in mind the notion that the Old Testament has a series of Nostradamus-like "messianic predictions" and that everybody understood exactly what these were. According to this scenario, all the attentive first-century Jew had to do was follow Jesus around with his Messianic Prophecy Checklist and say, "If this guy is Messiah, then according to the Checklist, His mother will be a virgin, He heal the sick, cleanse the Temple, and die and rise from the dead." But, of course, nobody was expecting anything of the sort. And the reason is simple: people didn't see Jesus fulfilling the Scripture until after He did so. It was a case of 20/20 hindsight. With a Great Collective Apostolic Forehead Smack, the early Church looked at the life of Christ and only realized after it was all over that He was hidden in plain view in the Old Testament and they had not seen it. 

That was why the Risen Christ had to practically rub th e disciples' noses in their own Bibles on the Emmaus Road and say, "'O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into His glory?' And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself" Lk 24:25-27.

Just a Word of Encouragement from Mark Shea and Jeff Cavins.



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from Aug. 14th to Aug. 28th, 2007.

June 14, 2007 - A Day of Infamy and Betrayal

June 14, 2007- A Day of Infamy and Betrayal
Monday, Aug. 13, 2007

It is a nightmare that is equal to the Abortion Roe vs. Wade decision of Jan. 22, 1973.
It is a truth that will raise your temperature to a fever pitch.
It is a truth that needs to be proclaimed and cries out to high heaven.
It is the historical betrayal by the Catholic-in-name-only politicians in Massachusetts.

With the bribery of desirable executive positions and campaign contributions, the CINOPS voted down the Marriage Amendment that would have put it on the Massachusetts ballot in 2008. “They failed the test of moral leadership because their vote put sodomy on the same legal level as sacramental marriage.” They betrayed the 170,000 qualified signatures that wanted it to be on next year’s ballot.

CINOP Speaker Nancy Pelosi perceived rightly that having the Marriage Amendment on the ballot in 2008 will hurt the Democratic Presidential Candidate. Marriage and family are the foundation of any civil society. It is now necessary in America to sacrifice these two on the altar of a secular progressive America. This will not stand.

Most of the U.S. CINOPS have a serious crisis of Faith, belief in the Eucharist & Catholic identity. Tragically in Massachusetts, their bishops are not chips of the old block, Pope John Paul II. Fortunately, all bishops in the U.S.A. can become chips of the old block.

Thankfully, a most powerful prayer is the Rosary. It can be prayed at the CINOP offices throughout the country. This is one mission for all Knights. Why? We were betrayed by 16 K. of C. legislators who blocked the Marriage Amendment of one man, one woman.
“We are warriors now, fighting on the battlefield of faith, and God sees all we do;”
Be not afraid of the truth, read about it and you decide. It is in the Catholic World Report – Aug. /Sep. 07. The article is by Philip Lawler, Not Even a Semblance of Clout.
“One aspect of that signature-gathering drive is noteworthy here: Although the political establishment in Massachusetts is thoroughly dominated by Irish and Italian Catholics, the process of collecting signatures was driven by evangelical Protestants. The Catholic bishops gave their full support to the effort, but individual Catholic pastors were much less supportive. Many priest discouraged or even forbade the collection of signatures outside their parish churches, and relatively few priest signed the documents themselves.” p. 25

“As late as mid-May, pro-family lobbyists were still confidently assuring their allies that they had more than 50 solid votes in favor of the initiative petition. But gay-rights activists were claiming new gains. The conservative lawmakers who had backed the marriage amendment in the 2006 session were facing new pressures and new promises. Governor Patrick was dropping, unsubtle hints that legislators who voted against the amendment might be in line for desirable executive positions in his administration.”…
“In the last few days before the June 14 vote, the lobbying became frenetic, and some legislators were demanding exorbitant rewards for their votes. Arline Isaacson, the leading representative for gay-rights activists on Beacon Hill, complained to the Boston Globe: ‘It’s very frustrating because legislators keep upping the ante on what they want to get for their vote.’” p. 25
Fraternally yours,
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate, and or translate into Spanish.

Letter to now Cardinal W.J. Levada, Aug. 8, 2005

Vatican City State, 00120, Italy
Attn. The Most Reverend Archbishop
William J. Levada – Prefect of the Congregation Aug. 8, 2005
For the Doctrine for the Faith Feast of St. Dominic

Most Reverend William J. Levada,

In July, the pro-abortion Catholic politicians in Canada succeeded in passing the same-sex marriage laws C-38. This outrageous scandal has highlighted the tragic collapse of the Church leadership in Canada. In some ways, this tragedy equals the sex and homosexual scandal in the U.S.A. In both cases, the spirit of dissent was a major factor. (Behold the ingenious dissenter Mario Cuomo. Yesterday, he appeared on “Meet the Press”. He reinvents the Catholic Faith and is still the patron saint of the pro-abortion Catholic politicians. Mario Cuomo is no Pope. ) Nevertheless, the Canadian scandal ought to dramatically change the modus operandi of our U.S. Bishops.

According to Francis Cardinal Arinze, the Vatican’s Prefect over the Administration of the Sacraments, the denial of communion to pro-abortion politicians is a no-brainer. It is a matter that should have been taken care of twenty-five years ago.

The inaction on the part of the bishops could have been a cover-up for a political party. It allowed other cancers to enter that once great party so that today it is on the road to suicide. Can the Canadian clergy and other practicing Christians remain registered with the abortion and same-sex marriage party? In the U.S.A. we have a political party that is pro-abortion, same sex marriage, assisted suicide and for embryonic stem cell research. These are absolute evils.

Let our frame of action be Pope John Paul II and his Encyclicals. Cardinal Ratzinger’s memo to Theodore Cardinal McCarrick was clear: “The practice of indiscriminately presenting oneself to receive Holy Communion, merely as a consequence of being at Mass, is an abuse that must be corrected…. Regarding the grave sin of abortion or euthanasia, when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning &voting for permissive abortion & euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist.”

The pursuit of the truth is in the teaching pronouncements of Pope Benedict XVI. It is a cop-out to say that “we can’t get involved because it is political,” or we are acting in “a pastorally wise and prudent” manner. Catholics and other Christians ought to communicate with their local Bishop and ask him to follow Cannon Law and the memo above, with respect to the pro-abortion Catholic politicians in their diocese.

Respectfully yours,
George H. Kubeck, Knights of Columbus, ...

Significant Excerpts of Pope Benedict XVI and Bishops

Significant Quotations of Pope Benedict XVI and Bishops
Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007
The Synod of Bishops under way in Rome (Nov. 13th, 2005)is likely to result in a correction for politicians who deny Catholic doctrine with their actions and still presume to receive Communion.
Pope Benedict XVI has already hinted that problems like this will be taken seriously at the synod when he said in his opening speech, “A tolerance which allows God as a private opinion but which excludes Him from public life, from the reality of the world and our lives, is not tolerance but hypocrisy.”

“When man makes himself the only master of the world and master of himself, justice cannot exist. Then, arbitrariness, power and interests rule.” Too many Catholic lives could be compared to “vinegar rather than wine” because of the indifference to God. LifeSiteNews.com Monday, Oct. 3rd, 2005

During the 2004 presidential elections, St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke went so far as to say that he would deny communion to the Democratic presidential Candidate John Kerry. A working document bishops are discussing at their meetings acknowledges the problems.

“Some receive communion while denying the teachings of the Church or publicly supporting immoral choices in life, such as abortion, without thinking that they are committing an act of grave personal dishonesty and causing scandal,” the document said.

“Some Catholics do not understand why it might be a sin to support a political candidate who is openly in favor of abortion or other serious acts against life, justice and peace.” American bishops adopted a statement last summer by a vote of 183-6 that calls on pro-abortion Catholics to refrain on their own from taking communion. Vatican City (LifeSiteNews.com) Oct. 4, 2005

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care has stated flatly that Catholics cannot in conscience, support a politician who favors legal abortion. “A Catholic cannot support a politician who presents abortion as a general norm,” said Cardinal Lozano. The Mexican prelate added that “a son of the Church cannot consider himself to be in full communion if he supports what the Church condemns.”

“A Catholic voter, the Vatican’s “health minister” continued should discriminate among the issues on the political agenda. An informed voter, he said, “should know how to distinguish between what represents an attack on life and what promotes the defense of life.” He added that a Catholic voter can never be justified in supporting “what constitutes an attack on life” Rome, Oct. 6th, 2005
(CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com)
George H. Kubeck, A Common Sense Pro-Life Dispatch. Duplicate or translate into Spanish.

Why Pray the Rosary at Abortion Mills?

WHY PRAY THE ROSARY AT ABORTION MILLS?
By Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
Friday, Aug. 10, 2007
“Prayer at abortion mills is absolutely necessary, and the Rosary is an especially
appropriate form of prayer.
“We pray at these places to confront the killing, lies and exploitation that go on inside. Prayer unites us to the Lord of Life, and calls Him to make present the Victory
of Life. We pray for our own conversion and for the conversion of the mothers, the
fathers, the abortionists and the general public.

1) The Rosary has been constantly recommended by Popes and saints. Itcontains all of salvation history. It immerses us in Scripture. It has gained great victories for Christianity through the ages.

2) The Rosary honors a Mother, and calls “blessed” the fruit of her womb.This counteracts the abortion mentality, which sees motherhood as more of a burdenthan a blessing and sees the fruit of the womb as disposable.

3) The Rosary has a calming effect as our fingers handle the beads, our lips repeat the Hail Marys, and our mind calmly reviews the Mysteries. An abortion millcan be a place of great tension, … The Rosary helps keep us cool.

4)In the Rosary we proclaim that we are sinners. “Pray for us sinners.”
"Forgive us our trespasses.” It proves false the accusation of pro-aborts who tell us
we are “self-righteous.” Rather, we are the ones who need to repent of our negligence
and inactivity regarding abortion.

5)The format of the Rosary allows everyone to participate. It can be prayedwhile walking and can be adjusted to any time frame. A practical suggestion is to have the group say the first part of the Hail Mary and the other half respond. If there is only one person leading the prayer, most people cannot hear it, especially with the noise of traffic.

“Pro-lifers must never be silent! Continue to take to the streets! Continue
to save babies! Continue to pray the Rosary! Continue to wake up America
about abortion!” p. 34-5, “Our Media is the Streets.”

"Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart." Padre Pio

Fraternally yours,
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.

Celebrating Our 125th Anniversary

Celebrating Our 125th Anniversary
Thursday, Aug. 9th, 2007
Regular anniversaries like birthdays and weddings are usually celebrated for one day only. This one will last for one year. It is hard to imagine the U.S. Catholic Church without the Knights of Columbus.

The monthly issue of Columbia, March, 2007 has whole sections celebrating the 125 Years of Faith in Action 1882-2007. Father Michael J. McGivney was 29 years old when he founded the Knights in the basement of the St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Ct.

After the Order’s March 29, 1882 incorporation, he sent appeals for new members.
“Father McGivney has guided our Order for 125 years and will continue to do so for the years to come….
“As we celebrate our founding by a young and energetic parish priest, we must continue with even greater effort to develop our parish-based councils….
“This means also that we must encounter greater solidarity with our priests….
“Every parish priest should be welcomed into the Order, and every parish priest should see his local Knight of Columbus council as a strong partner in building up his parish community….” Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight, p. 3

“In this anniversary year, we celebrate how the Servant of God Father Michael J. McGivney built the Knights on the solid foundation of Jesus Christ….It was his holiness – his deep relationship of love with Jesus Christ. He was a truly holy parish priest who loved the Lord so much that he dedicated his every waking hour to prayer and to helping his parishioners grow in the likeness of Christ…. Without doubt, Father McGivney was ahead of his time. Long before the Second Vatican Council focused on the laity’s involvement in evangelizing culture and in strengthening the life of the Church.... Long before the contemporary assault on the family and unborn children, Father McGivney supported family life and the protection of the vulnerable….” Bishop William E. Lori, Supreme Chaplain, p. 4

“GROWING IN HOLINESS: In his message for the World Day of Prayer for Peace last Jan. 1. Pope Benedict XVI pleaded that 2007 be a year of peace. We must work each day to establish peace in our world, he said, ‘Peace is promoted by respecting the person.’… He (Father McGivney) was enlightened by the Holy Spirit to found a fraternal society for Catholic men that the same spirit would protect and guide into the 21st century and beyond….Father McGivney’s encounter with anti-Catholic bigotry and working men with destitute families touched him deeply…. Father McGivney’s foresight was a gift from God. He was enlightened by the Holy Spirit to found a fraternal society for Catholic men that the same Spirit would protect and guide into the 21st century and beyond…. Today, as much as in 1882, all of our activities are intended to affirm the dignity of the human person and the holiness of the family. Our imperative is to offer more Catholic men, and younger Catholic men, the spiritual richness that is ours as sons of Father McGivney.” Father Gabriel O’Donnell ,O.P.

Fraternally yours,
George H. Kubeck,

Feast of St. Dominic

Feast of St. Dominic
Wednesday, Aug. 8th, 2007
Liturgy of the Hours:

“Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may judge what is God’s will, what is good pleasing and perfect.” Romans 12: 2.

Office of Readings- Second Reading -From various writings on the history of the Order of Preachers: He spoke with God or about God.

“Dominic possessed such great integrity and was so strongly motivated by divine love, that without a doubt he proved to be a bearer of honor and grace. He was a man of great equanimity, except when moved to compassion and mercy. And since a joyful heart animates the face, he displayed the peaceful composure of a spiritual man in the kindness he manifested outwardly and by the cheerfulness of his countenance.
Wherever he went he showed himself in word and deed to be man of the Gospel. During the day no one was more community-minded or pleasant toward his brothers and associates. During the night hours no one was more persistent in every kind of vigil and supplication. He seldom spoke unless it was with God, that is, on prayer, or about God; and in this matter he instructed his brothers.
Frequently he made a special personal petition that God would deign to grant him a genuine charity, effective in caring for and obtaining the salvation of men. For he believed that only then would he be truly a member of Christ, when he had given himself totally for the salvation of men, just as the Lord Jesus, the Savior of all, had offered himself completely for our salvation. So, for this work, after a lengthy period of careful and provident planning, he founded the Order of Friars Preachers.
In his conversation and letters he often urged the brothers of the Order to study constantly the Old and New Testament. He always carried with him the gospel according to Matthew and the epistles of Paul, and so well did he study them that he almost knew them from memory.
Two or three times he was chosen bishop, but he always refused, preferring to live with his brothers in poverty. Throughout his life, he preserved the honor of his virginity. He desire to be scourged and cut to pieces, and so die for the faith of Christ. Of him Pope Gregory IX declared: ‘I knew him as a steadfast follower of the apostolic way of life. There is no doubt that he is in heaven, sharing in the glory of the apostles themselves.’”

On EWTN Catholic Television today, there was a Holy Mass presided over by Father Vincent Serpa O.P. Here are a few brief remarks about St. Dominic.
“Oh my mercy what will become of sinners?” These were the often repeated words of St. Dominic. He called God, “My Mercy.” It was a term of faith and affection. It was God’s Mercy that he was concerned with and the reason he founded the Dominican Order. God created us and how much he loved us.
During his time of 1207 almost all the religious were living as monks and nuns in monasteries or cloisters. He wanted his followers to be among the people. Owning no property they would beg from door to door. His mission is to spread the truth, the good news of the Lord.
George H. Kubeck

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 12 of 12

Let us celebrate the 125th Knights of Columbus Convention in Nashville, Tennessee on Aug. 7-9th, 2007. Pray that wise decisions will be made and the truth proclaimed. The attached classic talk # 12 of 12 is to commemorate this gathering.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 12 of 12
Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007

This is the final transcript # 12 of a talk from a tape by Fr. Gregory Staab, O.M.V. given at St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church in Hawaiian Gardens, Ca. on Oct. 12th, 2002, with the Immaculate Heart of Mary Spiritual Retreat, My Love Will Triumph, Tape M 1273, What Happened at Fatima, available at St. Joseph Radio, in the City of Orange. (714) 744-0336, 800-500-4556.

“We have the duty to respect the right to life and rights of every human being from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death. And this is an important issue for God when we vote. God is there in the voting booth and that’s the moral action when you go into the reality of the voting booth. Are we an only issue people? Do we have just one issue? Is this the only issue we have? No, but this is a disqualifying issue! If somebody says that it should be legal to kill a human being, that person is automatically disqualified! He does not even exist for us on the ballot. That’s not the only issue.

“We have many other issues that we look at in the reality of when it comes to an election. But that is a disqualifying issue. Do I hear an Amen! Disqualifying Issue! The American Bishops speak of this whole reality like a house. There are many aspects to the house. You have the walls and you got the ceilings and you’ve got furniture inside. Then you have the foundation for the house. The very foundation of the things we should be looking for is the right to life itself! Everything else deals with quality of human life, education, employment and health care. These deal with quality of human life. This is the right to life itself. That’s the foundation upon which everything else is built. And if the foundation isn’t there, everything collapses and everything falls apart.

“What would happen if everybody would vote for people who are pro-life? The laws would eventually change in our country. And with that, our eyes would be opened in many other ways in helping other people. We’d see how we could help other people in many, many other ways and we’d have the genius, and we would have the help of all kinds of human beings. {Those) as well who are being snuffed out to give us that light and that wisdom that we need from God to be able to help the problems of our society.

“Any right to kill the innocent undermines every other right of the human person. Ultimately, what we are involved with is a spiritual battle. If murder is present we know it well, that the Devil who is called a murderer from the beginning is involved. And so the very heart and the very soul of the pro-life movement is the reality of prayer and fasting.

“And that is the message of Our Lady of Fatima. The Angel of Fatima told the children to be making many little sacrifices, sacrifice themselves in any way that they could for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for the sins by which God himself is offended. And she said in this way, you will bring peace to your country. The Angel of Fatima said that. Our Lady of Fatima said pray the Rosary every day for peace in the world, and as long as abortion exists we know that there is not peace in the world. So a very important part of our intention when you pray the Rosary is for an end to abortion, is for a change in mentality in our country so people can come to see more clearly what is really taking place.

“Something that has just begun in our parish here is we have a Holy Hour every week just for that intention. It’s every Wednesday night from 8:15 to 9:15 P.M. here before the Blessed Sacrament. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with the Rosary and other prayers begging Our Lord to remove the scales from people’s eyes so that we see more clearly the value of human life and that life be respected from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death. Let’s say a final Hail Mary asking Our Lady to touch our hearts.

“Something, too that we want to pray for, we want to pray not only for an end to abortion, but it is very important as well that we pray for all the people who have had abortions. So that they can recognize that they can be forgiven. They can receive the mercy of God. They can be healed. Hail Mary {is prayed}. Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla! Pray for Us.”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 11 of 12

Let us celebrate the 125th Knights of Columbus Convention in Nashville, Tennessee on August 7-9th, 2007. Pray that wise decisions will be made and the truth proclaimed. The attached classic talk # 11 of 12 is to commemorate this gathering.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 11 of 12
Monday, Aug. 6, 2007
This is transcript # 11 of 12 of Fr. Greg Staab O.M.V. tape, What Happened at Fatima ?.

“If all such victims (of rape) were given generous love and support many more than at the present would carry their babies to term. Women who have been raped and abort their children also experience Post Abortion Syndrome. (PAS) Rape was done to her. She was not responsible for that, but by contrast the abortion would be done by her and she will feel guilty about that.

“It is also her baby and it’s a distinct innocent human life. No exception to the law should be made for incest. Incest has not been studied very much. But should an innocent child be put to death because of her father? No! Wisdom however, clearly dictates that the child should be put up for adoption.

“Often the abuser is the one who demands that there be an abortion. The one who is abusing the young girl wants the abortion and why does he want it? In this way he can hide his abuse and continue to abuse her. The young girl becomes thus a victim of not only sexual abuse but also the abortion. Just like rape, pregnancy is very rare in cases of incense.

“What is really going to help the woman, obviously not aborting the child. It’s the gift of self to love one another. That’s what produces happiness. When we sacrifice ourselves to serve another human being, that’s what is going to produce real happiness within an individual’s life.

“This is a story that comes from a Catechism. This 7 year old girl and she was asked to give blood to her brother for a blood transfusion. And the girl said she’ll do it. Then nurse came to take the blood and the girl began to cry and the nurse said are you sure you want me to take your blood for your brother? And she said yes do so. And the blood transfusion went fine. And afterwards, the nurse came back and said, why, why did you cry? She said that I thought that giving my blood would mean that I was going to die.

“This little girl was only 7 years old. And she already understood the meaning of human existence which is to give our lives for others. And that is what produces happiness.

“We all probably know the story of Gianna Beretta Molla. She died at age of 40 in 1962. And she died in order to give her life for her child so that her child would be born. She died about a week after the child was born. And she died with this tremendous fervor filled with love. And she has a happiness now, that we can’t even imagine. – Eye has not seen or ear heard, nor has it entered into the hearts of men what God has prepared for those who love him and who love others. - Who are willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others.

“What can we do about the situation that we find ourselves in? That it is the greatest evil that has ever existed in the history of our country, and we should be clearly aware of that. It is murder. For many more people are murdered just even in one year you have in all of the wars put together in the whole history of our country. We can’t even comprehend what it means, 40 million people that is just surgical abortions and doesn’t count the chemical abortions which are about another 14 million every year.

“The first and most obvious area is the reality of voting, voting. – First of all, should we even be voting for this issue! Absolutely not! It is absurd that we are voting for this. It doesn’t matter what the majority of the people think? Doesn’t make any difference? We have to respect every human being from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death….

“It is very interesting to relate this with the Supreme Court Decision of 1973 (Roe vs. Wade) to the Dred Scott Decision of 1857. In both cases, it was 7 Supreme Court Justices against 2. And before in the case of 1857, they ruled that a human being can be a piece of property. You can buy a piece of property; you can sell a piece of property. And they could even kill the piece of property if they felt it was useless in some way to them. Great evil permitted by the Supreme Court! Incredible! Incredible! It shows again the blindness, the blindness that existed and the same blindness exists in our country, innocent human beings who do not have the rights of personhood. They can be killed within the womb. We shouldn’t be voting for it. Let’s say there was a group of people who wanted to vote. Let’s vote on whether slavery should be permitted again. Absolutely absurd! And yet if the majority of the people in the country began to think that if slavery was OK, we would vote for it. That’s the mentality of our country….”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 10 of 12

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 10 of 12

Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007

All of the following paragraphs are transcribed from a tape, (M 1273) What Happened At Fatima? by Fr. Gregory Staab, O.M.V. Oct. 12th, 2002, by St. Joseph Radio. 800-500-4556, 714-744-0336.

“The ones given up to these healthy families (via adoption) do better than the children that are raised by their biological mother. It’s also better for the single young mother. Teenage mothers who choose adoption do better than mothers who choose to be single parents. They have higher education aspiration and more likely to finish school and less likely to live in poverty and receive public assistance than mothers who keep their children.

“They delay marriage longer and more likely to marry eventually. They are more likely to be employed 12 months after the birth of a child and less likely to repeat out of wed-lock pregnancy. So it is better for the single mother, better also for the child that they be given up for adoption.

“When there is an abortion, it also has a negative effect on the children that remain in society. The children that remain in society are actually treated more poorly. Child Abuse has increased and these statistics are incredible. In 1973 when abortion became legal in the United States, there were 167,000 cases of child abuse and neglect. Seven years later in 1980, there 785,000 cases, an increase of 370%. In 1987, there were 2,025,200 cases reported, that is an increase of 1,112 % in terms of the increase in child abuse after abortion has been legalized. Dr. Philip Ney did a study of why this would be the case? His research clearly pointed to the fact that abortion lowered a parent’s psychic resistance to violence and abuse of their surviving children.
“It also distorted people’s conscience and mentality this law. People’s consciences are formed by laws. Cardinal O’Connor spoke about this in a very interesting way. He noted that in the South when laws discriminated against Blacks, for instance, they could not use certain restaurants, or drink from certain water fountains and so forth. Most Southerners thought that these laws were just because the law forms our mentality and it forms our conscience. After these laws were changed in the South, most young people and middle-aged people in the South now admit that discrimination was wrong. And it is wrong. The same distortion of consciences has happened with laws that permit the killing of unborn children. John Paul II made the statement that these laws kill not only children; they kill consciences. And so it is very important that we seek to have laws that are conformed to the natural law.

“What about the exceptions of rape and incense? An innocent unborn baby should not be killed for the crime of his father. Do we punish other criminals by killing their children? No! This is really very well exemplified by a speaker, a pro-life speaker. And he was speaking to a group of 13 year olds, and about the pro-life issue. There was a 13 year old girl who raised her hand and said, ‘I am against abortion but I think it should be allowed in cases of rape’. And the guy asked her, ‘how old are you?’ She said, ‘I’m 13’. And he said [this is just a hypothetical], ‘God forbid this would even happen. Let’s imagine that your father committed rape. Should you, you are 13 years old be put to death for the crime of your father?’ And the girl said No! ‘Now imagine that you are 5 years old and your father committed rape. Should you be put to death for the crime of your father?’ No, she said. ‘Now imagine that you are 3 months old in you mother’s womb. Your father had committed that rape. Should you be put to death for the crime of your father?’ And the girl said No!

“One of the things, too that we know about rape is that there are only 1 or 2 pregnancies that occur for every 1000 rapes, 1 or 2 pregnancies. This means that about 170 to 340 pregnancies due to rape occur every year in the U.S.A. So it’s very, very, very rare.
“… also, the chief complaint about women who have been raped is not they are pregnant. The chief complaint is how they are treated. If all such victims were given genuine love and support, many more than at the present would carry their babies to term…

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 9 of 12

These letters are sent to commemorate the gathering in Nashville, Tennessee of the 125th Knights to Columbus Convention. They are also intended to persuade the Supreme Grand Knight Carl A. Anderson that the 16 Legislators in Massachusetts who blocked the Marriage Amendment Vote for 2008 be notified of censure by the Supreme Council.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima, # 9

Saturday, Aug. 4th, 2007

What does all of the above mean to Catholics and other Christians? It means that Father Gregory Staab has something to say and not say something. It means that pro-choice has no leg to stand on. It means that all of us have a reasonable and common sense message for teaching, for conversion, and for evangelizing. The following paragraphs are direct quotes from Father Staab’s one hour tape, What Happened at Fatima # 9.

"One of the things too, that propped up in the Church in the last years is the reality of what is called Project Rachel which is to help women who have had abortions and help them go through a healing process. One of things too why did women have an abortion because they were despairing. They felt that there was no hope. What happened after they had the abortion? The depression became even deeper. Many of these women feel that this was the first really big sin that they have ever committed in their life. And some of them have the idea that it is an unforgivable sin.

"It’s amazing too you know, every year I ask my Confirmation Class kids. How many think that abortion can be forgiven? And every year I always find these kids who believe that abortion cannot be forgiven. Believe that it’s just an incredible sin. Now, if they believe that intellectually, how much more do women feel that in their hearts who actually done it. Even though, that they may know intellectually in some way that they could be forgiven they don’t feel it. They don’t experience it.

"Many of them feel that if they go into a Catholic Church, walk into the Church, the whole building would collapse in on top of them. And so they stay as far away as possible. They don’t even want to think about God. They don’t want to pray. They don’t want to deal with the whole reality of the issue….

"The Church gives the message of hope. There is hope. There is hope before the abortion. There is {are} always alternatives. There is something God wants. There is a mission for that child. There is a mission for the parents and after the abortion as well there is hope. The woman can be forgiven. John Paul II tells women who have had abortions: Nothing is definitively lost, nothing is definitively lost. Your child is living with the Lord. You can be reconciled with your child. People can be forgiven. They can be healed and they can become heralds of life revealing the value of human life.

"Women in a certain sense are the greatest testimony to the life of the child within the womb even more so than a biologist or a doctor. She experiences it in her heart that that was a child, that was a human being someone who was created in the image and likeness of God.

"Something too that is very important to note is that adoption is a very good thing. There are certain people who almost always have the idea that they would almost prefer to have their child killed rather than giving the child up for adoption. This also has been studied that adoption is a very good thing for the child and it’s a very good thing as well for the unwed mother. There are and this is a very large had to believe statistic but it’s true. There are about 2 million couples who long to adopt a child, 2 million couples and yet only 50,000 non-related children are placed for adoption every year."Many of these 2 million couples would want to have 2 or more children to adopt but they are just not there. And when you consider that only 50 thousand non-related children are place up for adoption every year and you have about l.3 million abortions every year, 2 million couples who want to adopt even more than one child even of all these abortion, they were all these children were born and given to a family. There still would be more families that would want to have a child."Studies have consistently shown that these children who are given up for adoption right after birth, if they are taken right from the hospital to the family do much better than children who are raised by their single biological mother. They repeat grades less, need mental health professionals, have better health, and have better standing in their school classes, have fewer behavior problems…"
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 8 of 12

Let us celebrate the 125th Knights of Columbus Convention in Nashville, Tennessee on Aug. 7-9th, 2007. Pray that wise decisions will be made and the truth proclaimed. The attached classic talk # 8 of 12 is to commemorate this gathering. The attached classic talk # 8 of 12 is to commemorate this gathering.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 8
Friday, Aug. 3, 2007
Fr. Greg Staab, What Happened at Fatima, M1273 at St. Joseph Radio (714) 744-0336 or 800-500-4556.
“A lot of horrible things can happen when a woman is having an abortion. And often times she doesn’t want to talk about it. In fact, studies have shown that there is {are} great similarities between women who have had an abortion and women who have been raped.
“There is a tremendous amount of shame that is involved with it and with that shame they don’t want to talk about it. And they keep it hidden. They carry that pain within them and that hurt which is within them.
“Something too, about it there is growing evidence for what is called P.A.S. It is called post-abortion-syndrome. And this becomes manifest often times only between 5 and 10 years after the woman has had the abortion. The reason for this is this: A woman who has an abortion is repressing. It’s too painful. What is she repressing? The fact that someone that she loved and someone deeply close to her died.
“And there is a grieving process. This is something I remember the first time that I had to go to the hospital and there was a woman who had a miscarriage. I was shocked at the tears of this woman. And how she was just incapable of being consoled at the fact of the death of her child. And I thought she never even knew this child, and yet there is a bond there.
“There is something that is very intimate that God himself has created. And when that child dies, she has to go through the grieving process. When she has an abortion she doesn’t permit herself to grieve and it’s all shoved out. It’s all repressed.
“What is the second thing that she is repressing? She is repressing the fact that she is in some ways is responsible and as I said she is not the only one. Who is responsible often times? The people around her pressured her to have an abortion. She wasn’t supported. She wasn’t helped. It’s just not her sin. It’s the sin of other people as well. But she takes on the guilt. She takes on all the guilt and it’s too much. It’s absolutely too much and so it all has to be repressed.
“Repression is something unnatural and so eventually it starts to surface. One woman, she had this incredible depression that she was going through. She went to a psychologist and sort of talking about it. And the psychologist helped her to realize that this due to an abortion that you had 15 years ago and that you never dealt with, and it just then began to surface.
“It will surface at times, a hardening of the maternal instincts, a lack of warmth, phobias, compulsive disorders, feelings of disquiet around children, night mares. Some studies have shown that about 50% of women who have had abortions have suicidal thoughts. About 1/5 according to some study have attempted it. Especially on the anniversary of the abortion, on the anniversary of the child who should have been born there is depression….”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 7

Let us celebrate the 125th Knights of Columbus Convention in Nashville, Tennessee on Aug. 7-9th, 2007. Pray that wise decisions will be made and the truth proclaimed. The attached classic talk # 7 of 12 is to commemorate this gathering.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 7
Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007
This is page 7 transcribed from a tape by Father Greg Staab, titled, What Happened at Fatima? This tape M 1273 is available at St. Joseph Radio in the city of Orange. (714) 744-0336.
“As Frederica Matthews Green a Feminist for Life of America stated, ‘No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. She feels like there is kind of no hope, no alternative for her.’
“Most if not all counselors and researchers on both sides of the political issue would agree that most abortion decisions involve elements of fear and despair on the part of a woman, What abortion counselors fail to tell women who are choosing abortion is that the loss of their leg, the loss of their child will leave them crippled for life in many ways.
“Crisis Pregnancy Centers where pro-lifers are committed to save the woman and her child note and tell them there is hope. There is hope, and there are alternatives. You don’t have to have the abortion. That’s the message of the Church, the message of Christ.
“There is hope you don’t have to have an abortion. And in fact it is amazing the charity that exists in our country. There is a whole series of 1-800 numbers that women can call. You can call them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You call that number somebody will always be there to answer the phone. They will the person a place to stay if they can’t stay with their family or their friends. They will give them medical attention. They will give them counseling. They will give them maternity clothes, clothes for their children. They will give them counseling for adopting services.
“I am just going to give you one of them here. It’s 1-800-848-LOVE, 1-800-848-LOVE, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, somebody is there to answer the phone and to help the person to know there is hope, there is {are} alternatives. One of the things too about women who are in the situation; as they’re in crisis. They are in a time of crisis. What happens to people when they are in a time of crisis? They give away their power to make decisions. They are not capable in making decisions. When people are in a crisis, they are nervous. What do they do? They listen to the people around them. And they are strongly influenced by the people around them. And because of that 50% of women who have had abortions claim if somebody had just been there to support me and tell me to have my child and to note that it would be a good thing to have a child. They said that they would have had the child.
“What often times happens is that they go to the abortion mill, the abortion chamber and what do they hear there? What is the abortion industry about? It’s about selling abortions. That’s what they are in business for, that’s how they make their money. So when the person comes there, they are trained actually and they’ll try to convince the person to have the abortion.
“They’ll make the person feel guilty if they don’t have the abortion. Who is going to pay for all of this? And they’ll go through how much money it costs to raise a child today. And you are going to put this burden on your parents, on your boy friend. You’re being selfish. So this person who is in crisis and who doesn’t often times even want to talk about it will go through the abortion….”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.

Insights - Hilaire Belloc - "The Modern Attack" # 2 of 2

INSIGHTS – Hilaire Belloc – “The Modern Attack” # 2 of 2
Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007
“It is impossible to act rightly without truth. That is why the will to know the truth, to seek it humbly and with a readiness to learn it, is the basic prerequisite of all morality. Where profit or success leads to the neglect of truth, the world is fragmented into interests groups because profit always depends on the viewpoint of the one acting. (1988), July 27th, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Co-Workers of the Truth, Meditations for every day of the Year, Ignatius, 1990.
Let us continue with Hilaire Belloc’s book, The Great Heresies, We will complete the chapter on The Modern Phase. This book was first published in 1938.
“Anyhow, there you have the Modern Attack in its main character, materialist, and atheist: and, being atheist, it necessarily indifferent to truth. For God is Truth.
“But there is (as the greatest of the ancient Greeks discovered),a certain indissoluble Trinity of Truth, Beauty and Goodness. You cannot deny or attack one of these three without at the same time denying or attacking both the others. Therefore with the advance of this new and terrible enemy against the Faith and all that civilization which the Faith produces, there is coming not only a contempt for beauty but a hatred of it; & immediately upon the heels of this there appears a contempt and hatred for virtue…
“Though this Modern Attack,… It is essentially atheist, even when atheism is not overly predicated. It regards man as sufficient to himself, prayer as mere self-suggestion and – the fundamental point – God as no more as a figment of the imagination, an image of man’s self thrown by man on the universe; a phantasm and no reality….
“… the denial of God had been confined in the past to comparatively small number of intellectuals, that denial had now gained the multitude and was acting everywhere as a social force.
“This is the modern enemy; this is that rising flood, the greatest and what may prove to be the final struggle between the Church and the world….
“But the Faith and use of the intelligence are inextricably bound up. The use of Reason is a main part – or rather the foundation – of all inquiry into the highest things. It was precisely because reason was given this divine authority that the Church proclaimed mystery- that is, admitted reason to have its limits….
“When reason is dethroned, not only is Faith dethroned (the two subversions go together) but every moral and legitimate activity of the human soul is dethroned at the same time. There is no God. So the words “God is Truth” which the mind of Christian Europe used as a postulant in all it did, cease to have meaning…. And reason is thus made a victim because Humanity itself is what the Modern Attack is destroying in its false religion of humanity. Reason being the crown of man and at the same time his distinguishing mark, the Anarchs march against reason as their principle enemy….
“… Either the Catholic Church (now rapidly becoming the only place wherein the traditions of civilization are understood and defended) will be reduced by her modern enemies to political impotence, to numerical insignificance, and, so far as public appreciation goes, to silence, or the Catholic Church will in this case as throughout the pat, react more strongly against her, she will recover and extend her authority, and will rise once more to the leadership of civilization which she made, and thus recover and restore the world.
“In a word, either we of the Faith shall become a small persecuted neglected island amid mankind, or we shall be able to lift at the end of the struggle the old battle-cry, “Christus Imperat.” ....The Church will not disappear, for the Church is not of mortal stuff; it is the only institution among men not subject to the universal law of mortality.”
George H. Kubeck, http://cinopsbegone.blogspot.com Duplicate, translate into Spanish.