Fr. Frank Pavone on Terrorists
National Director, Priest for Life
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
You Wouldn’t Even Ask
If a candidate who supported terrorism asked for your vote, would you say, “I disagree with you on terrorism, but where do you stand on other issues?” I doubt.
In fact, if a terrorism sympathizer presented himself/herself for your vote, you would immediately know that such a position disqualifies the candidate for public office – no matter how good he or she may be on other issues. The horror of terrorism dwarfs whatever good might be found in the candidate’s plan for housing, education, or health care. Regarding those plans, you wouldn’t even ask.
So why do so many people say, “This candidate favors legal abortion. I disagree. But I’m voting for this person because she has good ideas about health care (or some other issue).”
Such a position makes no sense whatsoever, unless one is completely blind to the violence of abortion. That, of course, is the problem. But we need only see what abortion looks like, or read descriptions from the abortionists themselves, and the evidence is clear. (USA Today refused to sell me space for an ad that quoted abortionists describing their work because the readers would be traumatized just by the words!)
Abortion is no less violent than terrorism. Any candidate who says abortion should be kept legal disqualifies him/herself from public service. We need look no further; we need pay no attention to what that candidate says on other issues. Support for abortion is enough for us to decide not to vote for such a person.
Pope John Paul II put it this way: “Above all, the common outcry, which justly made on behalf of human rights – for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture – false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination” (Christifideles Laici, 1988).
False and illusory: Those are strong and clear words that call for further reflection.
“I stand for adequate and comprehensive health care.” So far, so good. But as soon as you say that a procedure that tears the arms off of little babies is part of “health care,” then your understanding of the term health care is obviously quite different from the actual meaning of the words. In short, you lose credibility. Your claim to health care is illusory. It sounds good, but is in fact destructive, because it masks an act of violence.
“My plan for adequate housing will succeed.” Fine. But what are houses for, if not for people to live in them? If you allow the killing of the children who would otherwise live in those houses, how am I supposed to excited by your housing project
It is easy to get confused by all arguments in an election year. But if you start by asking where candidates stand on abortion, you can eliminate a lot of other questions you needn’t even ask.
For election related articles & info: www.priestsforlife.org/election/elections
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Father Frank Pavone on Abortion!
Father Frank Pavone on Abortion
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com Wed. Feb. 27, 2008
The more that the reality of abortion is exposed, the more people reject it. The most significant shift occurred when the details of the partial-birth abortion procedure were exposed in the mid-nineties. Never did a larger audience a larger audience see and hear in more detail what abortion actually is.
Abortion needs to be exposed in five distinct ways.
1.) Statistics. Most Americans have no idea of the immense numbers of abortions, or that abortions occur throughout pregnancy. The abortion supporters themselves provide us the statistics. See the Alan Gutmacher Institute’s website,
www.agi-usa.org Just seeing these facts awakens many people that a change in abortion policy is necessary.
2.) Descriptions. Medical textbooks like Abortion Practice us the word decapitate and dismember to describe what happens to the baby in abortion. Moreover, there are now more sworn court testimonies from practicing abortionists than ever before, on all different abortion procedures (see www.priestsforlife.org/pba ) Again, the abortionists’ own words work against them! When we expose evil in this way, nobody can accuse us of making it up!
3.) Photos Show people what abortion looks like, and they will never feel the same about it again. See how the photos impact people by reading their testimonies. www.priestsforlife.org/resources/abortionimages/graphicspraise.htm
4.) Devastation to women, men, families. More and more mothers, fathers, and families speak out about how they have been devastated. The power of their testimony changes minds, hearts. (www.SilentNoMoreAwareness.org/testimonies
5.) Corruption in the abortion industry. Read the book, Lime 5 and see how malpractice, fraud, and sexual abuse are rampart in legal abortion clinics. See
www.ClinicWorker.com to learn of other abuses and violations.
The road to ending abortion is clearly open in front of us. Simply take the evidence above and put it before the conscience of everyone you can. Jan. 2006
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com Wed. Feb. 27, 2008
The more that the reality of abortion is exposed, the more people reject it. The most significant shift occurred when the details of the partial-birth abortion procedure were exposed in the mid-nineties. Never did a larger audience a larger audience see and hear in more detail what abortion actually is.
Abortion needs to be exposed in five distinct ways.
1.) Statistics. Most Americans have no idea of the immense numbers of abortions, or that abortions occur throughout pregnancy. The abortion supporters themselves provide us the statistics. See the Alan Gutmacher Institute’s website,
www.agi-usa.org Just seeing these facts awakens many people that a change in abortion policy is necessary.
2.) Descriptions. Medical textbooks like Abortion Practice us the word decapitate and dismember to describe what happens to the baby in abortion. Moreover, there are now more sworn court testimonies from practicing abortionists than ever before, on all different abortion procedures (see www.priestsforlife.org/pba ) Again, the abortionists’ own words work against them! When we expose evil in this way, nobody can accuse us of making it up!
3.) Photos Show people what abortion looks like, and they will never feel the same about it again. See how the photos impact people by reading their testimonies. www.priestsforlife.org/resources/abortionimages/graphicspraise.htm
4.) Devastation to women, men, families. More and more mothers, fathers, and families speak out about how they have been devastated. The power of their testimony changes minds, hearts. (www.SilentNoMoreAwareness.org/testimonies
5.) Corruption in the abortion industry. Read the book, Lime 5 and see how malpractice, fraud, and sexual abuse are rampart in legal abortion clinics. See
www.ClinicWorker.com to learn of other abuses and violations.
The road to ending abortion is clearly open in front of us. Simply take the evidence above and put it before the conscience of everyone you can. Jan. 2006
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
J.P. II's Catholic Laity - 4 - Take an Interest in world
J.P. II’s Catholic Laity – 4- Take an interest in the world
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
Christians, and especially you members of the laity, are called by God to become interested in the world in order to transform it according to the Gospel. Your personal commitment to truth ands honesty occupies an important position in the fulfillment of that task, because a sense of responsibility to truth constitutes one of the fundamental meeting points between the Church and society, between the Church and each man or woman.
The Christian Faith does not provide ready-made solutions to the complex problems of contemporary society, but it does provide a deep understanding of human nature and its needs, calling you to tell the truth in charity, to take up your responsibilities as good citizens, and to work, along with you neighbor, to construct a society in which genuine human values are fostered and intensified through a shared Christian vision of life. 43
The above from The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II A life in Prayer, Atria Books, N.Y. – London – Toronto – Sydney - 2005
But he came into the world, ‘and the world did not accept him.’
He said: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life.’ The world neglects this way, denies the truth and destroys life. What can it expect?
“To start with, one small remark. The words of Christ that you have just quoted have given rise to different interpretations. The history of commentaries on this text shows that the Greek fathers, and with them St. Ambrose and St. Leo, saw in Jesus the way and the truth leading to eternal life.
In the view of Clement of Alexandria, Augustine and most of the Latin fathers, Jesus as way leads to eternal truth and eternal life. Thomas Aquinas and the medieval commentators saw Christ as way in so far as he was man, truth and life in so far as he was God.
That is also the view of some modern scholars like Lagrange. Others: Christ is way, that is, truth and life. The notion of way essential here, means that Christ alone is the mediator of salvation, the norm and model in the moral sense and access to the Father.
He is the way as the Father’s revelation of this truth man reaches life – or Christ again. Christ is thus way and at the same time the end of this way; it is to him that it leads. Now you say, ‘The world neglects this way, denies the truth and destroys life.’ And you added, ‘What can it expect?’
This question has already received its answer. First of all, when Jesus, on the fortieth day of his life, was taken to the temple in Jerusalem for the rite of purification, the old man Simeon greeted him with these words: ‘Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against.’ Yet these words of Simeon only herald the answer. The essential answer to your question is also to be found in Gospel: it is the Cross.
In the Cross the words of Simeon are completely accomplished. 188-9
The above is the from the book: “Be Not Afraid” Pope John Paul II Speaks Out on his Life, his Beliefs and his Inspiring Vision for Humanity, by Andre Frossard and Pope John Paul II, the Bodley Head Ltd. Great Britain, 1984
George H. Kubeck,
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
Christians, and especially you members of the laity, are called by God to become interested in the world in order to transform it according to the Gospel. Your personal commitment to truth ands honesty occupies an important position in the fulfillment of that task, because a sense of responsibility to truth constitutes one of the fundamental meeting points between the Church and society, between the Church and each man or woman.
The Christian Faith does not provide ready-made solutions to the complex problems of contemporary society, but it does provide a deep understanding of human nature and its needs, calling you to tell the truth in charity, to take up your responsibilities as good citizens, and to work, along with you neighbor, to construct a society in which genuine human values are fostered and intensified through a shared Christian vision of life. 43
The above from The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II A life in Prayer, Atria Books, N.Y. – London – Toronto – Sydney - 2005
But he came into the world, ‘and the world did not accept him.’
He said: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life.’ The world neglects this way, denies the truth and destroys life. What can it expect?
“To start with, one small remark. The words of Christ that you have just quoted have given rise to different interpretations. The history of commentaries on this text shows that the Greek fathers, and with them St. Ambrose and St. Leo, saw in Jesus the way and the truth leading to eternal life.
In the view of Clement of Alexandria, Augustine and most of the Latin fathers, Jesus as way leads to eternal truth and eternal life. Thomas Aquinas and the medieval commentators saw Christ as way in so far as he was man, truth and life in so far as he was God.
That is also the view of some modern scholars like Lagrange. Others: Christ is way, that is, truth and life. The notion of way essential here, means that Christ alone is the mediator of salvation, the norm and model in the moral sense and access to the Father.
He is the way as the Father’s revelation of this truth man reaches life – or Christ again. Christ is thus way and at the same time the end of this way; it is to him that it leads. Now you say, ‘The world neglects this way, denies the truth and destroys life.’ And you added, ‘What can it expect?’
This question has already received its answer. First of all, when Jesus, on the fortieth day of his life, was taken to the temple in Jerusalem for the rite of purification, the old man Simeon greeted him with these words: ‘Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against.’ Yet these words of Simeon only herald the answer. The essential answer to your question is also to be found in Gospel: it is the Cross.
In the Cross the words of Simeon are completely accomplished. 188-9
The above is the from the book: “Be Not Afraid” Pope John Paul II Speaks Out on his Life, his Beliefs and his Inspiring Vision for Humanity, by Andre Frossard and Pope John Paul II, the Bodley Head Ltd. Great Britain, 1984
George H. Kubeck,
Monday, February 25, 2008
The Faithful Departed
The Faithful Departed
The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture
wwwcinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
The author of the above book is Philip F. Lawyer. He is the editor of Catholic World News, the first English-language Catholic news service operating on the internet, which he founded in 1995. Born and raised in the Boston area, he attended Harvard College and did graduate work in political philosophy at the University of Chicago before entering a career in journalism.
All on this page from the jacket of the book, Encounter Books, N.Y. 2008
Comments on the book:
Philip Lawler’s stunning book is a fresh look at the causes and consequences of the Catholic clerical sex-abuse scandal.
Ground zero was Boston. Lawler tells the story of the Church’s role in advancing a culture of morality and excellence within the 19th century immigrant community. But all of that good crashes into a mid-20th century wall of indifference, amorality, and hostility to orthodoxy and “the power of Faith.”
1) Lawler places the blame squarely on the lap of the shepherds, the bishops where were more interested in their public image and meeting the mortgage payments, than the safety of souls. His is powerful story of a dismal period in the life of the Church. Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma, 1995-2003, First Chairman of US bishops’ National Review Board.
2) Lawler’s masterful analysis is sobering and provides an urgent incentive for authentic renewal. If St. John Chrysostom is correct when he says that the road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops, it would be a mistake for any bishop or priest to miss this book. Most Rev. Fabian Bruskewitz, Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska
Faithful Departed explains how the Catholic Church became the dominant cultural power in Boston, and then lost its public influence in the space of a generation…. The demise of Catholic influence in Massachusetts is an especially vivid example of a secularizing trend that is visible throughout the United States.
The collapse of Catholicism in Boston became painfully apparent in 2002, with the full explosion of the sex-abuse crisis. Nothing in the history of American Catholicism has had the same shattering impact as the sex-abuse scandal, and The Faithful Departed explains how the negligence of Church leadership – again, especially in Boston – allowed predatory priests to flourish for years.
But the sex-abuse scandal was neither the cause nor the beginning of Catholicism’s decline in Boston. In fact the scandal was itself a symptom of corruption that was already well advanced.
The public power that the Church enjoyed a half-century ago reflected a seemingly unshakable solidarity among Catholics. Nourished by their shared faith, Boston’s Catholics tended to think alike, behave alike, even vote alike. Their solidarity produced obvious practical benefits for the institutional Church, making the archdiocese an important player in the social & political life of the community.
Unfortunately, Church leaders came to see their public prestige as a primary goal…. Church leaders chose to compromise on matters of faith, in order to maintain a united public front. In practice, their compromises undermined the common core of belief that had bound together Catholic believers.
Paradoxically, the pursuit of public influence destroyed the religious solidarity upon which Catholic influence had been constructed.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture
wwwcinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
The author of the above book is Philip F. Lawyer. He is the editor of Catholic World News, the first English-language Catholic news service operating on the internet, which he founded in 1995. Born and raised in the Boston area, he attended Harvard College and did graduate work in political philosophy at the University of Chicago before entering a career in journalism.
All on this page from the jacket of the book, Encounter Books, N.Y. 2008
Comments on the book:
Philip Lawler’s stunning book is a fresh look at the causes and consequences of the Catholic clerical sex-abuse scandal.
Ground zero was Boston. Lawler tells the story of the Church’s role in advancing a culture of morality and excellence within the 19th century immigrant community. But all of that good crashes into a mid-20th century wall of indifference, amorality, and hostility to orthodoxy and “the power of Faith.”
1) Lawler places the blame squarely on the lap of the shepherds, the bishops where were more interested in their public image and meeting the mortgage payments, than the safety of souls. His is powerful story of a dismal period in the life of the Church. Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma, 1995-2003, First Chairman of US bishops’ National Review Board.
2) Lawler’s masterful analysis is sobering and provides an urgent incentive for authentic renewal. If St. John Chrysostom is correct when he says that the road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops, it would be a mistake for any bishop or priest to miss this book. Most Rev. Fabian Bruskewitz, Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska
Faithful Departed explains how the Catholic Church became the dominant cultural power in Boston, and then lost its public influence in the space of a generation…. The demise of Catholic influence in Massachusetts is an especially vivid example of a secularizing trend that is visible throughout the United States.
The collapse of Catholicism in Boston became painfully apparent in 2002, with the full explosion of the sex-abuse crisis. Nothing in the history of American Catholicism has had the same shattering impact as the sex-abuse scandal, and The Faithful Departed explains how the negligence of Church leadership – again, especially in Boston – allowed predatory priests to flourish for years.
But the sex-abuse scandal was neither the cause nor the beginning of Catholicism’s decline in Boston. In fact the scandal was itself a symptom of corruption that was already well advanced.
The public power that the Church enjoyed a half-century ago reflected a seemingly unshakable solidarity among Catholics. Nourished by their shared faith, Boston’s Catholics tended to think alike, behave alike, even vote alike. Their solidarity produced obvious practical benefits for the institutional Church, making the archdiocese an important player in the social & political life of the community.
Unfortunately, Church leaders came to see their public prestige as a primary goal…. Church leaders chose to compromise on matters of faith, in order to maintain a united public front. In practice, their compromises undermined the common core of belief that had bound together Catholic believers.
Paradoxically, the pursuit of public influence destroyed the religious solidarity upon which Catholic influence had been constructed.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
Sunday, February 24, 2008
A Narrow Overview of the U.S. 06 Elections # 2 of 2
A Narrow Overview of the U.S. 06 Elections # 2 of 2
A Catholic Analysis of the U.S. Election, Nov. 7/06 (Part 2 of 2)
The Final Campaign Trail Report of Nov. 7/06 # 4
You are reading a duplicate of a letter dated Sunday, October 29, 2006
The Truth in Advertising with No False Catholic Labels
With over forty years of observing social and political change, Author David Carlin in his recent book, Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? How the Party I Loved Became the Enemy of My Religion, comes up with five conclusions.
1) In the U.S. today, there’s a Culture War between secularists & traditional Christians.
2) In this Culture War, the national Democratic Party has teamed up with the secularists and their allies.
3) The Democratic Party, once strongly identified with the common man, is now dominated by upper and upper-middle-class ideologues.
4) Because of these changes, the Democratic Party has slipped to number-two status and will remain there until it rejects or rebuffs the secularist agenda.
5) Until the party does this, it makes little or no sense for Catholics and other traditional Christians to support the Democratic Party. p. 57
Stop It! There is no difference between the Democrats and the Republican
Check this out with Focus on the Family and FRC Action who have scored how lawmakers voted on key bills during the 109th Congress. FRC Action declared 123 House members – 120 Republicans and three Democrats – to be “True Blue Representatives” who voted in favor of pro-family legislation every time. In contrast, 142 House members – 140 are Democrats and two Republicans – did not support a single piece of pro-family legislation. There is no Catholic, Evangelical or Baptist reason to vote for a CINOP in this election
I do have a bias. For the past 12 years, I have been at the local abortion facilities twice weekly for about an hour. I was a Rosary prayer participant at the abortion facility which closed down in Cypress, Feb. 2001. Our presence persuades many of the ladies to change their minds. My experience, over the years, is that in almost all cases, the ones who are getting away with murder are the men. They are the scoundrels and the wimps. The CINOP is also getting away. Hopefully, in the future, it is the Catholic Laity that will step up to the plate and speak up.
Finally, Mission Accomplished: Almost a thousand of the five cultural Informational flyers have been distributed at Catholic Churches, St. Justin and St. Polycarp, and surrounding neighborhoods.
Update: Join and help to distribute 50,000 pieces of informational literature in the Correa and Sanchez district during this 2008 election campaign.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
A Catholic Analysis of the U.S. Election, Nov. 7/06 (Part 2 of 2)
The Final Campaign Trail Report of Nov. 7/06 # 4
You are reading a duplicate of a letter dated Sunday, October 29, 2006
The Truth in Advertising with No False Catholic Labels
With over forty years of observing social and political change, Author David Carlin in his recent book, Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? How the Party I Loved Became the Enemy of My Religion, comes up with five conclusions.
1) In the U.S. today, there’s a Culture War between secularists & traditional Christians.
2) In this Culture War, the national Democratic Party has teamed up with the secularists and their allies.
3) The Democratic Party, once strongly identified with the common man, is now dominated by upper and upper-middle-class ideologues.
4) Because of these changes, the Democratic Party has slipped to number-two status and will remain there until it rejects or rebuffs the secularist agenda.
5) Until the party does this, it makes little or no sense for Catholics and other traditional Christians to support the Democratic Party. p. 57
Stop It! There is no difference between the Democrats and the Republican
Check this out with Focus on the Family and FRC Action who have scored how lawmakers voted on key bills during the 109th Congress. FRC Action declared 123 House members – 120 Republicans and three Democrats – to be “True Blue Representatives” who voted in favor of pro-family legislation every time. In contrast, 142 House members – 140 are Democrats and two Republicans – did not support a single piece of pro-family legislation. There is no Catholic, Evangelical or Baptist reason to vote for a CINOP in this election
I do have a bias. For the past 12 years, I have been at the local abortion facilities twice weekly for about an hour. I was a Rosary prayer participant at the abortion facility which closed down in Cypress, Feb. 2001. Our presence persuades many of the ladies to change their minds. My experience, over the years, is that in almost all cases, the ones who are getting away with murder are the men. They are the scoundrels and the wimps. The CINOP is also getting away. Hopefully, in the future, it is the Catholic Laity that will step up to the plate and speak up.
Finally, Mission Accomplished: Almost a thousand of the five cultural Informational flyers have been distributed at Catholic Churches, St. Justin and St. Polycarp, and surrounding neighborhoods.
Update: Join and help to distribute 50,000 pieces of informational literature in the Correa and Sanchez district during this 2008 election campaign.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
Saturday, February 23, 2008
A Narrow Overview of the 06 U.S. Elect. # 1 of 2
A narrow Overview of the 06 U.S. Elections # 1 of 2
A Catholic Analysis of the U.S. Election, Nov. 7, 2006 # 1 of 2
The Final Campaign Trail Report of Nov. 7, 2006 # 4
You are reading a duplicate of a letter dated on Sunday, October 29, 2006
The Truth in Advertising with No False Catholic Labels
An analysis of the CINOP (Catholic-in-name-only-Politician) in this year’s elections: (2006) (CINO rhymes with RINO) Please e-mail to Christian news outlets. Translate into Spanish.
From the Voter’s Guide: California Pro-Life Council: November 2006
The following three questions were asked of the candidates. Their responses are noted.
1. Does the office seeker support the legal protection for unborn children?
2. Does the office seeker support requiring parental consent before an abortion can be performed on a minor child?
3. Does the office seeker oppose efforts promoting a state policy of euthanasia such as “physician assisted suicide”?
The following CINOPS answered No to the above three questions: You will recognize their names: Jerry Brown, Cruz Bustamante, and Lou Correa. Here are some of the Congressional Office Holders. Mike Thompson, Nancy Pelosi, Ellen Tauscher, Anna Eshoo, Hilda Solis, Lucille Roybal- Allard, Grace Napolitano, Linda Chavez, Joe Baca, and Loretta Sanchez. By the way, these CINOP’s in Congress have also voted in the past for Partial Birth Abortions.
These candidates are with the Democratic Party that is opposed to Proposition 85, The Parents’ Right to know and Child Protection Ballot Initiative. If this measure fails to pass again, you can understand why. This is a horrendous scandal to our Catholic Faith. Many nominal Catholics are not grounded in their faith. They have become converts to secular humanism. Pro-abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, embryonic-stem-cell research and gay agenda are the CINOP’s False Religion. The CINOP concern for the poor is a Cop-Out.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate in Spanish and Vietnamese
A Catholic Analysis of the U.S. Election, Nov. 7, 2006 # 1 of 2
The Final Campaign Trail Report of Nov. 7, 2006 # 4
You are reading a duplicate of a letter dated on Sunday, October 29, 2006
The Truth in Advertising with No False Catholic Labels
An analysis of the CINOP (Catholic-in-name-only-Politician) in this year’s elections: (2006) (CINO rhymes with RINO) Please e-mail to Christian news outlets. Translate into Spanish.
From the Voter’s Guide: California Pro-Life Council: November 2006
The following three questions were asked of the candidates. Their responses are noted.
1. Does the office seeker support the legal protection for unborn children?
2. Does the office seeker support requiring parental consent before an abortion can be performed on a minor child?
3. Does the office seeker oppose efforts promoting a state policy of euthanasia such as “physician assisted suicide”?
The following CINOPS answered No to the above three questions: You will recognize their names: Jerry Brown, Cruz Bustamante, and Lou Correa. Here are some of the Congressional Office Holders. Mike Thompson, Nancy Pelosi, Ellen Tauscher, Anna Eshoo, Hilda Solis, Lucille Roybal- Allard, Grace Napolitano, Linda Chavez, Joe Baca, and Loretta Sanchez. By the way, these CINOP’s in Congress have also voted in the past for Partial Birth Abortions.
These candidates are with the Democratic Party that is opposed to Proposition 85, The Parents’ Right to know and Child Protection Ballot Initiative. If this measure fails to pass again, you can understand why. This is a horrendous scandal to our Catholic Faith. Many nominal Catholics are not grounded in their faith. They have become converts to secular humanism. Pro-abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, embryonic-stem-cell research and gay agenda are the CINOP’s False Religion. The CINOP concern for the poor is a Cop-Out.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate in Spanish and Vietnamese
Thursday, February 21, 2008
J.P. II's Catholic Laity - 3 - The World needs your Testimony
J.P. II’s Catholic Laity- 3 - The World needs your Testimony
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Thurs. Feb. 21, 2008
The world today needs to see your love for Christ; it needs public testimony of the religious life: as Paul VI once said: ‘Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he listens to teachers he does so because they are witnesses.’
If the nonbelievers of this world are to believe in Christ, they need your faithful testimony – testimony that springs from your complete trust in the generous mercy of the Father and in your enduring faith in the power of the cross and the resurrection.
Thus the ideals, the values, the convictions that are the basis of your dedication to Christ must be translated into the language of daily life. Among the people of God, in the local ecclesial community, your public testimony is part of your contribution to the mission of the Church.
As St. Paul says: ‘You are a letter from Christ … written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but tablets of human hearts.’ Philippines, February 17, 1981
The above are significant excerpts from a book” The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II – a Life in Prayer, Atria Books, N.Y., London, Toronto, Sydney, 2005
The Mind and Heart of Pope John Paul II:
Better equipped than anyone else for the close combat of controversy, the Holy Father detests polemics and their summary classifications. It is true that heaven has endowed him with two charismata which dispense him from becoming involved in our wretched disputes.
The first is the ability to act by his presence alone, as everyone could see on the day of his enthronement when, before he had said more than three words, diplomats were to be seen weeping in their official seats – a phenomenon as rare as April showers in the Sahara.
When there is a difference of opinion in the Church, he gets the opponents together, sits down at the end of the table and the problems disappears. This has been seen at certain synods which promised to be stormy and finished as peaceful sunsets, everyone having realized, under the Pope’s gaze, that the person opposite also had his reasons, not all of them bad.
Another gift – which also make him the man he is – is the ability to go back to first causes, far back into history or deep into theology. The reader will have noticed more than once in the preceding pages that the Pope never hesitates to back to Genesis or beyond and deduce consequences far ahead in the future. 78-9
The above from the book, “Be Not Afraid!” Pope John Paul II speaks out on his life, His beliefs, and his inspiring vision for humanity, Andre Frossard and Pope John Paul II, First published in Great Britain in 1984 by the Bodley Head Ltd.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Thurs. Feb. 21, 2008
The world today needs to see your love for Christ; it needs public testimony of the religious life: as Paul VI once said: ‘Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he listens to teachers he does so because they are witnesses.’
If the nonbelievers of this world are to believe in Christ, they need your faithful testimony – testimony that springs from your complete trust in the generous mercy of the Father and in your enduring faith in the power of the cross and the resurrection.
Thus the ideals, the values, the convictions that are the basis of your dedication to Christ must be translated into the language of daily life. Among the people of God, in the local ecclesial community, your public testimony is part of your contribution to the mission of the Church.
As St. Paul says: ‘You are a letter from Christ … written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but tablets of human hearts.’ Philippines, February 17, 1981
The above are significant excerpts from a book” The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II – a Life in Prayer, Atria Books, N.Y., London, Toronto, Sydney, 2005
The Mind and Heart of Pope John Paul II:
Better equipped than anyone else for the close combat of controversy, the Holy Father detests polemics and their summary classifications. It is true that heaven has endowed him with two charismata which dispense him from becoming involved in our wretched disputes.
The first is the ability to act by his presence alone, as everyone could see on the day of his enthronement when, before he had said more than three words, diplomats were to be seen weeping in their official seats – a phenomenon as rare as April showers in the Sahara.
When there is a difference of opinion in the Church, he gets the opponents together, sits down at the end of the table and the problems disappears. This has been seen at certain synods which promised to be stormy and finished as peaceful sunsets, everyone having realized, under the Pope’s gaze, that the person opposite also had his reasons, not all of them bad.
Another gift – which also make him the man he is – is the ability to go back to first causes, far back into history or deep into theology. The reader will have noticed more than once in the preceding pages that the Pope never hesitates to back to Genesis or beyond and deduce consequences far ahead in the future. 78-9
The above from the book, “Be Not Afraid!” Pope John Paul II speaks out on his life, His beliefs, and his inspiring vision for humanity, Andre Frossard and Pope John Paul II, First published in Great Britain in 1984 by the Bodley Head Ltd.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Useful Idiots or Heretics
Useful Idiots or Heretics
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Wed. Feb. 20, 2008
The purpose of this article and postings on the blog are to understand the mind and heart of a Catholic in name only politician and to inform and persuade you to vote him out of office. The evidence is conclusive that he or she, the CINOP is dangerous not only to the health of our country but to our Catholic Faith. They are the useful idiots for the culture of death. Be aware that the CINOPS in Canada enacted same-sex marriage laws in 2005. And they will do the same thing in the United States once they are reelected. See what happened in Massachusetts.
Let’s go to the article by Hilary White in Toronto, Feb. 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) Ontario Catholic Premier Wants to Scrap the Lord’s Prayer from the Legislature.
Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty said he wants the legislature to ‘move beyond’ the Lord’s Prayer, which is recited daily. He is a Liberal party member and has ordered an all-party committee to be formed to ‘reconsider’ prayer in the legislature. Calling the Lord’s Prayer ‘dated,’ McGuinty, who continues to claim membership in the Catholic Church, said he wants a more ‘inclusive’ practice that better reflects the province’s new multicultural ‘diversity.’
Ontario Catholic author and thinker Michael O’Brien, toldLifeSiteNews.com, ‘At its highest level,’ McGuinty’s effort to ‘move beyond’ the Lord’s Prayer, ‘is not a move for fostering diversity’ but one aimed at the ‘homogenization of identity.’
O’brien said, ‘It is a move towards the slow steady collapse into a generalized ethos of ‘sameness’ which is mistaken for the equality we all treasure in this land.’ Such social philosophies, he said, though they may appear superficially to be about equality, ultimately ‘respect nothing other than the social revolution of worldwide Materialism.’
McGuinty’s recommendation is backed by opposition leader John Tory, and NPD House Leader Peter Komos said his party was ‘intrigued’ by it.
Michael O’Brien warns, however, that this is one small sign of ‘the step-by-step erasure of Canada’s fundamental identity as a Christian nation’ and is ‘emblematic of more to follow.’
‘ Ontario has been and will continue to be, in the vanguard of the deconstruction of the moral order in Canada. Of course, ironically, this latest proposition will be promulgated as a ‘moral’ step forward.’
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Wed. Feb. 20, 2008
The purpose of this article and postings on the blog are to understand the mind and heart of a Catholic in name only politician and to inform and persuade you to vote him out of office. The evidence is conclusive that he or she, the CINOP is dangerous not only to the health of our country but to our Catholic Faith. They are the useful idiots for the culture of death. Be aware that the CINOPS in Canada enacted same-sex marriage laws in 2005. And they will do the same thing in the United States once they are reelected. See what happened in Massachusetts.
Let’s go to the article by Hilary White in Toronto, Feb. 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) Ontario Catholic Premier Wants to Scrap the Lord’s Prayer from the Legislature.
Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty said he wants the legislature to ‘move beyond’ the Lord’s Prayer, which is recited daily. He is a Liberal party member and has ordered an all-party committee to be formed to ‘reconsider’ prayer in the legislature. Calling the Lord’s Prayer ‘dated,’ McGuinty, who continues to claim membership in the Catholic Church, said he wants a more ‘inclusive’ practice that better reflects the province’s new multicultural ‘diversity.’
Ontario Catholic author and thinker Michael O’Brien, toldLifeSiteNews.com, ‘At its highest level,’ McGuinty’s effort to ‘move beyond’ the Lord’s Prayer, ‘is not a move for fostering diversity’ but one aimed at the ‘homogenization of identity.’
O’brien said, ‘It is a move towards the slow steady collapse into a generalized ethos of ‘sameness’ which is mistaken for the equality we all treasure in this land.’ Such social philosophies, he said, though they may appear superficially to be about equality, ultimately ‘respect nothing other than the social revolution of worldwide Materialism.’
McGuinty’s recommendation is backed by opposition leader John Tory, and NPD House Leader Peter Komos said his party was ‘intrigued’ by it.
Michael O’Brien warns, however, that this is one small sign of ‘the step-by-step erasure of Canada’s fundamental identity as a Christian nation’ and is ‘emblematic of more to follow.’
‘ Ontario has been and will continue to be, in the vanguard of the deconstruction of the moral order in Canada. Of course, ironically, this latest proposition will be promulgated as a ‘moral’ step forward.’
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
J.P. II's Catholic Laity - 2 - We have to be for Others
J.P. II’s Catholic Laity – 2- We Have to be for Others
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008
The following are significant excerpts from a book: The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II – a Life in Prayer, Atria Books, N.Y., London, Toronto, Sydney, 2005
“OUR TIMES REQUIRE MATURE AND BALANCED PERSONALITIES.
Ideological confusion produces psychologically immature needy personalities; pedagogy itself wavers and sometimes goes astray. For this very reason, the modern world searches anxiously for models, and most of the time remains disappointed, defeated, humiliated. That is why we have to develop mature personalities, which means learning to keep our selfishness in check, assuming proper roles of responsibilities and leadership, and trying to fulfill ourselves wherever we are and in whatever work we do.
Our times require serenity and courage to accept reality as it is without discouraging criticisms or utopian fantasies, to love it and to save it.
All of you, then, undertake to reach these ideals of ‘maturity,’ through love of duty, meditation, spiritual reading, examination of your conscience, spiritual guidance, and regular use of the Sacrament of Repentance. The Church and modern society need mature personalities: we must fill that need, with the help of God!
FINALLY, OUR TIMES REQUIRE A SERIOUS COMMITMENT TO HOLINESS.
The spiritual needs of the present world are immense! It is almost frightening to look at the infinite forests of buildings in a modern metropolis, inhabited by countless numbers of people. How will we be able to reach all these people and lead them to Christ?
The certainty that we are merely instruments of grace comes to our aid: acting in the individual soul is God himself, with his love and mercy.
Our true, lifelong commitment must be to personal sanctification, so that we may be fit and efficacious instruments of grace.
The truest and most sincere wish I have for you is just this: ‘Become holy and soon be saints!” St. Pio V Parish, October 28, 1979
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008
The following are significant excerpts from a book: The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II – a Life in Prayer, Atria Books, N.Y., London, Toronto, Sydney, 2005
“OUR TIMES REQUIRE MATURE AND BALANCED PERSONALITIES.
Ideological confusion produces psychologically immature needy personalities; pedagogy itself wavers and sometimes goes astray. For this very reason, the modern world searches anxiously for models, and most of the time remains disappointed, defeated, humiliated. That is why we have to develop mature personalities, which means learning to keep our selfishness in check, assuming proper roles of responsibilities and leadership, and trying to fulfill ourselves wherever we are and in whatever work we do.
Our times require serenity and courage to accept reality as it is without discouraging criticisms or utopian fantasies, to love it and to save it.
All of you, then, undertake to reach these ideals of ‘maturity,’ through love of duty, meditation, spiritual reading, examination of your conscience, spiritual guidance, and regular use of the Sacrament of Repentance. The Church and modern society need mature personalities: we must fill that need, with the help of God!
FINALLY, OUR TIMES REQUIRE A SERIOUS COMMITMENT TO HOLINESS.
The spiritual needs of the present world are immense! It is almost frightening to look at the infinite forests of buildings in a modern metropolis, inhabited by countless numbers of people. How will we be able to reach all these people and lead them to Christ?
The certainty that we are merely instruments of grace comes to our aid: acting in the individual soul is God himself, with his love and mercy.
Our true, lifelong commitment must be to personal sanctification, so that we may be fit and efficacious instruments of grace.
The truest and most sincere wish I have for you is just this: ‘Become holy and soon be saints!” St. Pio V Parish, October 28, 1979
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
Monday, February 18, 2008
J.P. II's Catholic Laity - 1 - a Chosen People
J.P. II’s Catholic Laity – 1 – a Chosen People
www.cinopsbegone.blogsport.com/ Monday, Feb. 18, 2008
“You are called on to take up your role in the evangelization of the world. Yes, the laity are a ‘chosen people, a holy priesthood.’ They are called on to be ‘the salt of the earth’ and ‘the light of the world.’
It is their vocation and their unique mission to manifest the Gospel in their lives and also to add it as leaven to the world in which they live and work.
The great force that rules the world – in politics, mass media, science, technology, culture, education, industry, and work – represent precisely the areas in which lay people are competent to carry out their mission.
If these forces are controlled by people who are true disciples of Christ and whose knowledge and talents make them, at the same time, experts in their particular field, then the world will truly be changed from within by the redeeming power of Christ.” August 28, 1980
The above are excerpts from a book: The Private Prayers of POPE JOHN PAUL II a LIFE IN PRAYER, Atria Books, N.Y., London, Toronto, Sydney, 2005
Pope Benedict’s Co-Workers of the Truth
When the murder of innocent life is called a right, then injustice has become justice. When the law can no longer protect human life, it is suspect as law. Saying this does not mean wanting to impose specifically Christian morality on all members of a pluralistic society.
What is in question here is human nature, the humanity of a person who cannot make the trampling on a created being a means of self-liberation without profoundly deceiving himself.
The vehemence of the dispute over this question is due to the profundity of the question that is being discussed. Do we become free only when we have cut ourselves loose from creation and have cast it off as enslavement? … In the last analysis, the battle being waged is about man as such, and from that we Christians cannot dispense ourselves….
In the anxious attempt to obstruct the path of new human life as silently and as surely as possible, can we not detect a deep anxiety about the future?... On the one hand, this anxiety emanates, no doubt, from the fact that the free gift of life does not seem meaningful to us because we have lost the gift of its meaning; there is evident a despair about one’s own life that makes us unwilling to impose on others the dark way of humanity. On the other hand, we see exemplified here clearly and simply a fear of competition, a fear of the curtailment the other may invariably be for me. The other, he who is to come, becomes a threat.
True love is death, an obliteration of oneself before and for the other. But we have no desire for death. We want only to be ourselves and lead lives as free as possible from sharing and disturbance…. Feb. 15th entry.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
www.cinopsbegone.blogsport.com/ Monday, Feb. 18, 2008
“You are called on to take up your role in the evangelization of the world. Yes, the laity are a ‘chosen people, a holy priesthood.’ They are called on to be ‘the salt of the earth’ and ‘the light of the world.’
It is their vocation and their unique mission to manifest the Gospel in their lives and also to add it as leaven to the world in which they live and work.
The great force that rules the world – in politics, mass media, science, technology, culture, education, industry, and work – represent precisely the areas in which lay people are competent to carry out their mission.
If these forces are controlled by people who are true disciples of Christ and whose knowledge and talents make them, at the same time, experts in their particular field, then the world will truly be changed from within by the redeeming power of Christ.” August 28, 1980
The above are excerpts from a book: The Private Prayers of POPE JOHN PAUL II a LIFE IN PRAYER, Atria Books, N.Y., London, Toronto, Sydney, 2005
Pope Benedict’s Co-Workers of the Truth
When the murder of innocent life is called a right, then injustice has become justice. When the law can no longer protect human life, it is suspect as law. Saying this does not mean wanting to impose specifically Christian morality on all members of a pluralistic society.
What is in question here is human nature, the humanity of a person who cannot make the trampling on a created being a means of self-liberation without profoundly deceiving himself.
The vehemence of the dispute over this question is due to the profundity of the question that is being discussed. Do we become free only when we have cut ourselves loose from creation and have cast it off as enslavement? … In the last analysis, the battle being waged is about man as such, and from that we Christians cannot dispense ourselves….
In the anxious attempt to obstruct the path of new human life as silently and as surely as possible, can we not detect a deep anxiety about the future?... On the one hand, this anxiety emanates, no doubt, from the fact that the free gift of life does not seem meaningful to us because we have lost the gift of its meaning; there is evident a despair about one’s own life that makes us unwilling to impose on others the dark way of humanity. On the other hand, we see exemplified here clearly and simply a fear of competition, a fear of the curtailment the other may invariably be for me. The other, he who is to come, becomes a threat.
True love is death, an obliteration of oneself before and for the other. But we have no desire for death. We want only to be ourselves and lead lives as free as possible from sharing and disturbance…. Feb. 15th entry.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Coping with the Culture of Death
Coping with the Culture of Death
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com , Sunday, Feb.17, 2008
It was Pope John Paul II who coined the term Culture of Death. In section 50 of his Encyclical, The Gospel of Life March 25. 1995 “Today, we find ourselves in the midst of a dramatic conflict between the ‘culture of death’ and the ‘culture of life.’ This pope is the role model for this blog. St. Thomas More is also our model and patron.
On the mercilessly hot morning of August 15, 1993, the Feast of the Assumption, Pope John Paul II summed up in his own words his own distress over the present state of the world as he addressed a half million young people gathered at Cherry Creek State Park near Denver for World Youth Day:
“A ‘CULTURE OF DEATH’ seeks to impose itself on our desire to live and live to the full. There are those who reject the light of life, preferring the fruitless works of darkness.’ Their harvest is injustice, discrimination, exploitation, deceit, violence. In every age, a measure of their apparent success is the death of innocents. In our century, as no other time in history, the ‘culture of death’ has assumed a social and institutional form of legality to justify the most horrific crimes against humanity: genocide, ‘final solutions,’ ‘ethnic cleansings’ and the massive taking of lives of human beings even before they are born of before they reach they are born or before they reach the natural point of death…. Vast sectors of society are confused about what is right and what is wrong, and are at the mercy of those with the power to ‘create’ opinion and impose it on others.”
The evening before, during the prayer vigil at the park, the pope expressed grave warnings to his audience.
“Christ, the Good Shepherd … sees so many young people throwing away their lives a flight into irresponsibility and falsehood. Drug and alcohol abuse, pornography and sexual disorder, violence: these are grave social problems which call for a social response from the whole of society, within each country and on the international level…. In a technological culture in which people are used to dominating matter, discovering its laws and mechanism in order to transform it according to their wishes, the danger arises of also wanting to manipulate conscience and its demands. In a culture which holds that no universal valid truth is possible, nothing is absolute. Therefore, in the end – they say – objective goodness and evil no longer matter. Good comes to mean what is pleasing or useful at a particular moment. Evil means what contradicts our subjective wishes. Each person can build a private system of values.
The above are excerpts from the book: The Private Prayers of POPE JOHN PAUL II a LIFE IN PRAYER, Atria Books, N. Y., London, Toronto, Sydney, 2005
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com , Sunday, Feb.17, 2008
It was Pope John Paul II who coined the term Culture of Death. In section 50 of his Encyclical, The Gospel of Life March 25. 1995 “Today, we find ourselves in the midst of a dramatic conflict between the ‘culture of death’ and the ‘culture of life.’ This pope is the role model for this blog. St. Thomas More is also our model and patron.
On the mercilessly hot morning of August 15, 1993, the Feast of the Assumption, Pope John Paul II summed up in his own words his own distress over the present state of the world as he addressed a half million young people gathered at Cherry Creek State Park near Denver for World Youth Day:
“A ‘CULTURE OF DEATH’ seeks to impose itself on our desire to live and live to the full. There are those who reject the light of life, preferring the fruitless works of darkness.’ Their harvest is injustice, discrimination, exploitation, deceit, violence. In every age, a measure of their apparent success is the death of innocents. In our century, as no other time in history, the ‘culture of death’ has assumed a social and institutional form of legality to justify the most horrific crimes against humanity: genocide, ‘final solutions,’ ‘ethnic cleansings’ and the massive taking of lives of human beings even before they are born of before they reach they are born or before they reach the natural point of death…. Vast sectors of society are confused about what is right and what is wrong, and are at the mercy of those with the power to ‘create’ opinion and impose it on others.”
The evening before, during the prayer vigil at the park, the pope expressed grave warnings to his audience.
“Christ, the Good Shepherd … sees so many young people throwing away their lives a flight into irresponsibility and falsehood. Drug and alcohol abuse, pornography and sexual disorder, violence: these are grave social problems which call for a social response from the whole of society, within each country and on the international level…. In a technological culture in which people are used to dominating matter, discovering its laws and mechanism in order to transform it according to their wishes, the danger arises of also wanting to manipulate conscience and its demands. In a culture which holds that no universal valid truth is possible, nothing is absolute. Therefore, in the end – they say – objective goodness and evil no longer matter. Good comes to mean what is pleasing or useful at a particular moment. Evil means what contradicts our subjective wishes. Each person can build a private system of values.
The above are excerpts from the book: The Private Prayers of POPE JOHN PAUL II a LIFE IN PRAYER, Atria Books, N. Y., London, Toronto, Sydney, 2005
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Masters of Deceit - 1
Masters of Deceit -1
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Saturday, Feb.16, 2008
It is good to be back. Decades ago I read a book by Whittaker Chambers called The Witness. It dealt with the struggle going on in the Cold War between Communist Russia and the United States. The book was required reading by most government officials and the FBI. It is a powerful book.
In the book, Whittaker believed that the Communists would win. And we had in America a number of people whom we called fellow travelers. They believed that the Russian Communists would eventually win and that we need to get along with them. They were the useful idiots for the communist party. They believed that in the countries behind the Iron Curtain communism is what the people wanted and voted for. Don’t we see this today in Castro’s communist Cuba? We have these useful idiots around today. Left-wing and anti-war politics is their religion.
The bottom line is that the communists are Masters of Deceit. And in many ways believers in the Culture of Death are Masters of Deceit. They have lots of money, a corrupt news media, the Hollywood culture and the elite academia. They spout out a lot of half-truths and lies. These become part of our culture. This is a big challenge for the pro-life movement. In this culture of death, we have fellow travelers. And whether we like it or not; they are the Catholic-in-name-only politicians. Convert the CINOP back to Catholicism via defeat at the polls.
Another book that I will continue to report on is the one by David Carlin. He is a veteran sociologist, philosophy professor, and author of the Decline and fall of the Catholic Church in America. He comes across as a liberal Catholic politician who supported Eugene McCarthy for President in his book; Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? This book is a pro-life info book & well worth it. It is only $14.95 @ St. Joseph Catholic Books & Gifts, 2829 W. Lincoln, Anaheim, (714) 226-9267, Gaby
Also, we come to a couple of spiritual truths and justice books. One is The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II – A Life in Prayer. Atria Books, New York, London, Sydney, 2005. This book is appropriate for Lent and there are also several important sections on the role of the laity in the public arena.
Finally, on March 25, a new book by Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson will be published. A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World (Harper One) offers a bold blueprint for the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Church in the 21st century
In A Civilization of Love Anderson uses his own experiences as a former White House official, lawyer, educator and current leader of the world’s largest fraternal organization to show how Church teaching can inform and influence society for the better… as articulated by the Second Vatican Council, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. It encourages Catholics to make greater efforts to influence the culture precisely as Catholics.
On line and preorder @ $13.50 before March 20th. www.kofc.org/preorder
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Saturday, Feb.16, 2008
It is good to be back. Decades ago I read a book by Whittaker Chambers called The Witness. It dealt with the struggle going on in the Cold War between Communist Russia and the United States. The book was required reading by most government officials and the FBI. It is a powerful book.
In the book, Whittaker believed that the Communists would win. And we had in America a number of people whom we called fellow travelers. They believed that the Russian Communists would eventually win and that we need to get along with them. They were the useful idiots for the communist party. They believed that in the countries behind the Iron Curtain communism is what the people wanted and voted for. Don’t we see this today in Castro’s communist Cuba? We have these useful idiots around today. Left-wing and anti-war politics is their religion.
The bottom line is that the communists are Masters of Deceit. And in many ways believers in the Culture of Death are Masters of Deceit. They have lots of money, a corrupt news media, the Hollywood culture and the elite academia. They spout out a lot of half-truths and lies. These become part of our culture. This is a big challenge for the pro-life movement. In this culture of death, we have fellow travelers. And whether we like it or not; they are the Catholic-in-name-only politicians. Convert the CINOP back to Catholicism via defeat at the polls.
Another book that I will continue to report on is the one by David Carlin. He is a veteran sociologist, philosophy professor, and author of the Decline and fall of the Catholic Church in America. He comes across as a liberal Catholic politician who supported Eugene McCarthy for President in his book; Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? This book is a pro-life info book & well worth it. It is only $14.95 @ St. Joseph Catholic Books & Gifts, 2829 W. Lincoln, Anaheim, (714) 226-9267, Gaby
Also, we come to a couple of spiritual truths and justice books. One is The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II – A Life in Prayer. Atria Books, New York, London, Sydney, 2005. This book is appropriate for Lent and there are also several important sections on the role of the laity in the public arena.
Finally, on March 25, a new book by Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson will be published. A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World (Harper One) offers a bold blueprint for the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Church in the 21st century
In A Civilization of Love Anderson uses his own experiences as a former White House official, lawyer, educator and current leader of the world’s largest fraternal organization to show how Church teaching can inform and influence society for the better… as articulated by the Second Vatican Council, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. It encourages Catholics to make greater efforts to influence the culture precisely as Catholics.
On line and preorder @ $13.50 before March 20th. www.kofc.org/preorder
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Fran Monaghen
Fran Monaghen
Mother of the Year – 2008
Orange County, California
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008
It was an honor to attend this wonderful event for Fran Monaghen at the Holy Spirit Church in Fountain Valley. Fran’s work to protect the unborn goes back 40 years. She was a pioneer and the spokesperson for Msgr. Reilly’s Helpers of God Precious Infants. Almost all the flyers that went out to pray at the abortion sites had her name and telephone number on it.
She was very particular about the Rules of Conduct for Vigil Participants. The Rosary procession vigil is a prayer event. It is not a picket and not a demonstration. We will maintain a prayerful presence the entire time, remaining in a dialogue with God and our Blessed Mother. We will pray the Rosary while driving to the abortion site. When everyone is assembled there, we will begin the fifteen decades of the Rosary. We will sing a hymn between each of the fifteen mysteries. We will continue to pray the Rosary while driving back to the church.
I am looking at a flyer from St. Juliana Falconierie Church in Fullerton for a Vigil for Life on Saturday, November 15, 1996. After the 8 A.M. Mass: Peaceful car caravan to nearby abortion center at Grindlay and Orange in Cypress.
I recall when she was reminding me about having something similar at St. Irenaeus Church when I was a member. And we had a few for the abortion mill was only a few blocks away from the Church. And she was very persuasive with other members in other churches. And that is how most of the prayerful Vigils got started. She was the one person that made the difference.
On Feb. 21, 2001, pro-life succeeded in closing this abortion chamber at Grindlay and Orange. The closing sign read, “The Cypress Facility has closed and will not be relocated.” Thanks be to God!
This special event for Fran was held on Friday, Feb. 1, 2008 6 P.M. There were about 100 participants. The meals were delicious. The speakers gave information which was tough-love truths about the public schools in particular. Thanks to Crusade for Life and affiliates, Respect Life Committee and Knights of Columbus at Holy Spirit Church and many others who worked hard and gave this honor to Fran Monaghen.
She received several recognition awards including one from Bishop Jaime Soto and the annual OLIVE MEEHAN “LIFE AWARD, which reads in part in honor of your outstanding dedication to all human life born and unborn.
God Bless Jan and her family!
George H. Kubeck, pro-life chairman, Knights of Columbus – Fourth Degree, Mission San Juan Capistrano Assembly 0062
P.S. Lent begins tomorrow. It is time to take a ten-day break from news articles on this blog. www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com it’s from Feb. 6th to Feb. 15th, 2008
Mother of the Year – 2008
Orange County, California
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008
It was an honor to attend this wonderful event for Fran Monaghen at the Holy Spirit Church in Fountain Valley. Fran’s work to protect the unborn goes back 40 years. She was a pioneer and the spokesperson for Msgr. Reilly’s Helpers of God Precious Infants. Almost all the flyers that went out to pray at the abortion sites had her name and telephone number on it.
She was very particular about the Rules of Conduct for Vigil Participants. The Rosary procession vigil is a prayer event. It is not a picket and not a demonstration. We will maintain a prayerful presence the entire time, remaining in a dialogue with God and our Blessed Mother. We will pray the Rosary while driving to the abortion site. When everyone is assembled there, we will begin the fifteen decades of the Rosary. We will sing a hymn between each of the fifteen mysteries. We will continue to pray the Rosary while driving back to the church.
I am looking at a flyer from St. Juliana Falconierie Church in Fullerton for a Vigil for Life on Saturday, November 15, 1996. After the 8 A.M. Mass: Peaceful car caravan to nearby abortion center at Grindlay and Orange in Cypress.
I recall when she was reminding me about having something similar at St. Irenaeus Church when I was a member. And we had a few for the abortion mill was only a few blocks away from the Church. And she was very persuasive with other members in other churches. And that is how most of the prayerful Vigils got started. She was the one person that made the difference.
On Feb. 21, 2001, pro-life succeeded in closing this abortion chamber at Grindlay and Orange. The closing sign read, “The Cypress Facility has closed and will not be relocated.” Thanks be to God!
This special event for Fran was held on Friday, Feb. 1, 2008 6 P.M. There were about 100 participants. The meals were delicious. The speakers gave information which was tough-love truths about the public schools in particular. Thanks to Crusade for Life and affiliates, Respect Life Committee and Knights of Columbus at Holy Spirit Church and many others who worked hard and gave this honor to Fran Monaghen.
She received several recognition awards including one from Bishop Jaime Soto and the annual OLIVE MEEHAN “LIFE AWARD, which reads in part in honor of your outstanding dedication to all human life born and unborn.
God Bless Jan and her family!
George H. Kubeck, pro-life chairman, Knights of Columbus – Fourth Degree, Mission San Juan Capistrano Assembly 0062
P.S. Lent begins tomorrow. It is time to take a ten-day break from news articles on this blog. www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com it’s from Feb. 6th to Feb. 15th, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
St. Josemaria Escriva (1902-1975)
St. Josemaria Escriva (1902-1975)
Monday, Feb. 4, 2008
Behold, we have the people’s modern Saint! I am trying to digest the notes from Saturday’s Conference on the above Saint, the founder of Opus Dei and want at this point only to focus on him. The only book I have read that he authored is The Way. Years ago, I reread the book several times. (877-785-6736) www.stjosemariaconference.org
What is extraordinary for the pro-life movement in America is that here is a Saint of the Ordinary. Pope John Paul II on Oct. 6, 2002 called him that. He was canonized that day. When you think of the pro-life movement, we are made up of ordinary people who are trying to do extra-ordinary things in this secular America.
Joemaria had a sense of poignant identity and humor. Three words in Latin translated into Always like a Donkey. He was God’s donkey, needing little, doing a lot, no airs, no facade, and he struggled like many of us. This Saint had beautiful symbolic language. His portrait of the donkey as a small animal that can carry heavy loads, stubborn at times and refuses to botch: As pro-lifers we will never give up.
You find God in the little things and the unimportant things of life. He had many different mottos. For example, from Latin two words: Today, Now! If you can do it now, do it now instead of tomorrow.
Here we have a Saint of the Ordinary for all time. How Beautiful! Father Paul Donlan recalls the time the Saint blessed the last stone where Opus Dei resides in Rome. We were there for the last time, Jan, 9, 1960 and the Saint had these words inscribed on the brick, The End is Better than the Beginning. The importance of finishing things, to persevere as the Saints: To finish counts most.
And this is also the goal of the U.S. pro-life movement.
On one Jan. 9th, there was a birthday party for the future saint. Everyone was gathered around. When asked why he was so happy? Well, it is because he made a good examination of conscience and many acts of contrition.
He was as he was. Reflecting on the passing things of this world and how we become Saints in the ordinary things of life. God spawned a new spirituality.
At one time there was a viewing of a Blessed Damian film. And with a booming voice he said. There is a great deal of leprosy today, the leprosy of religious ignorance, of the human mind as regards to God, the human mind and the Catholic Church. For pro-life it is the leprosy scandal of Catholic-in-name-only Politicians.
Let’s vote out the CINOP candidates from their high horse; and as they fall to the ground may they come to their senses? May they have a conversion that can even influence our own conversion? Nothing is impossible with God for as we enter the pearly gates of heaven we have Lou Correa and Loretta Sanchez as our brother and sister. This would be in the spirit of St. Jose Maria Escriva.
The leprosy of uninformed voters is our biggest challenge in 2008 and in the country. Can we count on you to participate in that challenge?
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Monday, Feb. 4, 2008
Behold, we have the people’s modern Saint! I am trying to digest the notes from Saturday’s Conference on the above Saint, the founder of Opus Dei and want at this point only to focus on him. The only book I have read that he authored is The Way. Years ago, I reread the book several times. (877-785-6736) www.stjosemariaconference.org
What is extraordinary for the pro-life movement in America is that here is a Saint of the Ordinary. Pope John Paul II on Oct. 6, 2002 called him that. He was canonized that day. When you think of the pro-life movement, we are made up of ordinary people who are trying to do extra-ordinary things in this secular America.
Joemaria had a sense of poignant identity and humor. Three words in Latin translated into Always like a Donkey. He was God’s donkey, needing little, doing a lot, no airs, no facade, and he struggled like many of us. This Saint had beautiful symbolic language. His portrait of the donkey as a small animal that can carry heavy loads, stubborn at times and refuses to botch: As pro-lifers we will never give up.
You find God in the little things and the unimportant things of life. He had many different mottos. For example, from Latin two words: Today, Now! If you can do it now, do it now instead of tomorrow.
Here we have a Saint of the Ordinary for all time. How Beautiful! Father Paul Donlan recalls the time the Saint blessed the last stone where Opus Dei resides in Rome. We were there for the last time, Jan, 9, 1960 and the Saint had these words inscribed on the brick, The End is Better than the Beginning. The importance of finishing things, to persevere as the Saints: To finish counts most.
And this is also the goal of the U.S. pro-life movement.
On one Jan. 9th, there was a birthday party for the future saint. Everyone was gathered around. When asked why he was so happy? Well, it is because he made a good examination of conscience and many acts of contrition.
He was as he was. Reflecting on the passing things of this world and how we become Saints in the ordinary things of life. God spawned a new spirituality.
At one time there was a viewing of a Blessed Damian film. And with a booming voice he said. There is a great deal of leprosy today, the leprosy of religious ignorance, of the human mind as regards to God, the human mind and the Catholic Church. For pro-life it is the leprosy scandal of Catholic-in-name-only Politicians.
Let’s vote out the CINOP candidates from their high horse; and as they fall to the ground may they come to their senses? May they have a conversion that can even influence our own conversion? Nothing is impossible with God for as we enter the pearly gates of heaven we have Lou Correa and Loretta Sanchez as our brother and sister. This would be in the spirit of St. Jose Maria Escriva.
The leprosy of uninformed voters is our biggest challenge in 2008 and in the country. Can we count on you to participate in that challenge?
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
The Campaign Trail of 11-06 # 3
The Campaign Trail Report of Nov. 7, 2006 # 3
Today’s letter is as informative as it was on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006 –Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008
A 1965 Vatican II document on The Apostolate of the Laity obligates the laity to speak out particularly in a time of crisis. The Apostolicam Actuaositatem was solemnly promulgated by His Holiness Pope Paul VI on November 18, 1965.
“15. The laity can engage in their apostolic activity either as individuals or together as members of various groups or associations.
“17. There is a very urgent need for this individual apostolate in those regions where the freedom of the Church is seriously infringed. In these trying circumstances, the laity does what they can to take the place of priests, risking their freedom and sometimes their life to teach Christian doctrine to those around them,”…
What should we do about the abortion issue? We have been told to pray. That is a good answer. But the best answer is to pray the Rosary for the CINOP (Catholic-in-name-only- Politician) and vote for his defeat at election time.
The CINOP is the leader of a false Catholic-in-name-only-Religion in America. Thanks to the CINOP in Canada, the Catholic Church there is a basket case. I don’t want the Church in California or Massachusetts to be a basket case.
The CINOP’s pro-abortion position is just the tip of the iceberg. He is for 5 other
Absolute evils in our Catholic Faith. They are assisted suicide, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem cell research, and the gay agenda for our Public Schools. (In California, we saw this gay agenda assault during this past summer from the Legislature.)
The clever Cop-Out of the CINOP is that he has an Option for the Poor. Was this not one of Jesus’ temptations by the Devil? The Democratic Party has also come out with a 2006 Catholic in Alliance for the Common Good in response to the original “Catholic Voter’s Guide” issued by Catholic Answers last year. This false CINOP propaganda is unprecedented in U.S. politics. THERE IS NO CATHOLIC REASON TO VOTE FOR A CINOP IN AMERICA
The CINOP belongs to a political party that is opposed to Proposition 85, the Parents’ Right to know and Child Protection Ballot Initiative. We need to get a huge majority in Orange County to overcome the vote of CINOP Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco area. We have many CINOPS running for office in California. They confuse and make fools of Catholic voters.
If the Democratic Party wants to be the vanguard of the Secular Progressives and commit suicide as a political party that is a tragedy. It has cut itself off from its roots. Nobody really wants a Pseudo-European Party in America. You don’t have to read, David Carlin’s Book, Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? How the Party I Loved Became the Enemy of My Religion to understand what is going on. Without doubt, there is a crisis in Catholic Laity Leadership to inform and to speak out.
The most powerful voter is the informed Catholic voter. As we move along with this voice crying in the wilderness, you decide. The truth hurts and will make you uncomfortable. We need to get rid of contrived optimism, political and religious correctness. These attitudes or positions are obsolete in the kind of America we are living in and fighting for. The CINOP is a fellow traveler for the Culture of Death. If he is not defeated the first time, we will get him or her the next time. Whose side are you on? Vote No on any CINOP on your U.S.A. ballot.
Let me end with a couple of incidentals. The immediate question to ask is, “Are you registered to vote for proposition 85?” Ideally, everyone attending Mass should be registered to vote. At Church, we hear and read the phrase Abortion Clinic. Cross out the word Clinic and mark in or say Site, Facility or Chamber (Death). We are looking for truth in advertising and reporting.
-Update: More than 600 of the thousand projected campaign flyers have been distributed. The rest will be distributed in the neighborhoods adjoining the St. Polycarp Catholic Church. There are five cultural information flyers, and they will be expanded for the next 2008 election. Father Frank Pavone has a Voting with a Clear Conscience Guide on www.priestsforlife.org.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
Today’s letter is as informative as it was on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006 –Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008
A 1965 Vatican II document on The Apostolate of the Laity obligates the laity to speak out particularly in a time of crisis. The Apostolicam Actuaositatem was solemnly promulgated by His Holiness Pope Paul VI on November 18, 1965.
“15. The laity can engage in their apostolic activity either as individuals or together as members of various groups or associations.
“17. There is a very urgent need for this individual apostolate in those regions where the freedom of the Church is seriously infringed. In these trying circumstances, the laity does what they can to take the place of priests, risking their freedom and sometimes their life to teach Christian doctrine to those around them,”…
What should we do about the abortion issue? We have been told to pray. That is a good answer. But the best answer is to pray the Rosary for the CINOP (Catholic-in-name-only- Politician) and vote for his defeat at election time.
The CINOP is the leader of a false Catholic-in-name-only-Religion in America. Thanks to the CINOP in Canada, the Catholic Church there is a basket case. I don’t want the Church in California or Massachusetts to be a basket case.
The CINOP’s pro-abortion position is just the tip of the iceberg. He is for 5 other
Absolute evils in our Catholic Faith. They are assisted suicide, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem cell research, and the gay agenda for our Public Schools. (In California, we saw this gay agenda assault during this past summer from the Legislature.)
The clever Cop-Out of the CINOP is that he has an Option for the Poor. Was this not one of Jesus’ temptations by the Devil? The Democratic Party has also come out with a 2006 Catholic in Alliance for the Common Good in response to the original “Catholic Voter’s Guide” issued by Catholic Answers last year. This false CINOP propaganda is unprecedented in U.S. politics. THERE IS NO CATHOLIC REASON TO VOTE FOR A CINOP IN AMERICA
The CINOP belongs to a political party that is opposed to Proposition 85, the Parents’ Right to know and Child Protection Ballot Initiative. We need to get a huge majority in Orange County to overcome the vote of CINOP Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco area. We have many CINOPS running for office in California. They confuse and make fools of Catholic voters.
If the Democratic Party wants to be the vanguard of the Secular Progressives and commit suicide as a political party that is a tragedy. It has cut itself off from its roots. Nobody really wants a Pseudo-European Party in America. You don’t have to read, David Carlin’s Book, Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? How the Party I Loved Became the Enemy of My Religion to understand what is going on. Without doubt, there is a crisis in Catholic Laity Leadership to inform and to speak out.
The most powerful voter is the informed Catholic voter. As we move along with this voice crying in the wilderness, you decide. The truth hurts and will make you uncomfortable. We need to get rid of contrived optimism, political and religious correctness. These attitudes or positions are obsolete in the kind of America we are living in and fighting for. The CINOP is a fellow traveler for the Culture of Death. If he is not defeated the first time, we will get him or her the next time. Whose side are you on? Vote No on any CINOP on your U.S.A. ballot.
Let me end with a couple of incidentals. The immediate question to ask is, “Are you registered to vote for proposition 85?” Ideally, everyone attending Mass should be registered to vote. At Church, we hear and read the phrase Abortion Clinic. Cross out the word Clinic and mark in or say Site, Facility or Chamber (Death). We are looking for truth in advertising and reporting.
-Update: More than 600 of the thousand projected campaign flyers have been distributed. The rest will be distributed in the neighborhoods adjoining the St. Polycarp Catholic Church. There are five cultural information flyers, and they will be expanded for the next 2008 election. Father Frank Pavone has a Voting with a Clear Conscience Guide on www.priestsforlife.org.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese
Saturday, February 2, 2008
The Seven Sacraments of Secularism!
The Seven Sacraments of Secularism
By Rockford’s Bishop Thomas Doran
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008
The above is a classic. It is one of the five flyers (total of 1,000) passed out prior to the O6 election informing voters on the Catholic-in-name only politicians Loretta Sanchez and Lou Correa in Orange County. An excellent flyer for the 08 election:
“Reaping the whirlwind of abortion: I want to touch on this matter before we get too close to the November madness…. We know, for instance, that adherence of one political party would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people.
“The seven ‘Sacraments’ of their secular culture are abortion, buggery, (sodomy), contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic experimentation and mutilation. These things they unabashedly espouse profess and promote. Their continuance in office is a clear and present danger to our survival as a nation….
“What we have to remember is that violence breeds violence. When we tolerate unjust attacks upon the tiniest innocents among us, we habituate ourselves to violence. And so we have allowed these barbaric practices to corrupt our laws, our medical practice, and even our ordinary lives. How accustomed we have become to the immense loss of life in our wars throughout the world!
“It is true what the theologians have said, that sin darkens the intellect, and weakens the will. Having sown the wind of abortion we now reap the whirlwind. This appears in every quarter of our culture and on every day. And: that just from the first of the ‘sacraments of death’ of our secular human culture.
“The toleration of sexual perversions among inverts, widespread contraception, easy access to ‘no fault’ divorce, the killing of the elderly, radical feminism, embryonic stem cell research – all of these things defile and debase our human nature and our human destiny….
“It is the duty of every Catholic to support the work of the parish Pro-Life directors and commissions and to work for the extirpation from our society of all those who in any way foster or promote these things. I wholeheartedly endorse the activities of our Pro-Life Office in the sure and certain knowledge that divine justice will not allow those who act against human life to prosper.
“These unholy sacraments of our secular culture are the seeds of the destruction of our nation.
“Think for yourself: what nation that kills its young, perverts marriage, prevents new life, and destroys the family, kills those deemed useless, makes the war of the sexes into a real war, and manipulates the genetic basis of human nature, can long endure?”
The above are excerpts of a newspaper column by Bishop Thomas Doran. Refer to E-mail http://home.newadvent.org /2006/08/the_seven_sacra.html.
(Duplicate and or translate into Spanish, Vietnamese and all other languages.)
George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 579, Stanton, Ca. U.S.A. 90680
Posted today on www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/
By Rockford’s Bishop Thomas Doran
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008
The above is a classic. It is one of the five flyers (total of 1,000) passed out prior to the O6 election informing voters on the Catholic-in-name only politicians Loretta Sanchez and Lou Correa in Orange County. An excellent flyer for the 08 election:
“Reaping the whirlwind of abortion: I want to touch on this matter before we get too close to the November madness…. We know, for instance, that adherence of one political party would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people.
“The seven ‘Sacraments’ of their secular culture are abortion, buggery, (sodomy), contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic experimentation and mutilation. These things they unabashedly espouse profess and promote. Their continuance in office is a clear and present danger to our survival as a nation….
“What we have to remember is that violence breeds violence. When we tolerate unjust attacks upon the tiniest innocents among us, we habituate ourselves to violence. And so we have allowed these barbaric practices to corrupt our laws, our medical practice, and even our ordinary lives. How accustomed we have become to the immense loss of life in our wars throughout the world!
“It is true what the theologians have said, that sin darkens the intellect, and weakens the will. Having sown the wind of abortion we now reap the whirlwind. This appears in every quarter of our culture and on every day. And: that just from the first of the ‘sacraments of death’ of our secular human culture.
“The toleration of sexual perversions among inverts, widespread contraception, easy access to ‘no fault’ divorce, the killing of the elderly, radical feminism, embryonic stem cell research – all of these things defile and debase our human nature and our human destiny….
“It is the duty of every Catholic to support the work of the parish Pro-Life directors and commissions and to work for the extirpation from our society of all those who in any way foster or promote these things. I wholeheartedly endorse the activities of our Pro-Life Office in the sure and certain knowledge that divine justice will not allow those who act against human life to prosper.
“These unholy sacraments of our secular culture are the seeds of the destruction of our nation.
“Think for yourself: what nation that kills its young, perverts marriage, prevents new life, and destroys the family, kills those deemed useless, makes the war of the sexes into a real war, and manipulates the genetic basis of human nature, can long endure?”
The above are excerpts of a newspaper column by Bishop Thomas Doran. Refer to E-mail http://home.newadvent.org /2006/08/the_seven_sacra.html.
(Duplicate and or translate into Spanish, Vietnamese and all other languages.)
George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 579, Stanton, Ca. U.S.A. 90680
Posted today on www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/
Friday, February 1, 2008
George Washington - Model of Christian Virtue
George Washington- Model of Christian Virtue
Friday, Feb. 1, 2008
Thanks to Historian Peter A. Liliback, Ph.D. we have an article titled the above which appeared in the American Family Association, monthly Publication Journal February, 2008, www.AFAJOURNAL.ORG It is a disturbing analysis.
“In these politically correct times, George Washington isn’t the hero he once was…. New Jersey, in fact, issued new history standards a few years ago that omitted any mention of Washington….
Washington’s stature has diminished so much that a recent Washington College Poll found that Americans had a higher respect for Bill Clinton’s job performance as president than they did for George Washington.
As we once again approach his birthday, it’s time to rediscover Washington, the role model.
From his earliest childhood, through his youth, military career, political career and retirement, Washington was a model of Christian virtues – strength and humility, servant hood and leadership, principles and forgiveness.
A man of character: “First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life.” Maj. General Henry Lee said at Washington’s funeral. “Pious, just, humane, temperate and sincere, uniform, dignified and commanding, his example was edifying to all around him, as were the effects of that example lasting.”…
As Washington’s army suffered defeat after humiliating defeat on the road to Yorktown, he refused to give up and inspired others to do the same. When all seemed lost in the cold and deprivation if Valley Forge, his example galvanized his beleaguered army.
When the war was over, Washington merely desired to be left alone on his Virginia farm. But a group of officers, disenchantment with Congress for its failure to pay the Army, wanted him to become king. He refused.
Washington said he had “no lust” for power. After serving one term as president, he reluctantly agreed to serve a second….
When King George III of England heard that Washington had willingly relinquished power after the war, he said, “If true, then he is the greatest man in the world.”…
Washington was not a saint: he owned slaves, for example. And he had to learn to keep deep passions under control and master a quick temper….
After Washington died, the Duke of Wellington, an enemy, said Washington had “the purest and noblest character of modern times – possibly of all time.”
WASHINGTON’S SELFLESS VIRTUES DO NOT PLAY WELL IN OUR LOOK-AT-ME AGE. THE HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARE BEING RELEGATED TO THE MARGINS OF HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY COURSES, AND WE MUST MAKE SURE THAT WASHINGTON IS NOT THE NEXT TO HIT HISTORY’S TRASH BIN. HIS VIRTUES ARE GREATLY NEED TODAY, AS WELL AS TOMORROW, FOR THEY NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE.”
Our politically correct culture does not appreciate character, virtue or Christian beliefs. At the core we have a religious conflict of believers and unbelievers. Fortunately, L.A. and Orange County believers can be nourished with A Lenten Retreat coming up on Sat. Feb. 9, 08. It is free with 5 great speakers. Register at www.spcomv.com
George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 579, Stanton, Calif. U.S.A. 90680
Friday, Feb. 1, 2008
Thanks to Historian Peter A. Liliback, Ph.D. we have an article titled the above which appeared in the American Family Association, monthly Publication Journal February, 2008, www.AFAJOURNAL.ORG It is a disturbing analysis.
“In these politically correct times, George Washington isn’t the hero he once was…. New Jersey, in fact, issued new history standards a few years ago that omitted any mention of Washington….
Washington’s stature has diminished so much that a recent Washington College Poll found that Americans had a higher respect for Bill Clinton’s job performance as president than they did for George Washington.
As we once again approach his birthday, it’s time to rediscover Washington, the role model.
From his earliest childhood, through his youth, military career, political career and retirement, Washington was a model of Christian virtues – strength and humility, servant hood and leadership, principles and forgiveness.
A man of character: “First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life.” Maj. General Henry Lee said at Washington’s funeral. “Pious, just, humane, temperate and sincere, uniform, dignified and commanding, his example was edifying to all around him, as were the effects of that example lasting.”…
As Washington’s army suffered defeat after humiliating defeat on the road to Yorktown, he refused to give up and inspired others to do the same. When all seemed lost in the cold and deprivation if Valley Forge, his example galvanized his beleaguered army.
When the war was over, Washington merely desired to be left alone on his Virginia farm. But a group of officers, disenchantment with Congress for its failure to pay the Army, wanted him to become king. He refused.
Washington said he had “no lust” for power. After serving one term as president, he reluctantly agreed to serve a second….
When King George III of England heard that Washington had willingly relinquished power after the war, he said, “If true, then he is the greatest man in the world.”…
Washington was not a saint: he owned slaves, for example. And he had to learn to keep deep passions under control and master a quick temper….
After Washington died, the Duke of Wellington, an enemy, said Washington had “the purest and noblest character of modern times – possibly of all time.”
WASHINGTON’S SELFLESS VIRTUES DO NOT PLAY WELL IN OUR LOOK-AT-ME AGE. THE HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARE BEING RELEGATED TO THE MARGINS OF HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY COURSES, AND WE MUST MAKE SURE THAT WASHINGTON IS NOT THE NEXT TO HIT HISTORY’S TRASH BIN. HIS VIRTUES ARE GREATLY NEED TODAY, AS WELL AS TOMORROW, FOR THEY NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE.”
Our politically correct culture does not appreciate character, virtue or Christian beliefs. At the core we have a religious conflict of believers and unbelievers. Fortunately, L.A. and Orange County believers can be nourished with A Lenten Retreat coming up on Sat. Feb. 9, 08. It is free with 5 great speakers. Register at www.spcomv.com
George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 579, Stanton, Calif. U.S.A. 90680
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