Wednesday, December 31, 2008

St. Thomas More - 5

St. Thomas More - 5
The website – cinops be gone – Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008

More’s Early Years – 4 - 38-40

Following the text of the biography, More gives us a greater insight into what interests him about Pico by providing a selection of the Italian humanist’s letters, all of which consists of instructions the Christian spirituality. In these, major themes of More’s own spiritual life readily emerges, as in Pico’s comments on the value of the Scriptures in nourishing the needs of the soul:

“Thou mayest do nothing more pleasant to God, nothing more profitable to thyself, than if thine hand cease not day and night to turn and read the volumes of Holy Scripture. There lieth, privily in them a certain heavenly strength, quick and effectual, which with a marvelous power transformeth and changeth the reader’s mind into the love of God….”

Describing prayer and almsgiving as the two wings with which we are to rise from earth to heaven, Pico advises that we cannot expect God to hear our prayers if we turn a deaf ear to the cries of the poor. If we desire health and protection from the devil, our enemies, and the vicissitudes of this life, and if we wish to make ourselves pleasing to God, let no day pass, Pico recommends, without at least some prayer to the Almighty.

More also translated Pico’s commentary on Psalm 16. The opening words of the psalm, “Preserve me, O God” (v.1), are for Pico an expression of humility, an acknowledgment that the just man is dependent upon God for his virtues, as Saint Paul indicates in asking, “What have you that you did not receive?” Cor.4:7

The last third of More’s edition of the Life of John Picus is taken up with poems that are in large part the translator’s own composition inspired by the ideas of Pico. The first set of verses, “Twelve Rules” of “Spiritual Battle”, treats the soul’s ongoing war with its enemies, the world, the flesh, and the devil. Thus “Seventh Rule” addresses the temptation of taking pride in one’s actions, proposing humility as the antidote”

“Sometime he {the devil} secretly casteth in thy mind,
Some laudable deed to stir thee to pride,
As vainglory maketh many a man blind,
But let humility be thy sure guide,
Thy good work to God let it be applied
Think it not thine, but a gift of his,
Of whose grace undoubtedly all goodness is.”

The Passion of Christ permeates the stanzas of the “Fourth Rule”, which stresses that in resisting each particular temptation, we conform ourselves to a corresponding attribute of Christ in His sufferings:
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In closing, it would be a good idea to look through the eyes of a Thomas More Study Group on American politics and religion. Mark your calendar for Thursday, Jan. 22nd, 2009 from 7 – 9 P.M. @ Haskett Library – 2650 W. Broadway, Anaheim, Ca. Hope to see you there in the New Year. Happy New Year!

George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680-9998

WHO ARE WE AS A PEOPLE? - 2 of 2

Who are we as a People? - 2 of 2

The website – cinops be gone – Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008

Final excerpts from the article in “Intercollegiate Review” Fall/Winter, /05, p. 24-27 Peter Augustine Lawler, "Homeless on "Paradise Drive": 2 Views of Americanization

To be Americanized, for Chesterton, doesn’t mean to be uprooted from history, tradition, culture, and faith, but to be newly rooted as a free and equal citizen. THAT MEANS THAT AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE PERFECTLY FREE TO KEEP THEIR PARTICULAR RELIGIOUS FAITHS AND ALIEN CULTURAL TRADITIONS; THE ONLY ASSIMILATION REQUIRED OF THEM IS POLITICAL.

IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE A CATHOLIC AND AMERICAN IN A WAY THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO BE CATHOLIC AND ENGLISH (BECAUSE OF THEIR ESTABLISHED CHURCH) OR CATHOLIC AND FRENCH (BECAUSE OF THEIR REVOLUTIONARY, ANTI-CLERICAL TRADITION).

Americans, unlike the British or French – are perfectly free to keep their religious faith and to be fully at home as citizens, but finally both anarchism (which includes socialist and libertarian promises of a post-political world) and atheism are un-American.

The American idea is not wholly detached from religion. Our “romance of the citizen” depends upon the pre-existing dogma about the equality of all men under God. America is a home for the homeless because both our religious founding – with the Puritans – and our constitutional founding – with the Lockeans – are in agreement that God is not dead and all men are created equal.

The dogma that unites our two foundings, Chesterton explains, is that “there is no meaning in anything if the universe has not a center of significance and an authority that is the author of our rights.”

The American dogma is that nihilism isn’t true; our dogma is that our technology is subordinate to our real souls and our real God. The American dogma does not so much transform as it stands in judgment over all American life, and it is more a doctrine about the whole of reality than it is dogma merely about citizenship.

Chesterton’s view of our identity differs from those who understand American citizenship to have a wholly secular and wholly cultural foundation.

Chesterton’s measured judgment is that the “nation with the soul of a church” is caught between modern or technological homelessness and the Catholic’s or Aristotelian being at home. But even that judgment must be qualified, for no Christian can experience himself as complete at home in the world. Chesterton seems to present the American mixture of homelessness and being at home as mirroring the truth about our middle class existence under God.

Our European critics today often criticize us for not being Americanized enough in Heidegger’s sense. In the election of 2004, they called our “moral values” voters stupid for not voting on merely technical grounds – for the party that would do best in delivering health care, social security, more secure alliances, etc.

They couldn’t believe that American voters regarded religion and morality as the real foundation of issues such as abortion, stem cell research, and same-sex marriage. But our voters might respond that, because of our faith or dogma, our lives are more real than those of Europeans in the thrall of post-familial, post-religious, and post-political fantasy. And the result is that our country has more of a real future. (With this kind of foundation, we can be optimistic in the New Year.)
George H. Kubeck
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Who are we as a People? 1 of 2

Who are we as a People? – 1 of 2
The website – cinops be gone – Tuesday, December 30, 2008

But there is another way of viewing America, one that recognizes us as the only human beings at home with the truth about the human soul. According to G.K. Chesterton’s famous formulation, the Americans are “A NATION WITH THE SOUL OF A CHURCH."

Human beings, we Americans believe, are all equally beings with souls and God-given dignity existing between the other animals and God. The middle-class way of life, in this view, is the result of the movement from the chaotic “becoming” of historical force and the fraud to the truth about existence. To be middle-class is not to be a pragmatist or technologist in the most important sense; other dignified beings with souls do not exist for our manipulation or exploitation.

So the American view of middle-class existence, Chesterton noticed is at heart our distinctively spiritual adventure of discovering all human beings at home with each other, living in common awareness that nihilism isn’t true.

America, Chesterton says, is about “making a home of vagabonds and a nation out of exiles.” Our nation is an “asylum,” a “home for the homeless.” Like the church it is a place where all human beings can find a home.

Each and every human being – despite race, class, gender, physical deformity, etc. – can be a member of the universal church if he or she accepts its creed. And each and every human being can become an American if he accepts our political creed. The Puritans left their homeland not for wealth and power but to “make an idea triumph.”

And “partly by original theory and partly by historical accident,” America is the one nation held together by citizens’ common belief in an idea. That idea is not to be confused, Chesterton explains, with “internationalism” but is actually “the nationalization of the internationalized,” the placement of those who find themselves displaced – usually for quite unjust reasons – from their previous national homes. Being bound by an idea or creed, according to Chesterton, is “what is called Americanization” – the making of patriotic American citizens.

To be an American is to be bound by the “creed… set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.” That document, “the highest point of democratic idealism,” declares, above all, that Americans are “dedication to the proposition that all men are create equal.”

Chesterton’s account of the Declaration’s dogma comes not from Jefferson but from Lincoln, showing that this “piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics” is than individualistic or self-interested or merely utilitarian calculation about one’s own liberty. The “proposition” is a theoretical and theological statement about the way “all men” stand in relation to each other, to the rest of earthly reality, and to God.

The above is from The Intercollegiate Review V.40 No. 2 – Fall/Winter 2005 by Peter Augustine Lawler, “Homeless on “Paradise Drive”: Two Views of Americanization. p.22-3
George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680-9998

Monday, December 29, 2008

St. Thomas More - 4

St. Thomas More – 4
Website – cinops be gone – Monday, Dec. 29, 2008

This is the 4th report on James Monti’s “The King’s Good Servant But God’s First”.

More’s Early Years - 3

It was in or around 1501 that a new chapter opened in More’s life, perhaps prompted in part by a deepened introspection following the recent loss of his mother. The young Thomas had felt the call to perfection and sought to answer it as best he could; and so he spent the next 4 years contemplating what state in life God might be calling him to. Thus he gave serious consideration to the idea of entering the priesthood and the religious life. For this reason, from around the age of 23 to 27, he spent at least part of each day participating in the spiritual exercises of THE CARTHUSEAN MONKS OF LONDON’S CHARTERHOUSE. Thomas lived in quarters nearby, so that he continued his work in the world while nourishing his soul with Carthusian spirituality.

Their rule is among the most demanding of any in the Church. The Carthusians had not in any way slackened in the observance of the constitutions of their founder, Saint Bruno. Their life is strictly and totally “contemplative”, as distinguished from the “active” life of other orders that exercise their ministry in some fairly visible from inside the outside world. Much of the Office was chanted, thereby adding to the amount of time and stamina required to perform this daily function. The Breviary of the Carthusians was longer still than the Roman Breviary of Pope Saint Pius V. Coupled with his grueling daily routine were a number of extraordinary austerities, including the continual wearing of a hair shirt, a perpetual abstinence from meat and animal fat, a Lenten fast extended to last 6 months, as well as a weekly fast on only bread and water (usually on Fridays) in the year.

In this light we cannot but admire the depth of More’s faith in considering such a life, which he took the opportunity to see for himself. The fortitude of those called to the Carthusian state was to be amply demonstrated years later as 18 members of this order, mostly from the London Charterhouse, were eventually to die for their fidelity to the papacy.

During this time of More’s life he completed a translation of the biography of recently deceased Italian scholar, Giovanni PICO delle Mirandola (1462-1494). Pico’s life as an unmarried layman, devoted to ecclesiastical studies, stirred the interest of More whose academic pursuits and ascetical practices resembled in certain ways those of Pico. The young Thomas turned to the life of Pico as an example for the lay state only after he had decided not to become a priest or religious. More was never to lose his sense of reverence for the religious life and was to defend it in his subsequent apological writings.

Devotion to the Passion is perhaps the single most pervasive aspect of More’s spirituality, an aspect to which he was to give expression every Friday and Good Friday, as we shall later see. Then there was Pico’s zeal for the sacred sciences – especially his day-and-night study of the Scriptures and his encyclopedic knowledge of the Church Fathers – pursuits that we already know were dear to More.

George H. Kubeck

Sunday, December 28, 2008

DEAR ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

DEAR ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER:
The Website – cinops be gone – Sunday, December 28, 2008

This is a tough love letter. I want to get several things off my mind. As a newspaper, you have changed from 40 years ago. You have become a politically correct newspaper and promote a Secular America. Why? We live in a great country with Judeo-Christian values. I don’t want any European socialistic values.

Firstly ,your opposition to Proposition 8 sticks in my throat. Do you not remember what happened to Ford and McDonalds? The boycotts worked. I still boycott McDonalds. The idea for business corporations and newspapers trying to indoctrinate and brainwash Orange County or the nation into same-sex marriage is foolish and self-destructive.

Concerning subscription to your paper; your monthly renewal is way too expensive. I recommend everyone to take your 52 dollar deal; daily delivery for the whole year. If I got it so can they!

Secondly, Wall Street and corrupt politicians have betrayed our free enterprise system. Dishonest journalism has also betrayed us. You are suspect. Of course the New York Times is hopeless and deserves to go under. For example, it was not fair or honest with its treasonous coverage of the Iraq War.

Thirdly, you are glorifying same-sex marriage with a few stories and no coverage for happy heterosexual marriages. Stop it!

Fourthly, your stories about the ACLU helping people are really con- operations. They remind me of the communist cells decades ago. I attended once and they talked the usual about social justice issues etc. But these are fellow travelers or communists; masters of deceit and the historical scourge on nations.

The ACLU is an anti-Christian organization, nothing more and nothing less. They HAVE AN AGENDA within OUR community. Any American who votes for a member of the ACLU for office is an idiot. In San Diego their City Council had a 6 to 2 vote in opposition to Prop. 8. They must have been ACLU clones.

Lastly, I saw your ad: Meet the Publisher Terry Horne on Wednesday, Jan. 7th and have breakfast with him @ the ORC Main Office 8:30 to 10:30 A.M. This was for business owners and managers. Hope it is successful. Helping SMALL and big business is very important. RSVP today at ocregister.com/rsvp

I recall happily my part-time business in the 1980’s in Long Beach with the Weekly Consumer Buyline. It was a one page flyer with the best food buys on one side and the best non-food buys on the other side. At one time I had 100 advertisers and hand delivered to about 1000 businesses weekly including postings in 30 Laundromats. It taught the poor and the rich how to fish and saved us between 50 to 100 dollars monthly.

Finally, get off the politically correct band wagon! Increase your circulation with a one page weekly of traditional America news. (Dennis Prager, Dr. Jim Dobson, Reverend Frank Pavone. etc.) Looking for happy changes! Good Luck!

George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 80680-9998

Saturday, December 27, 2008

The Final Destructive Influence of the CINOP - 22

The Final Destructive Influence of the CINOP – 22

The Final Burial Service of Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas

THIS LAST REPORT WAS WRITTEN, Friday, Sept. 8th, 2006

The Last Chapter 7 – Cashing in on God’s Love (Nothing significant to report)

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” Mother Teresa

At this wake and burial of Bill Press’s book, may I share with you a message from history. When a Catholic gets tempted by the Spirit of the Times in which he lives, bad things can happen to him and his Catholic faith. He loses his Catholic identity.

We have seen what occurred during the 1930’s in Germany and Italy. And after World War II, we witnessed Catholics in Italy voting for Communist candidates. Last year, we saw what happened in Canada and Spain: Catholic liberals and Catholic socialist leaders already pro-abortion, voted and passed same-sex marriage laws.

I believe that if we had Presidents Gore in 2000 or Kerry in 2004, same-sex marriage laws would have been passed in Congress with the help of CINOPs (Catholic-in-name-only Politicians). So we have a history of CINOPs foolish adherence to the Nazis, Fascists, Communists, Liberals and Socialists. Today, add to the above absolute evils, assisted suicide, euthanasia, embryonic ….

While my focus is mainly on the politicians, other Catholic leaders have spoken out sharply on this most serious problem within our country and our Catholic community. We will not have a code of silence.

“Pagans in the pews and equivocating clerical leaders are encouraging an
unprecedented assault on the moral law and traditional family,” said C.J. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts. Addressing a recent Catholic Friends and Family Conference in Richmond, N.H., Doyle feels this assault is ‘enabled and emboldened by indifference and complicity within the Church.’ He cites Catholics who typically vote for candidates supporting abortion and sodomy and personally choose pagan lifestyles, including quasi-pornographic entertainment, raging consumerism and materialism.

Doyle thinks ‘Pagans who go to Mass’ might be a more accurate description of today’s American Catholics…. A militant homosexual movement and a government which undermines parental authority have numbed opponents into silence or equivocation….
Dole feels the proper response is ‘justifiable outrage’ at a ‘ruthless and far reaching aggression’ by those demanding society’s acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex unions.

Doyle calls to Catholics not to reject Catholic teaching on natural law and sexual morality but to speak out loud and clear. “It’s not the Republican Party, the conservative movement, the religious right, the pro-life/pro-family movement that is going to save our civilization. It’s our Catholic faith that comes to us from the Apostles.” don@thesourcedaily.com Sep. 5, 2006 Also http://w.w.w.michnews.com

With Faith, Truth and Justice, we will move forward … (We thank Bill for writing this book and opening our eyes to the Catholic-in-name-only Religion in America. We pray for the conversion of Bill back to the Faith of his father, mother, and grandparents.)

Meetings commence each Wednesday, from 9:30 to 10:00 A.M. (Prayers: 9:10-9:30 A.M.)
Location: Abortion Site, 2445 Chapman, at 57 Fwy., Orange, Ca. Parking on Bitterbush St.

Catholics and other Christians are welcome: also Jewish, Muslim & Buddhist pro-life advocates.

Bring your own folding chair, sun cap, water, pencil and notebook. Come with action ideas.

Tentative Banner:Catholic Voters: Silent No More: No To CINOPs: Sanchez & Correa

George H. Kubeck, Feast of the Birth of Mary – Posted on this blog, Sat. Dec. 27, 2008

St. Thomas More - 3

St. Thomas More - 3
St. John, Apostle and Evangelist – cinops be gone – Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008

This is the 3rd report on James Monti’s “The King’s Good Servant But God’s First”

More’s Early Years – 2

In a letter written only six years later (May 1, 1506), Erasmus described the personality and intellectual gifts of his English friend (Thomas More) in the most effusive terms:

“… I do not think, unless the vehemence of my love leads me astray, that Nature ever formed a mind more present, ready, sharp sighted and subtle, or in a word more absolutely furnished with every kind of faculty than his. Add to this a power of expression equal to his intellect, a singular cheerfulness of character and abundance of wit, but only of the candid sort; and you miss nothing that should be found in a perfect advocate.”

Whatever may be said of the possible role of Oxford in initiating Thomas’ fascination with the Church Fathers, we can say with considerable greater confidence that John Colet would certainly have fostered such a devotion in More, for Colet crusaded for a return in theology to the works of Saint Jerome, Saint Augustine, and Saint Ambrose. Similarly we find Erasmus preoccupied with publishing accurate texts of the works of the Church Fathers in order to make their writings more widely available … also exerted an influence on More.

It was this same William Grocyn (a lecturer and cleric) who invited More, only 23, to lecture upon St. Augustine’s City of God at Grocyn’s parish in London. We are told that More’s talks focused upon the historical and philosophical aspects of St. Augustine’s book rather than upon its theological dimensions, but unfortunately we have no further details concerning his presentations.

As for the oratorical skills that More would have brought to occasions such as this, Erasmus further testifies:

“ It would be difficult to find any one more successful in speaking ex tempore, the happiest thoughts being attended by the happiest language; while a mind that catches and anticipate all that passes, and a ready memory, having everything as it were in stock, promptly supply whatever the time, or the occasion, demands. In disputations nothing can be imagined more acute, so that the most eminent theologians often find their match, when he meets them on their own ground.”

Already versed in Latin, the young More was at this time studying the other great language of ancient Western civilization – Greek. Thomas’ interest in Greek was yet another manifestation of his preoccupation with the sacred sciences, for Greek was the language of ancient texts of the New Testament and of the Eastern Church Fathers such as St. John Chrysostom and St. Cyril of Jerusalem.
There were other forces at work in his soul, as we are told by Stapleton”

“… He was far more zealous to become a saint than a scholar. For, even as a youth, he wore a hair shirt, and slept on the ground or on bare boards with perhaps a log of wood as his pillow. At the most he took 4 or 5 hours’ sleep, and he was frequent in watchings and fastings. Although he was practicing such austerities, yet he hid them so carefully that no sign of them could be perceived.”

It also appears that in 1499, when More was about 21, he suffered what would have been a most painful reminder of the shortness of human life: the death of his own mother.

George H. Kubeck

Friday, December 26, 2008

St. Thomas More - 2

St. Thomas More – 2
St. Stephen, the first Martyr, cinops be gone, Friday, December 26, 2008

James Monti’s biography is about a saint who is a giant of a man. It is about Thomas More’s victorious pursuit of the mind and heart of Jesus Christ. As the role model for statesmen and politicians the following excerpts from the book will not do him justice.

More’s Early Years - 1

Thomas More was born in London, England of Feb. 6, 1478, during the reign of King Edward IV. Thomas was the second of six children to be born to John and Agnes Moore: three girls, Joan, Agatha, and Elizabeth, and two boys, Thomas and Edward.

About the year 1485, when Thomas More would have been in his 7th year, his father enrolled him in the institution reputed to be one of London’s finest schools for your students: Saint Anthony’s on Threadneedle Street. It was here that the boy would have received his first systematic training in Latin, the language that was to serve as the cornerstone of his lifelong endeavors as an accomplished scholar.

Probably in 1492, the year of Columbus’s landmark voyage to the New World, More became a student at Oxford University, sponsored by Archbishop Morton. At the school and on all but special occasions students were required to communicate with one another and the faculty in Latin – violators were fined. Members of the student body were required to attend Mass daily, a habit that we know More observed the rest of his life.

William Roper does tell of his father-in-law learning Greek and deepening his proficiency in Latin at Oxford, while Cresacre More speaks of his great-grandfather studying rhetoric, logic, and philosophy at the university. A statute dating from 1431 specifying the requirements for licentiate in arts gives us a broad idea of the subjects taught, listing courses in seven traditional disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy, and utilizing the works of Aristotle, Boethius, Cicero, Ovid, and Ptomely: the study of the three branches of philosophy – natural, moral and metaphysical – are also prescribed, with Aristotle used in all three cases.

It may possibly be that More’s love for the Fathers of the Church, and particularly for the writings of Saint Augustine, could have first taken root during his brief sojourn at Oxford. It is particularly likely that his knowledge of the theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas began at Oxford for the university was a stronghold of medieval scholasticism.

While Oxford may have nurtured the young More’s aspirations to seek “things that are above,” (Col 3:1), John More had very different ambitions for his son. Hence it seems likely that Thomas’ transfer around 1494 from the halls of the university to London institution that trained students destined for the career in law, It was also at this time that the seeds of More’s career as a writer were sown when several epigrams composed by the young scholar were published as part of the student grammar book which appeared some time between 1497 and 1500.

It was also at this juncture that there entered into the life of the young More two significant figures: the humanist scholars John Colet (1466-1519) and Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536). It is not possible to date precisely when More first came into contact with Colet, but we know that by 1504 More had begun to avail himself of Colet’s spiritual direction. More initially met Erasmus in the year 1499, when the famous Dutch scholar visited England for the first time....
George H. Kubeck

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Silent Night - Holy Night

Silent Night – Holy Night

Merry Christmas!

The website – cinops be gone – Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2005
From the 16th, Dec. 21, 22, 23, 24th entry of Pope Benedict XVI book of 1992: The Meditation for Every Day of the Year, subtitle to “Co-Workers of the Truth”

In the offertory prayer of the {former} Christmas Vigil liturgy we ask God for the grace to receive with joy his everlasting gifts that come to us in the celebration of Christ’s birth. Thus the concept of gift-giving is squarely anchored in this liturgy of the Church, and the same time we are aware of the primal mode of all giving at Christmas: that God, on this holy night, desired to make himself into a gift to mankind, that he turned himself over to us.

The one genuine Christmas gift to mankind, to history, to each one of us, is none other than Jesus Christ himself. Even those who do not believe him to be God incarnate will have to admit that he has enriched and gifted the inner existence of generations upon generations. Dec. 16th

“Rejoice in the Lord”, because the Apostle obviously believes that all true joy is joy in the Lord and there can be no true joy at all without the Lord…. Thus we are told that only through Christ did real joy appear and that in our life. In the last analysis, nothing matters more than coming to recognize and to understand Christ, the God of grace, the light and the joy of the world. Dec. 21st

The most genuine and most important values are found in this world precisely under the sign of humility, of hiddenness, of silence. Whatever is decisively great in this world, whatever determines its fate and its history, is that which appears small to our eyes. God, after having chosen the small and ignored people of Israel for his very own people, has made, in BETHLEHEM, the sign of insignificance into the decisive sign of his presence in this world.

This is the challenge of the holy night – faith, faith to receive him under this sign and to trust him without arguing or grumbling. To receive him: this means for us to submit to this sign, to truth and to love, which are the highest and most God-like values, and at the same time the most neglected and most silent. Dec. 22

Silence means to develop an inner sensitivity, sensitivity for our conscience, for the eternal in us, and openness for God speaking to us. The dinosaurs are said to have become extinct because their development went in the wrong direction: plenty of armor plate and little brain, plenty of muscles and little sense. Are we not also about to develop a wrong direction: plenty of technology but little soul? Dec. 23rd

God became a child, and every child is dependent. To be a child thus contains already the theme of the search for shelter, the elementary motif of Christmas. And how many variations has this motif seen in our history! Dec. 24t

George H. Kubeck and cinops be gone

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Catholic Education for Catholic Lay Leaders

Catholic Education for Catholic Lay Leaders
Commemoration – John of Kanty, priest, cinops be gone – Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008

Recently, I (Kenneth Baker, S.J. Editor, editorial in the December 08 issue of Homiletic & Pastoral review) read a book on the history of theology in the Middle Ages hat covered the period A.D. 500 to 1400….

At that time all the courses were united under one “umbrella,” and that was the study of God’s word as found in the Bible. The purpose of study is to learn the truth about the earth, man and God. Everyone understood that there are two levels of knowledge – natural and supernatural. The natural concerns everything man can learn by the use of reason in the trivium and the quadrivium. Everything that was to reveal something of God, as stated by St. Paul in Romans 1:19-20. The supernatural is above the natural and is made known to us by divine revelation contained in the Holy Scriptures, which are inspired and are the word of God….

Basic to this mentality was the understanding of truth. Truth is the goal or object of study. God is absolute truth and therefore the unique source of all truth. Jesus says of himself that he is “truth” (John 14:6). It follows then that whatever truth is attained in any of the sciences is there because God put it there as the Creator of heaven and earth.

For centuries Catholic education was based on this understanding of education and was unified as manifesting something about God the creator and redeemer. UP UNTIL ABOUT FIFTY YEARS, a Catholic college education presented a unified view of man, world and God. The center of the core curriculum was scholastic philosophy, especially metaphysics and philosophy of God, plus the study of Catholic theology in conformity with the ecumenical councils of the past. In addition, the other courses in English, history, languages and science were permeated with the Catholic faith and related to God in one way or another.

Graduates of Catholic colleges in those days knew their faith well. At the time pastors told me that their best and most active parishioners were graduates of Catholic colleges. That whole system fell apart in the 1960s. Specialization in a particular subject became more important than a united view of reality….
THE DISINTEGRATION STARTED WHEN THE COLLEGES CUT BACK ON THE REQUIREMENTS IN PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY, ADDED MORE ELECTIVES, AND BEGAN TRAINING SPECIALISTS FOR THE MARKETPLACE RATHER THAN IMPARTING A TRULY LIBERAL EDUCATION.

A major concern at the universities in the Middle Ages was the relationships between reason and faith. It was resolved by declaring the Catholic faith to be supreme and everything else was subordinate to that….

NOW MOST CATHOLIC COLLEGES IMITATE THEIR SECULAR NEIGHBORS AND OFTEN TRAINING IN SPECIFIC SUBJECTS, RATHER THAN A LIBERAL EDUCATION BASED ON THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND THE HARMONIOUS VIEW OF THE WORLD THAT ONLY IT CAN GIVE. THE NEW CATHOLIC COLLEGES LIKE THOMAS AQUINAS, CHRISTENDOM AND AVE MARIA ARE TRYING TO RECOVER THAT OLDER TRADITION.
George H. Kubeck

Monday, December 22, 2008

Understanding the Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Understanding the Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary

By John A. Hardon, S.J. - The website- cinops be gone – Monday, Dec. 22, 2008

There is no subject in Catholic devotion more extensive than the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is only to be expected, since the Mother of God is so basic to a correct understanding of her Divine Son.

With the break in Catholic unity which took place in the 16th century, the Western world was deeply affected by those who considered themselves Christians, but had reservations about the Mother of Christ. Faith in her Divine Son is logically dependent on faith in His mother as the Mother of God.

This has deeply affected the Western world, which has been so deeply infected by what I may call “non-Catholic Christianity.” After all, it is one thing to believe in Jesus Christ. It is something else to believe that He is the Living God who became man as a child conceived by a human mother. Already in the earliest centuries of Christianity, faith in the real Jesus Christ meant faith also in His Mother as the mother of a human child, but also, the Mother of God.

This truth is essential to Catholic piety. We are only as truly devoted to Jesus Christ as we believe that He had a human mother, who is also the Mother of God.

In some ways, this is one of the most important truths of our Catholic faith. We believe that the Son of Mary is the Son of the Eternal God. Christ is a divine person. But Jesus has two natures. He is the Eternal Son of God, who has also been the Son of the Eternal Father. But He also became the Son of Mary when she conceived Him at Nazareth as the God-man. The moment Mary said, “Be it done to me according to thy word,” the Eternal God took a human nature who was conceived in time and who will continue to exist as the God-man for all eternity.

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of seeing Mary as the true mother of Jesus Christ, who exists from all eternity, but also became man at the moment of His Incarnation in the womb of Mary. This is the heart of our Catholic faith. We believe that the same Jesus Christ who always existed as God, began to exist as man the moment His mother accepted the invitation to become the Mother of the Most High….How this needs to be stressed today! Jesus Christ is truly man.

He shares our human nature, our human soul and body, our human life and mortality. But He is the everlasting God who never came into existence and who always was and will be forever more. Out of love for us, He became man so that we might become more and more like Him.

It was the Blessed Virgin Mary who was chosen by God to change the meaning of creation. She became the Mother of the Eternal God, the model for all of us to imitate in her deep faith, by believing that our destiny is also to join her in heaven.

George H. Kubeck

Sunday, December 21, 2008

ST, THOMAS MORE - 1

St. Thomas More - 1
The website – cinops be gone – Sunday, December 21, 2008

It is an honor to review a classic biography of St. Thomas More. He is the patron and model of this website. The Life and writings of St. Thomas More is the subtitle to James Monti’s “The King’s Good Servant But God’s First” Ignatius, /97
Introduction - Excerpts

In the vast sweeping drama of human history we sometimes encounter individuals whose lives especially captivate each succeeding generation – men and women who shaped their own time have helped to shape our own….

Just such a figure is St. Thomas More. Over the course of time this popular humanist scholar and Lord Chancellor of England has won the hearts of many with a universal appeal that often seems to transcend religious and ideological boundaries. Unfortunately, this very popularity has tended to obscure the underlying force that molded More’s destiny – his faith. …

If More has been misunderstood, it is undoubtedly due in part to the fact that for most of the four and a half centuries have passed since his death,…
It is hence our purpose here to present a new portrait of Thomas More in the light of his writings – most especially his writings on the Church and on the spiritual life. … we will discover a fundamental theme of More’s apologetical writings: a passionate dedication to the unity of the Church, a unity of faith that he saw as necessitating assent to all her teachings and obedience to her ordained ministers....

Thus we will be able to see More’s trial for treason in Westminster Hall and his execution on Tower Hill, not as the product of some sudden impulse of heroism, but rather as the concluding and crowning act of witness in a long-fought battle to preserve England’s thousand-year communion with the See of Peter.

It is likewise important to understand that Thomas More not only believed in Catholicism, he lived it. … Key to our understanding will be the recognition of three fundamental traits of the saint’s inner life: his consciousness of the mystery of man’s mortality, his pervasive devotion to the passion of Christ, and his deep love for the Holy Eucharist. … But it is also possible to discern other characteristics of More’s spirituality: his intense prayer life, his acts of penance and works of mercy, his devotion to the Heart of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as his love of the Scriptures and the sacred liturgy….

What the author has attempted to do is to give the reader an outline of the major facets of the Reformation relevant to the life of Thomas More, … Over the last twenty years it seems that the saint has been put on trial again, charged with the supposed “treason” of being too ardent defender of Catholic orthodoxy. …
It will be our purpose here to demonstrate that the secret to More’s greatness lay precisely in the reasoned ardor of his Catholic convictions….
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PUBLIC NOTICE: It is with regret that CINOPS BE GONE - Censures Catholic-label politicians Attorney General Jerry Brown, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi for their WRITTEN and SPOKEN support of same-sex marriage. Hopefully other individuals or Catholic groups will do likewise.

George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680-9998

Saturday, December 20, 2008

The Consequences of Contraception - 2

The Consequences of Contraception – 2
The website – cinops be gone – Saturday, December 20, 2008

The author Richard Bastien offers an alternative to the contracept mentality. He is a founder & contributor to Egards, a French Canadian language quarterly journal – the only social conservative journal published in Canada in any language.

One, of course, might object that there are a lot of men and women who contracept and still raise families and display classic virile and feminine qualities. And that is certainly true. BUT THAT IS BECAUSE THE LOSS OF DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS IS A MATTER OF DEGREE. IT IS MORE PRONOUNCED IN SOME THAN IN OTHERS.

But the fact that there has been a loss of manliness, on the one hand, and of femininity , on the other, can hardly be challenged. If one has any doubts about this, one need only ask oneself whether the call “Children and women first!” would have any meaning on a sinking ship nowadays.

There is ample evidence that our culture is increasingly androgynous. Many cultural figures, rock stars in particular, are neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine. One might also consider the fashion industry with its emphasis on unisex style. All this points to modern culture’s increasing rebellion against the fundamental distinction between male and female, which is at the very core of God’s plan for humanity.

These trends illustrate modernism’s ambition to re-engineer our humanity. Man ceases to a child of God and sets himself as God. This is what stands behind all the evils just referred to. When a society decides to transgress the natural law, (for example on marriage. ghk) it does so at its own peril. Contraception is just such a transgression. It changes our identity as men and women, undermines the
welfare of children and puts the future of Western civilization at risk. This tends to validate the natural law arguments against contraception.

The only way Christians and people of good faith can hope to wage the culture war with any degree of success is by re-introducing the Gospel, or at least the natural law, first in their own lives, and then in our culture. But since the culture war is fought largely on the terrain of sex, a major part of the new evangelization must be a “proclamation of the gospel of the body.”

Contraception was the twilight of sexual morality. It has brought about an age of darkness. But thanks to John Paul II, we a have a theology of the body, which has the power to dispel the darkness and to bring about a new dawn of sexual morality. Winning the war may take some time, but there is no doubt that it will be won by those who live according to the culture of life. Those who don’t share in that culture will simply disappear. Couples who by choice, have no children or no more than one child contribute nothing or very little to future generations. They stand on the negative side of the demographic ledger. It is couples with many children and those who, while having few children, respect the culture of life, who contribute to the renewal of existing generations.

As Christians and people of good will, we are called to be rebels. Who are today’s rebels? They are the beautiful husbands and wives who shun political correctness, raise large families and live simple and joy-filled lives. That way, the Judeo-Christian civilization will flourish anew. Children will once again grow up to be faithful children of God. There will be hope again for the future and, more importantly, we will experience the joy & internal peace of vibrant loving families.

George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680-9998

The Destructive Influence of the CINOP - 21

The Destructive Influence of the CINOP - 21
Report Card # 21 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Saturday, Aug. 4, 2006
Chapter 6 and 7, and Conclusion: Reclaiming the Moral High Ground

Are you aware that we have a Catholic-in-name-only religion in the United States? Their patron saints and apostles are former Governor Mario Cuomo of New York and Father Robert Drinan, S.J. a former congressman from Massachusetts.

They believe and promote directly and indirectly, pro-abortion on demand, same-sex marriage, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research. All of these are absolute evils. Don’t you think that the greatest enemy of the Catholic Church in the Americas is not the ACLU or Planned Parenthood but the many Catholic in Name Only Politicians in Congress and in the States?

Our focus today is on the conclusion section p.256-263 we will get to the other chapters at another time. .Let us return to CINOP Bill Press’s exact words for the rest of this page:

“How can Democrats get religion? The Challenge Facing Democrats: Since the 2004 elections, hundreds of hours of talk shows have filled with yapping about how Democrats can start winning elections again….

“There is only one thing Democrats have to do, and that is to reclaim the moral high ground that is rightfully ours. First, a word of caution: In so doing, Democrats can’t be phony about it. During the 2004 primaries, it didn’t help when Howard Dean said his favorite part of the New Testament was the Book of Job….
“To reclaim the moral high ground, all Democrats need to get back to their roots and talk about the moral values they believe in and the moral choices they are fighting for…

“In fact, any Democrat uncomfortable with public expression of religion might look back to FDR’s speeches. He sometimes sounds more like a preacher than a president. In a radio address on June 6, 1944, for example, Roosevelt informed the American people of the Normandy invasion and sought God’s blessings on the troops…
‘The Almighty God has blessed our land in many ways. He has given our people stout hearts and strong arms with which to strike mighty blows for freedom and truth.’

… “The point is, Democrats don’t have to go overboard like FDR – or, even more often GWB. But neither need they fear admitting their faith, acknowledging the Divinity, saying they believe in family values, making a moral argument, or invoking God’s blessing.

“Democrats have the more recent example of Jimmy Carter, a devout Southern Baptist. Carter, the only president to teach Sunday school while in the White House, may be the most religious of all presidents….

“But when it comes to preaching the word of the Lord, even Jimmy Carter must take a back seat to Bill Clinton, also a Southern Baptist. Clinton has the passion, the cadence, the familiarity with Scripture that would make any African-American preacher proud….

“Roosevelt, Carter, and Clinton lead the way in helping Democrats find their moral voice. Democrats must take back the language of passion and moral conviction from the religious right….Indeed, for many voters spiritual and cultural concerns are more important than material concerns - …

“Democrats need to redefine and recapture what we mean by family values or moral values. …

“As George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote in the December .6, 2004, issue of THE NATION. ‘The only way to trump their moral values is with our own more traditional and more patriotic moral values.’…

“They need to challenge Republicans and say: * Abortion and gay marriage are not the only moral issues….

“The burden of redefining and lifting up moral issues must also be undertaken by religious leaders of the left, far too many of whom have gone into hiding….

“The political contest today is not between godly conservatives and ungodly liberals. The true battle is between religious conservatives & religious liberals….Whose issues better reflect the teachings of Jesus Christ?…”
George H. Kubeck, Saturday, December 20, 2008

Friday, December 19, 2008

The Consequences of Contraception - 1

The Consequences of Contraception – 1
The Website – cinops be gone – Friday, December 19, 2008

The following is a classic analysis by Mr. Richard Bastien. This is in the “Homiletic pastoral review,” December – 2008. The title: The culture war: Fighting the contraceptive mentality

The first consequence of contraception is a major increase in divorce rate. Statistics leave no room for doubt: in North America, the divorce rate doubled between 1965 and 1975, which is exactly the period when contraception became widespread. In the mid-1970s, which is exactly the period when contraception became widespread.

In the mid-1970s, when all women who wanted to use the pill had access to it, the divorce rate leveled off. It has remained at about 50 percent ever since. Perhaps even more telling is the fact that the rate of divorce among couples who do not practice contraception is virtually nil.

Another consequence of contraception is that, in addition to preventing births, it results in the killing of millions of human lives through abortions. It has been estimated that 50 percent of women who go to abortion clinics do so because of contraceptive failure. … one might perhaps want to rely on the judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court. In a famous case, known as PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. CASEY, the court stated the following: “FOR TWO DECADES, COUPLES HAVE BASED THEIR INTIMATE RELATION-SHIPS ON THE AVAILABILITY OF ABORTION SHOULD CONTRACEPTION FAIL.”… Couples view abortion as a safety net for contraceptive failure.

A third consequence of contraception is a drop in birth rates so drastic that the very survival of Western civilization is now in question. Indeed, it has become quite clear that our current secularist model of civilization is not viable. Simply to remain at a demographically stable level, a society requires a birth rate of 2 to 1, all other Western societies stand somewhere between 1-to-1 and 2-to-0, i.e., below the replacement level. In Canada, the birth rate stands at 1-to-5.

A FOURTH CONSEQUENCE OF CONTRACEPTION IS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. What is happening here is fairly straightforward: when we uncouple the unitive and procreative ends of the one-flesh union of spouses, we necessarily uncouple marriage and procreation. Under these circumstances, there is no reason to stop two people from marrying even when procreation is, by nature, impossible for them. If men and women can marry and not have children, why can’t homosexuals marry and not have children? … Married people who contracept have embraced the view that sex is purely recreational. They have no foundation for objecting to two homosexuals marriage, they would have to reaffirm the link between the unitive and procreative ends of one-flesh union. Unwilling to do this, they simply hold their noses and approve same-sex marriage.


A fifth consequence of contraception is the loss of our defining characteristics as male and female. Before the advent of contraception, to be male was, as a general rule, to be a husband and family protector; to be a woman was to be a child-bearer and nurturer. Man and woman, husband and wife relied on the unique differences of the other to create a cohesive family – an environment of love in which children could grow and become real men and women, who in their turn would marry and raise families….

The family was what gave meaning to the man. Having no occasion to exercise the strength of a husband and father, the man loses that strength. Instead of being called on to protect the family and bring home the food, he is called upon to be in touch with his feelings. The woman, having no children to raise, does not require the strength and virility of the man. Gallantry vanishes….
George H. Kubeck

Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Tom Wappel Address to Cath. Luncheon - 3 of 7

The Tom Wappel Address to Catholic Luncheon – 3 of 7
The website – cinops be gone – Thursday, December 18, 2008

This is the third in a series of letters on the remarks by Tom Wappel:

“Now for the other clergy: Once, I did speak to the Muslim church – the Iman invited me and I had the opportunity to speak to those who wanted to come and hear me. Once I went to a Baptist church in my riding and was asked to address the Congregation – during the service. Remember - this was over 20 years and this is what I would say would be a person who was well known as out-spoken on the life issues. I can honestly say that in the 20 years that I was a member of parliament, in my own riding- I spoke once I believe to one Catholic women’s group- one time, and I don’t think I was every asked to speak to any Knights of Columbus group in my riding.

ALL OF THIS TO ME WAS BAFFLING BUT I KEPT DOING WHAT I WAS DOING. THAT IS MY RIDING BUT WHAT ABOUT ON THE HILL.

I want to remind people when they say, - our MP’s (Members of Parliament) should be doing this”, “our MP’s should be standing for that” – “our MP’s should be saying this” – I want to say, “WELL WHY SHOULD WE BE IF NO ONE ELSE IS? Why should we be knocking our heads against a brick wall if no one is noticing, if no one listening, IF NO ONE IS OFFERING ENCOURAGEMENT?”

So please don’t be too critical if you think that Members of Parliament in general are weak on the life issues. They need help. They need encouragement. They need prayers. THEY NEED VALIDATION THAT WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS ACTUALLY BELIEVED BY THE PEOPLE – THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY APPRECIATE WHAT THEY ARE SAYING AND THEN THEY ARE ENCOURAGED TO SAY THESE THINGS. WHEN THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION FROM THE CLERGY THEN IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION FROM THE FLOCK – AT LEAST NOT TO ME.

IN 20 YEARS ON PARLIAMENT HILL – I HAVE NEVER HAD A MEETING WITH THE CCCB (CANADIAN CATHOLIC CONFERENCE OF BISHOPS) ALTHOUGH I SUGGESTED IT NUMEROUS TIMES ON A VARIETY OF ISSUES THAT CAME UP OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS THAT IT MIGHT NOT BE A BAD IDEA FOR THE CCCB TO SIT DOWN – NOT JUST WITH ME – BUT A NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND TALK ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON UP THERE- WHAT IS THE THINKING LIKE AND HOW CAN THINGS BE ACHIEVED. NOT WITHSTANDING MY OFFERS, TO DO THAT, IT HAS NEVER COME ABOUT.”

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ONE OF MY ADVISERS (J.M.) WROTE THE FOLLOWING POIGNANT AND ON THE NAIL COMMENT. “THE CANADIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WITHDREW ITSELF FROM ROMAN CATHOLICISIM ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1968. GOOGLE THE WINNIPEG STATEMENT AND YOU WILL FIND OUT WHAT I MEAN. IF CATHOLICS WILL NOT FOLLOW THE SIMPLE CLEAR TRUTHS OF “HUMANAE VITAE”, THEN THE FLOOD GATES OF DISSENT ARE THROWN WIDE OPEN. IF YOU WANT TO END ABORTION, WORK TO SUPPORT HUMANAE VITAE. CONTRACEPTION CAUSES ABORTION, EASY DIVORCE, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND PORNOGRAPHY.”
George H. Kubeck

The Destructive Influence of the CINOP - 20

The Destructive Influence of the CINOP - 20
Report Card # 20 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Friday, June 16, 2006

Chapter 5 – Gays and Lesbians are God’s Children, Too (cont’d)

Bill Press writes: “‘Hate is not a family value.’ That’s the slogan of a great organization called Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). It’s a slogan that most Americans, conservative or liberal, believers & nonbelievers alike, accept as a given.” P.177. However, the Culture of Life has another slogan for (PFLAG) and we can work together on this: “Love of unborn babies is a family value!” There is an axiom and a truism that goes like this: If you want to help a mother, help her child. If you want to give joy to a mother give joy and happiness to her child. If you want to hurt a mother, hurt her child. If you want to kill something within a mother kill her child.

There are a lot of lies about the unborn. For example, when their personhood begins and how they feel when they are aborted. A baby that is born with a physical or psychological handicap is still a child of God. God does not create junk.

I do not believe that political correctness and Planned Parenthood cares. They are liars about the unborn and we know who the spirit and father of lies is. It is believed that about 3 percent of the 4000 babies aborted each day in the U.S.A, is handicapped with possible homosexual tendencies. How does a caring society treat these babies?

First of all, there is a difference between a homosexual and a gay person. The radical gay American Jacobin leaders have a political and social agenda for the country. They speak for themselves. (They are encouraged, promoted and financed by the culture of death secular humanists.) These gays do not speak for homosexual oriented persons. I have not seen any Gallup polling on homosexuals on whether they want to change the definition of marriage or publicly promote the lifestyle of gay unions as normal.

From a recent Cardinal Newman Society letter: Father John F. Harvey, O.S.F.S.,

“Back in 1980, the late Cardinal Terrence Cooke, at the time the Archbishop of New York, asked me to establish a new Catholic apostolate to minister to the spiritual and moral needs of homosexual men and women. In the twenty-five years since then, that apostolate – known as Courage – has helped thousands of homosexual persons find the way, through prayer and the Sacraments, to live in accord with the laws of God and the teaching of His Church. That is the key: live in accord with God’s law and Catholic teaching.

“This has always been the spiritual message of Courage which is why we have the endorsement of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family…. All people must be treated with dignity, but homosexual activity is sinful.

“Unfortunately, young Catholic men and women today are more often hearing a far different message about homosexuality. They’re hearing that … Homosexual orientation is genetically determined – a claim for which there is virtually no scientific evidence. Anyone who feels he might have a homosexual orientation should resign himself to it forever, because it cannot be changed – a demonstrate falsehood…. And worst of all, that homosexual acts and heterosexual acts are morally equivalent….”

George H. Kubeck, posted again Thursday, December 18, 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Destructive Influence of the CINOP - 19

The Destructive Influence of the CINOP in the Catholic Church - 19
Report Card # 19 on Bill Press’s Book (V.I.P.)

How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007---Saturday, May 13, 2006- Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

Chapter 5- Gays and Lesbians are God’s Children, Too

We continue to probe the mind of the Catholic in Name Only Politician. On the couch we have CINOP Bill Press and the Bible in his own words.

“… Most Americans believe that Scripture, in both the Old and New Testaments, clearly tells us that homosexuality is wrong, sinful, unacceptable, and immoral…. A careful examination of Scripture – even those passages most often quoted as anti-gay – reveals that not only is the Bible less condemning of homosexuality than we were always taught, but that the Bible can actually be interpreted as either silent about, or supportive of, monogamous gay relationships...Most biblical scholars today agree that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is not about homosexuality, but rather about hospitality…. As Christian editor Inge Anderson wrote in Sins of Sodom, ‘ To suggest that Sodom and Gomorra is about homosexual sex is an analysis of about as much worth as suggesting that the story of Jonah and the whale is a treatise on fishing.’ 157, 160, 161

Apostle Paul’s anguish over sex and the use of the phrase ‘thorn in my flesh’ is a sign that Paul himself was a closeted gay man – which of course would be the ultimate, but not impossible irony…. Paul was clearly a man of his time. In his writings, he reflects all the presuppositions and patriarchal assumptions – anti-woman, antigay, pro-slavery – of a first-century mind-set. 163

Indeed, had gay marriage not been on the ballot in Ohio, Bush would probably not have been reelected…. Morality is on the side of same-sex marriage, and not against it. You tell me: despite the fact that Pope John Paul II branded gay marriage as part of a ‘new ideology of evil’, what’s immoral about two people in love entering into a lifelong, committed, monogamous relationship? 166

If it’s wrong to say that the bible condemns same sex marriages, it’s also wrong to insist that marriage has always been between one man and one woman – and therefore must always remain that way. The facts simply don’t support it…. Polygamy, Augustine wrote, ‘is not contrary to the nature of marriage.’ 169

Nevertheless, as more and more courts are confirming, there are zero constitutional grounds for the state to deny the privilege and benefits of marriage to gays and lesbians…. It’s only a matter of time. Gays are already winning the cultural war…. It’s not surprising that gays and lesbians hold a gay pride parade every June in most American cities: they’ve got a lot to be proud of…. The next month there was another milestone. The government of Spain, a predominately Roman Catholic country, ignored the church’s opposition and took the first steps to legalize gay marriage. 172, 173

From the above and last 18 letters, you can understand why the CINOP is a very dangerous politician. He is absolutely a Trojan horse not only within the Catholic Church but within the American Republic. In matters pertaining to one’s Catholic faith and the Church’s Catechism, he is a fraud. Historically, we had these types in Germany and Italy. In my district, there are two running. Hopefully, one of them will have a conversion. CINOP, thy name is Fraud.

George H. Kubeck, 5-13-06, Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, posted again Dec. 17, 2008

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Destructive Influence of the CINOP - 18

The Destructive Influence of the CINOP in the Catholic Church - 18

Report Card # 18 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Sat. Dec.8, 2007---Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Chapter 4 – Abortion and Stem Cell Research (cont’d)

The end justifies the means. This is a most dangerous principle. It is also one of the most disturbing characteristics of the CINOP (Catholic in name only Politician). Bill Press’s seven pages on The Promise of the Stem Cell Research are one of the most deceitful and clever sections in the book. Bill dismisses the Bible’s clear reverence for life and “You don’t create life in order to destroy it.”

It is in your face for the Southern Baptist Convention and the Catholic Church because they are the only two major churches officially opposed to embryonic stem cell research. Bill says, “In terms of promise for new cures, medical scientists now consider Adult Stem Cells a dead end.” 147 Yet, there has not been one cure from embryonic stem cells. There have been several from adult stem cells. If embryonic stem cell research has such a great future where are the private investors? What is audacious, arrogant and desperate is Bill’s section on Doing the Lord’s Work. 151 Bill’s words, “On stem cells, …What would Jesus do?

I don’t think there is any doubt. In fact, I would argue that, since their goal is finding cures for serious diseases afflicting millions of Americans, doctors who experiment with embryonic stem cells aren’t just doing academic research. They are doing the work of the Lord. Stem cell opponents find no support in the Bible, but proponents find plenty. After all, as every one of the four Gospels relates, Jesus spent much to His public ministry healing the sick. It was His life’s work.”

Have you noticed that any CINOP who takes a pro-abortion position in the public arena, becomes blind and stupid in other issues pertaining to the natural law and Christian social principles? There is the lady from … in the State Assembly (Patty Berg) who is sponsoring an assisted-suicide bill. Then we have the CINOP in California who signed unto the same-sex marriage law. Last year, in Canada, these so-called Catholics passed the same-sex marriage laws for the whole country.

Then there is the CINOP in San Francisco and back East. “Massachusetts anti-discrimination law stipulates all state adoption agencies be open to placing children with gay couples. The Church teaches that gay adoption is “gravely immoral,” but the (heavily Catholic!) state legislature refuses to pass a “conscience clause” bill allowing morally opposed religious groups to opt out of such adoptions.” The Mormons would do it in Utah and the Baptists in any of the Southern States. What can we call this CINOP: a spineless wimp or coward? I would rather have a pro-life atheist represent me in Sacramento or Washington, D.C. than a CINOP.

All of the above is a devastating scandal involving deceit and heresy. The CINOP is unscrupulous with the end justifies the means principle. It worked in Italy and Germany during the 1930’s. You sacrifice the true beliefs of your constituents. Your goal is winning and now hiding behind the immigration issue. Monies from members of the ACLU and Planned Parenthood will pour in. Maybe prayers to St. Thomas More and a mailed book about his life will open their eyes, hearts and minds.

George H. Kubeck, Posted again Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Monday, December 15, 2008

Stop pretending that they are Catholic! - 1

Stop pretending that they are Catholic! - 1
The website – cinops be gone – Monday, Dec. 15, 2008

Dear bishops, priests and Catholic laity, U.S.A.,
“On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of the darkness and fog the eyes of the blind shall see.” Isaiah 29:13-24

God wants a pro-life America. The writings and pronouncement of Pope Benedict XVI show us the way. So be it. A well informed Catholic clergy and laity is the first step.

We need to vomit this mindset out of our system. It is the mindset of the secular media that has duped and brainwashed many into it. For example, the nation’s funding of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. This has no foundation in natural law, reason and common sense. It does violence to science, hurts women and is destructive to family life. Yet the nation carries that burden. Thanks to political correctness and the culture of death advocates that seek to remake America into a secular European country. And who are their allies?

In like manner, we have the CINOP (Catholic-in-name-only politician) He is promoted by the media. We may see the CINOP in Church. You wonder how in God’s name can he be with an organization that is promoting directly and indirectly not one but five absolute evils on a national and state level. (Abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem cell research, assisted-suicide and euthanasia) WHY PRETEND THAT HE OR SHE IS CATHOLIC?

Doesn’t the CINOP have any priest, relatives or friends who are normal Catholics and share the Catechism of the Catholic Church with him? This is what I do not understand. I don’t see any difference between the five absolute evils and a politician promoting fornication, adultery and pornography. Do you? Are Catholics that duped and preconditioned from reality? It would be better to have a pro-life family agnostic represent us in government than any CINOP.

I can understand why authentic Catholic influence in America is negligible, embarrassing and shameful. It is a drop in the bucket compared to the Jewish influence in America. I subscribe to Forward, a weekly magazine out of New York. In the Nov. 21st issue they had fifty Americans of Jewish background influencing America. Can you name one or two Catholic laity positively influencing America today?

There is one from the notorious CINOP Sanchez’s 47th Congressional District at Christmas time. It is Loretta Sanchez and her white fluffy cat Gretzky, a fixture on all her holiday greetings – is on a Harley. It is sent to almost half a million people including residences of her district. Her secular campaign money pays for all of this. Only Catholic fools will think this is appropriate.

For the State California Senator and CINOP Lou Correa who represents my district in Sacramento, I plan to purchase the Catechism of the Catholic Church and deliver it to his office before Christmas.
Respectfully yours, George H. Kubeck

An Advent for the New Year

An Advent for the New Year
The website – cinops be gone – Tuesday. Dec. 15, 2008

From the classic daily entries in December- Co-Workers of the Truth, “Meditations for Every Day of the Year” Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Ignatius, San Francisco

Advent – what does this mean? “Advent” is a Latin word that can be rendered in English as “presence, arrival”. In the language of the ancient world it was a technical term expressing the arrival of an official, especially the arrival of kings or emperors in the provinces.

It could, however, equally denote the arrival of the deity who appears out of concealment and powerfully manifest his presence or whose presence was celebrated in cultic ritual. The Christians adopted this term to proclaim their special relationship to Jesus Christ.

“God is here.” He has not abandoned this world. He has not left us behind alone. Even though we cannot see and touch him like so many things- he is present, nevertheless and visits us in many ways.

The word “Heimsuchung,” visitation ought to make us aware that even hardship can contain something of the beauty that is Advent. Illness and suffering, just like great delight, can become occasions, as it were, of an intimately personal Advent – a visitation by God, who enters into my life and wants to turn to me. Although it may be difficult, we should nonetheless try just once to see our days of illness in such a light: the Lord has interrupted my activity for while to calm me down.

Within the context of human life, illness has its profound meaning. It may be God’s own moment in our life, a time when we are open to him and thus are led to find ourselves as well.

For the gifts of Jesus Christ do not merely reside in the future but indeed extend into the present. He, though hidden, dwells here already. He speaks to me in manifold ways – through Sacred Scripture, through the Church seasons, through the saints, through various events in every day life, through all of creation, which takes on a different appearance when he is standing behind it rather than being shrouded in a fog of a dubious origin and dubious destiny.

I can talk to him; I can wail before him and offer him my sufferings, my impatience, my questions, knowing that he is lending me an open ear.

George H. Kubeck

Sunday, December 14, 2008

The Destructive CINOP - 17

The Destructive Influence of the CINOP in the Catholic Church - 17

Report Card # 17 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Sunday, Dec. 2/07 ---Saturday, April l, 2006

Chapter 4 – Abortion and Stem Cell Research (cont’d)

We continue to discern the mind and heart of Bill Press and try to figure out the thought processes of a CINOP – Catholic in Name Only Politician or Person.

When you read pages 123-4 you wonder, what’s going on in the mind of pro-abortion catholic politicians? Let’s take a look at the following page.
“… the one, consistent theme of all the world’s religions is their blatant discrimination against women. Based on a literal reading of Genesis, where Eve is created only a helpmate to Adam, churches have always considered and treated women as second-class citizens: forcing them to wear a veil, remain silent, or sit in a different part of the church … of course, the Catholic Church still denies women ordination….So religious opposition to abortion must be seen as part of a pattern – the churches’ long history of talking down sex and putting down women.” 125

“But, in other ways, St. Paul does still rule. There are no women priests in the Catholic Church and no conservative evangelical women preachers.” 130

“But there is no doubt that this paternalistic attitude toward women still shapes today’s debate on abortion. The inescapable fact is that only women are biologically capable of getting pregnant… MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT; IF MEN COULD GET PREGNANT, ABORTION WOULD BE A NON-ISSUE. MEN WOULD NEVER LET ANYBODY TAKE AWAY THEIR RIGHT TO CHOOSE… (127) Note that Bill Press is a secular feminist par
excellence.
“If you had listened to Pope John Paul II, you would have concluded that abortion is a ‘legal extermination’ comparable to the Holocaust… No way, Abortion is certainly not the most pressing issue facing the planet. Around the world, poverty, hunger, genocide, global warming, terrorism, and HIV/AIDS receive, and deserve, more attention…. the lack of health insurance for millions of American families, the declining quality of education in our public schools, a monstrous federal deficit, and chronic unemployment all rate higher on the national crisis scale.” 127)
Then Bill has the next four pages on “The Bible Is Silent On Abortion.”

All of the above in Bill’s book is like reading a fairy tale. The CINOP needs a refresher course on the Roman Catholic Faith. He can start with the Catechism and the recent pronouncement of Cardinal William Levada, “When you see Catholic politicians who favor abortion rights … you ask yourself how this person squares with his personal faith. Catholic politicians need to take this seriously. Maybe they need to say I’m not able to practice my faith and be a public representative.” March 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com)

In closing, my State Senator Joe Dunn whom I have met is chairman of the State Judiciary Committee. Sadly, he is a CINOP. He has to vote on SB 1437 which would force transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual curriculum upon all California school children. SB 1437 is scheduled for a hearing on Tues. April 4, 2006….
George H. Kubeck, Posted Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Tom Wappel Address - 2 of 7

The Tom Wappel Address to Catholic Clergy Luncheon - 2 of 7
The website – cinops be gone – Saturday, December 13, 2008

This is the second in a series of letters on the verbatim remarks by Tom Wappel. Two questions: 1) How should U.S. pro-life leaders comment on this shocking story? 2) How does the staff at USCCB and bishops perceive this story?

Continued from the posting of Tuesday, Dec. 10. This is the despite the fact that I belong to Toronto Council 1388 of the Knights of Columbus and, at the time that I joined, the Chaplain was from the Spiritan Fathers and their headquarters were at Neil McNeal. Over many years, Fr. Gossin and others asked the principal and others at Neil McNeal to ask me to a graduation or invite me to a class on politics or civics or whatever. The various grand knights of the 1388 spoke to the various principals and specifically asked them to invite me periodically.

Never was I invited to Neal McNeal Catholic High School. I did make a point of going if I had a public forum or something of that nature. But, I always found it strange that, given the kinds of things that I was standing for in the public arena, that I would never have been invited to one of the Catholic High School in the riding.

I never had, to the best of my recollection, ever a meeting with any bishop in Toronto at any time. I did meet with Bishop Tonnos in Hamilton on a number of issues but I found this strange because I thought that we were working on the same side.

Before I go any further, I should issue the caveat, please don’t shoot the messenger – it is not going to get better as we go along but I am hoping that I give you something to think about and discuss with your colleagues.

I think it is fair for me to say, THAT IN MY 20 YEARS AS A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, IF NEVER RECEIVED AN ENCOURAGING LETTER FROM ANYONE IN THE CLERGY ABOVE THE RANK OF MONSIGNOR.

I went to Mexico as a Canadian delegate with Roseanne Stoke, who was an MP at that time from a central northern riding in Nova Scotia on the Pontifical Institute of the Family. There were cardinals there from Mexico, South America, the United States – that is where I got an opportunity to hear Cardinal O’Connor address us – what a wonderful man he was and what a man of faith as far as I could judge and certainly an inspiration to me.

I was shocked and disappointed to find that there was absolutely no clergy from Canada above the rank of Monsignor. There was no explanation as to why there was no bishop, auxiliary bishop; - there were all kinds of cardinals from all over the place, but not from Canada. I wrote to the Holy Father about this when I returned from Mexico – offering him some suggestions. I don’t know if that did any good – it is possible.

George H. Kubeck,

The Destructive CINOP - 16

The Destructive CINOP - 16
Report Card # 16 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Sunday, November 25, 2007 - Sunday Morning, March 19, 2006

Chapter 4 – Abortion and Stem Cell Research
There seems to be a hidden satisfaction and kind of devilish rebellion in the promotion of abortion on demand, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and embryonic stem cell research by the CINOP (Catholic in Name Only Politician). There are also a number of Republicans in this area. They think they can get away and continue to fool Catholics at election time.

All of the above are absolute evils. They are not the prudential issues which CINOP Bill throws in as a smoke screen to fool you. “Consider moral shortfalls: the execution of innocent people on death row, the white collar crime that emptied the pension funds belonging to millions of workers, the latent racism that still denies many opportunities to African and Hispanic-Americans, or the fact that we citizens of the wealthiest nation on earth look the other way while 36 million Americans live below the poverty line.” (122)

As a starter, I would like to gather information and participate in a tentative court case of fraud and false advertisement for any CINOP in office or running for office in the political arena. In Orange County, the CINOP really does not represent any district. Maybe, they could in San Francisco because that is what we have. It is a dirty joke, an obnoxious scandal and the promotion of a false Catholic religion.
Fellow Christian Baptists and Evangelicals would not put up with members with this kind of hogwash politicians. Why should faithful Catholics be like sheep and be quiet about it? In Orange County, the CINOP includes the Congresswoman, one State Senator, two State Assemblymen, and one Supervisor. We will be focusing on the values voters.

Here is the “Statement on Responsibilities of Catholics in Public Life” by the U.S. Bishops’ conference. Washington, D.C., March 12, 2006 http://www.zenit.org

“A recent public statement by 55 Catholic and Democratic members of the House of Representatives offers an opportunity to address several important points about the responsibilities of Catholics in public life….Pope John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation on the vocation and mission of the laity, Christifideles Laici, which the representatives’ statement cites, declares: The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights – for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture – is 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 …. The human being is entitled to such rights, in every phase of development, from conception until natural death, and in every condition, whether healthy or sick. whole or handicapped, rich or poor. (38)… It is essential to remember that conscience must be consistent with fundamental moral principles… all Catholics are obliged to shape our consciences in accord with the moral teaching of the Church… Through dialogue, between Catholic political leaders & their own bishops, we hope to promote a better understanding of how the Church’s teaching on human life & dignity challenges us all.”
George H. Kubeck, Posted Saturday, December 13, 2008

Friday, December 12, 2008

The Destructive CINOP - 15

The Destructive CINOP within the Catholic Church - 15
Report Card # 15 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans stole Christmas
Saturday, November 24, 2007 -March 11, 2006

Chapter 3 – The Death Penalty
There are many pro-life Democrats in the State Legislatures throughout the country. Why are there none in California? We continue with a brief review of this chapter. Our purpose is to explore the mind and heart of a Catholic=in Name only Politician and to make the derivative CINOP as common as U.N. or RINO – Republican in Name Only. Note that the CINOP is a true believer in the social gospel issues, but seemingly blind and uncaring about the life and family issues. We have on the one hand, the prudential decisions and on the other hand the absolute evil decisions. There is also a hope and prayer to bring the CINOP back to over-all Catholic Values.

In this part of Bill’s brain (the Death Penalty); his thoughts make a lot of sense. “In recent years, no group has been more out front opposing the death penalty than the Catholic Church. And this represents a big change. As seen above, church fathers like Augustine and Aquinas originally steered the church in favor of executions as a legitimate function of the state….At least the Catholic Church is consistent. Its official position – based on reverence for life – is against abortion, in all cases, and against the death penalty, in all cases….There is simply no way that the death penalty can be uniformly and fairly applied, nationwide….Life in prison without parole is the proven, reliable, humane alternative to the death penalty.” p. 108, 110- 112.

Prior to the above, Bill Press is very much annoyed with St. Paul. “In their lust to justify killing their fellow men and women conservative Christians practically leap with joy whenever they stumble upon St. Paul’s letter to the Romans. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for example, believes that St. Paul in Romans 13:4 gives the state all the authority it needs to kill… Religious conservatives follow St. Paul only selectively. They embrace the death penalty, yet they are also the first ones to start complaining about paying their taxes….But more seriously, is there anyone living in the twenty-first century who actually takes St. Paul at his word?” p. 101-2
To prove his point, Bill quotes St. Paul.

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord…. Slaves obey your earthly masters in everything that you do: Colossians 3:18, 22

Unfortunately, Bill Press quoted Mario Cuomo who is an outspoken death penalty opponent. As governor of New York in the 1980’s he begged the Vatican: “Please, please, please speak on this subject.” Readers need to be informed that Cuomo via his writings is the Patron Saint of pro-abortion Catholic politicians. In the process Mario muddied the waters of Catholic thinking and had a bad influence on the U.S. Bishops.

In hindsight, decades ago, the bishop should have talked to the CINOP. Please attend Mass on Sundays, but don’t receive Holy Communion. It would also have been the best for our Catholic Faith and for the viability and survival of the Democratic Party which has many Catholics registered as Democrats.

A Common Sense Pro-Life Dispatch, George H. Kubeck, Posted Dec. 12, 2008

Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Destructive CINOP - 4

The Destructive CINOP within the Catholic Church - 14
Report Card # 14 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 --Feb. 25, 2006
Chapter 2 – Killing in the Name of Jesus - cont’d

It takes time to digest in the stomach of our minds the tragedy of pseudo-Catholics politicians in the political arena not only in Europe but in this hemisphere. For example, there is Fidel Castro in Cuba, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and of course the CINOP in the Americas.

The most powerful weapon against the culture of death advocates is the truth. The reader will recognize lies. I hate a raw deal. Justice is truth in action. These misguided advocates of the culture of death need to be exposed. They are: Planned Parenthood and their supporters, the ACLU and their crowd, and the CINOPS, (Catholics in Name Only Politicians) who are as dangerous as any of the others in America.

Let’s increase Bill Press’s aggravation with a tape recorded about 1990, how
To Turn America Back to God, Christian Coalition, Box 1990, Chesapeake, VA 23327.

• This meeting is a meeting of destiny. We are living in an extraordinary time of history…. The greatest thing we can do for people is to give them opportunity, your right to have an open door in America and go as high as you want to….The best solution to welfare is a job and not a hand-out….

• This is a time when communism is failing and its sister is failing along with it and which is called humanism, secular humanism is falling apart because exhibit A is the failed monstrosity of the command society of Russia and when that came down so did the so-called elites of the United States. They just haven’t learned it yet. As someone said nobody anywhere in the world no longer believes in Marxism except professors in the U.S. universities caught in the 60’s time zone and it’s time to get them out of their jobs of teaching….

• This going to be the decade of the spirit, of spiritual values….
• We are hearing noises about a new world order. We are hearing that the U.N. which for 25 years was a silly joke suddenly is going to rule the world and those we were to cede the sovereignty of America to this organization that voted against our interest 85% of the time from its conception to the Gulf War….

• Regrettably, there is a movement coming from the East. A New Age type religion which is going to be challenging Christianity….

• Christianity has been in retreat for many, many decades under the assault of Liberalism and humanism…. And into that void steps an organization called Christian Coalition. (This is a Pat Robertson’s tape)

In closing, let us focus in on the straw that broke the camel’s back. The straw is the role that the CINOP played in the defeat of California’s Prop. 73 – Parental Notification Measure in Nov. of 2005. It was a defeat for family values and parental rights. This fact needs to be repeated over and over again in Orange County’s 34th State Senate District which I happen to live in. There will be two CINOPs running in the Democratic primary, Tom Umberg and Lou Correa. In the Republican primary, we have Assemblyman Van Tran and Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher. Van Tran is Catholic, a parental rights and pro-family candidate versus Lynn Daucher, a RINO, supported by Planned Parenthood.

George H. Kubeck, Posted on the cinops be gone – Thursday, December 11, 2008.

BLAGOYEVICH AND OBAMA'S CATHOLIC VOTERS

Blagoyevich and Obama’s Catholic Voters
The website – cinops be gone – Thursday, December 11, 2008

When I heard of the shameful scandal and filthy conversation recorded in the office of the Illinois governor, at least four or five thoughts came to my mind. Wouldn’t I be wonderful if we had a Democratic SARAH PALIN come into town and clean up the historic Illinois state corruption?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful for Illinois Democratic and Republican pro-life and family advocates to join forces and clean up the cesspool of corrupt politics with pay-offs, bribes and voting frauds in this pyramid from the city of CINOP Chicago politicians to the governor’s office? It is like the tip of an iceberg with abortion on top and same-sex marriage, assisted-suicide, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research on the bottom.

This is similar Nixon’s Watergate Scandal, except Nixon’s scandal was really boy-scout material involving one primary suspect. I recall when this happened; it broke my heart as a Republican. The big difference is the Press hated Nixon and loves Obama. I am sure it’s breaking the hearts of Obama’s Catholic voters. The only positive thing in the 54% of the national Catholic vote for Obama is that you helped to break the racial barrier.

Also, I am sorry to report that many Catholic voters were duped by Catholic-con-artists and front organizations for the CINOP in the Presidential elections. Please check the blog for The Case against “Catholics United” # 3. Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008.
“Life News: George Soros Funds Catholic Groups Making Obama Seem Pro-Life on Abortion: … in a surprising twist, it seems liberal financier GEORGE SOROS has been pouring money into Catholic groups that are painting Obama in a favorable pro-life light. ACCORDING TO IRS RECORDS, BOTH CATHOLICS UNITED AND CATHOLIC IN ALLIANCE HAVE BENEFITED BY TENS OF THOUSANDS FROM THE UNLIKELY PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MOVE.ORG FOUNDER, Donahue who exposed the link…”

Then I checked to find out the religious affiliation of Governor Rod Blagojevich. I thought it was Catholic but it is Eastern Orthodox. In other words, he is an Eastern Orthodox Christian-in-name-only. I was kind of disappointed to learn that he got his JD Pepperdine University in 1983. Well that’s where Doug Kmiec, the law professor is in residence. I better start checking my own credential after having obtained an M.A. in U.S. History from Pepperdine in 1969 on Alexander Hamilton’s Criticism of John Adams’ Foreign Policy. We will focus on Doug Kmiec’s tortured exercise in casuistry another time.

I already knew the notorious history of Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. Does he qualify as a CINOP? You decide whether he is a certified Catholic-label fraud-politician. He voted against the Catholic position on the following ten issues.

1.)Funding of overseas pro-abortion organizations (109th) 2.) Funding of embryo-killing stem cell research (H.R. 810) (109th) 3.) Child Custody Protection Act (S. 403): passage (109th) 4.) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA) (109th)

5.) Federal Marriage Amendment Act (109th) 6.) Harkin Amendment to endorse Roe v. Wade (108th)7.)Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003: passage (108th) 8.) Abortion in MilitaryMedical Facilities (108th) 9.) Feinstein Substitute Amendment (single-victim substitute) (108th) 10.) Unborn Victims of Violence Act: passage (108th).

Finally, advocates of marriage must fear, shun and vote out of office the dangerous CINOP.
George H. Kubeck

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The Tom Wappel Address - 1 of 7

The Tom Wappel Address to Catholic Clergy Luncheon – 1 of 7
The website- cinops be gone – Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2008

This is the first in a series of letters on the verbatim remarks by Tom Wappel. Two questions: 1) How should U.S. pro-life leaders comment on this shocking story? 2) How does the staff at USCCB & bishops perceive this story? There are lessons to this Canadian story.

Toronto, Ontario, November 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recently retired Liberal Member of Parliament Tom Wappel gave the following address to a group of Catholic clergy at a luncheon for archdiocese of Toronto clergy organized by Campaign Life Coalition, on November 19, 2008

See also “Leading Canadian Pro-Life MP Relates Shocking 20 Year Lack of Support from Catholic Clergy” http://www.lifesitenews.com/idn/2008/nov/08112512.html
To hear the actual audio of Tom Wappel’s complete talk: http://www.lifesitenews.com /idn/audio/wappel.wma

Jim, Hughes Introduction: It is my great pleasure to introduce our second guest, all the way from Ottawa, a man who has been called by the people on the other side of the House the man who is Dean of the Pro-Life movement on Parliament Hill. For 20 years, he served as well as an out-spoken pro-life Member of Parliament. We are going to miss him like crazy because he decided not to run in the last Federal Election, but without further ado – a man who had made many sacrifices for the unborn and for the issue – please give a warm welcome to Mr. Tom Wappel.

Tom Wappel: What I thought I would do is just talk a little about myself – particularly in relation to my experience with Catholic clergy. This is what I really what I want to talk about since this is a Priest for Life meeting. So, I want to talk about my experiences over 20 years- or lack thereof – with Catholic clergy in a variety of settings. And then I want to take my own advice, when I was chair of Parliamentary committees I used to tell people, “Don’t just come and complain about a piece of legislation, offer some constructive advice about how to make it better.”

I am going to go through 13 recommendations that I am going to ask you – and the hierarchy – to consider and they are recommendations that, if I were a priest and I am not so I can’t walk in those shoes – these are the kinds of things, on the life issues that I would be doing or trying to do. That might be a naïve statement and I will let you judge of that because you are the clergy.

My experience with the Catholic clergy in my political life over 20 years – for the most part, one could say would be equivalent of my experience with clergy in other denominations be it Jewish, Muslim or other Christian denominations. To me, I am a little surprised at that – I am Catholic. It was well known many years ago what my positions were. I was if I may say so publicly espousing classical Catholic doctrine with respect to life issues. So, I would have experienced that, in general, there would have been more interaction between myself & the Catholic clergy than there has been over the last 20 years.

Let me explain. In my riding, I retired one month and five days ago, not that I am counting, so in my former riding there are 6 Catholic churches and two Catholic high schools and I will those as examples. I represented the area for 20 years…

I believe I was asked to speak at those 6 Catholic churches – in 2 of the 6, and 4 of the 6 never in 20 years. There are two Catholic high schools in the riding, Cardinal Newman and Neal McNeil – in 20 years, I was asked to speak Cardinal Newman, twice and Neal McNeil – a total of zero times….
George H. Kubeck,

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Destructive CINOP - 13

The Destructive CINOP within the Catholic Church – 13
Report Card # 13 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Posted also on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007 --Thurs. Feb. 9, 2006

Chapter 2 – Killing in the Name of Jesus (cont’d)

It leaves a bad taste in my mind for anyone using the Jesus name to score political points and also to speculate on the motives of Christians on war and peace issues. It is the regular media ploy to denigrate and ridicule all Christians and that includes Catholics.

The CINOP Bill Press does have some good points and food for thought in this chapter. Here are several of the topics: Fighting a Just War, Fighting a Religious War in Iraq, The Day of Rapture is Near, No Such Thing as a “Just” Preemptive War, etc. However, as a Christian, Bill has an irrational anger against the Christian Coalition. If they had only supported his political party, all would be well. The Christian Coalition as with the pro-life movement has been marginalized, made fun off and often ignored by the secular media. Bill spouts the propaganda of the secularist agenda.

Let us take a historical perspective backwards from the 1990’s first and then to the 1930’s. From a tape of about 1990, what does the Christian Coalition believe?

Their goal is decisions for Christ throughout the world. They are Christian and not ashamed of Jesus and that is why they are called the Christian Coalition. We are the only society where the elites (Academic and Moneyed) have turned against themselves and tried to destroy the country they live in. If we are not aware of our enemies we will lose.

The first thing we believe is that Almighty God rules in the affairs of men and nations ignore his commandments at their peril.

The second thing they believe is enunciated in the Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. They believe that the liberty we have in America does not come from Washington, D.C. It comes from Almighty God. Government did not give it to us and government can’t take it away. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are fundamental rights. As Christians and as citizens of America, the primary right given by God is for the elderly and the unborn child. Furthermore, we resolve that and will not rest and will continue to assail the Legislature, Courts, and Liberals until every unborn child is safe in his mother’s womb in America. (to be cont’d)

In Report Card # 9, I noted that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, a (CINOP) Catholic was one of the 48 representatives who wrote a letter to the U.S. Bishops warning them that the “threat of withholding a sacrament will revive latent anti-Catholic prejudice.” This bothers me a lot. Maybe, you can figure it out. Well, thanks for the warning CINOPS. Catholic Laity organizations are so timid. Resolutions should be passed condemning this kind of indirect blackmail of our Catholic Bishops.

Ex-Catholics trying to justify their political positions can be very dangerous. During the 1930’s, there were quite a number of pseudo-Catholics in leadership positions in the National Socialist Party in Germany. Ask the survivors of the Holocaust. Hitler and Goebbels were ex-Catholics.

George H. Kubeck, Posted on the blog – cinops be gone - Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Monday, December 8, 2008

The Destructive CINOP - 12 of 23

The Destructive CINOP within the Catholic Church - 12
Report Card # 12 on Bill Press’s Book
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
Posted Monday, December 08, 2008, - Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007 - Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006

Chapter 2 – Killing in the Name of Jesus (cont’d)
There is a Catholic Laity that has common sense and wisdom. What can Bill Donohue of Catholic League of Religious and Civil Rights teach us indirectly in dealing with the CINOP and the Bill Presses of the world? In the district I live in we are going to have a CINOP running for office in the State Senate race.

Here is the gist of a talk Bill Donohue gave in Orange County in 1996, via a Cardinal Mindszenty Society Conference. 3-23-96. * Pope John Paul II has asked the laity to be engaged. First of all, the Catholic League does not get involved in any kind of internal Church dispute. Bill is not a spokesman for the Catholic Church. The League is there so that the voice of the Catholic Church, the clergy in particular can be heard.

Stop being a doormat and be proud of your Catholicism. That is why I deplore Anti-Semitism. I learned it in the Catholic schools. We need to get up to the plate and speak back, the way the Jews have been doing it for years.

Be aware that the Catholic Church is proudly counter cultural. By this we mean that the Catholic Church teaches about freedom and that freedom is the right to do what you ought to do. Our culture teaches freedom is the right to do whatever you want to do. That is why a lot of the elites hate us.

You can organize a phone tree and this is very effective for any cause. You can form you own little citizen Ad Hoc Committee. Get yourself a lawyer and a 501 C3 Status. Get yourself some letter head and a fax. You will be surprised what you can do once you have a name behind you. *

And now let me share some tough love. The truth hurts. Since the Roe vs. Wade Decision, Jan. 22, 1973, the CINOP is responsible for Catholics leaving the Church for another religion, watering down and rewriting our Faith and Tradition, and fueling anti-Catholicism in America. The Alito Hearings were an education for all Americans and in particular for Catholics. I apologize to the Baptists,

Evangelicals and other Christians for the CINOPS during the Confirmation Hearings. The Catholic in Name only Politicians promote the Culture of Death. They embarrass and denigrate our Catholic Faith.

Senator Edward Kennedy is concerned about the March for Progress and expanding Civil Rights. For him, this means giving absolute rights and legal status to the agenda of the ACLU and redefining the meaning of words like Marriage. I am really fed up with Catholic Liberals in Canada and Catholic Socialists in Spain passing same-sex marriage laws. This is a disgrace of the highest order and we need to stop it in the U.S.

The party and principles of John F. Kennedy are dead. They do not exist in California, Massachusetts or New York. Why remain registered with a dead party? The least you can do is to reregister to Decline to State. This would be a good start for all including Christian clergy and Religious and the staff at the California State, and the National Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The CINOP is an albatross around the neck of the Catholic Church’s new evangelization. The CINOP must be shamed, shunned and defeated at election time.
George H. Kubeck, 2-2-06, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord