The Tragedy of Sexual Abuse of Minors
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, March 31, 2010
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/03/scoundrel-times * George Weigel
1.Be honest and look at the statistics:
•< 2% of priests have been found guilty of sexual abuse of minors;
•98% of priests are striving to live lives of celibacy and holiness. {There were six credible cases of clerical abuse in 2009 as reported in the U.S. bishops’ annual audit, in a church of some 65 million members.}*
•35-50% of sexual abuse of minor cases occur in the home by relatives or friends;
•40% of sexual abuse of minor cases occur within the educational system.
2.Even 1 case of a sexual abuse of a minor is a tragedy.
3.Sexual abuse is often hidden and denied or excused.
4.The guilty excuse themselves by pointing to high profile perpetrators or those under suspicion of abuse.
5.Many among the critics tend to ignore the facts, refusing to accept one is innocent until proven guilty. People are angry and condemn the Church.
6.Jesus warns the angry accusers, “Judge not and you will not be judged…Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
7.Jesus called twelve men to follow him:
•Peter, the first pope denied he knew Jesus;
•Judas sold Jesus to his enemies and later hanged himself because he couldn’t accept forgiveness;
•The apostles ran away when the soldiers came to arrest Jesus.
8.Jesus founded His church on imperfect humans born with original sin; those living on this earth are not perfect. He came to call sinners.
9.If those looking for THE PERFECT CHURCH think they have found such a church, if they join this so called church, the church becomes imperfect because they (the new members) themselves are imperfect.
10.Pray for sinners that they may accept the graces God wants to give them.
11.Pray sinners ask for forgiveness and beg God for the graces to overcome their weaknesses.
12.Pray for all priests, bishops and the Pope (who come from the pool of imperfect humans); they suffer because of the scandals.
13.Throughout history (2000 years) the Catholic Church has been afflicted by sins of heresy, dishonesty, unfaithfulness and failures to teach the members how to overcome their weaknesses/sins. Yet, the Catholic Church still exists.
14.Jesus said, “Thou are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
G.H. and M. Kubeck
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
When Pretense Masquerades as Virtue # 2 of 2
When Pretense Masquerades as Virtue. # 2 of 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, March 27, 2010
We continue with the article by columnist Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, March 24th.
“Finally, an executive order cannot trump or change a federal statute.
“One can reasonably surmise that Obama, a former constitutional law professor, is well aware of the uselessness of his promise. Perhaps this is why he didn’t mention it during the bill-signing ceremony Tuesday.
“Stupak knew that the executive order was merely political cover for him and his pro-life colleagues. He knew it because several members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops explained it to him, according to sources. The only way to prevent public funding for abortion was for his amendment to be added to the Senate bill.
“Clearly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the president didn’t want that. What they did want was the abortion funding that the Senate bill allowed.
“Thus the health care bill passed because of a mutually understood deception – a pretense masquerading as virtue. No wonder Stupak locked his doors and turned off his phones Sunday, according to several pro-life lobbyists who camped outside his office.
“Stupak’s fall from grace is a lesson in human frailty. In a matter of hours, he went from representing the majority of Americans who don’t want public money spent on abortion to leading the army on the other side. Already he has lost speaking invitation to the Illinois Catholic Prayer Breakfast next month.
“After the Sunday vote, a group of Democrats, including Stupak, gathered in a pub to celebrate. In a biblical moment, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner was spotted planting a big kiss on Stupak’s cheek. To a Catholic man well versed in the Gospel, this is not a comforting gesture.”
George H. Kubeck “As a Congressman and voting for the Senate Health Care Bill and a practicing Catholic, I would have excommunicated myself from my Catholic Faith and the Catholic Church. You can find a liberal theologian telling you, you are not.”
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, March 27, 2010
We continue with the article by columnist Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, March 24th.
“Finally, an executive order cannot trump or change a federal statute.
“One can reasonably surmise that Obama, a former constitutional law professor, is well aware of the uselessness of his promise. Perhaps this is why he didn’t mention it during the bill-signing ceremony Tuesday.
“Stupak knew that the executive order was merely political cover for him and his pro-life colleagues. He knew it because several members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops explained it to him, according to sources. The only way to prevent public funding for abortion was for his amendment to be added to the Senate bill.
“Clearly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the president didn’t want that. What they did want was the abortion funding that the Senate bill allowed.
“Thus the health care bill passed because of a mutually understood deception – a pretense masquerading as virtue. No wonder Stupak locked his doors and turned off his phones Sunday, according to several pro-life lobbyists who camped outside his office.
“Stupak’s fall from grace is a lesson in human frailty. In a matter of hours, he went from representing the majority of Americans who don’t want public money spent on abortion to leading the army on the other side. Already he has lost speaking invitation to the Illinois Catholic Prayer Breakfast next month.
“After the Sunday vote, a group of Democrats, including Stupak, gathered in a pub to celebrate. In a biblical moment, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner was spotted planting a big kiss on Stupak’s cheek. To a Catholic man well versed in the Gospel, this is not a comforting gesture.”
George H. Kubeck “As a Congressman and voting for the Senate Health Care Bill and a practicing Catholic, I would have excommunicated myself from my Catholic Faith and the Catholic Church. You can find a liberal theologian telling you, you are not.”
When Pretense Masquerades as Virtue # 1 of 2
When Pretense Masquerades as Virtue # 1 of 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, March 27, 2010
{National syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker has penned a devastating column on Bart Stupak that was distributed today. March 24, 2010 in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers across the country. And we are in it. Before you read on, let me (Brian Burch) say something.
Rep. Stupak made a horrible choice. We wrote on this on Monday. Make no mistake we take no delight in the public airing of his failure. Indeed, there is nothing here to celebrate. CatholicVote.org urges you to pray that Mr. Stupak and other politicians who compromised on this foundational issue will recognize the error in their judgment. We pray for them, and all our leaders that the light of Christ will illuminate their minds and strengthen their resolve to stand firm for what is right.}
Etymology: Eponym for Rep. Bart Stupak
Function: verb – 1: In a legislative process, to obstruct passage of a proposed law on the basis of a moral principle (i.e. protecting the unborn) , accumulating in the process, then at a key moment surrendering in exchange for fig leaf, the size which varies according to the degree of emasculation of said legislator and/or as a reflection of just how stupid people are presumed to be. (Slang: backstabber.)
Poor Bart Stupak. The man tried to be a hero for the unborn, and then, when all the power of the moment was in his frail human hands, he dropped the baby.
Now, in the wake of his decision to vote “yes” for a health care bill that expands public funding for abortion, he is vilified and will forever be remembered as the guy who Stupaked health care reform and the pro-life movement.
Of all the disappointed activists, Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org and creator of StandWithStupak.com was perhaps the most demonstrated in his support of pro-life Democrats. He even created a video with a remake of the final battle scene from “Braveheart.”
A helmeted British Barack Obama says, “Our calvary will ride them down like grass …Full Attack!” Whereupon, Stupak, eyeglasses incongruously perched on his blue-painted face, commands his pitchfork army, “Steady … Hold, hold, hold.” Alas, Stupak couldn’t hold.
Ultimately, he was weak and overwhelmed by raw political power. History is no stranger to such moments, but this one needs to be understood for what it was. A deception.
The executive order promising no federal funds will be used for abortion is utterly useless, and everybody knows it. First, the president can revoke it as quickly as he signs it.
Second, an order cannot confer jurisdiction in the courts or establish any grounds for suing anybody in court, according to a former White House counsel… judicially unenforceable…
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, March 27, 2010
{National syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker has penned a devastating column on Bart Stupak that was distributed today. March 24, 2010 in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers across the country. And we are in it. Before you read on, let me (Brian Burch) say something.
Rep. Stupak made a horrible choice. We wrote on this on Monday. Make no mistake we take no delight in the public airing of his failure. Indeed, there is nothing here to celebrate. CatholicVote.org urges you to pray that Mr. Stupak and other politicians who compromised on this foundational issue will recognize the error in their judgment. We pray for them, and all our leaders that the light of Christ will illuminate their minds and strengthen their resolve to stand firm for what is right.}
Etymology: Eponym for Rep. Bart Stupak
Function: verb – 1: In a legislative process, to obstruct passage of a proposed law on the basis of a moral principle (i.e. protecting the unborn) , accumulating in the process, then at a key moment surrendering in exchange for fig leaf, the size which varies according to the degree of emasculation of said legislator and/or as a reflection of just how stupid people are presumed to be. (Slang: backstabber.)
Poor Bart Stupak. The man tried to be a hero for the unborn, and then, when all the power of the moment was in his frail human hands, he dropped the baby.
Now, in the wake of his decision to vote “yes” for a health care bill that expands public funding for abortion, he is vilified and will forever be remembered as the guy who Stupaked health care reform and the pro-life movement.
Of all the disappointed activists, Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org and creator of StandWithStupak.com was perhaps the most demonstrated in his support of pro-life Democrats. He even created a video with a remake of the final battle scene from “Braveheart.”
A helmeted British Barack Obama says, “Our calvary will ride them down like grass …Full Attack!” Whereupon, Stupak, eyeglasses incongruously perched on his blue-painted face, commands his pitchfork army, “Steady … Hold, hold, hold.” Alas, Stupak couldn’t hold.
Ultimately, he was weak and overwhelmed by raw political power. History is no stranger to such moments, but this one needs to be understood for what it was. A deception.
The executive order promising no federal funds will be used for abortion is utterly useless, and everybody knows it. First, the president can revoke it as quickly as he signs it.
Second, an order cannot confer jurisdiction in the courts or establish any grounds for suing anybody in court, according to a former White House counsel… judicially unenforceable…
George H. Kubeck
Thursday, March 25, 2010
BETRAYED
BETRAYED
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, March 25, 2010
Preface:
The above is the title of an e-mail received, March 22, 2010 from brianburch@catholicvoteacttion.crg to gmkubeck@aol.com
Dear Friend of CatholicVote.org
I just got off the phone with the campaign director for Rep. Bart Stupak.
I told her that the members of CatholicVote.org were appalled by his decision to cave and give President Obama control over tax payer funding for abortion. I also told his staff that we are rescinding our invitation for him to speak at a special CatholicVote.org event scheduled in Chicago for late April.
Rep. Stupak accepted a meaningless promise of an “Executive Order” that does not address the fundamental problems of the bill in doing so he not only allowed the pro-abortion bill to pass, his actions gutted any hope for a bipartisan pro-life movement that many argued would have been possible had he stood firm.
After everything we did to support Stupak and his coalition, his actions yesterday were devastating. We were betrayed.
Reality Check:
Confronting a loss of such significance is dispiriting. The emails pouring in to CatholicVote range from frustration with politics in general to questions about whether there can truly be a pro-life Democrat.
I share many of these frustrations. Our staff did everything possible to stop this disaster. We worked around the clock last week and all weekend to hold the vote together. We worked with individual bishops and staff to encourage wavering votes to hold firm. We were in regular communication with key representatives and their staffs. We ran radio ads, and launched the Stand With Stupak campaign.
We were confident that we had the votes to stop the legislation, until the end, when Stupak and his key allies folded.
The “Stand With Stupak” campaign was about a principle, not a single man. The principle was simple – no compromise on abortion. And in the end even Bart Stupak didn’t stand with Stupak.
Looking Ahead:
We may be a movement that is hope-filled, but we are also a movement of action. The frustrations and anger you are inevitably feeling now cannot be ignored. Over the next 7 months we will be preparing for the November elections. Any politician who supported this bill must pay a price. And that price is ultimately paid at the ballot box.
The backers of this health care bill never gave up. They fought for nearly a year against public opinion, and wore down their opponents until they got what they wanted.We must resolve to do the same. Remember what happened last night. Remember how you feel right now. November will be here before you know it.
Sincerely,
Brian
George H. Kubeck thank you Brian for sharing your ideas on this abortion included Health Care B.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, March 25, 2010
Preface:
The above is the title of an e-mail received, March 22, 2010 from brianburch@catholicvoteacttion.crg to gmkubeck@aol.com
Dear Friend of CatholicVote.org
I just got off the phone with the campaign director for Rep. Bart Stupak.
I told her that the members of CatholicVote.org were appalled by his decision to cave and give President Obama control over tax payer funding for abortion. I also told his staff that we are rescinding our invitation for him to speak at a special CatholicVote.org event scheduled in Chicago for late April.
Rep. Stupak accepted a meaningless promise of an “Executive Order” that does not address the fundamental problems of the bill in doing so he not only allowed the pro-abortion bill to pass, his actions gutted any hope for a bipartisan pro-life movement that many argued would have been possible had he stood firm.
After everything we did to support Stupak and his coalition, his actions yesterday were devastating. We were betrayed.
Reality Check:
Confronting a loss of such significance is dispiriting. The emails pouring in to CatholicVote range from frustration with politics in general to questions about whether there can truly be a pro-life Democrat.
I share many of these frustrations. Our staff did everything possible to stop this disaster. We worked around the clock last week and all weekend to hold the vote together. We worked with individual bishops and staff to encourage wavering votes to hold firm. We were in regular communication with key representatives and their staffs. We ran radio ads, and launched the Stand With Stupak campaign.
We were confident that we had the votes to stop the legislation, until the end, when Stupak and his key allies folded.
The “Stand With Stupak” campaign was about a principle, not a single man. The principle was simple – no compromise on abortion. And in the end even Bart Stupak didn’t stand with Stupak.
Looking Ahead:
We may be a movement that is hope-filled, but we are also a movement of action. The frustrations and anger you are inevitably feeling now cannot be ignored. Over the next 7 months we will be preparing for the November elections. Any politician who supported this bill must pay a price. And that price is ultimately paid at the ballot box.
The backers of this health care bill never gave up. They fought for nearly a year against public opinion, and wore down their opponents until they got what they wanted.We must resolve to do the same. Remember what happened last night. Remember how you feel right now. November will be here before you know it.
Sincerely,
Brian
George H. Kubeck thank you Brian for sharing your ideas on this abortion included Health Care B.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP - 4 of 4
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP – 4 of 4
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Preface: Concerning the Stupak betrayal, legal experts at the US Catholic Conference of Bishops, National Right to Life Committee, Americans United for Life, and Family Research Council have confirmed that if the Senate bill is signed into law, it is a statuary mandate for the new health plans to include federal funding of elective abortion. Maybe, the U.S.A. pro-life movement can learn something overall from Chaput’s talk. (Cont’d)
“Now here’s the first and most important do. DO BECOME MARTYRS… Martyr is originally a Greek word, and it simply means “witness.” We need to witness our beliefs about human dignity with example of our daily choices and actions. But public can be costly. We need to be ready to pay a price for our convictions. We may never be asked to bleed for what we believe. But we do see character assassination, contempt and calumny against good people every day in our public media. We need to prepare for that. Nothing, not even our good name, should stop us from doing what we know to be right.
“Here’s the second do. DO KEEP HOPE ALIVE. Cultivating a spirit of joy is not self-deceptive. It’s a way to acknowledge that God really is on the side of human life and dignity, that human nature, created by God and despite the wound of original sin, is also on our side. Nothing is more important than happy warriors. I have never seen in my life joy-filled pro-abortion event. And I’ve always found that instructive.
“Here’s the third do. DO USE THE BEST MEANS OF YOUR MESSAGE, ESPECIALLY THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES. Today’s new technologies can be a mixed blessing. But they’re also cheap and useful tools that pro-lifers – like Brian Burch at catholicvote.org and many others -- can use very effectively. Many of the traditional, mainline media are losing influence. Bogs, social networks and You Tube are thriving…
“Here is the fourth and final do - DO REMEMBER THAT RENEWING THE CULTURE, NOT GRASPING AT POWER, IS OUR REAL GOAL. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ACTION IS VITAL. BUT IT’S NOT AN END IN ITSELF.
“Culture is our “human ecology” – the environment where we breathe not only air, but ideas, beliefs, art, music, social manners and values. Our job is to carry out; according the talents and skills God gave us, what John Paul II called the “evangelization of culture.”
… Culture can be changed in small but powerful ways. But achieving that change demands from each of us a lifelong commitment to education; to studying and really understanding the issues that face us in science, medicine, technology and law; … to personal action and personal witness in the public square…
“I want to leave you with two final thoughts. Here’s the first. Nothing we do to defend the human person, no matter how small, is ever unfruitful or forgotten. Our actions touch other lives and move other hearts in ways we can never fully understand …
“Don’t ever underestimate the beauty and power of the witness you give in your pro-life work… But I also came here for me, to see your dedication and to draw friendship and strength from you. One thing we learn from Scripture is that God doesn’t have much use for the vain, or the prideful, for big shots or celebrities. But He loves the “anawim” – the ordinary, simple, everyday people who keep God’s Word, who stay faithful to His commandments, and who sustain the life of the world by leavening it with their goodness…
“Here’s my second and final thought. I was in Texas last week, and a friend shared with me the unofficial motto of the Texas Rangers. It goes like this: “No man in the wrong can stand up against a fella that’s in the right, and keeps a-comin.”… Virtue does matter. Courage and humility, justice and perseverance, do have the power. Good does win…
George H. Kubeck, the Stupak betrayal is a tragedy. We have a few articles on it.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Preface: Concerning the Stupak betrayal, legal experts at the US Catholic Conference of Bishops, National Right to Life Committee, Americans United for Life, and Family Research Council have confirmed that if the Senate bill is signed into law, it is a statuary mandate for the new health plans to include federal funding of elective abortion. Maybe, the U.S.A. pro-life movement can learn something overall from Chaput’s talk. (Cont’d)
“Now here’s the first and most important do. DO BECOME MARTYRS… Martyr is originally a Greek word, and it simply means “witness.” We need to witness our beliefs about human dignity with example of our daily choices and actions. But public can be costly. We need to be ready to pay a price for our convictions. We may never be asked to bleed for what we believe. But we do see character assassination, contempt and calumny against good people every day in our public media. We need to prepare for that. Nothing, not even our good name, should stop us from doing what we know to be right.
“Here’s the second do. DO KEEP HOPE ALIVE. Cultivating a spirit of joy is not self-deceptive. It’s a way to acknowledge that God really is on the side of human life and dignity, that human nature, created by God and despite the wound of original sin, is also on our side. Nothing is more important than happy warriors. I have never seen in my life joy-filled pro-abortion event. And I’ve always found that instructive.
“Here’s the third do. DO USE THE BEST MEANS OF YOUR MESSAGE, ESPECIALLY THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES. Today’s new technologies can be a mixed blessing. But they’re also cheap and useful tools that pro-lifers – like Brian Burch at catholicvote.org and many others -- can use very effectively. Many of the traditional, mainline media are losing influence. Bogs, social networks and You Tube are thriving…
“Here is the fourth and final do - DO REMEMBER THAT RENEWING THE CULTURE, NOT GRASPING AT POWER, IS OUR REAL GOAL. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ACTION IS VITAL. BUT IT’S NOT AN END IN ITSELF.
“Culture is our “human ecology” – the environment where we breathe not only air, but ideas, beliefs, art, music, social manners and values. Our job is to carry out; according the talents and skills God gave us, what John Paul II called the “evangelization of culture.”
… Culture can be changed in small but powerful ways. But achieving that change demands from each of us a lifelong commitment to education; to studying and really understanding the issues that face us in science, medicine, technology and law; … to personal action and personal witness in the public square…
“I want to leave you with two final thoughts. Here’s the first. Nothing we do to defend the human person, no matter how small, is ever unfruitful or forgotten. Our actions touch other lives and move other hearts in ways we can never fully understand …
“Don’t ever underestimate the beauty and power of the witness you give in your pro-life work… But I also came here for me, to see your dedication and to draw friendship and strength from you. One thing we learn from Scripture is that God doesn’t have much use for the vain, or the prideful, for big shots or celebrities. But He loves the “anawim” – the ordinary, simple, everyday people who keep God’s Word, who stay faithful to His commandments, and who sustain the life of the world by leavening it with their goodness…
“Here’s my second and final thought. I was in Texas last week, and a friend shared with me the unofficial motto of the Texas Rangers. It goes like this: “No man in the wrong can stand up against a fella that’s in the right, and keeps a-comin.”… Virtue does matter. Courage and humility, justice and perseverance, do have the power. Good does win…
George H. Kubeck, the Stupak betrayal is a tragedy. We have a few articles on it.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP - 3 of 4
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP – 3 of 4
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Preface: In the light of Bart Stupak’s betrayal of the nation’s pro-life movement this past weekend: - by voting for the Senate’s abortion included Health Care Bill, the thoughts of Archbishop Chaput in his talk to the Cleveland Right to Life Center are most poignant.
“Of course, working to end abortion doesn’t absolve us from our obligations to the poor. It doesn’t excuse us from our duties to the disabled, the elderly and immigrants. In fact, it demands from us a much stronger commitment to materially support women who find themselves in a difficult pregnancy.
“All of these obligations are vital. God will hold us accountable if we ignore them. But none of these other duties can obscure the fact that no human rights are secure if the right to life is not. And unfortunately, abortion is no longer the major bioethical threat to that right in our culture. In fact, the right to life has never, at any time in the past, faced the range of challenges it faces right now, and will face in the immediate future. Physician-assisted suicide, cloning, genetic engineering and development in biotechnology will raise profoundly serious questions about the definition of “human nature” and the protection of human dignity in the years ahead.
“This raises a pressing question: What do those of us in pro-life work need to do in preparing for whatever lies ahead? Let me offer a few dos and don’t that might help guide us, and we can talk about them in greater depth during our discussion time.
“Here is the first don’t. DON’T LET DIVISIONS TAKE ROOT. Unity is a sign of God’s Spirit. Division is the sign of someone very different. St. Augustine said that we need to be united in the essentials, free in the debatables, and charitable in all things… As a bishop, I’ve been baffled by the energy wasted on internal pro-life bickering…
“Here is the second don’t. DON’T CREATE OR ACCEPT FALSE OPPOSITIONS.
Dialectical thinking – and by that I means the idea that most of our options involve “either/or” choices – is usually untrue and un-Christian. During the 2008 election, a number of new and so-called pro-life organizations argued we should stop fighting the legal struggle over abortion. Instead we should join with “pro-choice” supporters to “common ground.” Their argument was pretty simple. Why fight a losing battle on the legal front? Let’s drop the “divisive” political battle. Instead let’s all work together to tackle the economic and health issues that might eventually reduce abortions.
“The trouble is, Americans didn’t take the gradual, social improvement road to “reducing” racism. Quite the opposite. We passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Nor have I heard anyone to suggest that the best way to deal with murder, robbery sexual assault or domestic abuse it to improve the availability of health care and job training…
“Likewise, if we really believe that abortion is an intimate act of violence – and it is – then we can’t aim at anything less than ending abortion… Protecting the unborn child is not an either/or choice. It’s “both/and.” We need to help women facing problem pregnancies with good health care and economic support, and we need to pass laws that will end legal abortion. We need to do both…
“Here is the third don’t. DON’T HATE THE ADVERSARY. People who support so-called “abortion rights” are opponents to the cause of life. But they rarely understand the full gravity of what they are doing, and they are never our “enemies.” Our enemy is the EVIL ONE, not other human beings… We need to trust in the power of love, the true power of God. St. Irenaeus of Lyon warned the early Christians that we’ve sent like sheep into the midst of wolves. The moment we become wolves ourselves, we lose…
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Preface: In the light of Bart Stupak’s betrayal of the nation’s pro-life movement this past weekend: - by voting for the Senate’s abortion included Health Care Bill, the thoughts of Archbishop Chaput in his talk to the Cleveland Right to Life Center are most poignant.
“Of course, working to end abortion doesn’t absolve us from our obligations to the poor. It doesn’t excuse us from our duties to the disabled, the elderly and immigrants. In fact, it demands from us a much stronger commitment to materially support women who find themselves in a difficult pregnancy.
“All of these obligations are vital. God will hold us accountable if we ignore them. But none of these other duties can obscure the fact that no human rights are secure if the right to life is not. And unfortunately, abortion is no longer the major bioethical threat to that right in our culture. In fact, the right to life has never, at any time in the past, faced the range of challenges it faces right now, and will face in the immediate future. Physician-assisted suicide, cloning, genetic engineering and development in biotechnology will raise profoundly serious questions about the definition of “human nature” and the protection of human dignity in the years ahead.
“This raises a pressing question: What do those of us in pro-life work need to do in preparing for whatever lies ahead? Let me offer a few dos and don’t that might help guide us, and we can talk about them in greater depth during our discussion time.
“Here is the first don’t. DON’T LET DIVISIONS TAKE ROOT. Unity is a sign of God’s Spirit. Division is the sign of someone very different. St. Augustine said that we need to be united in the essentials, free in the debatables, and charitable in all things… As a bishop, I’ve been baffled by the energy wasted on internal pro-life bickering…
“Here is the second don’t. DON’T CREATE OR ACCEPT FALSE OPPOSITIONS.
Dialectical thinking – and by that I means the idea that most of our options involve “either/or” choices – is usually untrue and un-Christian. During the 2008 election, a number of new and so-called pro-life organizations argued we should stop fighting the legal struggle over abortion. Instead we should join with “pro-choice” supporters to “common ground.” Their argument was pretty simple. Why fight a losing battle on the legal front? Let’s drop the “divisive” political battle. Instead let’s all work together to tackle the economic and health issues that might eventually reduce abortions.
“The trouble is, Americans didn’t take the gradual, social improvement road to “reducing” racism. Quite the opposite. We passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Nor have I heard anyone to suggest that the best way to deal with murder, robbery sexual assault or domestic abuse it to improve the availability of health care and job training…
“Likewise, if we really believe that abortion is an intimate act of violence – and it is – then we can’t aim at anything less than ending abortion… Protecting the unborn child is not an either/or choice. It’s “both/and.” We need to help women facing problem pregnancies with good health care and economic support, and we need to pass laws that will end legal abortion. We need to do both…
“Here is the third don’t. DON’T HATE THE ADVERSARY. People who support so-called “abortion rights” are opponents to the cause of life. But they rarely understand the full gravity of what they are doing, and they are never our “enemies.” Our enemy is the EVIL ONE, not other human beings… We need to trust in the power of love, the true power of God. St. Irenaeus of Lyon warned the early Christians that we’ve sent like sheep into the midst of wolves. The moment we become wolves ourselves, we lose…
George H. Kubeck
Sunday, March 21, 2010
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP - # 2 of 4
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP - #2 of 4
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, March 21, 2010
“I’d like to dwell on the issue of science for just another moment, because it will lead us into the rest of our discussion today. I want you to listen to some thoughts from two very different sources. Here is the first one.
“Science, by itself, cannot establish the ends to which it is put. Science can discover vaccines and cures for our diseases, but it can also create infectious agents; it can uncover the physics of semiconductors but also the physics of the hydrogen bomb. Science {as} science is indifferent to whether data are gathered under rules that scrupulously protect the interest of human research subjects… {or by} bending the rules or ignoring them altogether…
“The same source goes on to worry that, today, many of the bioethicists who claim to counsel and guide the moral course of American science “have become nothing more than sophisticated (and sophistic) justifiers of whatever it is the scientific community wants…
“Now listen to these words from my second source:
“What is our contemporary idiocy? What is the enemy within {human} city? If I had to give it a name I would call it “technological secularism.” The idiot today is the technological secularist who knows everything … about the organization of all the instruments and techniques of power that are available in the contemporary world – and who, at the same time, understands nothing about the nature of man or about the nature of true civilization.” The words from my first source appeared in 2002. They come from the author and scholar Francis Fukuyama. …
“The words from my second source were written nearly 50 years ago, in 1961, They come from John Courtney Murray, the great Jesuit priest and Christian scholar. Murray was a thoughtful man and he chose his language very carefully. He used the word “idiot” in the original Greek sense of the term, which is quite different from the meaning in modern slang. For the Greeks, the “idiot” was not a mentally deficient man. Rather, he was a man who does not possess a proper public philosophy; as Murray says, “a man who is not master of the knowledge and skills that underline the life of a civilized city. ‘The idiot, to the Greek, was just one stage removed from the barbarian. He is the man who is ignorant of the meaning of the word “civility.”’…
“Fools with tools are still fools – and the more powerful the tools, the more dangerous the fools. Or to put it another way, neither science nor technology requires a conscience to produce results. The evidence for that is the record of the last century.
“NOW I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THESE THINGS SO FAR FOR A SIMPLE REASON. THE STRUGGLE WE FACE TODAY IN DEFENDING HUMAN DIGNITY IS BECOMING MORE COMPLEX. I’VE BELIEVED FOR MANY YEARS THAT ABORTION IS THE FOUNDATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE OF OUR LIFETIME. WE CAN’T SIMULTANEOUSLY SERVE THE POOR, AND ACCEPT THE LEGAL KILLING OF UNBORN CHILDREN. WE CAN’T BUILD A JUST SOCIETY AND AT THE SAME TIME LEGALLY SANCTIFY THE DESTRUCTION OF GENERATIONS OF UNBORN HUMAN LIFE. THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR AND THE RIGHTS OF THE UNBORN CHILD FLOW FROM EXACTLY THE SAME HUMAN DIGNITY GUARANTEED BY THE GOD WHO CREATED US…
George H. Kubeck, The above is part 2 of Chaput’s speech given to Cleveland Right to Life dinner.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, March 21, 2010
“I’d like to dwell on the issue of science for just another moment, because it will lead us into the rest of our discussion today. I want you to listen to some thoughts from two very different sources. Here is the first one.
“Science, by itself, cannot establish the ends to which it is put. Science can discover vaccines and cures for our diseases, but it can also create infectious agents; it can uncover the physics of semiconductors but also the physics of the hydrogen bomb. Science {as} science is indifferent to whether data are gathered under rules that scrupulously protect the interest of human research subjects… {or by} bending the rules or ignoring them altogether…
“The same source goes on to worry that, today, many of the bioethicists who claim to counsel and guide the moral course of American science “have become nothing more than sophisticated (and sophistic) justifiers of whatever it is the scientific community wants…
“Now listen to these words from my second source:
“What is our contemporary idiocy? What is the enemy within {human} city? If I had to give it a name I would call it “technological secularism.” The idiot today is the technological secularist who knows everything … about the organization of all the instruments and techniques of power that are available in the contemporary world – and who, at the same time, understands nothing about the nature of man or about the nature of true civilization.” The words from my first source appeared in 2002. They come from the author and scholar Francis Fukuyama. …
“The words from my second source were written nearly 50 years ago, in 1961, They come from John Courtney Murray, the great Jesuit priest and Christian scholar. Murray was a thoughtful man and he chose his language very carefully. He used the word “idiot” in the original Greek sense of the term, which is quite different from the meaning in modern slang. For the Greeks, the “idiot” was not a mentally deficient man. Rather, he was a man who does not possess a proper public philosophy; as Murray says, “a man who is not master of the knowledge and skills that underline the life of a civilized city. ‘The idiot, to the Greek, was just one stage removed from the barbarian. He is the man who is ignorant of the meaning of the word “civility.”’…
“Fools with tools are still fools – and the more powerful the tools, the more dangerous the fools. Or to put it another way, neither science nor technology requires a conscience to produce results. The evidence for that is the record of the last century.
“NOW I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THESE THINGS SO FAR FOR A SIMPLE REASON. THE STRUGGLE WE FACE TODAY IN DEFENDING HUMAN DIGNITY IS BECOMING MORE COMPLEX. I’VE BELIEVED FOR MANY YEARS THAT ABORTION IS THE FOUNDATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE OF OUR LIFETIME. WE CAN’T SIMULTANEOUSLY SERVE THE POOR, AND ACCEPT THE LEGAL KILLING OF UNBORN CHILDREN. WE CAN’T BUILD A JUST SOCIETY AND AT THE SAME TIME LEGALLY SANCTIFY THE DESTRUCTION OF GENERATIONS OF UNBORN HUMAN LIFE. THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR AND THE RIGHTS OF THE UNBORN CHILD FLOW FROM EXACTLY THE SAME HUMAN DIGNITY GUARANTEED BY THE GOD WHO CREATED US…
George H. Kubeck, The above is part 2 of Chaput’s speech given to Cleveland Right to Life dinner.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thoughts for CINO Politicians - U.S.A.
Thoughts for CINO Politicians- U.S.A.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, March 19, 2010
Greetings!
Character in public office does not mean anything anymore. As Americans we need to have one standard for all politicians. There was a time we had this with a fair and unbiased news media. Today, it has turned into what is politically correct. This is wrong. The news media has failed the American public. We want character and truthfulness to be part of the discourse and in the Public Square.
Truthfulness: Let us put the words of Obama into President Bush’s mouth and have him for example promote Obama Health Care. What are some thoughts that would come to your mind? Bush would publicly be called a liar by the media and with the evidence and this could go on and on. We don’t want to be a lying society where some politicians are protected.
“The Christian does not flee from the obligation of his age; he does not malign the world but takes his place fully realizing what I demanded of him. To be a Christian means to be realistic. The Christian does not flee to utopia and does not let the present world go to ruin in the name of utopia.” Pope Benedict XVI – March 18
Your vote for the Obama Care is not being realistic. You are letting our present health care system go to ruin. It is also utopian in the same way that the War on Poverty was in the 1960s. That program seriously hurt and undermined the integrity of the American black family. Expanding abortion, violating the conscience of doctors and health care workers, and religious rights are not American but European ideas. “Obama health care is not American health care”. Your vote for Obama Care is a vote for the new Obama political party versus the traditional Democratic Party.
I believe the CINOP is an intellectual and moral midget when integrating Catholic prudential social economic justice into public policy? I think their spiritual advisors are also in the same category. They fail to consider that the Democratic Party is promoting the absolute evils of abortion, assisted-suicide, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage. This is not right.
I consider Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the CINOP poster boy. Dennis is an opportunist and wants attention. He reminds me of the Catholic label politicians in Germany during the 1930’s. There were many of them hovering over their charismatic leader. Dennis wants the public option which was in Germany’s National Socialism. Our Constitution protects us from big government. Ordinary Americans get things done via our free enterprise system not government.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. We hope that Catholic Tea Party groups will be in your diocese and cheerfully vote you out of office in 2010.
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, March 19, 2010
Greetings!
Character in public office does not mean anything anymore. As Americans we need to have one standard for all politicians. There was a time we had this with a fair and unbiased news media. Today, it has turned into what is politically correct. This is wrong. The news media has failed the American public. We want character and truthfulness to be part of the discourse and in the Public Square.
Truthfulness: Let us put the words of Obama into President Bush’s mouth and have him for example promote Obama Health Care. What are some thoughts that would come to your mind? Bush would publicly be called a liar by the media and with the evidence and this could go on and on. We don’t want to be a lying society where some politicians are protected.
“The Christian does not flee from the obligation of his age; he does not malign the world but takes his place fully realizing what I demanded of him. To be a Christian means to be realistic. The Christian does not flee to utopia and does not let the present world go to ruin in the name of utopia.” Pope Benedict XVI – March 18
Your vote for the Obama Care is not being realistic. You are letting our present health care system go to ruin. It is also utopian in the same way that the War on Poverty was in the 1960s. That program seriously hurt and undermined the integrity of the American black family. Expanding abortion, violating the conscience of doctors and health care workers, and religious rights are not American but European ideas. “Obama health care is not American health care”. Your vote for Obama Care is a vote for the new Obama political party versus the traditional Democratic Party.
I believe the CINOP is an intellectual and moral midget when integrating Catholic prudential social economic justice into public policy? I think their spiritual advisors are also in the same category. They fail to consider that the Democratic Party is promoting the absolute evils of abortion, assisted-suicide, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage. This is not right.
I consider Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the CINOP poster boy. Dennis is an opportunist and wants attention. He reminds me of the Catholic label politicians in Germany during the 1930’s. There were many of them hovering over their charismatic leader. Dennis wants the public option which was in Germany’s National Socialism. Our Constitution protects us from big government. Ordinary Americans get things done via our free enterprise system not government.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. We hope that Catholic Tea Party groups will be in your diocese and cheerfully vote you out of office in 2010.
George H. Kubeck
Thursday, March 18, 2010
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP - # 1 of 4
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP - # 1 of 4
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, March 18, 2010
The following are excerpts of a talk given by Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Denver Diocese to the Cleveland Right to Life Dinner on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Chaput was introduced by Hugh Hewitt. Hugh is on Talk Radio 870 AM daily from Monday to Friday, 3-6 P.M. "Human Dignity - The Road Ahead - The Future of the Pro-Life Movement"
Archbishop Charles Chaput is to pro-life America what Bishop Fulton Sheen was over all to America. Chaput’s thoughts on life are the past, the present and future for any Catholic American political leader in America.
I have invited the California Democratic Catholic-label Congressional politicians to listen: Joe Baca, Xavier Becerra, Dennis Cardoza, Jim Costa, George Miller, Grace Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Linda Sanchez, Loretta Sanchez, Mike Thompson and Diane Watson. The aforementioned politicians are going to make life and death decisions when they vote for Obama Care this week or any other week. A vote YES is a death decision.
“All law in some sense teaches and informs us, while also regulating our behavior. The same applies to our public policies, including the ones that govern our scientific research. There is no such thing as morally neutral legislation or morally neutral public policy. Every law is the public expression of what somebody thinks we “ought” to do. The question that matters is this: Which moral convictions of which somebodies are going to shape our county’s political and cultural future – including the way we do our science?”
“If you and I as citizens don’t do the shaping, then somebody else will. That’s the nature of democracy. A healthy democracy depends on people of conviction working hard to advance their ideas in the public square – respectfully and peacefully, but vigorously and without apologies. Politics always involves the exercise of power in the pursuit of somebody’s idea of the common good. And politics always and naturally involves the imposition of somebody’s values on the public at large. So if a citizen fails to bring his moral beliefs into our country’s political conversation – if he fails to work for them publicly and energetically – then the only thing he ensures is the defeat of his own beliefs.”
“We also need to remember that most people – not everyone, of course, but most of us – root our moral convictions in our religious beliefs. What we believe about God shapes what we think about the nature of men and women, good human relationships, and our idea of a just society. This has very practical consequences, including the political kind. As a result, the idea of the “separation of Church and state” should force us to wall off our religious beliefs from guiding our political behavior makes no sense at all, even superficially. If we don’t remain true in our public actions to what we claim to believe in our personal lives, then we only deceive ourselves because God isn’t fooled. He sees who and what we really are...”to be cont’d
George H. Kubeck –
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, March 18, 2010
The following are excerpts of a talk given by Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Denver Diocese to the Cleveland Right to Life Dinner on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Chaput was introduced by Hugh Hewitt. Hugh is on Talk Radio 870 AM daily from Monday to Friday, 3-6 P.M. "Human Dignity - The Road Ahead - The Future of the Pro-Life Movement"
Archbishop Charles Chaput is to pro-life America what Bishop Fulton Sheen was over all to America. Chaput’s thoughts on life are the past, the present and future for any Catholic American political leader in America.
I have invited the California Democratic Catholic-label Congressional politicians to listen: Joe Baca, Xavier Becerra, Dennis Cardoza, Jim Costa, George Miller, Grace Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Linda Sanchez, Loretta Sanchez, Mike Thompson and Diane Watson. The aforementioned politicians are going to make life and death decisions when they vote for Obama Care this week or any other week. A vote YES is a death decision.
“All law in some sense teaches and informs us, while also regulating our behavior. The same applies to our public policies, including the ones that govern our scientific research. There is no such thing as morally neutral legislation or morally neutral public policy. Every law is the public expression of what somebody thinks we “ought” to do. The question that matters is this: Which moral convictions of which somebodies are going to shape our county’s political and cultural future – including the way we do our science?”
“If you and I as citizens don’t do the shaping, then somebody else will. That’s the nature of democracy. A healthy democracy depends on people of conviction working hard to advance their ideas in the public square – respectfully and peacefully, but vigorously and without apologies. Politics always involves the exercise of power in the pursuit of somebody’s idea of the common good. And politics always and naturally involves the imposition of somebody’s values on the public at large. So if a citizen fails to bring his moral beliefs into our country’s political conversation – if he fails to work for them publicly and energetically – then the only thing he ensures is the defeat of his own beliefs.”
“We also need to remember that most people – not everyone, of course, but most of us – root our moral convictions in our religious beliefs. What we believe about God shapes what we think about the nature of men and women, good human relationships, and our idea of a just society. This has very practical consequences, including the political kind. As a result, the idea of the “separation of Church and state” should force us to wall off our religious beliefs from guiding our political behavior makes no sense at all, even superficially. If we don’t remain true in our public actions to what we claim to believe in our personal lives, then we only deceive ourselves because God isn’t fooled. He sees who and what we really are...”to be cont’d
George H. Kubeck –
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Masters of Deceit and Deception - Update
Masters of Deceit and Deception – Update
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, March 16, 2010
I wish our President had never lived in the Chicago political environment. It is unique in America. He would have never met conspirators Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod and become part of the “Troika” presidency and their Russian Czars. Chicago is the environment for conspirators not only to change traditional America but also to corrupt and financially bankrupt America.
“We have to pass this bill (Health Care) so that we can find out what’s in it.” said Nancy Pelosi. Our pied piper President is in town selling it. This health care has a Chicago mindset. Are you going to vote for this Chicago mindset? Remember that common sense, honesty & reasonableness are not really part of this mindset. Why?
Health care is about everyone’s involvement in the process. At the table, we must include Republicans, Independents, and Libertarian ideas. But wait! You must understand that in Chicago anything left of center in politics is OK. Anything to the right of center is BAD. You wonder why President Obama can’t compromise for the public good on the Health Care System.
Recall the War on Poverty in the 1960’s: The feel good propaganda that surrounded it. At that time, the progressive Democrats sold the idea to President Johnson. THE WAR ON POVERTY BY THE GOVERNMENT DESTROYED THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILY. OUR NATION AND BLACK AMERICA IS SUFFERING THROUGH THIS TRAGEDY. DOES ANYBODY CARE?
How noble the idea sounds: health care for all Americans. BUT WAIT! OBAMA HEALTH CARE WILL DESTROY THE HEALTH CARE OF MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA, SENIORS, AND EXCELLENCE IN U.S. HEALTH CARE.
We already have all of these unfunded welfare programs that will financially bankrupt our country. How can we add another one? We will have financial bankruptcy in our life time. Remember the Weimar Republic in Germany. It took a wheel barrel of money to go shopping.
There is Rahm Emmanuel arm, nude and foul mouth twisting going on in Congress. Everything is on the Chicago table including blackmail, personal bankruptcy, threats and violence. How many will have the courage to say no?
Whenever I think of corrupt Chicago, I think of their pervasive and fraudulent voting. In the presidential elections of 1960, the mayor of Chicago’s father provided the votes so that Illinois was won by President John Kennedy. It may be from this corrupt 1960 election that A.C.O.R.N. first learned how to do it.
There is much more to say. It goes back to trust. President Obama is not a trustworthy President. He carries Chicago’s culture of corruption on his back.
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, March 16, 2010
I wish our President had never lived in the Chicago political environment. It is unique in America. He would have never met conspirators Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod and become part of the “Troika” presidency and their Russian Czars. Chicago is the environment for conspirators not only to change traditional America but also to corrupt and financially bankrupt America.
“We have to pass this bill (Health Care) so that we can find out what’s in it.” said Nancy Pelosi. Our pied piper President is in town selling it. This health care has a Chicago mindset. Are you going to vote for this Chicago mindset? Remember that common sense, honesty & reasonableness are not really part of this mindset. Why?
Health care is about everyone’s involvement in the process. At the table, we must include Republicans, Independents, and Libertarian ideas. But wait! You must understand that in Chicago anything left of center in politics is OK. Anything to the right of center is BAD. You wonder why President Obama can’t compromise for the public good on the Health Care System.
Recall the War on Poverty in the 1960’s: The feel good propaganda that surrounded it. At that time, the progressive Democrats sold the idea to President Johnson. THE WAR ON POVERTY BY THE GOVERNMENT DESTROYED THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILY. OUR NATION AND BLACK AMERICA IS SUFFERING THROUGH THIS TRAGEDY. DOES ANYBODY CARE?
How noble the idea sounds: health care for all Americans. BUT WAIT! OBAMA HEALTH CARE WILL DESTROY THE HEALTH CARE OF MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA, SENIORS, AND EXCELLENCE IN U.S. HEALTH CARE.
We already have all of these unfunded welfare programs that will financially bankrupt our country. How can we add another one? We will have financial bankruptcy in our life time. Remember the Weimar Republic in Germany. It took a wheel barrel of money to go shopping.
There is Rahm Emmanuel arm, nude and foul mouth twisting going on in Congress. Everything is on the Chicago table including blackmail, personal bankruptcy, threats and violence. How many will have the courage to say no?
Whenever I think of corrupt Chicago, I think of their pervasive and fraudulent voting. In the presidential elections of 1960, the mayor of Chicago’s father provided the votes so that Illinois was won by President John Kennedy. It may be from this corrupt 1960 election that A.C.O.R.N. first learned how to do it.
There is much more to say. It goes back to trust. President Obama is not a trustworthy President. He carries Chicago’s culture of corruption on his back.
George H. Kubeck
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Pelosi Archbishop Slams Her Rationale for Supporting Abortion
Pelosi Archbishop Slams Rationale for Supporting Abortion
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, March 14, 2010
From Catholic News Agency, January 13, 2010: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com /news/pelosis archbishop slams her rationale for supporting abortion/
San Francisco, Calif. (CAN). – Archbishop George Niederaurer responded today to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) recent comments that she has “some concern about the Church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose.” Justifying her position decision to support abortion by citing her free will “is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching.”the archbishop insisted.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi told Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift in a December 21, 2009 interview that she disagrees with the Church on certain issues but considers herself a “practicing Catholic.”
“I have some concerns about the church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose. I have some concerns about the church’s position on gay rights. I am a practicing Catholic, although they are not too happy about that. But it is my faith. I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent to what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. & that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will,” Pelosi said.
Archbishop Niederaurer countered in his January 13 column. Embodied in that statement are some fundamental misconceptions about Catholic teaching on human freedom. God gave human beings the capacity to choose between good and evil in order to give them the gift of freedom, even at the cost of many evil choices, the archbishop said.
But this gift of freedom, the freedom wrongly cited in justifying a woman’s right to choose, among other fallacies, does not justify the position that “all moral choices are good if they are free,” insisted Archbishop Niederauer because “the exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything.”
Addressing those who advocate for “reproductive choice” while claiming to be Catholic, Archbishop Niederaurer emphasized, “it is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching to conclude that our freedom of will justifies choices that are radically contrary to the Gospel – racism, infidelity, abortion, theft. Freedom of will is the capacity to act with moral responsibility: it is not the ability to determine arbitrarily what constitutes moral right.”
The belief in the validity of arbitrarily determining right and wrong is widespread both in and outside of the Church, the archbishop noted. Touching on the meaning of one’s conscience, the San Francisco archbishop described it as “the judgment of reason whereby the human person, guided by God’s grace, recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act. In all we say and do, we are obliged to follow faithfully what we know to be just and right.”
“As participants in the life of the civil community,” Archbishop Niederauer wrote, “we Catholic citizens try to follow our consciences, guided, as describe above, by reason and the grace of God. While we deeply respect the freedom of our fellow citizens, we nevertheless are profoundly convinced that free will cannot be cited as justification for society to allow moral choices that strike at the most fundamental rights of others. Such a choice is abortion, which constitutes the taking of innocent life, and cannot be justified by any Catholic notion of freedom.”
George H. Kubeck, “The Cinop road is self-inflicted excommunication from the Catholic Church.”
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, March 14, 2010
From Catholic News Agency, January 13, 2010: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com /news/pelosis archbishop slams her rationale for supporting abortion/
San Francisco, Calif. (CAN). – Archbishop George Niederaurer responded today to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) recent comments that she has “some concern about the Church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose.” Justifying her position decision to support abortion by citing her free will “is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching.”the archbishop insisted.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi told Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift in a December 21, 2009 interview that she disagrees with the Church on certain issues but considers herself a “practicing Catholic.”
“I have some concerns about the church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose. I have some concerns about the church’s position on gay rights. I am a practicing Catholic, although they are not too happy about that. But it is my faith. I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent to what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. & that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will,” Pelosi said.
Archbishop Niederaurer countered in his January 13 column. Embodied in that statement are some fundamental misconceptions about Catholic teaching on human freedom. God gave human beings the capacity to choose between good and evil in order to give them the gift of freedom, even at the cost of many evil choices, the archbishop said.
But this gift of freedom, the freedom wrongly cited in justifying a woman’s right to choose, among other fallacies, does not justify the position that “all moral choices are good if they are free,” insisted Archbishop Niederauer because “the exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything.”
Addressing those who advocate for “reproductive choice” while claiming to be Catholic, Archbishop Niederaurer emphasized, “it is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching to conclude that our freedom of will justifies choices that are radically contrary to the Gospel – racism, infidelity, abortion, theft. Freedom of will is the capacity to act with moral responsibility: it is not the ability to determine arbitrarily what constitutes moral right.”
The belief in the validity of arbitrarily determining right and wrong is widespread both in and outside of the Church, the archbishop noted. Touching on the meaning of one’s conscience, the San Francisco archbishop described it as “the judgment of reason whereby the human person, guided by God’s grace, recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act. In all we say and do, we are obliged to follow faithfully what we know to be just and right.”
“As participants in the life of the civil community,” Archbishop Niederauer wrote, “we Catholic citizens try to follow our consciences, guided, as describe above, by reason and the grace of God. While we deeply respect the freedom of our fellow citizens, we nevertheless are profoundly convinced that free will cannot be cited as justification for society to allow moral choices that strike at the most fundamental rights of others. Such a choice is abortion, which constitutes the taking of innocent life, and cannot be justified by any Catholic notion of freedom.”
George H. Kubeck, “The Cinop road is self-inflicted excommunication from the Catholic Church.”
Saturday, March 13, 2010
7 Meditations that are good for All Seasons
7 Meditations that are good for All Seasons **
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, March 13, 2010
1.) We need the living Christ, whom we can know only through our encounter with him. But encounter presumes actual presence – the Real Presence, which, in turn, requires the Sacrament and the Church that alone is authorized to give us the Sacrament, the Church that Christ himself willed into existence and continues to support.
2.) There are many persons who live in conflict with themselves. This aversion for oneself, this inability to accept oneself and to be reconciled with oneself is far removed from the self-abnegations that the Lord asks of us. If we fail to love ourselves, we cannot love our neighbor… It is true, moreover, that only when we gave accepted ourselves can we address a genuine Yes to anyone else.
3.) Our way to the other leads by way of God. Without this intermediary of our unity, we will always be separated from one another by abysses that no good will can bridge.
4.) It is a fundamental tenet of morality – perhaps today the most fundamental tent – that the end never justifies the means. What is wrong in itself continues to be wrong however noble the end toward which it is directed… Whatever is done in the name of terrorism affects us precisely as Christians and calls for a Christian response? In the last analysis, all the acts of terrorism that label themselves in one way or another as Marxist share a single characteristic: that man wants to appropriate to himself the role of Divine Providence, to usurp the position of God – the story of paradise and the serpent has an uncanny relevance in our day.
5.) Christianity is no longer tied to the past: it is firmly rooted in today. That was the electrifying thought that Pope John XXIII himself summarized in the word ‘aggiornamento’… Christianity is not linked to any past: Jesus Christ is “yesterday and today and forever” (Heb. 13:8)
6.) A Christianity that believes it has no other function than to be completely in tune with the spirit of the times has nothing to say and no meaning to offer. It can abdicate without more ado.
7.) The conversation between Jesus and the teacher of the law deals with a question that concerns all of us. How do I live as I ought? What must I do to make a success of my life? I must remember that God put me in this world for a purpose and that he will one day demand an account of what I have done with my life… if we fail to keep before our eyes God’s standard, the standard of eternity, then egoism is the only guideline left…
Hence the first guideline is: live not for yourself alone: live under the eye of God; live in such a way that he will be pleased with you and you will some day be eternally welcome in the company of God and his saints.
** Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “Co-Workers of the Truth” Meditations- Mar 5-11th
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, March 13, 2010
1.) We need the living Christ, whom we can know only through our encounter with him. But encounter presumes actual presence – the Real Presence, which, in turn, requires the Sacrament and the Church that alone is authorized to give us the Sacrament, the Church that Christ himself willed into existence and continues to support.
2.) There are many persons who live in conflict with themselves. This aversion for oneself, this inability to accept oneself and to be reconciled with oneself is far removed from the self-abnegations that the Lord asks of us. If we fail to love ourselves, we cannot love our neighbor… It is true, moreover, that only when we gave accepted ourselves can we address a genuine Yes to anyone else.
3.) Our way to the other leads by way of God. Without this intermediary of our unity, we will always be separated from one another by abysses that no good will can bridge.
4.) It is a fundamental tenet of morality – perhaps today the most fundamental tent – that the end never justifies the means. What is wrong in itself continues to be wrong however noble the end toward which it is directed… Whatever is done in the name of terrorism affects us precisely as Christians and calls for a Christian response? In the last analysis, all the acts of terrorism that label themselves in one way or another as Marxist share a single characteristic: that man wants to appropriate to himself the role of Divine Providence, to usurp the position of God – the story of paradise and the serpent has an uncanny relevance in our day.
5.) Christianity is no longer tied to the past: it is firmly rooted in today. That was the electrifying thought that Pope John XXIII himself summarized in the word ‘aggiornamento’… Christianity is not linked to any past: Jesus Christ is “yesterday and today and forever” (Heb. 13:8)
6.) A Christianity that believes it has no other function than to be completely in tune with the spirit of the times has nothing to say and no meaning to offer. It can abdicate without more ado.
7.) The conversation between Jesus and the teacher of the law deals with a question that concerns all of us. How do I live as I ought? What must I do to make a success of my life? I must remember that God put me in this world for a purpose and that he will one day demand an account of what I have done with my life… if we fail to keep before our eyes God’s standard, the standard of eternity, then egoism is the only guideline left…
Hence the first guideline is: live not for yourself alone: live under the eye of God; live in such a way that he will be pleased with you and you will some day be eternally welcome in the company of God and his saints.
** Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “Co-Workers of the Truth” Meditations- Mar 5-11th
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The CINOP in the Obama Health Care
The CINOP in the Obama Health Care
In pursuit of the truth, www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, March 3, 2010
For a breadth of fresh air let’s clear up some of the words we use in every day conversation. Planned Parenthood is really planned termination of unwanted babies in the womb. Abortion Clinic is correctly abortion site, facility, mill or death chamber for the unborn child. “A clinic is a place where one gets healed.”
Pro-choice Catholic politician is Catholic-in-name-only politician. (CINOP) For every pro-life democrat politician like Stupak in Congress we have a dozen or more pro-choice Catholic politicians in Congress. IT IS THE CINOP VOTE IN CONGRESS AND THE SENATE THAT MAY PASS OBAMA HEALTH CARE.
Fortunately, all the Republicans members in Congress are voting pro-life. They want to include the Hyde Amendment (Stupak) in any national health care program. This means that public tax funds will not pay for abortions. Sadly, we have CINOP Loretta Sanchez in Orange County. She is a clone of CINOP Nancy Pelosi. Loretta voted against the Stupak amendment. The CINOP is an opportunist and a participant in a false dysfunctional Catholic belief system.
I called Loretta Sanchez’s local office in Garden Grove at about 1:40 P.M. 1- (714) 621-0102. I talked to Javiara and asked about Loretta’s vote against the Stupak Amendment. Found out that she is an advocate for women’s rights. (She doesn’t give a hoot about the unborn. She voted for partial-birth abortion 3 times.)
Also, she is for equality in marriage. (This means that she is for same-sex marriage. This drives me up the wall. How many of the voters in her district know these facts.) Why AREN’T any pro-life Democrats running against her in the Democratic Congressional primary? I find this to be an absolute CATHOLIC shame on the community. In a primary fight we find out who she really is! Values issues bring out our voters. By the way Republicans, you don’t fight Democrats in California or throughout the country with one hand tied behind your back.
Now let’s check out the CINOP participants in the Bi-Partisan White House Summit. From Congress, we have Nancy Pelosi, D. Calif. George Miller, D. Calif. and Charles Rangel, D. N.Y. Sitting next to President Obama, there Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary.
From the Senate, we have Tom Harkin, D. Iowa, Chris Dodd, D. Connecticut, Dick Durbin, D. Illinois, and Patty Murray, D. State of Washington. The good news is that Congressman Patrick Kennedy and Senator Chris Dodd are not running for office. This decade is dedicated in voting each CINOP out of office.
I will give you one example of what absolute phonies these Democratic Catholic label politicians are. Take for example, Senator Tom Harkin. He voted against the Catholic Social Justice position on the following: 1) Funding of overseas pro-abortion organizations (109th) 2) Funding of embryonic-killing stem cell research (H.R.810) (109th) 3) Child Custody Protection Act (S.403): passage (109th) 4) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CINA) (109th) 5) Federal Marriage Amendment Act (109th) 6) Harkin Amendment to endorse Roe v. Wade (109th) 7) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 passage (108th) 8) Abortion in military medical facilities (108th) 9)Unborn Victims of Violence Act: passage (108th) …
Shame on the American Catholic voters in IOWA and maybe again in Orange County.
George H. Kubeck, Loretta Sanchez’s voting record is similar to the above.
In pursuit of the truth, www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, March 3, 2010
For a breadth of fresh air let’s clear up some of the words we use in every day conversation. Planned Parenthood is really planned termination of unwanted babies in the womb. Abortion Clinic is correctly abortion site, facility, mill or death chamber for the unborn child. “A clinic is a place where one gets healed.”
Pro-choice Catholic politician is Catholic-in-name-only politician. (CINOP) For every pro-life democrat politician like Stupak in Congress we have a dozen or more pro-choice Catholic politicians in Congress. IT IS THE CINOP VOTE IN CONGRESS AND THE SENATE THAT MAY PASS OBAMA HEALTH CARE.
Fortunately, all the Republicans members in Congress are voting pro-life. They want to include the Hyde Amendment (Stupak) in any national health care program. This means that public tax funds will not pay for abortions. Sadly, we have CINOP Loretta Sanchez in Orange County. She is a clone of CINOP Nancy Pelosi. Loretta voted against the Stupak amendment. The CINOP is an opportunist and a participant in a false dysfunctional Catholic belief system.
I called Loretta Sanchez’s local office in Garden Grove at about 1:40 P.M. 1- (714) 621-0102. I talked to Javiara and asked about Loretta’s vote against the Stupak Amendment. Found out that she is an advocate for women’s rights. (She doesn’t give a hoot about the unborn. She voted for partial-birth abortion 3 times.)
Also, she is for equality in marriage. (This means that she is for same-sex marriage. This drives me up the wall. How many of the voters in her district know these facts.) Why AREN’T any pro-life Democrats running against her in the Democratic Congressional primary? I find this to be an absolute CATHOLIC shame on the community. In a primary fight we find out who she really is! Values issues bring out our voters. By the way Republicans, you don’t fight Democrats in California or throughout the country with one hand tied behind your back.
Now let’s check out the CINOP participants in the Bi-Partisan White House Summit. From Congress, we have Nancy Pelosi, D. Calif. George Miller, D. Calif. and Charles Rangel, D. N.Y. Sitting next to President Obama, there Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary.
From the Senate, we have Tom Harkin, D. Iowa, Chris Dodd, D. Connecticut, Dick Durbin, D. Illinois, and Patty Murray, D. State of Washington. The good news is that Congressman Patrick Kennedy and Senator Chris Dodd are not running for office. This decade is dedicated in voting each CINOP out of office.
I will give you one example of what absolute phonies these Democratic Catholic label politicians are. Take for example, Senator Tom Harkin. He voted against the Catholic Social Justice position on the following: 1) Funding of overseas pro-abortion organizations (109th) 2) Funding of embryonic-killing stem cell research (H.R.810) (109th) 3) Child Custody Protection Act (S.403): passage (109th) 4) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CINA) (109th) 5) Federal Marriage Amendment Act (109th) 6) Harkin Amendment to endorse Roe v. Wade (109th) 7) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 passage (108th) 8) Abortion in military medical facilities (108th) 9)Unborn Victims of Violence Act: passage (108th) …
Shame on the American Catholic voters in IOWA and maybe again in Orange County.
George H. Kubeck, Loretta Sanchez’s voting record is similar to the above.
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