Peace on Earth and in Our Lives *
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 31, 2010
“Peace! The biblical term shalom, which is usually so translated, implies more than the absence of armed conflict; it means the right order of human affairs, well-being – a world where trust and friendship prevail, where neither fear nor want nor treachery nor dishonesty is found.
“Yet the song of the angels first lays down a precondition, without which there can be no lasting peace: (God’s glory) This is the message of peace at Bethlehem: peace among men results from God’s glory.
“Those who are concerned about God’s glory first of all. God’s glory is not some private concern, left to the personal choice of the individual; it is a public affair. It is a common good, and wherever God is not honored among men, there man as well will not remain honorable.
“The reason why Christmas affects the peace of man lies in this: because it has restored God’s glory among men.”
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O Lord, my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot in your hands (Ps 16:5)
“The background of this Psalm verse is the ancient image of the cup containing the lots for each man, and God holding these lots. Yet in this image two different conceptions about the meaning and challenge of time collide, conceptions that even nowadays will determine our struggle for the future.
“The pagan world view was also familiar with the image of lots, but with entirely different premises: the world is game of luck governed by the one rule - blind chance… The Bible has transformed this frightening image… But this cup with the lots is held “in your hands”, in the hands of eternal Wisdom and eternal Love.
“Because the cup is in his hands, the only losing lot would be the refusal to accept at all the lot from his hands… To draw our existence out of this time, to acknowledge this time as our true time, and out of this awareness to model this our world – such is the call of this Psalm verse… And so then, we put this new year, the new time and our future, into the hands of God: do accept us, and grant us your blessing!”
Happy New Year!
George H. Kubeck, *Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “Co-Workers of the Truth” Meditations Daily, Dec. 29th and 31st.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Destructive Origin of the Liberal Progressive Movement
The Destructive Origin of the Liberal Progressive Movement
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, December 30, 2010
What follows is a most insightful article by Thomas Sowell, a writer in the tradition of Alexander Hamilton, in the Orange County Register, Dec. 29/10 “Lawmaking Run Amok” – excerpts:
“During the Progressive era of the early 20th century, the denigration of the Constitution began, led by such luminaries as Princeton scholar and future President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, future Harvard Law School Dean Roscoe Pound and future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
“As a professor at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson wrote condescendingly of “the simple days of 1787” when the Constitution was written and how, in our presumably more complex times, “each generation of statesmen looks to the Supreme Court to supply the interpretation which will serve the needs of the day.”*
“This kind of argument would be repeated for generations, with no more evidence that 1787 was any less complicated than later years than Woodrow Wilson presented – which was none – and with no more reasons why the need for “change” meant that unelected judges should be the ones making those changes, as if there were no elected representatives of the people.
“Professor Roscoe Pound likewise referred to the need for “a living constitution by judicial interpretation”, in order to “respond to the vital needs of present day life.” He rejected the idea of law as “a body of rules”.
“But law is not a body of rules, what is it? A set of arbitrary fiats by judges, imposing their own vision of “the needs of the times”? Or a set of arbitrary regulations stealthily emerging from the within the bowels of a bureaucracy?
“Louis Brandeis was another leader of this progressive era chorus of demands for moving beyond law as rules, such as those set forth in the Constitution, and around the elected representatives of “we the people.” As Roscoe Pound put it, law should be “in the hands of a progressive and enlightened caste whose conceptions are in advance of the public”
“That is still the vision of the left a hundred years later. The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution by voting out those who promote end runs around it.”
George H. Kubeck, the needs of the day* were not served when prayer was outlawed in our public schools or when Roe vs. Wade on Jan. 22nd, 1973 legalized abortion on demand. Their ideas are intellectually and morally bankrupt like judicial activists trying to legalize same-sex marriage or introducing social engineering into the Army with the repeal of DADT. Also liberal progressive democratic socialist economics will bankrupt America.
Think about it! What is the difference between a liberal progressive socialist in America and the National Socialist in the 1930’s in Germany or the Communist Socialist in Russia? All three subvert our Constitution, Declaration of Independence and the beliefs of our Founding Fathers. This is a good reason to attend the monthly Tea Party Meetings. Locally at St. Isidore Hall, Los Alamitos, Ca. – Monday, Jan. 12th, 2011 – 7:00 PM:
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, December 30, 2010
What follows is a most insightful article by Thomas Sowell, a writer in the tradition of Alexander Hamilton, in the Orange County Register, Dec. 29/10 “Lawmaking Run Amok” – excerpts:
“During the Progressive era of the early 20th century, the denigration of the Constitution began, led by such luminaries as Princeton scholar and future President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, future Harvard Law School Dean Roscoe Pound and future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
“As a professor at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson wrote condescendingly of “the simple days of 1787” when the Constitution was written and how, in our presumably more complex times, “each generation of statesmen looks to the Supreme Court to supply the interpretation which will serve the needs of the day.”*
“This kind of argument would be repeated for generations, with no more evidence that 1787 was any less complicated than later years than Woodrow Wilson presented – which was none – and with no more reasons why the need for “change” meant that unelected judges should be the ones making those changes, as if there were no elected representatives of the people.
“Professor Roscoe Pound likewise referred to the need for “a living constitution by judicial interpretation”, in order to “respond to the vital needs of present day life.” He rejected the idea of law as “a body of rules”.
“But law is not a body of rules, what is it? A set of arbitrary fiats by judges, imposing their own vision of “the needs of the times”? Or a set of arbitrary regulations stealthily emerging from the within the bowels of a bureaucracy?
“Louis Brandeis was another leader of this progressive era chorus of demands for moving beyond law as rules, such as those set forth in the Constitution, and around the elected representatives of “we the people.” As Roscoe Pound put it, law should be “in the hands of a progressive and enlightened caste whose conceptions are in advance of the public”
“That is still the vision of the left a hundred years later. The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution by voting out those who promote end runs around it.”
George H. Kubeck, the needs of the day* were not served when prayer was outlawed in our public schools or when Roe vs. Wade on Jan. 22nd, 1973 legalized abortion on demand. Their ideas are intellectually and morally bankrupt like judicial activists trying to legalize same-sex marriage or introducing social engineering into the Army with the repeal of DADT. Also liberal progressive democratic socialist economics will bankrupt America.
Think about it! What is the difference between a liberal progressive socialist in America and the National Socialist in the 1930’s in Germany or the Communist Socialist in Russia? All three subvert our Constitution, Declaration of Independence and the beliefs of our Founding Fathers. This is a good reason to attend the monthly Tea Party Meetings. Locally at St. Isidore Hall, Los Alamitos, Ca. – Monday, Jan. 12th, 2011 – 7:00 PM:
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Part 5 - A Parable - The Abortion Party
Part 5- A Parable – The Abortion Party
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Note that Part 4 of the Parable was not e-mailed to you. It is posted on the blog. Today’s last page is from James M. Thunder, New Oxford Review, and Nov., 2010. [Mail or e-mail to the 12 Bishops in Calif., during Jan. 2011.]* “
They propose an alternative system of morality totally at odds with fundamental human dignity, with our Lord, and with the Church. ‘Many, of whom I have often told you and now, tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things’ (Phil 3:18-19). For all their nice words, for all their smiles and happy faces, for all their stated concerns about poverty and violence, they create more poverty of spirit, more violence in the womb.
“Whatever we decide today, the world will take note. We must dissolve our bonds with them and, to a candid world; we must declare the causes that require us to do so. They promote tolerance but prevent a pro-life Democratic governor from addressing their convention and prevent pro-life Catholics from being appointed judges. They promote multiculturalism but the only culture they care about is the culture of death. They preach cooperation, but no cooperation with the divine plan. They are disordered. They are confused. They are ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing. We must refuse them. We must do it publicly. We must do it now.
“St. Paul exhorts us as he did the believers in Corinth: ‘I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world … I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler – not even to eat with such a one … Remove the wicked man from yourselves’ (1 Cor. 5:9-11, 13)
“Some people will criticize us for breaching the separation of church and state, of making martyrs to worship other gods and to pursue their godless policies like the obstinate, hard-hearted Israelites of old; we simply refuse to allow them to call themselves Catholic. This generation refers constantly to ‘choice.’ God has given every human beings a choice, the fundamental choice between following or not following His commands. People are free to define what and who is Catholic. We, the bishops of the Church in union with Rome, do that. Pro-abortionists can lead others to perdition, but we cannot let them do so while calling themselves Catholic.
”Brothers, whenever I have read the passages in Ezekiel and Jeremiah and Zechariah castigating bad shepherds, I have prayed to God that these will not apply to me. And I pray that they will not apply to you. “In the fifth century A.D., St. Patrick responded to the raping, kidnapping, and enslaving of the Irish people by excommunicating the guilty Christians from England. He did not wait for consensus from the British bishops, Brothers, I ask you to join me. But if you do not, I am charged with the protection of the people under my care. So with you or without you, I will excommunicate the pro-abortion elected officials of any party and I will forbid Catholics from joining or supporting or supporting or voting for the Democratic Party.
“What shall we tell pro-life supporters of the Democratic Party? I ask you to join me in encouraging them, Catholic and non-Catholic, to form a party styled the New Democratic. When they do so, their policies will not simply be the current Democratic Party without an abortion-rights plank. Rather, they will be invented anew. Their pro-life values will permeate all of their policies. That is my fervent prayer for the pro-life Democrats and for this nation: May we ever be under God.”
George H. Kubeck, * “David Horowitz, and Home Addresses of Bishops, Tues. July 13th, 2010”.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Note that Part 4 of the Parable was not e-mailed to you. It is posted on the blog. Today’s last page is from James M. Thunder, New Oxford Review, and Nov., 2010. [Mail or e-mail to the 12 Bishops in Calif., during Jan. 2011.]* “
They propose an alternative system of morality totally at odds with fundamental human dignity, with our Lord, and with the Church. ‘Many, of whom I have often told you and now, tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things’ (Phil 3:18-19). For all their nice words, for all their smiles and happy faces, for all their stated concerns about poverty and violence, they create more poverty of spirit, more violence in the womb.
“Whatever we decide today, the world will take note. We must dissolve our bonds with them and, to a candid world; we must declare the causes that require us to do so. They promote tolerance but prevent a pro-life Democratic governor from addressing their convention and prevent pro-life Catholics from being appointed judges. They promote multiculturalism but the only culture they care about is the culture of death. They preach cooperation, but no cooperation with the divine plan. They are disordered. They are confused. They are ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing. We must refuse them. We must do it publicly. We must do it now.
“St. Paul exhorts us as he did the believers in Corinth: ‘I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world … I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler – not even to eat with such a one … Remove the wicked man from yourselves’ (1 Cor. 5:9-11, 13)
“Some people will criticize us for breaching the separation of church and state, of making martyrs to worship other gods and to pursue their godless policies like the obstinate, hard-hearted Israelites of old; we simply refuse to allow them to call themselves Catholic. This generation refers constantly to ‘choice.’ God has given every human beings a choice, the fundamental choice between following or not following His commands. People are free to define what and who is Catholic. We, the bishops of the Church in union with Rome, do that. Pro-abortionists can lead others to perdition, but we cannot let them do so while calling themselves Catholic.
”Brothers, whenever I have read the passages in Ezekiel and Jeremiah and Zechariah castigating bad shepherds, I have prayed to God that these will not apply to me. And I pray that they will not apply to you. “In the fifth century A.D., St. Patrick responded to the raping, kidnapping, and enslaving of the Irish people by excommunicating the guilty Christians from England. He did not wait for consensus from the British bishops, Brothers, I ask you to join me. But if you do not, I am charged with the protection of the people under my care. So with you or without you, I will excommunicate the pro-abortion elected officials of any party and I will forbid Catholics from joining or supporting or supporting or voting for the Democratic Party.
“What shall we tell pro-life supporters of the Democratic Party? I ask you to join me in encouraging them, Catholic and non-Catholic, to form a party styled the New Democratic. When they do so, their policies will not simply be the current Democratic Party without an abortion-rights plank. Rather, they will be invented anew. Their pro-life values will permeate all of their policies. That is my fervent prayer for the pro-life Democrats and for this nation: May we ever be under God.”
George H. Kubeck, * “David Horowitz, and Home Addresses of Bishops, Tues. July 13th, 2010”.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Most Rev. Joseph Martino, Bishop Emeritus. Diocese of Scranton
Most Rev. Joseph Martino, Bishop Emeritus. Diocese of Scranton
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegon.com – Feast of the Holy Innocents - Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010
The bishop Martino’s pastoral message is to persuade you to support “The Cardinal Newman Society”* and become with them a partner for the truth. The Society tries to inform and educate all Catholic Colleges to be in full compliance with Ex corde Ecclesiae and Cannon Law. A recent Cardinal Newman Society survey will surprise and shock you. BishopMartino@cardinalnewmansociety.org
1.)Nearly 1-in-8 Catholics will leave the Faith while attending a Catholic College?
2.)27% of students at Catholic colleges view pornography.
3.)59% say their friends regularly use drugs.
4.)Nearly 1-in-5 knows a student who have had or paid for an abortion.
5.)61% disagree with the Church’s infallible teaching on the male priesthood.
6.)60% think that premarital sex with someone you care about is not a sin.
7.)78% disagree that using a condom is a serious sin.
8.)58% support “gay marriage”.
“If we cannot do better than that at a Catholic college, what will happen to our culture? This is a terrible crisis and we all need to do our part. The future of the Church and our nation is at risk, as are the souls of our young Catholic men and women.
“I am so very thankful that The Cardinal Newman Society remains steadfast in its commitment to our Faith. I support the mission to prod wayward Catholic colleges to embrace the richness that is genuine Catholic education. It is a cause that is near to the hearts of Pope Benedict and his venerable predecessor, Pope John Paul II.
“Please stand with them in this important fight. I know from experience how difficult it can be to stand alone, crying in the wilderness for fidelity. I have had a close relationship- with the Cardinal Newman Society and am grateful that they are on the job:
a)Alerting the faithful to scandal on Catholic campuses; Working with college leaders to improve policies and programs; Helping Catholic families in their search for good colleges; Promoting Eucharist Adoration on campuses; Helping colleges defend their religious liberty from secularism; And much more!”
George H. Kubeck, There is something rotten in the state of Catholic College Education! May I share two points! As a graduate of a Jesuit College in 1952, I believe that the Jesuits have sworn an oath of loyalty to Pope Benedict. Jesuit colleges are not abiding by that oath. Secondly, those close to the U.S. bishops and the staff at USCCB who are not 100% for normal marriage - move out of the way or resign.
*The Cardinal Newman Society, 9415 West Street, Manassas, Virginia 20110, www.CardinalNewmanSociety.org Phone - 703-367-0333
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegon.com – Feast of the Holy Innocents - Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010
The bishop Martino’s pastoral message is to persuade you to support “The Cardinal Newman Society”* and become with them a partner for the truth. The Society tries to inform and educate all Catholic Colleges to be in full compliance with Ex corde Ecclesiae and Cannon Law. A recent Cardinal Newman Society survey will surprise and shock you. BishopMartino@cardinalnewmansociety.org
1.)Nearly 1-in-8 Catholics will leave the Faith while attending a Catholic College?
2.)27% of students at Catholic colleges view pornography.
3.)59% say their friends regularly use drugs.
4.)Nearly 1-in-5 knows a student who have had or paid for an abortion.
5.)61% disagree with the Church’s infallible teaching on the male priesthood.
6.)60% think that premarital sex with someone you care about is not a sin.
7.)78% disagree that using a condom is a serious sin.
8.)58% support “gay marriage”.
“If we cannot do better than that at a Catholic college, what will happen to our culture? This is a terrible crisis and we all need to do our part. The future of the Church and our nation is at risk, as are the souls of our young Catholic men and women.
“I am so very thankful that The Cardinal Newman Society remains steadfast in its commitment to our Faith. I support the mission to prod wayward Catholic colleges to embrace the richness that is genuine Catholic education. It is a cause that is near to the hearts of Pope Benedict and his venerable predecessor, Pope John Paul II.
“Please stand with them in this important fight. I know from experience how difficult it can be to stand alone, crying in the wilderness for fidelity. I have had a close relationship- with the Cardinal Newman Society and am grateful that they are on the job:
a)Alerting the faithful to scandal on Catholic campuses; Working with college leaders to improve policies and programs; Helping Catholic families in their search for good colleges; Promoting Eucharist Adoration on campuses; Helping colleges defend their religious liberty from secularism; And much more!”
George H. Kubeck, There is something rotten in the state of Catholic College Education! May I share two points! As a graduate of a Jesuit College in 1952, I believe that the Jesuits have sworn an oath of loyalty to Pope Benedict. Jesuit colleges are not abiding by that oath. Secondly, those close to the U.S. bishops and the staff at USCCB who are not 100% for normal marriage - move out of the way or resign.
*The Cardinal Newman Society, 9415 West Street, Manassas, Virginia 20110, www.CardinalNewmanSociety.org Phone - 703-367-0333
Monday, December 27, 2010
Part 4 - A Parable - The Abortion Party
Part 4 – A Parable – The Abortion Party
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, December 27, 2010
“The Democratic formal and unwavering support for abortion has given abortion the appearance of normalcy, of being mainstream. On the contrary, it is inimical not only to Christian living but to good human living. “When each politician with whom I visited sought to defend himself by saying that he himself had never had an abortion or procured one, I quoted to each of them – and I quote to you today – John 19:11, where Jesus said to Pilate, ’You have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one that handed me over to you has the greater sin.’
“I paraphrased this for them: “The abortionist would have no power over the preborn child if it had not been given to him by the courts and the legislators. For this reason, the courts and legislatures who handed millions of human babies over to the abortionists have the greater sin.’
“As most of you know, my parents named me for St. John Fisher, who, alone among all the bishops of England, stood fast with the pope and the Church against schism, and was martyred. So, I cannot help reflecting on these current circumstances in light of those of England, and of Henry VIII, in the 1500s. King Henry believed that his wife, Catherine of Aragon, had failed him and England in not bringing forth a male heir. On its face, this would seem to have little to do with today’s debate about abortion because, after all, Henry wanted to have a child, not to abort a child. But it has a great deal to do with today’s debate.
“Henry urged what in today’s terminology would be called the right of an individual to reproduce. To bear a son, however, he would have to abort the marriage. He would treat Catherine and the institution of marriage like so much dung. And he would require every person in the realm, his chancellor and friend St. Thomas More, and all the bishops of the realm, to actively support him. He would sunder the Church between her English and non-English parts, he would sunder the pope and the faithful, rather than countenance any limitation on “right” to reproduce.
“He would kill the Church in England, he would kill More and Fisher, he would kill his marriage, he would kill innocent human beings – as long as it was to cure the disease of failed succession. In today’s terminology, he didn’t believe the Church’s view of morality should be imposed on him – and he could change the law and change the institution of marriage to fit his alleged right.
“Brothers, the men and women who call themselves Catholic and who support the alleged right to murder innocent preborn children are heirs to Henry VIII. They would kill marriage, they would kill innocent human beings rather than yield to Christ, to the constant and consistent teaching of the Church, to the pope, to the universal regard for the dignity of men and women, the dignity of marriage, the dignity of human offspring…” to be continued
George H. Kubeck, the above from New Oxford Review, Nov. 2010, A Parable- The Rise of the Abortion Party.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, December 27, 2010
“The Democratic formal and unwavering support for abortion has given abortion the appearance of normalcy, of being mainstream. On the contrary, it is inimical not only to Christian living but to good human living. “When each politician with whom I visited sought to defend himself by saying that he himself had never had an abortion or procured one, I quoted to each of them – and I quote to you today – John 19:11, where Jesus said to Pilate, ’You have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one that handed me over to you has the greater sin.’
“I paraphrased this for them: “The abortionist would have no power over the preborn child if it had not been given to him by the courts and the legislators. For this reason, the courts and legislatures who handed millions of human babies over to the abortionists have the greater sin.’
“As most of you know, my parents named me for St. John Fisher, who, alone among all the bishops of England, stood fast with the pope and the Church against schism, and was martyred. So, I cannot help reflecting on these current circumstances in light of those of England, and of Henry VIII, in the 1500s. King Henry believed that his wife, Catherine of Aragon, had failed him and England in not bringing forth a male heir. On its face, this would seem to have little to do with today’s debate about abortion because, after all, Henry wanted to have a child, not to abort a child. But it has a great deal to do with today’s debate.
“Henry urged what in today’s terminology would be called the right of an individual to reproduce. To bear a son, however, he would have to abort the marriage. He would treat Catherine and the institution of marriage like so much dung. And he would require every person in the realm, his chancellor and friend St. Thomas More, and all the bishops of the realm, to actively support him. He would sunder the Church between her English and non-English parts, he would sunder the pope and the faithful, rather than countenance any limitation on “right” to reproduce.
“He would kill the Church in England, he would kill More and Fisher, he would kill his marriage, he would kill innocent human beings – as long as it was to cure the disease of failed succession. In today’s terminology, he didn’t believe the Church’s view of morality should be imposed on him – and he could change the law and change the institution of marriage to fit his alleged right.
“Brothers, the men and women who call themselves Catholic and who support the alleged right to murder innocent preborn children are heirs to Henry VIII. They would kill marriage, they would kill innocent human beings rather than yield to Christ, to the constant and consistent teaching of the Church, to the pope, to the universal regard for the dignity of men and women, the dignity of marriage, the dignity of human offspring…” to be continued
George H. Kubeck, the above from New Oxford Review, Nov. 2010, A Parable- The Rise of the Abortion Party.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
HELL NO TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE!
HELL NO TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE!
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Feast of the Holy Family –Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010
Evidence for deliberation, study and action:
1.Article in the Orange County Register, Dec. 25/10 on Vice President Biden” AP – Laurie Kellman
“Liturgy of the Hours – Apostle Paul to Ephesians 5:21-6:4 – Pope Paul VI – Nazareth a Model”
“In the 1960’s New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel was busy excommunicating prominent local Catholic politicians for their pro-segregation politics.”
“Catholic-in-name-only politician Vice President Joe Biden and his CINO accomplices in the Senate: They are Landrieu, Leahy, Kerry, Durbin, Harkin, Mikulski, Murray, Menendez, Begich, Cantwell, Gillibrand and McCaskill.” These senators promote not only abortion but also same-sex marriage.
“Homosexuality and Hope – Are some individuals born with same-sex attraction? No. A number of researchers have sought to find a genetic cause for same-sex attraction (SSA). The media has promoted that a “gay gene” has already been discovered, but in spite of several attempts none … has been scientifically replicated. A number of authors have carefully reviewed these studies and found that not only do the studies prove a genetic basis for same-sex attraction, the reports do not even contain such claims.” [We had an election in November which repudiated social engineering ideas.]
“Call upon the USCCB (US. Catholic Conference of Bishops) take action, censure or excommunication:”
1. Biden Sees Growing Support for Same-Sex Marriage in U.S.
Washington – Vice President Joe Biden predicted Friday the evolution in thinking that will permit gay people to soon serve openly in the military eventually will bring about a national consensus for same- sex marriage. Changes in attitudes by military leaders, those in the service and the public allowed congressional repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, Biden said in a nationally broadcast interview Friday.
“I think the country’s evolving,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” And I think you are going to see, you know, the next effort is probably going to be to deal with so-called DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act).” He said he agreed with Obama that his position on gay marriage is “evolving.” President Barack Obama recently said his feelings on gay marriage were in a state of transition. But he also said he still believes in allowing strong civil unions that provide certain protections and legal rights that married couples have.
Obama said he is still wrestling with whether gay couples should have the right to marry, now that a change in the law will allow them to serve openly in combat. The question about same-sex marriage came at Obama’s news conference Wednesday, hours after he signed legislation repealing the ban on troop’s serving openly. In his interview on ABC, Biden brought up the Defense of Marriage Act, which is a law that defines marriage as between a man a woman. Obama has repeatedly said he would like to see the law repealed, but the Justice Department has defended its constitutionality…
George H. Kubeck, to have the above article published on Christmas Day was demonic. What can we expect on the Tuesday, the Feast of the Holy Innocents? The repeal of DADT by this lame-duck Congress will not stand.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Feast of the Holy Family –Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010
Evidence for deliberation, study and action:
1.Article in the Orange County Register, Dec. 25/10 on Vice President Biden” AP – Laurie Kellman
“Liturgy of the Hours – Apostle Paul to Ephesians 5:21-6:4 – Pope Paul VI – Nazareth a Model”
“In the 1960’s New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel was busy excommunicating prominent local Catholic politicians for their pro-segregation politics.”
“Catholic-in-name-only politician Vice President Joe Biden and his CINO accomplices in the Senate: They are Landrieu, Leahy, Kerry, Durbin, Harkin, Mikulski, Murray, Menendez, Begich, Cantwell, Gillibrand and McCaskill.” These senators promote not only abortion but also same-sex marriage.
“Homosexuality and Hope – Are some individuals born with same-sex attraction? No. A number of researchers have sought to find a genetic cause for same-sex attraction (SSA). The media has promoted that a “gay gene” has already been discovered, but in spite of several attempts none … has been scientifically replicated. A number of authors have carefully reviewed these studies and found that not only do the studies prove a genetic basis for same-sex attraction, the reports do not even contain such claims.” [We had an election in November which repudiated social engineering ideas.]
“Call upon the USCCB (US. Catholic Conference of Bishops) take action, censure or excommunication:”
1. Biden Sees Growing Support for Same-Sex Marriage in U.S.
Washington – Vice President Joe Biden predicted Friday the evolution in thinking that will permit gay people to soon serve openly in the military eventually will bring about a national consensus for same- sex marriage. Changes in attitudes by military leaders, those in the service and the public allowed congressional repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, Biden said in a nationally broadcast interview Friday.
“I think the country’s evolving,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” And I think you are going to see, you know, the next effort is probably going to be to deal with so-called DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act).” He said he agreed with Obama that his position on gay marriage is “evolving.” President Barack Obama recently said his feelings on gay marriage were in a state of transition. But he also said he still believes in allowing strong civil unions that provide certain protections and legal rights that married couples have.
Obama said he is still wrestling with whether gay couples should have the right to marry, now that a change in the law will allow them to serve openly in combat. The question about same-sex marriage came at Obama’s news conference Wednesday, hours after he signed legislation repealing the ban on troop’s serving openly. In his interview on ABC, Biden brought up the Defense of Marriage Act, which is a law that defines marriage as between a man a woman. Obama has repeatedly said he would like to see the law repealed, but the Justice Department has defended its constitutionality…
George H. Kubeck, to have the above article published on Christmas Day was demonic. What can we expect on the Tuesday, the Feast of the Holy Innocents? The repeal of DADT by this lame-duck Congress will not stand.
Friday, December 24, 2010
A Blessed Christmas
A BLESSED CHRISTMAS
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, December 24, 2010
This is a Blessed Christmas to everyone from the writings* of Pope Benedict XVI:
‘Rejoice! And I say again, rejoice!” The notion of joy is altogether fundamental to Christianity, which by its very nature is and claims to be evangelium, gospel, joyful news… “Rejoice in the Lord”, because the Apostle obviously believes that all true joy is joy in the Lord and that 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 joy of the world.
‘The most genuine and most important values are found in the world precisely under the sign of humility, of hiddennous, 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.
‘Christmas beckons us to enter into God’s silence, and his mystery remains unknown to so many because they cannot find the silence in which God is active. How can we find it?.. Silence means to develop sensitivity, a sensitivity for our conscience, for the eternal in us, and an 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 to develop in the wrong direction: plenty of technology but little soul? A thick armor plate of material expertise but an emptied heart? Dearth of the ability to perceive God’s voice in us, to recognize and acknowledge what is beautiful and true?... it has to consist in restoring the moral and religious sense to its rightful place in man…
‘The Word became flesh… God has become flesh… God became a child who needed a mother…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… There is indeed an atmosphere of hostility toward children, but is this not preceded by an attitude that altogether bars any child from entering this world because there would be no room for him? The child knocks. If we would receive him we are to rethink thoroughly our own attitude toward human life. Here we are dealing with fundamentals, with our very concept of what it means to be human: to live in grandiose selfishness or in confident freedom that knows its vocation to be united in love, to be free to accept one another.
George H. Kubeck, *Co-Workers of the Truth, Meditations for Every Day, J.C. Ratzinger, Dec. 22-24
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, December 24, 2010
This is a Blessed Christmas to everyone from the writings* of Pope Benedict XVI:
‘Rejoice! And I say again, rejoice!” The notion of joy is altogether fundamental to Christianity, which by its very nature is and claims to be evangelium, gospel, joyful news… “Rejoice in the Lord”, because the Apostle obviously believes that all true joy is joy in the Lord and that 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 joy of the world.
‘The most genuine and most important values are found in the world precisely under the sign of humility, of hiddennous, 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.
‘Christmas beckons us to enter into God’s silence, and his mystery remains unknown to so many because they cannot find the silence in which God is active. How can we find it?.. Silence means to develop sensitivity, a sensitivity for our conscience, for the eternal in us, and an 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 to develop in the wrong direction: plenty of technology but little soul? A thick armor plate of material expertise but an emptied heart? Dearth of the ability to perceive God’s voice in us, to recognize and acknowledge what is beautiful and true?... it has to consist in restoring the moral and religious sense to its rightful place in man…
‘The Word became flesh… God has become flesh… God became a child who needed a mother…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… There is indeed an atmosphere of hostility toward children, but is this not preceded by an attitude that altogether bars any child from entering this world because there would be no room for him? The child knocks. If we would receive him we are to rethink thoroughly our own attitude toward human life. Here we are dealing with fundamentals, with our very concept of what it means to be human: to live in grandiose selfishness or in confident freedom that knows its vocation to be united in love, to be free to accept one another.
George H. Kubeck, *Co-Workers of the Truth, Meditations for Every Day, J.C. Ratzinger, Dec. 22-24
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Meet Congressman John Boehner
Meet Congressman John Boehner
John is the new House Speaker of Congress. “In the days before the election, this congressman from Ohio told talk radio host Sean Hannity: “We will not compromise on our principles.” And when asked what he was doing to prep for Election Day and after, he told radio host Mike Gallagher, “I’ve praying all day, every day, trying to make it through this election and make sure our team is successful.”
“He added that prayer “does work.” “You’ve got to stay at it every day and build a closer relationship with our Savior.”… Defender of Life: In a letter to House Republican members after the election, Boehner paid tribute to his parents for sending him and his siblings to Catholic schools: “I grew up in a small house on a hill in Reading, Ohio, with eleven brothers and sisters. My Dad owned a bar – Andy’s Café – that my grandfather Andy Boehner started in 1938. What little money my parents had they used to send all of us to Catholic schools. I would nights as a janitor to put myself through college.”…
Boehner spoke to the National Right to Life Committee in June. Receiving the Defender of Life from the group, Boehner said, “Respect for life has never been a political position for me. It just came naturally. It’s me. It’s what I believe. It’s what my parents instilled in me as I grew up in America. I think millions of Americans had a similar experience.”
He went on to say that “Americans love life and we love freedom. They’re both intertwined, permanently, as part of the American character. America is a nation built on freedom. And without respect for life, freedom is in jeopardy.”
“When human life takes a back seat to other priorities – personal comforts, economics – freedom is diminished. By contrast, when we affirm the dignity of life, we affirm our commitment to freedom,” Boehner said. On the health-care legislation, he pointed out that “the overwhelming opposition of the American people to taxpayer funding of abortion almost kept it from becoming law. The American people – and a bipartisan majority in the House – supported the Stupak amendment, which would have prohibited taxpayer funding of abortion through the health-care bill.” [Note Stupak betrayed that amendment.]…
Boehner said the health-care overhaul “wasn’t being driven by the will of the people; it was being driven by the will of special interests – radical special interests who believe the killing of unborn human life is “health care.”… “It’s time for Washington to stop defying the will of the American people on this critical, commonsense issue.”
George H. Kubeck, All of the above by Kathryn Jean Lopez, Special to the National Catholic Register, Nov. 21/2010 – We are blessed with a normal Speaker of the House. Cinops be gone, Thursday, December 23, 2010
John is the new House Speaker of Congress. “In the days before the election, this congressman from Ohio told talk radio host Sean Hannity: “We will not compromise on our principles.” And when asked what he was doing to prep for Election Day and after, he told radio host Mike Gallagher, “I’ve praying all day, every day, trying to make it through this election and make sure our team is successful.”
“He added that prayer “does work.” “You’ve got to stay at it every day and build a closer relationship with our Savior.”… Defender of Life: In a letter to House Republican members after the election, Boehner paid tribute to his parents for sending him and his siblings to Catholic schools: “I grew up in a small house on a hill in Reading, Ohio, with eleven brothers and sisters. My Dad owned a bar – Andy’s Café – that my grandfather Andy Boehner started in 1938. What little money my parents had they used to send all of us to Catholic schools. I would nights as a janitor to put myself through college.”…
Boehner spoke to the National Right to Life Committee in June. Receiving the Defender of Life from the group, Boehner said, “Respect for life has never been a political position for me. It just came naturally. It’s me. It’s what I believe. It’s what my parents instilled in me as I grew up in America. I think millions of Americans had a similar experience.”
He went on to say that “Americans love life and we love freedom. They’re both intertwined, permanently, as part of the American character. America is a nation built on freedom. And without respect for life, freedom is in jeopardy.”
“When human life takes a back seat to other priorities – personal comforts, economics – freedom is diminished. By contrast, when we affirm the dignity of life, we affirm our commitment to freedom,” Boehner said. On the health-care legislation, he pointed out that “the overwhelming opposition of the American people to taxpayer funding of abortion almost kept it from becoming law. The American people – and a bipartisan majority in the House – supported the Stupak amendment, which would have prohibited taxpayer funding of abortion through the health-care bill.” [Note Stupak betrayed that amendment.]…
Boehner said the health-care overhaul “wasn’t being driven by the will of the people; it was being driven by the will of special interests – radical special interests who believe the killing of unborn human life is “health care.”… “It’s time for Washington to stop defying the will of the American people on this critical, commonsense issue.”
George H. Kubeck, All of the above by Kathryn Jean Lopez, Special to the National Catholic Register, Nov. 21/2010 – We are blessed with a normal Speaker of the House. Cinops be gone, Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Feast of the Holy Innocents
Feast of the Holy Innocents
Procession and Eucharistic Celebration
Please join us in Prayer for the Unborn
Tuesday, December 28
7 pm to 9 pm
Sacred Heart Church
43-775 Deep Canyon Rd.
Palm Desert, California
7:00 pm - Candlelight Procession from Christ of the Desert Chapel
(Neuman Center) - 73-441 Fred Warning Dr.
7:30 pm - Eucharistic Celebration at Sacred Heart
8:30 pm - Refreshments in St. Theresa Meeting Room
For information: Bob Kurtz at 714-447-9281 or Jeanne 760-275-6543
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In Memoriam
The late Illinois Congressman, Henry Hyde, a strong pro-life supporter said: “When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God – and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there’ll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world, but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world – and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, “SPARE HIM, BECAUSE HE LOVED US.” www.cinopsbegone.com
Procession and Eucharistic Celebration
Please join us in Prayer for the Unborn
Tuesday, December 28
7 pm to 9 pm
Sacred Heart Church
43-775 Deep Canyon Rd.
Palm Desert, California
7:00 pm - Candlelight Procession from Christ of the Desert Chapel
(Neuman Center) - 73-441 Fred Warning Dr.
7:30 pm - Eucharistic Celebration at Sacred Heart
8:30 pm - Refreshments in St. Theresa Meeting Room
For information: Bob Kurtz at 714-447-9281 or Jeanne 760-275-6543
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In Memoriam
The late Illinois Congressman, Henry Hyde, a strong pro-life supporter said: “When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God – and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there’ll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world, but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world – and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, “SPARE HIM, BECAUSE HE LOVED US.” www.cinopsbegone.com
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Report on 2010 March for Life
Report on 2010 March for Life
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, December 21, 2010
“Pro-Life Movement Continues to Grow” is the title of the article by Vincent J. Covelto in Soul Issue Four of Four, fall 2010. The following are some significant excerpts:
“The 2010 March for Life in Washington, D.C. was no exception. Every year for 37 years participants have numbered from tens to hundreds of thousands. They come to Washington on a cold January 22nd, which is the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in the Roe vs. Wade case legalizing abortion.
“Teens and young adults now represent a major portion of all those who peacefully make the march. They are becoming a pro-life generation that is not afraid to voice its support for life. Many have embraced the pro-life movement. They have seen babies of pictures developing in their mothers’ womb and know friends who regret having abortions. They strongly support the preservation of all human life. The annual March for Life provides an excellent forum for them to stand up for life … despite opposing pressure from the media and peers…
“A priest from the mid-west related how in 1996 he brought 4 busloads of teens to the March. In 2010 more than two dozen buses traveled to Washington from the same area. The size of the crowd for the March in 2010 was estimated to be the largest on record. Estimates ranged from 400,000 by March organizers, to 300,000 by EWTN to 200,000 by reporters governing the March. … It is also one with participants who are the most well behaved.
“In choosing to attend the March, many people get up early for a long bus ride to Washington. When the March is over they re-board their buses for a straight through ride back home to states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, among others… Bus organizers sometimes receive financial support from their parishes who help pay the cost of the bus. If you are considering organizing a bus to the March in 2011, please check with your pastor to see if he will help share the cost…
“The opening Mass was held on January 21, 2010, the eve of the March, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in northeast Washington. This was followed by an all night vigil. On the 22nd at noon on the Capital Mall there were speeches by many noted pro-life speakers… The March itself took place at 2 P.M. along Constitution Avenue and ended in front of the Supreme Court Building.
“Media coverage of the event was mostly non-existent.* … There was no coverage by the country’s major newspapers. New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times… Those who support abortion need to recognize the pro-life movement will simply not go away until there is an end to abortion… Gallup poll in 2009 found 51% of Americans are “pro-life” on the abortion issue, while 42% are “pro-choice.” It found that 50% of Catholics and 59% of other Christians were pro-life. The Fatima World Apostolate supports the March for Life & encourages all to attend this worthwhile gathering…”
George H. Kubeck, *Politically correct journalism must cease. It is a threat to our nation and national security. It is what keeps the culture of death afloat in America. When you are afraid of the truth, hide it and not publish it, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton would rip this kind of journalism apart.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, December 21, 2010
“Pro-Life Movement Continues to Grow” is the title of the article by Vincent J. Covelto in Soul Issue Four of Four, fall 2010. The following are some significant excerpts:
“The 2010 March for Life in Washington, D.C. was no exception. Every year for 37 years participants have numbered from tens to hundreds of thousands. They come to Washington on a cold January 22nd, which is the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in the Roe vs. Wade case legalizing abortion.
“Teens and young adults now represent a major portion of all those who peacefully make the march. They are becoming a pro-life generation that is not afraid to voice its support for life. Many have embraced the pro-life movement. They have seen babies of pictures developing in their mothers’ womb and know friends who regret having abortions. They strongly support the preservation of all human life. The annual March for Life provides an excellent forum for them to stand up for life … despite opposing pressure from the media and peers…
“A priest from the mid-west related how in 1996 he brought 4 busloads of teens to the March. In 2010 more than two dozen buses traveled to Washington from the same area. The size of the crowd for the March in 2010 was estimated to be the largest on record. Estimates ranged from 400,000 by March organizers, to 300,000 by EWTN to 200,000 by reporters governing the March. … It is also one with participants who are the most well behaved.
“In choosing to attend the March, many people get up early for a long bus ride to Washington. When the March is over they re-board their buses for a straight through ride back home to states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, among others… Bus organizers sometimes receive financial support from their parishes who help pay the cost of the bus. If you are considering organizing a bus to the March in 2011, please check with your pastor to see if he will help share the cost…
“The opening Mass was held on January 21, 2010, the eve of the March, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in northeast Washington. This was followed by an all night vigil. On the 22nd at noon on the Capital Mall there were speeches by many noted pro-life speakers… The March itself took place at 2 P.M. along Constitution Avenue and ended in front of the Supreme Court Building.
“Media coverage of the event was mostly non-existent.* … There was no coverage by the country’s major newspapers. New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times… Those who support abortion need to recognize the pro-life movement will simply not go away until there is an end to abortion… Gallup poll in 2009 found 51% of Americans are “pro-life” on the abortion issue, while 42% are “pro-choice.” It found that 50% of Catholics and 59% of other Christians were pro-life. The Fatima World Apostolate supports the March for Life & encourages all to attend this worthwhile gathering…”
George H. Kubeck, *Politically correct journalism must cease. It is a threat to our nation and national security. It is what keeps the culture of death afloat in America. When you are afraid of the truth, hide it and not publish it, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton would rip this kind of journalism apart.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Religion Taught in Russian Schools
Religion Taught in Russian Schools
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, December 20, 2010
“On July 21, 2009, President Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, announced plans to reintroduce religious education in the public schools. For most people over 40, this announcement must come as a real shock.
“The plan would give parents of students at 12,000 Russian middle schools a choice to have their children learn either Russian Orthodoxy or secular ethics. Schools that have a significant number of Muslims, Jewish or Buddhist students could offer courses in those faiths. Roman Catholicism is a minority religion in Russia, but it has the potential to be offered to students. President Medvedev also stated that this pilot program demonstrates their government realizes a full education includes more than just reading, writing and arithmetic.
“The fact that the Russian Government is planning on teaching religion/ethics is mind-boggling considering history since 1917. Communism began with the Russian Revolution that year and this form of government had been described as “militantly atheistic.” Religion was allowed, but better stated, it was tolerated… An ideological objective of communism was the elimination of religion and the promotion of “scientific truths.” Children were told to report to the authorities if their parents taught them religion at home, and in the process, they made themselves orphans.
“Blue Army’s Response to the Red Army: Beginning in 1947, the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima was started by Monsignor Harold Colgan in a parish church in New Jersey to thank the Blessed Virgin for a cure from an almost fatal heart ailment. The Blue Army was to be a religious response to the Red Army of atheistic communism. Joining forces with John Haffert, within a just a few short years, together they inspired millions of people to pray for peace and the conversion of Russia. This fact was mocked by the communists in their October 1967 Science and Religion magazine which was used for propaganda purposes. The “Cold War” between the U.S.A. and Russia began after World War II.
“Following the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by Pope John Paul II in March, 1984, a number of unbelievable events began to transpire beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany. Shortly thereafter, one Communist country after another began to collapse, almost miraculously and without a bomb being dropped. Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and many others played key parts in the collapse of Communism. The millions of Rosarys also played a large part….
“U.S.A. Prohibits Religious Education: It is ironic and sad here in the U.S.A. that religious education is not allowed in public schools and prayer has been banned… Moments of silence or silent prayer at appropriate moments must be reinstituted. Russia has found a way to deal with teaching various religions and we could do the same… The future of our country and our world depend on a belief in God. Our country’s founding fathers also had this belief. They just did not want the government “establishing religion” and most probably did not want a government/legal mandate against religion. “In God We Trust” appearing on our currency is a reminder of this belief.”
George H. Kubeck, the above by Joe Borek, Soul Issue Four of Four – Fall, 2010, p. 22-3 soul@bluearmy.com
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, December 20, 2010
“On July 21, 2009, President Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, announced plans to reintroduce religious education in the public schools. For most people over 40, this announcement must come as a real shock.
“The plan would give parents of students at 12,000 Russian middle schools a choice to have their children learn either Russian Orthodoxy or secular ethics. Schools that have a significant number of Muslims, Jewish or Buddhist students could offer courses in those faiths. Roman Catholicism is a minority religion in Russia, but it has the potential to be offered to students. President Medvedev also stated that this pilot program demonstrates their government realizes a full education includes more than just reading, writing and arithmetic.
“The fact that the Russian Government is planning on teaching religion/ethics is mind-boggling considering history since 1917. Communism began with the Russian Revolution that year and this form of government had been described as “militantly atheistic.” Religion was allowed, but better stated, it was tolerated… An ideological objective of communism was the elimination of religion and the promotion of “scientific truths.” Children were told to report to the authorities if their parents taught them religion at home, and in the process, they made themselves orphans.
“Blue Army’s Response to the Red Army: Beginning in 1947, the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima was started by Monsignor Harold Colgan in a parish church in New Jersey to thank the Blessed Virgin for a cure from an almost fatal heart ailment. The Blue Army was to be a religious response to the Red Army of atheistic communism. Joining forces with John Haffert, within a just a few short years, together they inspired millions of people to pray for peace and the conversion of Russia. This fact was mocked by the communists in their October 1967 Science and Religion magazine which was used for propaganda purposes. The “Cold War” between the U.S.A. and Russia began after World War II.
“Following the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by Pope John Paul II in March, 1984, a number of unbelievable events began to transpire beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany. Shortly thereafter, one Communist country after another began to collapse, almost miraculously and without a bomb being dropped. Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and many others played key parts in the collapse of Communism. The millions of Rosarys also played a large part….
“U.S.A. Prohibits Religious Education: It is ironic and sad here in the U.S.A. that religious education is not allowed in public schools and prayer has been banned… Moments of silence or silent prayer at appropriate moments must be reinstituted. Russia has found a way to deal with teaching various religions and we could do the same… The future of our country and our world depend on a belief in God. Our country’s founding fathers also had this belief. They just did not want the government “establishing religion” and most probably did not want a government/legal mandate against religion. “In God We Trust” appearing on our currency is a reminder of this belief.”
George H. Kubeck, the above by Joe Borek, Soul Issue Four of Four – Fall, 2010, p. 22-3 soul@bluearmy.com
Sunday, December 19, 2010
A Parable - The Rise of the Abortion Party -3
A Parable – The Rise of the Abortion Party –3
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, December 19, 2010
We continue with James M. Thunder’s article in the New Oxford Review. Nov. 2010:
“They responded that they believed the right of a woman to choose abortion was a fundamental human right and that the Church herself recognizes this right in the form of an individual’s freedom of conscience. The Democrats also said that, even if they did not believe this, they would not be allowed to remain leaders in the Democratic Party and help advance all the good that that party does – often consistent with the other Church teachings – if they should forsake this principle.
“I then inquired about their efforts to make abortions ‘rare.’ I asked them if they have ever suggested to a woman or girl that she should not have an abortion; if they have ever said publicly that abortion is objectively wrong; if they have ever said publicly that abortion is the taking of innocent human life; if they have ever said that abortion should not be used as a last resort for birth control; if they have ever told men that they should abstain from sexual intercourse unless they were married, and if they did not, and pregnancy resulted, that they should assume responsibility for the child. For each question on this ‘cross-examination of conscience’ the answer was ‘no.’
“Brothers, the Democratic Party today is not the Democratic Party of our youth or of our forebears. AT ITS CORE, IT IS THE ABORTION PARTY. It is this core that draws its membership, its funding, its leadership. It is anti-ethical to a fundamental teaching of our Church, of our Lord. If we do not share with women the protection of innocent life, then despite their talk of ‘shared values,’ we do not share anything of value with them, and we do not share with Christ.
“As bad as the destruction of innocent human life is, support for abortion harms more than embryonic and fetal human beings. In supporting abortion as a legitimate choice, our courts, our officeholders, our laws, and above all the Abortion Party, now called the Democratic Party, encourage women to act contrary to their basic maternal instincts. They encourage men to violate the dignity of women and contrary to their own basic instincts to protect and provide for women and offspring.
They redefine manliness and womanliness. This malignant growth is not satisfied with abortion. It grows and grows. Its lusts knows no bounds. It is no longer sufficient for women to have the right to abort for any reason; now medical personnel and politicians proclaim the right to develop embryonic human beings so that they can be destroyed for medical research. Abortion divorces sexual expression from commitment, responsibility, procreation.
It has rendered human reproduction to so little a consequence that it is no longer a principle aim of marriage; people of the same sex – incapable of coupling – are encouraged to engage in intimate sexual activity and to marry. Our Catholic Democrats incite the public with hatred towards pro-life Catholics and the Church by objecting vehemently any time any of us says that such activity is wrong, is wrong for all, is wrong for all times and in all places, is perverse and deviate.
George H. Kubeck, Think again in your mind what CINO Loretta Sanchez stands for. Yet Catholics re-elected her?
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, December 19, 2010
We continue with James M. Thunder’s article in the New Oxford Review. Nov. 2010:
“They responded that they believed the right of a woman to choose abortion was a fundamental human right and that the Church herself recognizes this right in the form of an individual’s freedom of conscience. The Democrats also said that, even if they did not believe this, they would not be allowed to remain leaders in the Democratic Party and help advance all the good that that party does – often consistent with the other Church teachings – if they should forsake this principle.
“I then inquired about their efforts to make abortions ‘rare.’ I asked them if they have ever suggested to a woman or girl that she should not have an abortion; if they have ever said publicly that abortion is objectively wrong; if they have ever said publicly that abortion is the taking of innocent human life; if they have ever said that abortion should not be used as a last resort for birth control; if they have ever told men that they should abstain from sexual intercourse unless they were married, and if they did not, and pregnancy resulted, that they should assume responsibility for the child. For each question on this ‘cross-examination of conscience’ the answer was ‘no.’
“Brothers, the Democratic Party today is not the Democratic Party of our youth or of our forebears. AT ITS CORE, IT IS THE ABORTION PARTY. It is this core that draws its membership, its funding, its leadership. It is anti-ethical to a fundamental teaching of our Church, of our Lord. If we do not share with women the protection of innocent life, then despite their talk of ‘shared values,’ we do not share anything of value with them, and we do not share with Christ.
“As bad as the destruction of innocent human life is, support for abortion harms more than embryonic and fetal human beings. In supporting abortion as a legitimate choice, our courts, our officeholders, our laws, and above all the Abortion Party, now called the Democratic Party, encourage women to act contrary to their basic maternal instincts. They encourage men to violate the dignity of women and contrary to their own basic instincts to protect and provide for women and offspring.
They redefine manliness and womanliness. This malignant growth is not satisfied with abortion. It grows and grows. Its lusts knows no bounds. It is no longer sufficient for women to have the right to abort for any reason; now medical personnel and politicians proclaim the right to develop embryonic human beings so that they can be destroyed for medical research. Abortion divorces sexual expression from commitment, responsibility, procreation.
It has rendered human reproduction to so little a consequence that it is no longer a principle aim of marriage; people of the same sex – incapable of coupling – are encouraged to engage in intimate sexual activity and to marry. Our Catholic Democrats incite the public with hatred towards pro-life Catholics and the Church by objecting vehemently any time any of us says that such activity is wrong, is wrong for all, is wrong for all times and in all places, is perverse and deviate.
George H. Kubeck, Think again in your mind what CINO Loretta Sanchez stands for. Yet Catholics re-elected her?
Saturday, December 18, 2010
A Parable - The Rise of the Abortion Party - Part 2
A Parable – The Rise of the Abortion Party - Part 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, December 18, 2010
Part 2 of the parable, note terms like counseled, decisions, pastorally prudent, failed to educate. The author is James M. Thunder.
The Catholic bishops now faced a conundrum. They had no fundamental quarrel with former Democratic Party. In fact, they had much in common with it. Many of their fathers and mothers and siblings and neighbors had been staunch members of the party. Many of the Church’s teachings had been better implemented by the former Democratic Party than by the Republican Party. But the former Democratic Party was no more.
Many of the bishops’ relatives and neighbors, and large numbers of baptized Catholics – even pro-life Catholics – had become active in the Abortion Party as that party adopted, one by one, many of the former Democratic Party’s policies. Thirty years of attempts by the bishops to educate American Catholics had failed. The current generation of leading Catholic politicians had joined the Abortion Party when they were young, and they were now leaders, even candidates for the presidency, of the new Democratic Party.
Though a majority of the bishops refused to expressly prohibit lay membership and participation in the new Democratic Party, some suggested that Catholic politicians – of any party – with long records of legislative support for abortion be forbidden to receive Holy Communion. The majority of Catholic bishops again counseled against taking such action. They should not frontally attack the political party of so many Americans, so many of their fellow Catholics, so many of their fathers and mothers, the party of FDR and the New Deal, the oldest political party in the world. It was, they said, pastorally prudent under the current circumstances to educate the faithful rather than command them.
And so they resolved to meet with a number of leading Catholic politicians in one-on-one visits. After thirty or so bishops had met with several dozen Catholic politicians who had long voting records in favor of abortion, the bishops of the United States gathered again. One of their number rose & addressed the assembly.
“Brothers in our Lord Jesus Christ, I have spoken one-on-one with several Catholic officials who have long voting records in favor of abortion and who reside in my diocese. I greeted each in the name of Jesus. We began with a short prayer to the Holy Spirit. They knew why I had asked them to visit with me. Each told me that they believed abortion was wrong and that they were personally opposed to it. Each told me that abortion should be legal and safe but rare.”
“With respect, I inquired of them with a list: Why had they consistently voted for abortion, voted against the bills outlawing partial-birth abortion, against the bills that would require informed consent by the women, against the bills that would allow for government regulation of abortion clinics, against the bills that would require the consent of the parents of minors seeking an abortion, and for bills paying for the destruction of human embryos for medical research, for the bills that would require taxpayers to provide financial support for abortions by poor women, for the bills that would use taxpayer money to promote and fund abortions abroad, and more…” to be continued.
George H. Kubeck,
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, December 18, 2010
Part 2 of the parable, note terms like counseled, decisions, pastorally prudent, failed to educate. The author is James M. Thunder.
The Catholic bishops now faced a conundrum. They had no fundamental quarrel with former Democratic Party. In fact, they had much in common with it. Many of their fathers and mothers and siblings and neighbors had been staunch members of the party. Many of the Church’s teachings had been better implemented by the former Democratic Party than by the Republican Party. But the former Democratic Party was no more.
Many of the bishops’ relatives and neighbors, and large numbers of baptized Catholics – even pro-life Catholics – had become active in the Abortion Party as that party adopted, one by one, many of the former Democratic Party’s policies. Thirty years of attempts by the bishops to educate American Catholics had failed. The current generation of leading Catholic politicians had joined the Abortion Party when they were young, and they were now leaders, even candidates for the presidency, of the new Democratic Party.
Though a majority of the bishops refused to expressly prohibit lay membership and participation in the new Democratic Party, some suggested that Catholic politicians – of any party – with long records of legislative support for abortion be forbidden to receive Holy Communion. The majority of Catholic bishops again counseled against taking such action. They should not frontally attack the political party of so many Americans, so many of their fellow Catholics, so many of their fathers and mothers, the party of FDR and the New Deal, the oldest political party in the world. It was, they said, pastorally prudent under the current circumstances to educate the faithful rather than command them.
And so they resolved to meet with a number of leading Catholic politicians in one-on-one visits. After thirty or so bishops had met with several dozen Catholic politicians who had long voting records in favor of abortion, the bishops of the United States gathered again. One of their number rose & addressed the assembly.
“Brothers in our Lord Jesus Christ, I have spoken one-on-one with several Catholic officials who have long voting records in favor of abortion and who reside in my diocese. I greeted each in the name of Jesus. We began with a short prayer to the Holy Spirit. They knew why I had asked them to visit with me. Each told me that they believed abortion was wrong and that they were personally opposed to it. Each told me that abortion should be legal and safe but rare.”
“With respect, I inquired of them with a list: Why had they consistently voted for abortion, voted against the bills outlawing partial-birth abortion, against the bills that would require informed consent by the women, against the bills that would allow for government regulation of abortion clinics, against the bills that would require the consent of the parents of minors seeking an abortion, and for bills paying for the destruction of human embryos for medical research, for the bills that would require taxpayers to provide financial support for abortions by poor women, for the bills that would use taxpayer money to promote and fund abortions abroad, and more…” to be continued.
George H. Kubeck,
Friday, December 17, 2010
The Good News for Life in 2011
The Good News for Life in 2011
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 17, 2010
When Congress comes back in session, four pro-life leaders will take the helm of the U.S. House of Representatives. “Finally, the House leadership reflects the majority of Americans who are also pro-life,” said Dr. Yoest. She noted that the “Speaker-elect John Boehner told me that he wanted to be the most pro-life Speaker ever” and has been a friend and ally of Americans United for Life.
The bottom line is that there are now approximately 80 new pro-life members of the U.S. House, and approximately 50 of them will replace pro-abortion members. This included the defeat of about 30 Catholic-in-name-only Democratic politicians. A GREAT LIFE VICTORY!
The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List is also excited. They along with the above increased the number of pro-life women governors from one to four. Also, it is time to turn our pro-life electoral victories into legislative victories. Here are two examples:
1.)The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” is a bi-partisan bill sponsored by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) that would create a government-wide statutory prohibition on abortion funding…
2.)The “Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act,” sponsored by Rep. Mike Spence (R-IN) would ensure that abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, do not receive federal dollars under the Title X federal family planning assistance program. According to the Government Accountability Office, abortion providers have received over a billion dollars in the past seven years. These bills are written and ready to go. Our pro-life leaders in Congress just need our help to push them to the finish line.
Let’s conclude with a personal message from Father Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life, www.PriestsForLife.org – mail@priestsforlife.org
“I was recently in Rome and had the great honor to participate in a pro-life prayer vigil his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI… The Pope emphasized that God himself became a baby in Mary’s womb, and lived to save mankind through His death on the Cross. He went on to say we must all be concerned for the unborn, the most fragile, the most threatened by the selfishness of adults and the darkening of consciences… Now I want to do a special favor for you. On Christmas day, when I celebrate Mass, I want to pray for you and your family as we commemorate the birth of the baby Jesus.” Type your intentions via the above e-mail.
George H. Kubeck, Please telephone Congressmen in Orange County to support the above two bills.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 17, 2010
When Congress comes back in session, four pro-life leaders will take the helm of the U.S. House of Representatives. “Finally, the House leadership reflects the majority of Americans who are also pro-life,” said Dr. Yoest. She noted that the “Speaker-elect John Boehner told me that he wanted to be the most pro-life Speaker ever” and has been a friend and ally of Americans United for Life.
The bottom line is that there are now approximately 80 new pro-life members of the U.S. House, and approximately 50 of them will replace pro-abortion members. This included the defeat of about 30 Catholic-in-name-only Democratic politicians. A GREAT LIFE VICTORY!
The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List is also excited. They along with the above increased the number of pro-life women governors from one to four. Also, it is time to turn our pro-life electoral victories into legislative victories. Here are two examples:
1.)The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” is a bi-partisan bill sponsored by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) that would create a government-wide statutory prohibition on abortion funding…
2.)The “Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act,” sponsored by Rep. Mike Spence (R-IN) would ensure that abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, do not receive federal dollars under the Title X federal family planning assistance program. According to the Government Accountability Office, abortion providers have received over a billion dollars in the past seven years. These bills are written and ready to go. Our pro-life leaders in Congress just need our help to push them to the finish line.
Let’s conclude with a personal message from Father Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life, www.PriestsForLife.org – mail@priestsforlife.org
“I was recently in Rome and had the great honor to participate in a pro-life prayer vigil his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI… The Pope emphasized that God himself became a baby in Mary’s womb, and lived to save mankind through His death on the Cross. He went on to say we must all be concerned for the unborn, the most fragile, the most threatened by the selfishness of adults and the darkening of consciences… Now I want to do a special favor for you. On Christmas day, when I celebrate Mass, I want to pray for you and your family as we commemorate the birth of the baby Jesus.” Type your intentions via the above e-mail.
George H. Kubeck, Please telephone Congressmen in Orange County to support the above two bills.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
A Parable - The Rise of the Abortion Party - Part 1
A Parable – The Rise of the Abortion Party – Part I
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Preface: What are the messages of this parable? It may be wise to wait until you have read all of it. There are five pages in “New Oxford Review” – Nov. 2010. The author is James M. Thunder. He is a Washington, D.C. attorney, has served as general counsel of Americans United for Life. His 2003 article in Issues in Law & Medicine, “Quiet Killings in Medical Facilities: Dedection and Prevention,” resulted in interviews in newspapers and on television and radio. He is a regular contributor to The American Spectator (www.spectator.org ) and Spero News (www.speroforum.com )
The Article in full: “Suppose that, in the 1960s, several hundred Americans in favor of overturning the conventional prohibitions on abortion establish a new political party. To highlight its distinct platform, the, they unabashedly named it the Abortion Party. The new party attracted a lot of attention and a fair amount of money. Party members organized in several states and worked diligently and successfully to change the laws of those states. The party fielded candidates and a few won office.
“At this juncture, several Catholic bishops suggested to each other in private meetings that they publicly forbid Catholics from joining the party, contributing to the party, or voting for the party’s candidates. The majority of Catholic bishops counseled against taking this action. They said things were different now – no longer do we publish lists of forbidden books, forbidden movies, and forbidden organizations like the Masons. It was, they said, pastorally prudent under the current circumstances to educate the faithful rather than command them. They expressed their firm belief that, over time, this third party would, like all third parties in American history (except the Republican Party) wither away.
“Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in “Roe v. Wade” [1973] making abortion legal in all fifty states, at all times of pregnancy, and defining maternal health so broadly as to offer no limitation. Having won this unexpected victory, the National Committee of the Abortion Party met to devise plans to defeat any attempt to limit abortion, and to enlarge its membership and enhance its chances of becoming a leading political party.
“In the ensuing thirty years, the Abortion Party did grow. The number of people voting in its primaries grew exponentially. The number of party officeholders expanded and eclipsed all other third parties in U.S. history (except the Republican Party). The party expanded its platform its platform to address the entire spectrum of public-policy concerns. The commitment to “abortion rights” and related issues, however, remained its raison d’être.
“The party’s growth came at the expense of one of the two extant major political parties. Republican Party had increasingly become the home of pro-life Americans, while the Democratic Party could not distinguish itself from the Abortionists. In recognition of this fact, the Abortion Party merged with the nearly defunct Democratic Party, and assumed the name of the Democratic Party…”
George H. Kubeck, There are about 5 more pages which will be sent to you and posted on the blog.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Preface: What are the messages of this parable? It may be wise to wait until you have read all of it. There are five pages in “New Oxford Review” – Nov. 2010. The author is James M. Thunder. He is a Washington, D.C. attorney, has served as general counsel of Americans United for Life. His 2003 article in Issues in Law & Medicine, “Quiet Killings in Medical Facilities: Dedection and Prevention,” resulted in interviews in newspapers and on television and radio. He is a regular contributor to The American Spectator (www.spectator.org ) and Spero News (www.speroforum.com )
The Article in full: “Suppose that, in the 1960s, several hundred Americans in favor of overturning the conventional prohibitions on abortion establish a new political party. To highlight its distinct platform, the, they unabashedly named it the Abortion Party. The new party attracted a lot of attention and a fair amount of money. Party members organized in several states and worked diligently and successfully to change the laws of those states. The party fielded candidates and a few won office.
“At this juncture, several Catholic bishops suggested to each other in private meetings that they publicly forbid Catholics from joining the party, contributing to the party, or voting for the party’s candidates. The majority of Catholic bishops counseled against taking this action. They said things were different now – no longer do we publish lists of forbidden books, forbidden movies, and forbidden organizations like the Masons. It was, they said, pastorally prudent under the current circumstances to educate the faithful rather than command them. They expressed their firm belief that, over time, this third party would, like all third parties in American history (except the Republican Party) wither away.
“Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in “Roe v. Wade” [1973] making abortion legal in all fifty states, at all times of pregnancy, and defining maternal health so broadly as to offer no limitation. Having won this unexpected victory, the National Committee of the Abortion Party met to devise plans to defeat any attempt to limit abortion, and to enlarge its membership and enhance its chances of becoming a leading political party.
“In the ensuing thirty years, the Abortion Party did grow. The number of people voting in its primaries grew exponentially. The number of party officeholders expanded and eclipsed all other third parties in U.S. history (except the Republican Party). The party expanded its platform its platform to address the entire spectrum of public-policy concerns. The commitment to “abortion rights” and related issues, however, remained its raison d’être.
“The party’s growth came at the expense of one of the two extant major political parties. Republican Party had increasingly become the home of pro-life Americans, while the Democratic Party could not distinguish itself from the Abortionists. In recognition of this fact, the Abortion Party merged with the nearly defunct Democratic Party, and assumed the name of the Democratic Party…”
George H. Kubeck, There are about 5 more pages which will be sent to you and posted on the blog.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The Perfect Cultural Storm
The Perfect Cultural Storm
In pursuit of the truth – Cinops be gone – Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010
Let’s focus on this last chapter 10 of Bill Donohue’s book, Secular Sabotage – “How Liberals are Destroying Religion & Culture in America. Bill is President of the Catholic League.
“Secular saboteurs within the ranks of Catholicism and Protestantism are not going to give up, but they are not likely to succeed… While young people may be somewhat indifferent to religion, they are not screaming mad at their churches... the Catholic dissidents and the Protestant malcontents come up short. Sociologist Ken Sanchagrin was “astounded to see that by and large the growing churches are those that we ordinarily call conservative.” Conversely, “the more liberal the denomination by most people’s definition, the more they were losing.”…
Central to the battle between secularists and traditionalists are issues governing sexuality and the public role of religion. When these two areas of contention intersect, they have the makings of the perfect cultural storm… the outcome … will determine THE CONTENT OF NORMATIVE ORDER… nothing mobilizes secular saboteurs to war on the faithful more than challenges to their sexual libertine agenda. [Ref. Carl Anderson’s book, The Quiet Consensus for K. of C. action consideration.]
The issue of marriage is front and center. How will the right of two men affect religion? “This is going to affect every aspect of church-state relations.” Marc Stern, general counsel for the American Jewish Congress… Peter Steinfels writes, “He has in mind schools, health care centers, social service agencies, summer camps, homeless shelters, athletic programs and private business or services that operate by religious standards, like kosher caterers and marriage counselors.” “With regard to education, gay marriage will affect religious schools in admissions, employment, housing, and regulation of clubs. Licensing will also be impacted, especially laws affecting psychological clinics, social workers, and marital counselors.”…
To be sure, those out to sabotage America with their secular agenda are pushing hard for a train wreck. They are led on the intellectual front, by the new atheists: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett. The so-called Four Horsemen are fueled by religious hatred and a contempt for the religious traditions that mark Western Civilization… But not all agnostics and atheists are secularists at heart. Surely Guenter Lewy is not… he came to realize how indispensible religion is to the moral order. “We know of no society anywhere that has managed to build a culture devoid of religion.”… He is not easy on secular firebrands, the kind cut from the cloth of the Four Horsemen. He attributes to them a selfish and hedonistic individualism that reduces moral issues to civil liberties…
The militant atheists will stop at nothing, and that is why they must be relentless confronted by religious conservatives…
George H. Kubeck, The bottom line is what are you going to do about it? The battle is going on now!
In pursuit of the truth – Cinops be gone – Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010
Let’s focus on this last chapter 10 of Bill Donohue’s book, Secular Sabotage – “How Liberals are Destroying Religion & Culture in America. Bill is President of the Catholic League.
“Secular saboteurs within the ranks of Catholicism and Protestantism are not going to give up, but they are not likely to succeed… While young people may be somewhat indifferent to religion, they are not screaming mad at their churches... the Catholic dissidents and the Protestant malcontents come up short. Sociologist Ken Sanchagrin was “astounded to see that by and large the growing churches are those that we ordinarily call conservative.” Conversely, “the more liberal the denomination by most people’s definition, the more they were losing.”…
Central to the battle between secularists and traditionalists are issues governing sexuality and the public role of religion. When these two areas of contention intersect, they have the makings of the perfect cultural storm… the outcome … will determine THE CONTENT OF NORMATIVE ORDER… nothing mobilizes secular saboteurs to war on the faithful more than challenges to their sexual libertine agenda. [Ref. Carl Anderson’s book, The Quiet Consensus for K. of C. action consideration.]
The issue of marriage is front and center. How will the right of two men affect religion? “This is going to affect every aspect of church-state relations.” Marc Stern, general counsel for the American Jewish Congress… Peter Steinfels writes, “He has in mind schools, health care centers, social service agencies, summer camps, homeless shelters, athletic programs and private business or services that operate by religious standards, like kosher caterers and marriage counselors.” “With regard to education, gay marriage will affect religious schools in admissions, employment, housing, and regulation of clubs. Licensing will also be impacted, especially laws affecting psychological clinics, social workers, and marital counselors.”…
To be sure, those out to sabotage America with their secular agenda are pushing hard for a train wreck. They are led on the intellectual front, by the new atheists: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett. The so-called Four Horsemen are fueled by religious hatred and a contempt for the religious traditions that mark Western Civilization… But not all agnostics and atheists are secularists at heart. Surely Guenter Lewy is not… he came to realize how indispensible religion is to the moral order. “We know of no society anywhere that has managed to build a culture devoid of religion.”… He is not easy on secular firebrands, the kind cut from the cloth of the Four Horsemen. He attributes to them a selfish and hedonistic individualism that reduces moral issues to civil liberties…
The militant atheists will stop at nothing, and that is why they must be relentless confronted by religious conservatives…
George H. Kubeck, The bottom line is what are you going to do about it? The battle is going on now!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!
WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!
http://www.californiafamilycouncil.org?/WhetherYouLikeItorNot
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, Dec. 8th, 2010
By Rebecca Burgoyne, CFC Research Analyst: “Best known as the taunt of then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, [Today this CINOP is Lt. Governor of California] these words soon became the mantra of Proposition 8 proponents in 2008. On the day the California Supreme Court overturned Proposition 22, California’s 2000 statute defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, Newsom had pontificated, “The door’s wide open now. It’s going to happen, whether you like it or not,” underscoring the rash of homosexual marriages he ignited in Feb., 2004.
“Now some Bay Area parents are hearing virtually the same words from their school district superintendent, as their children are being forced to watch pro-homosexual movies as part of a curriculum to promote “tolerance” in the Vallejo Unified School District (VUSD). Stemming from a 2009 court case in which an openly gay lesbian student charged she was being harassed by teachers and staff, a settlement agreement between the district and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) mandated staff sensitivity training for all employees and classrooms about respect for students.
“The mandatory training called Respect for Differences features three grade-level, heavily homosexual-slanted films depicting same-sex relationships – “That’s a Family,” “Let’s Get Real,” and “Straight-faced.” These films depict same-sex relationships and families just as normal and accepted as other family structures. If students miss a lesson, they are required to make it up, and parents are not notified in advance of the lesson…
“While Parents want the right to control what their children see – and when – the district superintendent does not agree. One parent with two-middle school students said, “No one should take my right to tell me what can be shown to my child. That’s my child.” Another parent with a nine year old daughter complained, “They tell me I have no parental consent over this … I have a choice to say when my daughter is ready for this topic.” However, these mandatory films and class curriculum may not be avoided by Valley public school students, as current law only allows parents to opt their children out of sex-ed course instruction.
“A parent brought the issue to the school board at a November meeting. Parents were critical that they were not notified and seemed to have no right to shelter their children from the sensitivity lessons. Many took exception to the strong emphasis on sexual orientation without the wider look at other forms of bullying or harassment. Several African-American parents – and one school-board – found the films stereotypical depiction of African-American families offensive.
“Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute (PJI)* is trying to help parents to get some satisfaction. While no child should be bullied for any reason, all too often an emphasis is place on sexual orientation, while other forms of bullying – due to race or religion – are ignored… In neighboring Alameda School District, PJI determined that bullying to sexual orientation was virtually non-existent…” *P.O. Box 276600, Sacramento, Ca. 95827, Brad Dacus, President.
George H. Kubeck, We have the tip of the iceberg should we ever legalize same-sex marriage.
http://www.californiafamilycouncil.org?/WhetherYouLikeItorNot
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, Dec. 8th, 2010
By Rebecca Burgoyne, CFC Research Analyst: “Best known as the taunt of then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, [Today this CINOP is Lt. Governor of California] these words soon became the mantra of Proposition 8 proponents in 2008. On the day the California Supreme Court overturned Proposition 22, California’s 2000 statute defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, Newsom had pontificated, “The door’s wide open now. It’s going to happen, whether you like it or not,” underscoring the rash of homosexual marriages he ignited in Feb., 2004.
“Now some Bay Area parents are hearing virtually the same words from their school district superintendent, as their children are being forced to watch pro-homosexual movies as part of a curriculum to promote “tolerance” in the Vallejo Unified School District (VUSD). Stemming from a 2009 court case in which an openly gay lesbian student charged she was being harassed by teachers and staff, a settlement agreement between the district and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) mandated staff sensitivity training for all employees and classrooms about respect for students.
“The mandatory training called Respect for Differences features three grade-level, heavily homosexual-slanted films depicting same-sex relationships – “That’s a Family,” “Let’s Get Real,” and “Straight-faced.” These films depict same-sex relationships and families just as normal and accepted as other family structures. If students miss a lesson, they are required to make it up, and parents are not notified in advance of the lesson…
“While Parents want the right to control what their children see – and when – the district superintendent does not agree. One parent with two-middle school students said, “No one should take my right to tell me what can be shown to my child. That’s my child.” Another parent with a nine year old daughter complained, “They tell me I have no parental consent over this … I have a choice to say when my daughter is ready for this topic.” However, these mandatory films and class curriculum may not be avoided by Valley public school students, as current law only allows parents to opt their children out of sex-ed course instruction.
“A parent brought the issue to the school board at a November meeting. Parents were critical that they were not notified and seemed to have no right to shelter their children from the sensitivity lessons. Many took exception to the strong emphasis on sexual orientation without the wider look at other forms of bullying or harassment. Several African-American parents – and one school-board – found the films stereotypical depiction of African-American families offensive.
“Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute (PJI)* is trying to help parents to get some satisfaction. While no child should be bullied for any reason, all too often an emphasis is place on sexual orientation, while other forms of bullying – due to race or religion – are ignored… In neighboring Alameda School District, PJI determined that bullying to sexual orientation was virtually non-existent…” *P.O. Box 276600, Sacramento, Ca. 95827, Brad Dacus, President.
George H. Kubeck, We have the tip of the iceberg should we ever legalize same-sex marriage.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
In the Name of Alexander Hamilton and St. Thomas More
In the Name of Alexander Hamilton and St. Thomas More
In pursuit of the truth, Cinops be gone, Sunday, December 4, 2010
The crisis of faith has stricken our country since the 1960’s. There is a loss of faith in the beliefs of our Founding Fathers, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Also, there is a crisis of faith that has engulfed the Church since the 1960’s and it has corrupted and disfigured the face of Catholicism. Ref. Alexander Hamilton – Founding Father on the blog, April 8, 2008
Alexander Hamilton is my favorite Founding Father. Hamilton was an American by choice and never owned any slaves. He wrote pages of wisdom in the Federalist papers. His integrity & standard of public service are unquestioned. During the War for Independence, Hamilton was an aide to George Washington and was his key advisor for eight years. He helped write Washington’s Farewell Address. He was a great persuader in resolving conflicts and securing the passage of the Constitution in New York. As Secretary of the Treasury, he laid the foundation stones for our free enterprise system.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli: Pray “O Glorious St. Thomas More, patron of statesmen, politicians, judges and lawyers, your life of prayer and penance, and your zeal for justice, integrity and firm principle in public and family life led you to the path of martyrdom and sainthood. Intercede for our statesmen, politicians, judges and lawyers, that they may courageous and effective in their defense and promotion of the sanctity of human life, - the foundation of all other human rights. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.” Ref. also on the blog 5 letters on St. Thomas More, December, 2008.
When you couple the above with walking in the footsteps of the Popes St. J.P. II and Benedict XVI, the truth will prevail. Our blind can see and the deaf can hear. Even the CINOP will understand for the sake of his soul that promoting at least 3 absolute evils leads to personal excommunication from the Church and no Catholic funeral. Also, it would not be America with same-sex marriage legalized.
Let’s start with the Farewell Address as our guide. Political correctness and multiculturalism are faction techniques and are un-American. They do not solve problems, they are the problem. They divide, brainwash and indoctrinate the nation. The liberal progressive socialist elite use this to divide and rule. They block out reason and common sense and introduce relativistic solutions.
The journalism of the N.Y. Times is dead. So is the independent-minded professional school teacher who does not live in a Right to Work State. Governor Jerry Brown’s signed the Rodda Act of 1975-6. It legalized industrial type unionism, politicized and brainwashed my teaching profession.
What frightens me and drives me up the wall is to recall the Parliament in Canada during the years 2004-5. The Canadian bishops had knowledge of the CINOP (Liberals) planning to legalize same-sex marriage. The Liberals succeeded in 2005. Over all the bishops did nothing about it. May this be unthinkable in Calif., or in America? This business of treating the CINOP as a Sacred Cow must cease.
I am fed up with the CINOP demagogues on poverty and helping the poor. They remind me of Stalin and Hitler. Their war on poverty destroyed the Black American family & kills them via abortion.
George H. Kubeck, with the reelection of CINOP Loretta Sanchez everything in Orange County, Calif. is on hold.
In pursuit of the truth, Cinops be gone, Sunday, December 4, 2010
The crisis of faith has stricken our country since the 1960’s. There is a loss of faith in the beliefs of our Founding Fathers, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Also, there is a crisis of faith that has engulfed the Church since the 1960’s and it has corrupted and disfigured the face of Catholicism. Ref. Alexander Hamilton – Founding Father on the blog, April 8, 2008
Alexander Hamilton is my favorite Founding Father. Hamilton was an American by choice and never owned any slaves. He wrote pages of wisdom in the Federalist papers. His integrity & standard of public service are unquestioned. During the War for Independence, Hamilton was an aide to George Washington and was his key advisor for eight years. He helped write Washington’s Farewell Address. He was a great persuader in resolving conflicts and securing the passage of the Constitution in New York. As Secretary of the Treasury, he laid the foundation stones for our free enterprise system.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli: Pray “O Glorious St. Thomas More, patron of statesmen, politicians, judges and lawyers, your life of prayer and penance, and your zeal for justice, integrity and firm principle in public and family life led you to the path of martyrdom and sainthood. Intercede for our statesmen, politicians, judges and lawyers, that they may courageous and effective in their defense and promotion of the sanctity of human life, - the foundation of all other human rights. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.” Ref. also on the blog 5 letters on St. Thomas More, December, 2008.
When you couple the above with walking in the footsteps of the Popes St. J.P. II and Benedict XVI, the truth will prevail. Our blind can see and the deaf can hear. Even the CINOP will understand for the sake of his soul that promoting at least 3 absolute evils leads to personal excommunication from the Church and no Catholic funeral. Also, it would not be America with same-sex marriage legalized.
Let’s start with the Farewell Address as our guide. Political correctness and multiculturalism are faction techniques and are un-American. They do not solve problems, they are the problem. They divide, brainwash and indoctrinate the nation. The liberal progressive socialist elite use this to divide and rule. They block out reason and common sense and introduce relativistic solutions.
The journalism of the N.Y. Times is dead. So is the independent-minded professional school teacher who does not live in a Right to Work State. Governor Jerry Brown’s signed the Rodda Act of 1975-6. It legalized industrial type unionism, politicized and brainwashed my teaching profession.
What frightens me and drives me up the wall is to recall the Parliament in Canada during the years 2004-5. The Canadian bishops had knowledge of the CINOP (Liberals) planning to legalize same-sex marriage. The Liberals succeeded in 2005. Over all the bishops did nothing about it. May this be unthinkable in Calif., or in America? This business of treating the CINOP as a Sacred Cow must cease.
I am fed up with the CINOP demagogues on poverty and helping the poor. They remind me of Stalin and Hitler. Their war on poverty destroyed the Black American family & kills them via abortion.
George H. Kubeck, with the reelection of CINOP Loretta Sanchez everything in Orange County, Calif. is on hold.
Friday, December 3, 2010
The War against the Unborn
The War against the Unborn
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 3, 2010
John Smeaton has a story to tell us. Ref. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) by Patrick B. Craine - UK Pro-Life Leader: “This is World War III.” http:///.lifesitenews.com/Idn/printerfriendly.htlml?articleid=10110309
There is an all-out attack against the family being waged by the worldly powers in Europe, North America, and throughout the world, said John Smeaton, national director of the U.K.’s “Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), at the International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada… “It’s primarily a war on the unborn and on parents as the primary educators of their children. Sadly, the situation is made even worse by church leaders who have imbibed the spirit of the age, he added. (Find more coverage of Smeaton’s comments on Church leaders.)
As vice president of the International Right to Life Federation, Smeaton is national director of SPUC, founded in 1966 as the world’s first pro-life organization, since 1996. The group boasts 130 branches, 30,000 members and 30 full-time staff.
Countries such as Britain, Spain and Portugal are promoting abortion and contraception in the classroom without parental consent, he said in clear opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR, adopted in 1948 in the wake of the great atrocities of World War II, insisted on the primacy of parents as the educators of their child, he noted, because of the Nazi’s use of the education system to indoctrinate children.
He also enlightened the hundreds gathered in Ottawa on the how the United Nations and governments in Europe and North America are campaigning against pro-life laws around the world, and attacking the right of doctors to refuse participation or referrals for abortion...
Smeaton said the pro-life movement must engage in “great campaigns” to promote conscientious objection and must make it very clear that abortion, euthanasia, IVF and human embryo research “are not examples of medical care.”… We are not imposing religious beliefs but expressing humanity’s consensus on the right to life… Smeaton described the awful campaign being waged in Ireland to topple the country’s historic and constitutional protection for the unborn…
He quoted Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court … attack on life is based on an “erroneous” view of human sexuality that robs the conjugal act of its procreative nature. “The artificial separation of the unitive and procreative elements of sexual intercourse is not only the basis of contraception, it also the basis of early abortion and in vitro fertilization. It underpins today’s culture of death. .. Also Catholics widespread use of contraception “is draining the pro-life movement of the support of the community most likely to support the battle against abortion…
George H. Kubeck, The prayer vigil for the unborn is a good reason to open the Catholic Liturgical Year.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 3, 2010
John Smeaton has a story to tell us. Ref. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) by Patrick B. Craine - UK Pro-Life Leader: “This is World War III.” http:///.lifesitenews.com/Idn/printerfriendly.htlml?articleid=10110309
There is an all-out attack against the family being waged by the worldly powers in Europe, North America, and throughout the world, said John Smeaton, national director of the U.K.’s “Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), at the International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada… “It’s primarily a war on the unborn and on parents as the primary educators of their children. Sadly, the situation is made even worse by church leaders who have imbibed the spirit of the age, he added. (Find more coverage of Smeaton’s comments on Church leaders.)
As vice president of the International Right to Life Federation, Smeaton is national director of SPUC, founded in 1966 as the world’s first pro-life organization, since 1996. The group boasts 130 branches, 30,000 members and 30 full-time staff.
Countries such as Britain, Spain and Portugal are promoting abortion and contraception in the classroom without parental consent, he said in clear opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR, adopted in 1948 in the wake of the great atrocities of World War II, insisted on the primacy of parents as the educators of their child, he noted, because of the Nazi’s use of the education system to indoctrinate children.
He also enlightened the hundreds gathered in Ottawa on the how the United Nations and governments in Europe and North America are campaigning against pro-life laws around the world, and attacking the right of doctors to refuse participation or referrals for abortion...
Smeaton said the pro-life movement must engage in “great campaigns” to promote conscientious objection and must make it very clear that abortion, euthanasia, IVF and human embryo research “are not examples of medical care.”… We are not imposing religious beliefs but expressing humanity’s consensus on the right to life… Smeaton described the awful campaign being waged in Ireland to topple the country’s historic and constitutional protection for the unborn…
He quoted Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court … attack on life is based on an “erroneous” view of human sexuality that robs the conjugal act of its procreative nature. “The artificial separation of the unitive and procreative elements of sexual intercourse is not only the basis of contraception, it also the basis of early abortion and in vitro fertilization. It underpins today’s culture of death. .. Also Catholics widespread use of contraception “is draining the pro-life movement of the support of the community most likely to support the battle against abortion…
George H. Kubeck, The prayer vigil for the unborn is a good reason to open the Catholic Liturgical Year.
The War against the Unborn
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 3, 2010
John Smeaton has a story to tell us. Ref. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) by Patrick B. Craine - UK Pro-Life Leader: “This is World War III.” http:///.lifesitenews.com/Idn/printerfriendly.htlml?articleid=10110309
There is an all-out attack against the family being waged by the worldly powers in Europe, North America, and throughout the world, said John Smeaton, national director of the U.K.’s “Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), at the International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada… “It’s primarily a war on the unborn and on parents as the primary educators of their children. Sadly, the situation is made even worse by church leaders who have imbibed the spirit of the age, he added. (Find more coverage of Smeaton’s comments on Church leaders.)
As vice president of the International Right to Life Federation, Smeaton is national director of SPUC, founded in 1966 as the world’s first pro-life organization, since 1996. The group boasts 130 branches, 30,000 members and 30 full-time staff.
Countries such as Britain, Spain and Portugal are promoting abortion and contraception in the classroom without parental consent, he said in clear opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR, adopted in 1948 in the wake of the great atrocities of World War II, insisted on the primacy of parents as the educators of their child, he noted, because of the Nazi’s use of the education system to indoctrinate children.
He also enlightened the hundreds gathered in Ottawa on the how the United Nations and governments in Europe and North America are campaigning against pro-life laws around the world, and attacking the right of doctors to refuse participation or referrals for abortion...
Smeaton said the pro-life movement must engage in “great campaigns” to promote conscientious objection and must make it very clear that abortion, euthanasia, IVF and human embryo research “are not examples of medical care.”… We are not imposing religious beliefs but expressing humanity’s consensus on the right to life… Smeaton described the awful campaign being waged in Ireland to topple the country’s historic and constitutional protection for the unborn…
He quoted Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court … attack on life is based on an “erroneous” view of human sexuality that robs the conjugal act of its procreative nature. “The artificial separation of the unitive and procreative elements of sexual intercourse is not only the basis of contraception, it also the basis of early abortion and in vitro fertilization. It underpins today’s culture of death. .. Also Catholics widespread use of contraception “is draining the pro-life movement of the support of the community most likely to support the battle against abortion…
George H. Kubeck, The prayer vigil for the unborn is a good reason to open the Catholic Liturgical Year.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 3, 2010
John Smeaton has a story to tell us. Ref. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) by Patrick B. Craine - UK Pro-Life Leader: “This is World War III.” http:///.lifesitenews.com/Idn/printerfriendly.htlml?articleid=10110309
There is an all-out attack against the family being waged by the worldly powers in Europe, North America, and throughout the world, said John Smeaton, national director of the U.K.’s “Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), at the International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada… “It’s primarily a war on the unborn and on parents as the primary educators of their children. Sadly, the situation is made even worse by church leaders who have imbibed the spirit of the age, he added. (Find more coverage of Smeaton’s comments on Church leaders.)
As vice president of the International Right to Life Federation, Smeaton is national director of SPUC, founded in 1966 as the world’s first pro-life organization, since 1996. The group boasts 130 branches, 30,000 members and 30 full-time staff.
Countries such as Britain, Spain and Portugal are promoting abortion and contraception in the classroom without parental consent, he said in clear opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR, adopted in 1948 in the wake of the great atrocities of World War II, insisted on the primacy of parents as the educators of their child, he noted, because of the Nazi’s use of the education system to indoctrinate children.
He also enlightened the hundreds gathered in Ottawa on the how the United Nations and governments in Europe and North America are campaigning against pro-life laws around the world, and attacking the right of doctors to refuse participation or referrals for abortion...
Smeaton said the pro-life movement must engage in “great campaigns” to promote conscientious objection and must make it very clear that abortion, euthanasia, IVF and human embryo research “are not examples of medical care.”… We are not imposing religious beliefs but expressing humanity’s consensus on the right to life… Smeaton described the awful campaign being waged in Ireland to topple the country’s historic and constitutional protection for the unborn…
He quoted Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court … attack on life is based on an “erroneous” view of human sexuality that robs the conjugal act of its procreative nature. “The artificial separation of the unitive and procreative elements of sexual intercourse is not only the basis of contraception, it also the basis of early abortion and in vitro fertilization. It underpins today’s culture of death. .. Also Catholics widespread use of contraception “is draining the pro-life movement of the support of the community most likely to support the battle against abortion…
George H. Kubeck, The prayer vigil for the unborn is a good reason to open the Catholic Liturgical Year.
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