The Catholic Vote in 2012
Let the light of truth open your mind! - cinops be gone - Monday, Dec. 31, 2012
We have the winners and the losers!
Prologue: 1) “O Lord, my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot in your hands.” (Ps. 16:5)
“Because the cup is in his hands, the only losing lot would be refusal to accept at all the lot from his hands.” Pope Benedict XVI, “Co-Workers of the Truth” - Meditation, Dec. 31st.
2) Just prior to the election in November of 1884, our founder of the Knights of Columbus, the Venerable Servant of God Father Michael McGivney gave his congregation some important advice about the upcoming election. He said: “In casting your ballots, you should look well to the responsibilities under which every citizen of this free government is place. Let not the soft or alluring words of tricky politicians, or the seductive dollar turn you a hair’s breadth from your lawful path. Vote not as other men dictate, but rather like men with the interest of your country at heart. Vote according to the dictates of your own consciences.” Vote with a well formed conscience.
References: a) The 1600 letters on my blog. They seems idealistic, naïve to reality, too honest and truthful. Cinops be gone supports loyalty to the Pope, the Magisterium and The Catechism of the Catholic Church. b) http://cal-catholic.com/wordpress/2012/10/11/lets-be-clear-about-confusion/
Public Notice: The meeting of “Co-Workers of the Truth Fellowship” will be on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, 9-10:15 A.M. at Chick-Fil-A, corner of 605 Freeway and Carson St. in Long Beach.
There is no religious or political power greater than the truth. The truth is shunned not only in secular but also in religious society. The winners of the Catholic Vote in 2012 were dissident Catholics within the American Catholic Church. The losers were faithful Catholics who try to follow the ten commandments and believe in The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Recall we won in the 2010 elections. Many CINO politicians were defeated. We will win again in 2014.
When you have 50% of the so-called Catholics vote for Obama and only 20% of Evangelicals voted for Obama, what does that mean? It means that Evangelicals are Christian, understand the issues, and have a well-formed conscience. One day Catholics will do likewise. May I share with you several loser organizations which we have financially supported.
Losers Organizations: National Right to Life, Human Life International, Catholic Advocate, Catholics for the Common Good, Priests for Life, Catholic Answers, American Life League, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, National Pro-Life Alliance, Lifesitenews.com, EWTN, Knights of Columbus, Cardinal Newman Society, Fellowship of Catholic University Students, National Catholic Register, First Things, Mindszenty Report, Eagle Forum etc. Losers were also Talk Radio, Voters Guide for Serious Catholics, the Test of Fire Video, CatholicVote.org, Catholic.com., etc.
The Winning Persons and Organizations: The CINOP (Catholic-in-name-only politician and persons), V.P. Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Governors Jerry Brown and Andrew Cuomo, Senators Dick Durbin and John Kerry, Father Michael Pfleger, Chicago’s pastor of Community of Saint Sabrina all liberal Catholics, Chris Matthews, Bill Press, E.J. Dionne, Mark Shields, Commonweal, America, National Catholic Reporter, Dissident Catholic professors and teachers, Jesuit Colleges, Catholics United, Catholics for Free Choice, Catholic Alliance for the Common Good, The guide Forming Consciences of Faithful Citizenship, also bishops and priests who are Democrats first & priest second.
Happy New Year,
George H. Kubeck, - Maybe you can go to the following conference and ask questions.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
The Mystery of Creation
The Mystery of Creation
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012
Excerpts from “The Catechism of the Catholic Church”
IV. The Mystery of Creation - God creates by wisdom and love
295. We believe that God created the world according to his wisdom. It is not the product of any necessity whatever, nor of blind fate or chance. We believe that it proceeds from God’s free will, he wanted to make his creatures share in his being, wisdom and goodness.
296. We believe that God need no preexistent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of necessary emanation from the divine substance. God creates freely, “out of nothing.”
297. Scripture bears witness to faith in creation “out of nothing” as a truth full of promise and hope. Thus the mother of seven sons encourages them for martyrdom….
298. Since God could create everything out of nothing, he can also through the Holy Spirit, give spiritual life to sinners by creating a pure heart in them….
God creates an ordered a good world
299. Because God creates through wisdom, his creation is ordered: “You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.”… “And God saw that it was good … very good” for God willed creation as a gift addressed to man, an inheritance destined for and entrusted to him….
God transcends creation and is present to it
300. God is infinitely greater than all his works: “You have set your glory above the heavens.” Indeed, God’s “greatness is unsearchable.” …
God upholds and sustains creation
30l. With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to themselves. He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end….
V. God Carries Out His Plan: Divine Providence
302. Creation has it own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” (in statu viae) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the disposition by which God guides his creation toward this perfection:….
303. The witness of Scripture is unanimous that the solicitude of divine providence concrete and immediate; God cares for all, from the least things to the great events of the world and its history.
304. And so we see the Holy Spirit, the principal author of Sacred Scripture, often attributing actions to God without mentioning any secondary causes….
305. Jesus acts for childlike abandonment to the providence of our heavenly Father who takes care of his children’s smaller needs: ….
Providence and secondary causes
306. God is the sovereign master of his plan. But to carry it out he also makes use of his creature’s cooperation….
307. To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in his providence by entrusting them with the responsibility of “subduing” the earth and having dominion over it….
308. The truth that God is at work in all the actions of his creatures is inseparable from faith in God the Creator. God is the first cause who operates in and through secondary causes:…
Providence and the scandal of evil
309. If God the Father almighty, the Creator of the ordered and good world, care for all his creatures, why does evil exist? … Only Christian faith as a whole constitutes the answer to this question: … There is not a single aspect of the Christian message that is not in part an answer to the question of evil…. ghk
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012
Excerpts from “The Catechism of the Catholic Church”
IV. The Mystery of Creation - God creates by wisdom and love
295. We believe that God created the world according to his wisdom. It is not the product of any necessity whatever, nor of blind fate or chance. We believe that it proceeds from God’s free will, he wanted to make his creatures share in his being, wisdom and goodness.
296. We believe that God need no preexistent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of necessary emanation from the divine substance. God creates freely, “out of nothing.”
297. Scripture bears witness to faith in creation “out of nothing” as a truth full of promise and hope. Thus the mother of seven sons encourages them for martyrdom….
298. Since God could create everything out of nothing, he can also through the Holy Spirit, give spiritual life to sinners by creating a pure heart in them….
God creates an ordered a good world
299. Because God creates through wisdom, his creation is ordered: “You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.”… “And God saw that it was good … very good” for God willed creation as a gift addressed to man, an inheritance destined for and entrusted to him….
God transcends creation and is present to it
300. God is infinitely greater than all his works: “You have set your glory above the heavens.” Indeed, God’s “greatness is unsearchable.” …
God upholds and sustains creation
30l. With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to themselves. He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end….
V. God Carries Out His Plan: Divine Providence
302. Creation has it own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” (in statu viae) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the disposition by which God guides his creation toward this perfection:….
303. The witness of Scripture is unanimous that the solicitude of divine providence concrete and immediate; God cares for all, from the least things to the great events of the world and its history.
304. And so we see the Holy Spirit, the principal author of Sacred Scripture, often attributing actions to God without mentioning any secondary causes….
305. Jesus acts for childlike abandonment to the providence of our heavenly Father who takes care of his children’s smaller needs: ….
Providence and secondary causes
306. God is the sovereign master of his plan. But to carry it out he also makes use of his creature’s cooperation….
307. To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in his providence by entrusting them with the responsibility of “subduing” the earth and having dominion over it….
308. The truth that God is at work in all the actions of his creatures is inseparable from faith in God the Creator. God is the first cause who operates in and through secondary causes:…
Providence and the scandal of evil
309. If God the Father almighty, the Creator of the ordered and good world, care for all his creatures, why does evil exist? … Only Christian faith as a whole constitutes the answer to this question: … There is not a single aspect of the Christian message that is not in part an answer to the question of evil…. ghk
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Dr. Larry P. Arnn's Imprimis answers Questions
Dr. Larry P. Arnn’s Imprimis answers Questions
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012
Dr. Arnn is the twelfth president of Hillsdale College. Imprimis is a publication of the College with over 2,600,000 readers monthly. It is free. www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis.asp
The following is adapted from an interview by Hugh Hewitt for the Hugh Hewitt Radio Show on the day after the election, Nov. 7, 2012. (December 2012 Issue) (Hugh is on daily 3-6 PM., KLAC 870)
Hugh Hewitt: (HH) In his introduction to The City and Man, Leo Strauss wrote this: “The crisis of the West consists in the West’s having become uncertain of its purpose.” Is that applicable to what we see in our politics today?
Larry P. Arnn: (LPA) It is certainly true that the vast majority of our nation’s elites today - those who welcome the results of yesterday’s election - are creatures of modern historicist thought, which explicitly rejects the kind of objective principles - equality under God, inalienable rights - equality under God, inalienable rights - on which America was founded. According to modern historicism, the only objective truth is that one can’t know an objective truth.
President Obama embraces this view in no uncertain terms in his book The Audacity of Hope: “Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty,” he writes, is “a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or ‘ism,’ any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single unalterable course ….” So much for individual rights & limited government.
HH: You mentioned Reagan, who always seemed to know, as Solzhenitsyn knew, that it was all papier-mâché in the Soviet Union - that you could poke a stick through it and it would fall apart. It was held together by fear. But modern bureaucratic government operates in such a way as to gain people’s allegiance and trust. Isn’t that a significant difference between the two?
LPA: The experts who run the modern bureaucratic state think they are architects of a perfectly rational society. They think of themselves as scientists, and of the running of government as something more like science - the science of administration - than politics.
They think they can coordinate society comprehensively so that no one is left out. That’s why they think of their work as something good and as something high.
The problem is that what they are trying to do defies human nature - the human nature that led James Madison to write famously that men are not angels, and that led the Framers of the Constitution to divide government in order to limit government - and so what these experts are doing will ultimately lead to despotism.
But to speak directly to your question, Hugh, there are many indications that there’s a deep and even intensifying opposition to bureaucratic government today. People don’t like it, and they don’t trust it. They want less of it. And I don’t believe that yesterday’s election signified any change in that. Now, how to harness that opinion politically is the challenge. No one has yet been able to capitalize upon it.
HH: What would be your advice as to what constitutional conservatives should be saying?
LPA: One obvious theme to strike is that people didn’t vote for, and don’t support, higher taxes and bigger government. But conservative statesmen have to get better. Calvin Coolidge once said that great statesman are “ambassadors of providence, sent to reveal to us our unknown selves.”
What that means is that great statesmen are not going to be around very often. I’d say that the standard of conservative statesmanship today is improving, but too few prominent conservatives are skillful at explaining the problem of the modern bureaucratic state.
This form of government proceeds by rules, and rules upon rules, and compliance with those rules, and compliance with those rules become a key activity of the entire nation. That results in bureaucracy, and in the inefficiencies of bureaucracy. Constitutional government, on the other hand, proceeds by clearly states laws…
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012
Dr. Arnn is the twelfth president of Hillsdale College. Imprimis is a publication of the College with over 2,600,000 readers monthly. It is free. www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis.asp
The following is adapted from an interview by Hugh Hewitt for the Hugh Hewitt Radio Show on the day after the election, Nov. 7, 2012. (December 2012 Issue) (Hugh is on daily 3-6 PM., KLAC 870)
Hugh Hewitt: (HH) In his introduction to The City and Man, Leo Strauss wrote this: “The crisis of the West consists in the West’s having become uncertain of its purpose.” Is that applicable to what we see in our politics today?
Larry P. Arnn: (LPA) It is certainly true that the vast majority of our nation’s elites today - those who welcome the results of yesterday’s election - are creatures of modern historicist thought, which explicitly rejects the kind of objective principles - equality under God, inalienable rights - equality under God, inalienable rights - on which America was founded. According to modern historicism, the only objective truth is that one can’t know an objective truth.
President Obama embraces this view in no uncertain terms in his book The Audacity of Hope: “Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty,” he writes, is “a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or ‘ism,’ any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single unalterable course ….” So much for individual rights & limited government.
HH: You mentioned Reagan, who always seemed to know, as Solzhenitsyn knew, that it was all papier-mâché in the Soviet Union - that you could poke a stick through it and it would fall apart. It was held together by fear. But modern bureaucratic government operates in such a way as to gain people’s allegiance and trust. Isn’t that a significant difference between the two?
LPA: The experts who run the modern bureaucratic state think they are architects of a perfectly rational society. They think of themselves as scientists, and of the running of government as something more like science - the science of administration - than politics.
They think they can coordinate society comprehensively so that no one is left out. That’s why they think of their work as something good and as something high.
The problem is that what they are trying to do defies human nature - the human nature that led James Madison to write famously that men are not angels, and that led the Framers of the Constitution to divide government in order to limit government - and so what these experts are doing will ultimately lead to despotism.
But to speak directly to your question, Hugh, there are many indications that there’s a deep and even intensifying opposition to bureaucratic government today. People don’t like it, and they don’t trust it. They want less of it. And I don’t believe that yesterday’s election signified any change in that. Now, how to harness that opinion politically is the challenge. No one has yet been able to capitalize upon it.
HH: What would be your advice as to what constitutional conservatives should be saying?
LPA: One obvious theme to strike is that people didn’t vote for, and don’t support, higher taxes and bigger government. But conservative statesmen have to get better. Calvin Coolidge once said that great statesman are “ambassadors of providence, sent to reveal to us our unknown selves.”
What that means is that great statesmen are not going to be around very often. I’d say that the standard of conservative statesmanship today is improving, but too few prominent conservatives are skillful at explaining the problem of the modern bureaucratic state.
This form of government proceeds by rules, and rules upon rules, and compliance with those rules, and compliance with those rules become a key activity of the entire nation. That results in bureaucracy, and in the inefficiencies of bureaucracy. Constitutional government, on the other hand, proceeds by clearly states laws…
George H. Kubeck
Monday, December 24, 2012
Feast of the Holy Innocents
Feast of the Holy Innocents
Procession and Eucharistic Celebration
Please join us in Prayer for the Unborn
Friday, December 28 - 7 pm to 9 pm
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church,
900 W. La Habra Blvd.
La Habra, 90631
7:00 pm Candlelight Procession from City Hall,
221 E. La Habra Blvd. (just east of Euclid)
7:30 pm Eucharistic Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe
8:30 pm Refreshments in Msgr. Coleman Center
For information: Bob Kurtz at 714-447-9281 or Mecki 714-871-5382
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Festividades de los Santos Inocentes
Procession y Celebracion de Misa
Por favor unase a nosotros en Oracion por los ninos que no han nacido todavia
Viernes, Diciembre 28, 2012 - 4:45 pm - 6:45 pm
Inglesia Sacred Heart Church, Palm Desert
5 pm Salida del Christ of the Desert Chapel
Fred Waring & San Pablo
5:30 pm Misa en law Iglesia de Nuestra Sacred Heart
Fred Waring & Deep Canyon
6:30 pm Tiempo Para tomar Refrescos en el St. Theresa Meeting Room
Favor llamar Barbara - 760 - 902 - 1315
Procession and Eucharistic Celebration
Please join us in Prayer for the Unborn
Friday, December 28 - 7 pm to 9 pm
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church,
900 W. La Habra Blvd.
La Habra, 90631
7:00 pm Candlelight Procession from City Hall,
221 E. La Habra Blvd. (just east of Euclid)
7:30 pm Eucharistic Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe
8:30 pm Refreshments in Msgr. Coleman Center
For information: Bob Kurtz at 714-447-9281 or Mecki 714-871-5382
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Festividades de los Santos Inocentes
Procession y Celebracion de Misa
Por favor unase a nosotros en Oracion por los ninos que no han nacido todavia
Viernes, Diciembre 28, 2012 - 4:45 pm - 6:45 pm
Inglesia Sacred Heart Church, Palm Desert
5 pm Salida del Christ of the Desert Chapel
Fred Waring & San Pablo
5:30 pm Misa en law Iglesia de Nuestra Sacred Heart
Fred Waring & Deep Canyon
6:30 pm Tiempo Para tomar Refrescos en el St. Theresa Meeting Room
Favor llamar Barbara - 760 - 902 - 1315
Pope Benedict XVI on Peacemakers
Pope Benedict XVI on the Peacemakers
Truth and righteousness - cinops be gone - Monday, Dec. 24th, 2012
“The dinosaurs in the world are said to have become extinct because their development went in the wrong direction: plenty of armor plate and little brain, plenty of muscle and little sense. Are we not also about to develop in a wrong direction: plenty of technology but little soul: a thick armor plate of material expertise but an empty heart? dearth of the ability to perceive God’s voice in us, to recognize and acknowledge what is good and beautiful and true. Co-Workers of the Truth, Dec. 23rd.
Excerpts from LifeSiteNews.com Rome, Dec. 14, 2012, by John-Henry Westen, http://www.lifesitenews.com/home/print_article/news/37416/
True peace in the world requires end of abortion and gay ‘marriage.’ “Peacemakers are those who love, defend and promote life in its fullness,” said Pope Benedict XVI in his Message for World Day of Peace 2013.
The pope stated that “serious harm to justice and peace” comes from denying the true principles of respect for life and promotion of the “natural structure of marriage as the union of a man and a woman.” … pro-lifers are the ‘true peacemakers’ and those who support abortion promote a “false peace.”…
Along with principle of respect for life, the Holy Father spoke of the “need to acknowledge and promote the natural structure of marriage as the union of a man and woman in the face of attempts to make it juridical equivalent to radically different types of union; such attempts actually harm and help to destabilize marriage obscuring its specific nature & its indispensable role in society.
The pope noted these principles are “not truths of faith,” but inscribed in human nature itself, accessible to reason and thus common to all humanity.” Efforts to promote them, he said, “are all the more necessary the more these principles are denied or misunderstood, since this constitutes an offense against the truth of the human person, with serious harm to justice and peace.
“the dismantling of the dictatorship of relativism and of the supposition of a completely autonomous morality which precludes acknowledgement of the ineluctable natural moral law inscribed by God upon the conscious of every man and woman.”
“for legal systems and the administration of justice to recognize the right to involve the principle of conscientious objection in the face of the laws or government measures that offend against human dignity, such as abortion and euthanasia.” … “The right of individuals and communities to religious freedom.”
On the last point, the pope lamented the lack of religious freedom, even in Western nations. “Sadly, even in countries of long-standing Christian tradition, instances of religious intolerance are becoming more numerous, especially in relation to Christianity and those who simply wear identifying signs of their religion.” he stated.
Merry Christmas,
George H. Kubeck,
Truth is our most powerful weapon. There is a lot of work to be done in public education, and parish conversions. For example, join or start a local Co-Workers of the Truth Fellowship or Assembly and work on several of the following signs similar in size to life chains signs. They are 1) Life is the First Inalienable Right. 2) Abortion Hurts Women 3) Marriage, One Dad, One Mom, Children 4) Defend Religious Freedom, Conscience, 1st Amendment to the Constitution, Evil, HHS Mandate 5) Stop Black or Latino Racism, e.g. Stop Black Racism! - 1,000 Black Babies Are Killed Each Day Via Abortion - 365,000 Each Year - Stop the Genocide! 6) Vote Against Candidates & Issues That Hollywood & The News Media Support! - Common Sense.
Truth and righteousness - cinops be gone - Monday, Dec. 24th, 2012
“The dinosaurs in the world are said to have become extinct because their development went in the wrong direction: plenty of armor plate and little brain, plenty of muscle and little sense. Are we not also about to develop in a wrong direction: plenty of technology but little soul: a thick armor plate of material expertise but an empty heart? dearth of the ability to perceive God’s voice in us, to recognize and acknowledge what is good and beautiful and true. Co-Workers of the Truth, Dec. 23rd.
Excerpts from LifeSiteNews.com Rome, Dec. 14, 2012, by John-Henry Westen, http://www.lifesitenews.com/home/print_article/news/37416/
True peace in the world requires end of abortion and gay ‘marriage.’ “Peacemakers are those who love, defend and promote life in its fullness,” said Pope Benedict XVI in his Message for World Day of Peace 2013.
The pope stated that “serious harm to justice and peace” comes from denying the true principles of respect for life and promotion of the “natural structure of marriage as the union of a man and a woman.” … pro-lifers are the ‘true peacemakers’ and those who support abortion promote a “false peace.”…
Along with principle of respect for life, the Holy Father spoke of the “need to acknowledge and promote the natural structure of marriage as the union of a man and woman in the face of attempts to make it juridical equivalent to radically different types of union; such attempts actually harm and help to destabilize marriage obscuring its specific nature & its indispensable role in society.
The pope noted these principles are “not truths of faith,” but inscribed in human nature itself, accessible to reason and thus common to all humanity.” Efforts to promote them, he said, “are all the more necessary the more these principles are denied or misunderstood, since this constitutes an offense against the truth of the human person, with serious harm to justice and peace.
“the dismantling of the dictatorship of relativism and of the supposition of a completely autonomous morality which precludes acknowledgement of the ineluctable natural moral law inscribed by God upon the conscious of every man and woman.”
“for legal systems and the administration of justice to recognize the right to involve the principle of conscientious objection in the face of the laws or government measures that offend against human dignity, such as abortion and euthanasia.” … “The right of individuals and communities to religious freedom.”
On the last point, the pope lamented the lack of religious freedom, even in Western nations. “Sadly, even in countries of long-standing Christian tradition, instances of religious intolerance are becoming more numerous, especially in relation to Christianity and those who simply wear identifying signs of their religion.” he stated.
Merry Christmas,
George H. Kubeck,
Truth is our most powerful weapon. There is a lot of work to be done in public education, and parish conversions. For example, join or start a local Co-Workers of the Truth Fellowship or Assembly and work on several of the following signs similar in size to life chains signs. They are 1) Life is the First Inalienable Right. 2) Abortion Hurts Women 3) Marriage, One Dad, One Mom, Children 4) Defend Religious Freedom, Conscience, 1st Amendment to the Constitution, Evil, HHS Mandate 5) Stop Black or Latino Racism, e.g. Stop Black Racism! - 1,000 Black Babies Are Killed Each Day Via Abortion - 365,000 Each Year - Stop the Genocide! 6) Vote Against Candidates & Issues That Hollywood & The News Media Support! - Common Sense.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Hilaire Belloc on Islam
Hilaire Belloc on Islam
Truth and Righteousness - cinops be gone - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
Excerpts from The Essential Belloc, A Prophet for Our Times - Rev. C. John Mcloskey etc… 2010
Belloc has come to be seen as the only voice predicting the resurgence of Islam, and the only voice connecting the Protestant Reformation with the twin harbinger of economic malaise” monopoly and materialism…. Belloc wanted so much for modernity to turn from its ways, in matters spiritual, cultural, political, and architectural, and historical…
On Islam as a Heresy of Catholicism: by Hilaire Belloc
Mohammedanism was a heresy: that is the essential point to grasp before going any further. It began as a heresy, not as a new religion. It was not a pagan contrast with the Church; it was not an alien enemy. It was a perversion of Christian doctrine.
How did Islam arise? It was not, as our popular historical textbooks would have it, a “new religion.” It was a direct derivative from the Catholic Church. It was essentially, in its origin, a heresy: like Arianism or Albigensianism….
Mohammedanism planted itself firmly not only throughout Syria but all along North Africa and even into Spain, and overflowed vigorously into Asia eastward. Mahomet simplified much than did, say Pelagious or even Arius. He turned our Lord into a mere prophet, though the greatest of the prophets; Our Lady - whom we greatly revered, and whom his followers still revere … he cut out the Eucharist altogether, and was mostg difficult to follow in the matter of the Resurrection. He abolished all idea of priesthood: most important of all, he declared for social equality among all those who should be “true believers” after his fashion….
He advanced a clear affirmation, full and complete, against the whole doctrine of an incarnate God. He taught that Our Lord was the greatest of all the prophets, but still only a prophet: a man like other men. He eliminated the Trinity altogether….
The slave who admitted that Mohammed was the prophet of God and that the new teaching had, therefore, divine authority, ceased to be a slave …. Above all, justice could be had without buying it from lawyers … All this in theory…. But the central point where this new heresy struck home with a mortal blow against Catholic tradition was a full denial of the Incarnation….
Islam advances in herd or mob fashion. It does not proceed, as the Catholic religion does, by individual conversions, but by colonization and group movement. Islam is apparently unconvertible. The missionary efforts made by great Catholic orders which have been occupied in trying to turn Mohammedans into Christians for nearly 400 years have everywhere wholly failed…
The chief heresiarch, Mohammed himself, was not, like most heresiarchs, a man of Catholic birth and doctrine to begin with. He sprang from pagans. But that which he taught was in the main Catholic doctrine, oversimplified. It was the great Catholic world on the frontiers of which he lived, whose influence was all around him and whose territories he had know by travel which inspired his convictions.
Like all heresies, Mohammedanism lived by the Catholic truths which it had retained. Its insistence on personal immortality, on the Unity and Infinite Majesty of God, on His Justice and Mercy, its insistence on the equality of human souls in the sight of their Creator - these are its strength….
Islam has differed from all the other heresies … 1) It did not rise within the Church… He was an outsider born a pagan, living among pagans, and never baptized. 2) This body of Islam attacking Christendom from beyond its frontiers and not breaking it up from within, happened to be continually recruited with fighting material of the strongest kind and drafted in from the pagan outer darkness….
George H. Kubeck- Islam we love you. The Blessed Virgin loves you. We pray for your conversion!
Truth and Righteousness - cinops be gone - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012
Excerpts from The Essential Belloc, A Prophet for Our Times - Rev. C. John Mcloskey etc… 2010
Belloc has come to be seen as the only voice predicting the resurgence of Islam, and the only voice connecting the Protestant Reformation with the twin harbinger of economic malaise” monopoly and materialism…. Belloc wanted so much for modernity to turn from its ways, in matters spiritual, cultural, political, and architectural, and historical…
On Islam as a Heresy of Catholicism: by Hilaire Belloc
Mohammedanism was a heresy: that is the essential point to grasp before going any further. It began as a heresy, not as a new religion. It was not a pagan contrast with the Church; it was not an alien enemy. It was a perversion of Christian doctrine.
How did Islam arise? It was not, as our popular historical textbooks would have it, a “new religion.” It was a direct derivative from the Catholic Church. It was essentially, in its origin, a heresy: like Arianism or Albigensianism….
Mohammedanism planted itself firmly not only throughout Syria but all along North Africa and even into Spain, and overflowed vigorously into Asia eastward. Mahomet simplified much than did, say Pelagious or even Arius. He turned our Lord into a mere prophet, though the greatest of the prophets; Our Lady - whom we greatly revered, and whom his followers still revere … he cut out the Eucharist altogether, and was mostg difficult to follow in the matter of the Resurrection. He abolished all idea of priesthood: most important of all, he declared for social equality among all those who should be “true believers” after his fashion….
He advanced a clear affirmation, full and complete, against the whole doctrine of an incarnate God. He taught that Our Lord was the greatest of all the prophets, but still only a prophet: a man like other men. He eliminated the Trinity altogether….
The slave who admitted that Mohammed was the prophet of God and that the new teaching had, therefore, divine authority, ceased to be a slave …. Above all, justice could be had without buying it from lawyers … All this in theory…. But the central point where this new heresy struck home with a mortal blow against Catholic tradition was a full denial of the Incarnation….
Islam advances in herd or mob fashion. It does not proceed, as the Catholic religion does, by individual conversions, but by colonization and group movement. Islam is apparently unconvertible. The missionary efforts made by great Catholic orders which have been occupied in trying to turn Mohammedans into Christians for nearly 400 years have everywhere wholly failed…
The chief heresiarch, Mohammed himself, was not, like most heresiarchs, a man of Catholic birth and doctrine to begin with. He sprang from pagans. But that which he taught was in the main Catholic doctrine, oversimplified. It was the great Catholic world on the frontiers of which he lived, whose influence was all around him and whose territories he had know by travel which inspired his convictions.
Like all heresies, Mohammedanism lived by the Catholic truths which it had retained. Its insistence on personal immortality, on the Unity and Infinite Majesty of God, on His Justice and Mercy, its insistence on the equality of human souls in the sight of their Creator - these are its strength….
Islam has differed from all the other heresies … 1) It did not rise within the Church… He was an outsider born a pagan, living among pagans, and never baptized. 2) This body of Islam attacking Christendom from beyond its frontiers and not breaking it up from within, happened to be continually recruited with fighting material of the strongest kind and drafted in from the pagan outer darkness….
George H. Kubeck- Islam we love you. The Blessed Virgin loves you. We pray for your conversion!
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Role Model Venerable Fulton Sheen
Role Model: Venerable Fulton Sheen
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Wed., Dec. 19, 2012
Excerpts from A Journey to Sainthood, The Living Legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, by the Mindszenty Report, December 2012 - Vol. LIV-No. 12 - BBPROF@sbcglobal.net
The Face of the Church: A few generations ago Fulton J. Sheen was the face of the Church in America for millions of Catholics…. According to Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York City, the common theme that emanated in all of his preaching, writing, and speaking was that Jesus Christ was the way to heaven, the truth about how to get there, the life we hope to share for all eternity.
Sheen was born on May 8, 1895 in El Paso, Illinois, the oldest of four sons of Newton and Delia…. After his ordination in the Diocese of Peoria in 1919, he earned the prestigious Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy in 1923. This led to his appointment to teach theology and philosophy at Catholic University, a position he held from 1926 through 1950.… In 1950 Spellman named him to direct the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in the United States…
Uncle Fultie: Sheen published the first of his 73 books in 1925... It was from the secular pulpit of mass communications that he did the most for the salvation of souls. In 1928 Sheen began a weekly Sunday night radio broadcast, The Catholic Hour. He quickly became the program’s most popular preacher… [Among three different religious programs, Bishop Sheen’s segment, aptly called “Life is Worth Living,” was a sensation.] Monsignor Sheen simply discussed the moral issues of the times in front of a live audience without script or cue cards. Above all it was Sheen’s engaging smile, bright eyes and profound wit that made him a media icon… Sheen topics scanned the Catholic landscape from Freudian psychiatry to the Irish sense of humor and the evils of communism.
A New Messianism: Sheen recognized world communism as the greatest threat to Christianity. He constantly used his intellect and the power of his voice to combat it in his books and broadcast media… Sheen believed that atheism was not just an esoteric philosophy preached by Ivy League professors but was a universal philosophy that had evolved into a New Messianism that threatened to cover the face of the earth….
Brides of the State: Bishop Sheen considered women the barometers of Western Civilization. As mothers, teachers and nurtures they were the transmitters of society’s culture…. Their modern transformation from wives and mothers to brides of the state accelerated in America under President Lyndon Johnson’s welfare reforms which severely weakened the American family.
Sheen believed that advocates of equal rights for women saw equality in purely mathematical terms- e.g., access to the same jobs, pay and sexual freedoms as men. This contradicted Christians, which stressed equality only in a proportioned sense. Female mathematical equality effectively killed chivalrous respect and reduced women to little more than the instrument of man’s sexual pleasure.
The World’s First Love: Sheen had a lifelong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary whom he referred to as the woman I love. Mary was the pinnacle of womanhood in her pure sacrifice and devotion to her family. Sheen’s love for the Blessed Mother was fully revealed in his book The World’s First Love. To Sheen Mary was the true inspiration of womanhood….
Soul Peace: Bishop Sheen realized as a young priest that mankind was in a perennial state of agitation…. Sheen stressed that in all of modern psychology there is nothing written on frustration, fears and anxieties which can even faintly compare in depth or breadth with St. Thomas’s treatise on the Passions, St. Augustine’s Confessions, or Bossuet’s treatise on Concupiscence. Sheen knew that there could never world peace unless there was soul peace. …
The Hound of Heaven: Sheen was well-known for his celebrity converts…. Columnist Heywood Broun, doctrinaire communists Elizabeth Bentley, Bella Dodd and Louis Budenz, Henry Ford II, Claire Booth Luce, and comedian Jackie Gleason… Sheen’s daily one hour devotion to the Blessed Sacrament was a ritual he observed since his ordination…. George H. Kubeck - Sheen would have ripped apart today’s feeling basis of liberal progressivism.
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Wed., Dec. 19, 2012
Excerpts from A Journey to Sainthood, The Living Legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, by the Mindszenty Report, December 2012 - Vol. LIV-No. 12 - BBPROF@sbcglobal.net
The Face of the Church: A few generations ago Fulton J. Sheen was the face of the Church in America for millions of Catholics…. According to Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York City, the common theme that emanated in all of his preaching, writing, and speaking was that Jesus Christ was the way to heaven, the truth about how to get there, the life we hope to share for all eternity.
Sheen was born on May 8, 1895 in El Paso, Illinois, the oldest of four sons of Newton and Delia…. After his ordination in the Diocese of Peoria in 1919, he earned the prestigious Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy in 1923. This led to his appointment to teach theology and philosophy at Catholic University, a position he held from 1926 through 1950.… In 1950 Spellman named him to direct the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in the United States…
Uncle Fultie: Sheen published the first of his 73 books in 1925... It was from the secular pulpit of mass communications that he did the most for the salvation of souls. In 1928 Sheen began a weekly Sunday night radio broadcast, The Catholic Hour. He quickly became the program’s most popular preacher… [Among three different religious programs, Bishop Sheen’s segment, aptly called “Life is Worth Living,” was a sensation.] Monsignor Sheen simply discussed the moral issues of the times in front of a live audience without script or cue cards. Above all it was Sheen’s engaging smile, bright eyes and profound wit that made him a media icon… Sheen topics scanned the Catholic landscape from Freudian psychiatry to the Irish sense of humor and the evils of communism.
A New Messianism: Sheen recognized world communism as the greatest threat to Christianity. He constantly used his intellect and the power of his voice to combat it in his books and broadcast media… Sheen believed that atheism was not just an esoteric philosophy preached by Ivy League professors but was a universal philosophy that had evolved into a New Messianism that threatened to cover the face of the earth….
Brides of the State: Bishop Sheen considered women the barometers of Western Civilization. As mothers, teachers and nurtures they were the transmitters of society’s culture…. Their modern transformation from wives and mothers to brides of the state accelerated in America under President Lyndon Johnson’s welfare reforms which severely weakened the American family.
Sheen believed that advocates of equal rights for women saw equality in purely mathematical terms- e.g., access to the same jobs, pay and sexual freedoms as men. This contradicted Christians, which stressed equality only in a proportioned sense. Female mathematical equality effectively killed chivalrous respect and reduced women to little more than the instrument of man’s sexual pleasure.
The World’s First Love: Sheen had a lifelong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary whom he referred to as the woman I love. Mary was the pinnacle of womanhood in her pure sacrifice and devotion to her family. Sheen’s love for the Blessed Mother was fully revealed in his book The World’s First Love. To Sheen Mary was the true inspiration of womanhood….
Soul Peace: Bishop Sheen realized as a young priest that mankind was in a perennial state of agitation…. Sheen stressed that in all of modern psychology there is nothing written on frustration, fears and anxieties which can even faintly compare in depth or breadth with St. Thomas’s treatise on the Passions, St. Augustine’s Confessions, or Bossuet’s treatise on Concupiscence. Sheen knew that there could never world peace unless there was soul peace. …
The Hound of Heaven: Sheen was well-known for his celebrity converts…. Columnist Heywood Broun, doctrinaire communists Elizabeth Bentley, Bella Dodd and Louis Budenz, Henry Ford II, Claire Booth Luce, and comedian Jackie Gleason… Sheen’s daily one hour devotion to the Blessed Sacrament was a ritual he observed since his ordination…. George H. Kubeck - Sheen would have ripped apart today’s feeling basis of liberal progressivism.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Islam: The New Marxism
Islam: The New Marxism?
Truth and Righteousness - cinops be gone - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
Public Notice: 1) The Co-Workers of the Truth Fellowship meeting is cancelled for Dec. 20th. We will start in Jan. 2013. 2) The horrendous massacre in Newtown, Conn., is God’s judgment on America. It includes the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church. Their mindset that permits dissident theologians, Catholic writers and the CINOP to ignore and fight the beliefs of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is incomprehensible and heresy to St. Dominic, St. Aquinas, Blessed St. John Paul II, Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen and today’s Catholic Faithful in America. Furthermore, their silence in what is happening to Catholics in Egypt with Sharia law and throughout the world is shameful and embarrassing. 3) Be a practicing Catholic or Islam will be God’s judgment on America.
Here are excerpts from Darrell Ferguson, Islam: The New Marxism? The Schwarz Report, May 2010
Islam is a comprehensive worldview - just like Marxism… 1) Islam is a political ideology first, and a religious observance second, 2) Warfare (Jihad) against unbelievers is divinely mandated, and 3) Islam aims to rule the world, politically and militarily.
1) Political Ideology:
Abdul a La Maududi, one of the fathers of modern Islamism clarified that vision when he said: “Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam. Islam requires the earth - not just portion, but the whole planet.” … Islam has strategies that are parallel with Marxism, including threats, violence, intimidation, and revolution to achieve their political objectives… both use propaganda to deceive their targets, .. including the oft repeated “mantra” that their intentions are “peaceful.”…
2) Islam is at War:
The second feature of Islam that inspires many Muslims into militant political action today is the concept that Islam is continuously at war. According to Islam, the world is divided into 2 camps - Dar Al-Islam, (Abode of Islam) and the Dar Al-Harb (Abode of war). As Montgomery Watt explains, Jihad is legitimated when non-Muslims make attempts to hinder the political expansion of Islam…
Infidels, Mohammed himself said, … “Are the ‘worst’” (Qur’an 8:55) “… will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off.” (Qur’an 5:33-34) “I will instill terror into the hearts of unbelievers, smite ye above their necks & smite all their fingertips of them.” (Qur’an 8:12).
3) Islam will rule the World:
The third feature of Islam that inspires militant Muslims in their drive to Islamize the nations is their belief that one day Islam will rule the world, politically and militarily.
a) Expansion 632 AD - 1922 AD:
The drive to conquer nations is evidenced in the history of Islamic expansion after the death of Mohammed in 632 AD. Between 625 AD and 644 AD, the second Caliph, brought much of the Middle East under Islamic rule. This included Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and North Africa…
From 644 AD to 1094 AD, Muslim armies continuously attacked Europe, and in 711 Spain was conquered. In 719 Cordova became the seat of an Arab governor, and Spain remained under Islamic influence until 1492 when - in a desperate survival move - King Ferdinand expelled the Muslims back into North Africa… Charles Martel victory in 732 AD, likely saved Europe from becoming Islamic…. The Armenian Christians learned the hard way that Islamic “peace” does not mean the same thing as Christian “peace” when nearly 300,000 were slaughtered in “ethnic cleansing” or driven out by the Turks between 1915-1922.
b) Target U.S.A & Israel:
U.S. authorities have been increasingly worried about the presence of Americans now supporting jihad inside the country. According to Joel Rosenberg, for example, out of the 2.350,000 Muslims in the USA, - 5% (117,500) have a favorable view/agree with Bin Laden & al Qaeda, 13% believe suicide bombings against civilians are justified, -7% of younger Muslims (18-29 yrs) are MORE RADICAL, and agree with Bin Laden, - 25% increase in mosques in the last years….”
George H. Kubeck - “My people are destroyed for lack of information.”
Truth and Righteousness - cinops be gone - Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
Public Notice: 1) The Co-Workers of the Truth Fellowship meeting is cancelled for Dec. 20th. We will start in Jan. 2013. 2) The horrendous massacre in Newtown, Conn., is God’s judgment on America. It includes the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church. Their mindset that permits dissident theologians, Catholic writers and the CINOP to ignore and fight the beliefs of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is incomprehensible and heresy to St. Dominic, St. Aquinas, Blessed St. John Paul II, Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen and today’s Catholic Faithful in America. Furthermore, their silence in what is happening to Catholics in Egypt with Sharia law and throughout the world is shameful and embarrassing. 3) Be a practicing Catholic or Islam will be God’s judgment on America.
Here are excerpts from Darrell Ferguson, Islam: The New Marxism? The Schwarz Report, May 2010
Islam is a comprehensive worldview - just like Marxism… 1) Islam is a political ideology first, and a religious observance second, 2) Warfare (Jihad) against unbelievers is divinely mandated, and 3) Islam aims to rule the world, politically and militarily.
1) Political Ideology:
Abdul a La Maududi, one of the fathers of modern Islamism clarified that vision when he said: “Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam. Islam requires the earth - not just portion, but the whole planet.” … Islam has strategies that are parallel with Marxism, including threats, violence, intimidation, and revolution to achieve their political objectives… both use propaganda to deceive their targets, .. including the oft repeated “mantra” that their intentions are “peaceful.”…
2) Islam is at War:
The second feature of Islam that inspires many Muslims into militant political action today is the concept that Islam is continuously at war. According to Islam, the world is divided into 2 camps - Dar Al-Islam, (Abode of Islam) and the Dar Al-Harb (Abode of war). As Montgomery Watt explains, Jihad is legitimated when non-Muslims make attempts to hinder the political expansion of Islam…
Infidels, Mohammed himself said, … “Are the ‘worst’” (Qur’an 8:55) “… will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off.” (Qur’an 5:33-34) “I will instill terror into the hearts of unbelievers, smite ye above their necks & smite all their fingertips of them.” (Qur’an 8:12).
3) Islam will rule the World:
The third feature of Islam that inspires militant Muslims in their drive to Islamize the nations is their belief that one day Islam will rule the world, politically and militarily.
a) Expansion 632 AD - 1922 AD:
The drive to conquer nations is evidenced in the history of Islamic expansion after the death of Mohammed in 632 AD. Between 625 AD and 644 AD, the second Caliph, brought much of the Middle East under Islamic rule. This included Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and North Africa…
From 644 AD to 1094 AD, Muslim armies continuously attacked Europe, and in 711 Spain was conquered. In 719 Cordova became the seat of an Arab governor, and Spain remained under Islamic influence until 1492 when - in a desperate survival move - King Ferdinand expelled the Muslims back into North Africa… Charles Martel victory in 732 AD, likely saved Europe from becoming Islamic…. The Armenian Christians learned the hard way that Islamic “peace” does not mean the same thing as Christian “peace” when nearly 300,000 were slaughtered in “ethnic cleansing” or driven out by the Turks between 1915-1922.
b) Target U.S.A & Israel:
U.S. authorities have been increasingly worried about the presence of Americans now supporting jihad inside the country. According to Joel Rosenberg, for example, out of the 2.350,000 Muslims in the USA, - 5% (117,500) have a favorable view/agree with Bin Laden & al Qaeda, 13% believe suicide bombings against civilians are justified, -7% of younger Muslims (18-29 yrs) are MORE RADICAL, and agree with Bin Laden, - 25% increase in mosques in the last years….”
George H. Kubeck - “My people are destroyed for lack of information.”
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Co-Workers of the Truth - Report
Co-Workers of the Truth - Report
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012
Idealism must deal with reality. “No one showed up“. I was carried away with Pope Benedict’ book of meditations for each day of the year. The pursuit of the truth is constant throughout this book. The Pope’s readings will inoculate you against secular political correctness, liberal Catholic correctness and the dissident Catholic religion.
I gave four of the nine books away as Christmas gifts. Will purchase three others. The book is only $9.00 from St. Joseph Catholic Book and Gifts in Anaheim. (Gaby at 714- 226-9267) I think Ignatius Press has the book for $20.00 or more. On the Nook it is $12.29.)
We are a “Co-Workers of the Truth Fellowship” of men and women. Ours is a coffee break or breakfast get-together of like-minded pro-life, pro-marriage and family advocates.
What we would have talked about at our last Thursday morning Get-Together?
1. Installation of Bishop Kevin W. Vann, JCD,DD at Evening Prayer, Dec. 9, 2012, 7:30 PM, at Future Christ Cathedral Arboretum
Installation Mass: Dec. 10th, 2012, 2 P.M. Doors open at noon. Must be seated by 1:00 PM. At UC Irvine Bren Center.
2. Pope to begin Twitter ‘presence”
3. Our Get-Together for Thursday, Dec. 13th is cancelled. Hope to see you on the 20th.
4. The Silent Boycott: Ref. http://www.lifesitenews.com/home/print_article/news/37138
Walmart, Belk, Lowe’s and Hobby Lobby the list of ‘Christmas friendly’ stores put out by the American Family Association… ‘companies against Christmas’ list include GAP and Old Navy stores as well as Staples, Radio Shack and Foot Locker.
5. Catholic Congresswoman Jackie Speier introduces resolution condemning sexual reparative therapy. This is contrary to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. What an insult to Catholic identity! She should be shunned and ostracized within any Catholic parish. Lady do not use the Catholic label when you run for office.
6. I recall the Pope’s visit to America during President Bush’s term of office. He talked to Catholic professors and educators. What a betrayal they have been to him and to our Catholic faith in America. This is in reference to the abomination that is occurring at San Diego University. The thought of having this so-called Catholic theologian speak at any Catholic facility is insane.
British Tina Beattie promotes a woman’s right to choose abortion and encouraged access to same-sex marriage, while also comparing the sacrifice of the Mass to an act of homosexual intercourse. She has been honored as a visionary theologian promoting such heresy on Catholic campuses here and abroad. And then what kind of mindset have we with 99 members of the University’s Academic Assembly voting in support of her appearance… Where are you St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron of Catholic Schools?
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012
Idealism must deal with reality. “No one showed up“. I was carried away with Pope Benedict’ book of meditations for each day of the year. The pursuit of the truth is constant throughout this book. The Pope’s readings will inoculate you against secular political correctness, liberal Catholic correctness and the dissident Catholic religion.
I gave four of the nine books away as Christmas gifts. Will purchase three others. The book is only $9.00 from St. Joseph Catholic Book and Gifts in Anaheim. (Gaby at 714- 226-9267) I think Ignatius Press has the book for $20.00 or more. On the Nook it is $12.29.)
We are a “Co-Workers of the Truth Fellowship” of men and women. Ours is a coffee break or breakfast get-together of like-minded pro-life, pro-marriage and family advocates.
What we would have talked about at our last Thursday morning Get-Together?
1. Installation of Bishop Kevin W. Vann, JCD,DD at Evening Prayer, Dec. 9, 2012, 7:30 PM, at Future Christ Cathedral Arboretum
Installation Mass: Dec. 10th, 2012, 2 P.M. Doors open at noon. Must be seated by 1:00 PM. At UC Irvine Bren Center.
2. Pope to begin Twitter ‘presence”
3. Our Get-Together for Thursday, Dec. 13th is cancelled. Hope to see you on the 20th.
4. The Silent Boycott: Ref. http://www.lifesitenews.com/home/print_article/news/37138
Walmart, Belk, Lowe’s and Hobby Lobby the list of ‘Christmas friendly’ stores put out by the American Family Association… ‘companies against Christmas’ list include GAP and Old Navy stores as well as Staples, Radio Shack and Foot Locker.
5. Catholic Congresswoman Jackie Speier introduces resolution condemning sexual reparative therapy. This is contrary to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. What an insult to Catholic identity! She should be shunned and ostracized within any Catholic parish. Lady do not use the Catholic label when you run for office.
6. I recall the Pope’s visit to America during President Bush’s term of office. He talked to Catholic professors and educators. What a betrayal they have been to him and to our Catholic faith in America. This is in reference to the abomination that is occurring at San Diego University. The thought of having this so-called Catholic theologian speak at any Catholic facility is insane.
British Tina Beattie promotes a woman’s right to choose abortion and encouraged access to same-sex marriage, while also comparing the sacrifice of the Mass to an act of homosexual intercourse. She has been honored as a visionary theologian promoting such heresy on Catholic campuses here and abroad. And then what kind of mindset have we with 99 members of the University’s Academic Assembly voting in support of her appearance… Where are you St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron of Catholic Schools?
George H. Kubeck
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Co-Workers of the Truth
Co-Workers of the Truth
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone -(Happy New Year) Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012
Good News: We have 9 books available for our first meeting on Thursday, Dec. 6th.
MY purpose is to try to introduce some practical pro-life and marriage ideas from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s book published in English in 1992, titled “Co-Workers of the Truth - Meditations for Every Day of the Year.” Ignatius Press. It is personal because for the last eight years I have meditated on this book. (If you have a Nook or a Kindle, Co-Workers is available for $12.29.)
Why the Pope wrote the book? It was his secretary Sister Irene Grassl who made the suggestion that the he compile from various writings a kind of breviary of reflections for each day of the year. This occurred shortly after his consecration as bishop in 1977. There is a promise implicit in the Pope’s motto from the Third Epistle of Saint John, verse 8, that was adopted from his coat of arms: “Co-Workers of the Truth”.
He calls upon the faithful to extend hospitality to all and become messengers of the Faith as a service to the truth, co-workers of the gospel, and “the task of the bishop; he too, and especially he, is a co-worker”, that is, he does not act in his own name but is always and totally linked to a “with”. Only when he acts “with” Christ and “with” the whole believing Church of all times and all places does he do what he is meant to do. It is not his task to fashion a community for himself, but, rather, to fashion the Church of Christ. That means that he must point to Him who is the Way because He is the Truth (Jn 14:6)”
It is my belief that had we listened more closely to Blessed Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI we would have greater unity in our American Catholic Church and in our universities. This “Year of Faith” provides an opportunity to pray and work towards that goal. Agenda items:
Introduction: Name and Church only. Sign in will include telephone number and e-mail.
Purpose of the Question Box:
1) Begin with a Litany of St. Thomas More. We end our meeting with three Glory Be….
2) One decade of the Rosary
3) 15 minute of silent meditation on the 1st 7 days of December (Advent) in Co-Workers of the Truth
4) We try to keep the mindset of Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen. What was it? ‘We resolve to take up our cross and be a disciple of Jesus Christ, who in the words of the Servant of God Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, “will restore within us moral indignation, Who will make us hate evil with a passionate intensity, and love goodness to a point where we can drink death like water.”’ (For example educating citizens to believe in pro-life, pro-marriage and traditional America.)
Agenda: a) Evaluation of Education Signs b) The Abomination at University of San Diego c) Catholic Congresswoman introduces resolution condemning sexual reparation therapy. D) Islam: the New Marxism e) The Silent Boycott. F) Check questions in our Question Box.
Our thrice monthly meetings consist of like-minded pro-life and marriage advocates. We begin with Thursdays, Dec, 6, 13, and 20th. Time will be 9-10:15 AM. Location: “Chick-Fil- A” in Long Beach. (Corner of 605 Freeway and Carson St. next to the In-Out-Burger.) Free coffee for seniors. We are 6 minutes away from (SPC).
Why this time and location? My wife and I attend the 8 AM. Mass at (SPC) St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church 12001 E. 214th Street, Hawaiian Garden, Ca. 90716. She remains in Church for personal Lectio Divina. Peter Chanel has Eucharistic Adoration all day. (Note at that time on Wednesdays and Fridays, others and I are go to two abortion mills in Long Beach & Lakewood.)
George H. Kubeck, Please attend the meetings once or twice monthly. Come late. If you are not there, I will be working on my next letter.
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone -(Happy New Year) Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012
Good News: We have 9 books available for our first meeting on Thursday, Dec. 6th.
MY purpose is to try to introduce some practical pro-life and marriage ideas from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s book published in English in 1992, titled “Co-Workers of the Truth - Meditations for Every Day of the Year.” Ignatius Press. It is personal because for the last eight years I have meditated on this book. (If you have a Nook or a Kindle, Co-Workers is available for $12.29.)
Why the Pope wrote the book? It was his secretary Sister Irene Grassl who made the suggestion that the he compile from various writings a kind of breviary of reflections for each day of the year. This occurred shortly after his consecration as bishop in 1977. There is a promise implicit in the Pope’s motto from the Third Epistle of Saint John, verse 8, that was adopted from his coat of arms: “Co-Workers of the Truth”.
He calls upon the faithful to extend hospitality to all and become messengers of the Faith as a service to the truth, co-workers of the gospel, and “the task of the bishop; he too, and especially he, is a co-worker”, that is, he does not act in his own name but is always and totally linked to a “with”. Only when he acts “with” Christ and “with” the whole believing Church of all times and all places does he do what he is meant to do. It is not his task to fashion a community for himself, but, rather, to fashion the Church of Christ. That means that he must point to Him who is the Way because He is the Truth (Jn 14:6)”
It is my belief that had we listened more closely to Blessed Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI we would have greater unity in our American Catholic Church and in our universities. This “Year of Faith” provides an opportunity to pray and work towards that goal. Agenda items:
Introduction: Name and Church only. Sign in will include telephone number and e-mail.
Purpose of the Question Box:
1) Begin with a Litany of St. Thomas More. We end our meeting with three Glory Be….
2) One decade of the Rosary
3) 15 minute of silent meditation on the 1st 7 days of December (Advent) in Co-Workers of the Truth
4) We try to keep the mindset of Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen. What was it? ‘We resolve to take up our cross and be a disciple of Jesus Christ, who in the words of the Servant of God Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, “will restore within us moral indignation, Who will make us hate evil with a passionate intensity, and love goodness to a point where we can drink death like water.”’ (For example educating citizens to believe in pro-life, pro-marriage and traditional America.)
Agenda: a) Evaluation of Education Signs b) The Abomination at University of San Diego c) Catholic Congresswoman introduces resolution condemning sexual reparation therapy. D) Islam: the New Marxism e) The Silent Boycott. F) Check questions in our Question Box.
Our thrice monthly meetings consist of like-minded pro-life and marriage advocates. We begin with Thursdays, Dec, 6, 13, and 20th. Time will be 9-10:15 AM. Location: “Chick-Fil- A” in Long Beach. (Corner of 605 Freeway and Carson St. next to the In-Out-Burger.) Free coffee for seniors. We are 6 minutes away from (SPC).
Why this time and location? My wife and I attend the 8 AM. Mass at (SPC) St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church 12001 E. 214th Street, Hawaiian Garden, Ca. 90716. She remains in Church for personal Lectio Divina. Peter Chanel has Eucharistic Adoration all day. (Note at that time on Wednesdays and Fridays, others and I are go to two abortion mills in Long Beach & Lakewood.)
George H. Kubeck, Please attend the meetings once or twice monthly. Come late. If you are not there, I will be working on my next letter.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
The Worse Liberal Bias in MRC History
The Worse Liberal Bias in MRC History
Truth is our most powerful weapon - cinops be gone - Sat., Dec. 1, 2012
Preface: I have use the term “The Two-Faced (Liberal) Double-Standard News Media.” Here is why? From the Media Research Center (MRC), No. 19 - Issue 11- November 2012
Liberal Media Did Everything They Could to Rig Election -
“This letter was written before the Nov. 6 elections and no matter who won, the fact is that for the last year the left-wing “news” media did all they could to advance the re-election of President Barack Obama, his congressional allies, and their left-wing agenda. I told you 2012 would see the leftist press more active than ever, and I was right. In fact it was even worse than I feared. (L. Brent Bozell III)
“The left-wing “news” herds at ABC,CBS,NBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, AP, NPR, MSNBC, and so on, pulled out all the stops to rig the election for Obama. That’s a serious accusation. I stand by it. Their coverage was a disgrace, and a threat to our republic. And it’s why the MRC worked around the clock to document, expose, and neutralize this leftist media.
“Things were so pathetic in terms of left-wing slant, we sent an “open letter” to all the liberal media outlets in September, publicly denouncing them as being guilty of interfering with the democratic process. The letter was co-signed by more than 20 prominent conservative leaders, including Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Ed Meese, Lars Larson, Congressmen Louie Gohmert and Trent Franks, Tea Party Leaders and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins.
“ We told the liberal news organs they were out of control with an unmistakable leftist agenda, rigging the election and taking sides to pre-determine the outcome. We slammed them publicly for breaching the public trust.
“The letter cited several ways in particular that the leftist media were pushing their plans. They included constantly painting conservatives and conservative policy proposals as “extreme” while not reporting on the disastrous results of the hard-left policies enacted since 2009; deliberately burying the brutal economic news and real unemployment numbers in America; dishonestly attacking Mitt Romney’s business record in an angelic light; purposely covering up scandals such as Solyndra, the gun-walking operation Fast and Furious, & the act-of-war terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Libya, not to mention the politically correct ties about the “Arab Spring.” Don’t say radical Islam!
“These were all things you would expect the Obama Campaign to do. It is reprehensible that it was the so-called “news” media doing it on Obama’s behalf. On and on it went. The liberal media downplayed the numerous incendiary remarks made by Vice President Joe Biden; they barely talked about the $16-trillion-plus national debt; and they didn’t cover how Obamacare is raising the costs of health care, limiting services, and is a vicious assault on religious liberty and the First Amendment….
“To touch more specifically on just two examples of how outrageous the liberal media were, let’s look at Operation Fast and Furious and the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate. Fast and Furious was launched by the Obama Administration in 2009, through the Justice Department, as a scheme to let firearms “walk” into the hands of drug cartels so law enforcement supposedly could better track the bad guys. It all came to a halt in December 2010 when one of their own Border Patrol agents, Brian Terry, was killed in Arizona and two of the assault rifles at the scene were traced back to F. and F.
“ The Obama administration stalled and delayed Congress’ investigation of the scandal for two years and to this day refuses to let White House employee Kevin O’Reilly testify about his role in the debacle…. The liberal media are ignoring him. Then, the hugely popular Spanish-language TV station in America, Univision, broadcast a devastating report on Fast and Furious in late September, proving how guns funneled through the program were used to murder at least 14 teenager; another 57 guns were captured from the cartels by Mexican police. ABC, CBS, and NBC didn’t say a word…
(In other words, the Two-Faced-Double-Standard News Media elected Obama, President of the U.S.A.)
George H. Kubeck. We cannot survive as a free people with a Pravda/Goebbels-Type News Media.
Truth is our most powerful weapon - cinops be gone - Sat., Dec. 1, 2012
Preface: I have use the term “The Two-Faced (Liberal) Double-Standard News Media.” Here is why? From the Media Research Center (MRC), No. 19 - Issue 11- November 2012
Liberal Media Did Everything They Could to Rig Election -
“This letter was written before the Nov. 6 elections and no matter who won, the fact is that for the last year the left-wing “news” media did all they could to advance the re-election of President Barack Obama, his congressional allies, and their left-wing agenda. I told you 2012 would see the leftist press more active than ever, and I was right. In fact it was even worse than I feared. (L. Brent Bozell III)
“The left-wing “news” herds at ABC,CBS,NBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, AP, NPR, MSNBC, and so on, pulled out all the stops to rig the election for Obama. That’s a serious accusation. I stand by it. Their coverage was a disgrace, and a threat to our republic. And it’s why the MRC worked around the clock to document, expose, and neutralize this leftist media.
“Things were so pathetic in terms of left-wing slant, we sent an “open letter” to all the liberal media outlets in September, publicly denouncing them as being guilty of interfering with the democratic process. The letter was co-signed by more than 20 prominent conservative leaders, including Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Ed Meese, Lars Larson, Congressmen Louie Gohmert and Trent Franks, Tea Party Leaders and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins.
“ We told the liberal news organs they were out of control with an unmistakable leftist agenda, rigging the election and taking sides to pre-determine the outcome. We slammed them publicly for breaching the public trust.
“The letter cited several ways in particular that the leftist media were pushing their plans. They included constantly painting conservatives and conservative policy proposals as “extreme” while not reporting on the disastrous results of the hard-left policies enacted since 2009; deliberately burying the brutal economic news and real unemployment numbers in America; dishonestly attacking Mitt Romney’s business record in an angelic light; purposely covering up scandals such as Solyndra, the gun-walking operation Fast and Furious, & the act-of-war terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Libya, not to mention the politically correct ties about the “Arab Spring.” Don’t say radical Islam!
“These were all things you would expect the Obama Campaign to do. It is reprehensible that it was the so-called “news” media doing it on Obama’s behalf. On and on it went. The liberal media downplayed the numerous incendiary remarks made by Vice President Joe Biden; they barely talked about the $16-trillion-plus national debt; and they didn’t cover how Obamacare is raising the costs of health care, limiting services, and is a vicious assault on religious liberty and the First Amendment….
“To touch more specifically on just two examples of how outrageous the liberal media were, let’s look at Operation Fast and Furious and the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate. Fast and Furious was launched by the Obama Administration in 2009, through the Justice Department, as a scheme to let firearms “walk” into the hands of drug cartels so law enforcement supposedly could better track the bad guys. It all came to a halt in December 2010 when one of their own Border Patrol agents, Brian Terry, was killed in Arizona and two of the assault rifles at the scene were traced back to F. and F.
“ The Obama administration stalled and delayed Congress’ investigation of the scandal for two years and to this day refuses to let White House employee Kevin O’Reilly testify about his role in the debacle…. The liberal media are ignoring him. Then, the hugely popular Spanish-language TV station in America, Univision, broadcast a devastating report on Fast and Furious in late September, proving how guns funneled through the program were used to murder at least 14 teenager; another 57 guns were captured from the cartels by Mexican police. ABC, CBS, and NBC didn’t say a word…
(In other words, the Two-Faced-Double-Standard News Media elected Obama, President of the U.S.A.)
George H. Kubeck. We cannot survive as a free people with a Pravda/Goebbels-Type News Media.
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