First Letter to a Bishop and an Archbishop

In pursuit of the truth - http://cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Tuesday, January 28, 2014 

 

I AM THINKING OF BISHOP KEVIN W. VANN OF ORANGE AND ARCHBISHOP JOSE H. GOMEZ OF LOS ANGELES;

VIA "ORANGE COUNTY CATHOLIC" AND "THE TIDINGS."

   

 It would be a good idea for all bishops and archbishops to send a similar letter to their parishioners which Tim Wildom, president, American Family Association sent to me. Here it is.

(WWW.AFA.NET )

 

"Our nation hangs in the balance between two diametrically opposed world views: One puts its trust in God and promotes Biblical principles in society.The other puts its trust in man and seeks to enslave all Americans to the dictates of a godless secularism....

 

The secularists know that if they would remake America into their image, they must drive Christianity - and with it, God Himself -  from the nation. That's why they seek to undermine Christians, Christian symbols and even religious freedom.

 

I'm writing to you today because your help is critically important and absolutely vital if we are to have any chance of restoring America to the Founders' vision of being "one nation under God," and as our Pledge of Allegiance expresses....

 

That is why our Founders enshrined FREEDOM OF RELIGION as one of the foundation blocks upon which they built this nation. They knew that religious freedom allows us to be faithful to God and His Biblical principles without fear of government interference. And for the first 150 years of our country no one questioned the right to religious freedom... Tragically, that is no longer the case in America.

 

Those who now control the reins of power - in government, in the courts and the media - reject any higher moral authority than human reason. These "progressives " believe human reason without regard to God, trumps religious principles. ...

 

Thus, we have the attacks on us who dare to express and live by our religious beliefs in the public square: 1) The florist who refused to provide flowers for a same-sex marriage ceremony. 2) The baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage ceremony. 3) The photographer who refused to take pictures at a same sex marriage ceremony. 4) The student who refused to stomp on a sheet of paper with Jesus written on it. 5) The soldier who expressed his disapproval of same-sex marriage. 6) The owners of Hobby Lobby who refuse to provide health insurance that includes abortion-causing drugs. 7) Institutions like Catholic Charities of Illinois that refuse to participate in adoptions by homosexual couples. And the Supreme Court rulings against:

 

THE RIGHT TO LIFE - 1973 ROE V. WADE AND DOE v. BOLTON                                                      THE RIGHT TO PRAY IN SCHOOL - 1962 ENGEL V. VITALE

THE RIGHT TO READ THE BIBLE IN SCHOOL - 1963 ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT v. SCHEMPP

THE RIGHT TO POST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC PLACES - 1980 STONE v. GRAHAM, AND AGAIN THIS YEAR IN Mc CREARY COUNTY v. ACLU OF KENTUCKY.

THE RIGHT TO OUTLAW IMMORAL BEHAVIOR - 1996 ROMER v.EVANS, AND MORE NOTABLY IN 2003 IN LAWRENCE v. TEXAS

 

The war against Christianity and religious freedom is real. It's serious..."

 

GEORGE H. KUBECK - ANOTHER GOOD IDEA WOULD BE FOR PARISHIONERS TO CHECK OUT THE LETTER TITLED "DECADES BEFORE THE ACLU", MONDAY, JAN. 20, 2014. IT IS POSTED ON THE ABOVE BLOG.

 

The Decades before the ACLU

In pursuit of the truth - http://cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Monday, Jan. 20, 2014

 

    I remember the 1940's and 1950's in North America. Everything was normal. Reason and common sense prevailed. Almost everyone believed in natural law. Bishop Fulton Sheen was on television. Most of the films from Hollywood accentuated the positive and your children well able to see them. The public in general agreed with the following three excerpts:

 

The Glory of America - January 17th - Calendar

Benjamin Franklin, scientist, philosopher, publisher and Founding Father, is widely thought to have been an agnostic. Yet in 1748, he proposed Pennsylvania's first FAST DAY:

"It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being ... we pray [that] Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... [and that] He would take this province under his protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, a unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger." Eidsmore, Constitution, 209

 

The Glory of America - January 18th - Calendar

On this day in 1782, the great orator and statesman, Daniel Webster, was born. In 1820, at the Bicentennial of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock, he gave his now-classic assessment of their achievements:

"Our Ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits... Whatever make men good Christians, makes them good citizens." Harvey, Reminiscences, 393-94.

 

The Glory of America - January 19th - Calendar

Chief spokesman for independence in the Continental Congress, fiery Patriot Sam Adams was at the top of the British list of those guilty of "rabble rousing." Yet he was only being obedient to what he considered a "Higher Authority."

"The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty ... 'The Rights of the Colonists as Christians' ... may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver ... which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772.

 

    Then what happened in the 1960's?  A secular, agnostic and non-Christian revolution occurred in America! "The ACLU's thirst to purge America's public life of its Christian values is unquenchable. It has virtually unlimited resources at its disposal.... With nearly $400 million in assets and more than 2,000 volunteer and staff attorneys, the ACLU is radically committed t:

 

* Pushing Christian faith and biblical values to the margins of American society.

* Stripping parents of the rights to raise children according to their beliefs

*Tearing down barriers that protect children from pornography and pedophiles

*Cheapening the value of human life - from conception to natural death

*Forcing the homosexual legal agenda - including redefining marriage - on America, and drastically limiting religious freedom.

And as the ACLU pursues its radical agenda to end the religious freedoms that our Founding

Fathers secured for us, it will drag us back to court over and over again to: 1) Marginalize the Constitution and statutes regarding biblical views on sexual behavior. 2)Prevent Christians and ministries from publicly sharing the Gospel. 3) Defend the distribution of child pornography and hard-core obscenity. 4) Challenge laws that protect children from registered offenders. 5) Use public schools to promote homosexual behavior....

 

    But wait! The greatest enemy of the Catholic Church in America is the clone of the ACLU. He is also known as the CINOP. (Catholic-in-name-only-politician) Tragically, we have at least one in every diocese. He or she is like a Sacred Cow, protected via silence. Most American Catholic voters are uninformed to the violence the CINOP does with his votes in the State and Congress on issues relating to The Catechism of the Catholic Church and The Gospel of Life. Blessed Pope John Paul ll would turn over in his grave. Throughout the country, we have V.P. Biden, Governors Jerry Brown and Andrew Cuomo, and in California, Nancy Pelosi and Loretta Sanchez.

 

George H. Kubeck

 

 

The Ideal Religious Culture:.!?

In pursuit of the truth, http:www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Tuesday, January 14, 2014

By John Winthrop and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

 

John Winthrop: Winthrop, Papers, I, 196, 201

    

    On this day in 1588, John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was born. Recognizing his exceptional leadership abilities, Oliver Cromwell pleaded with him to return to England and join their Glorious Revolution. But Winthrop believed God intended the little colony in the New World to be "a city upon a hill" - a living example that it was possible for Christ to reign in the affairs of men. In his journal he wrote:

"I will ever walk humbly before my God, and meekly, mildly, and gently towards all men ... I do resolve first to give myself - my life, my wits, my health, my wealth - to service of my God and Savior, who by giving Himself for me and to me, deserves whatsoever, I am or can be, to be at His commandment and for His glory."

 

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: January 10 meditation, Co-Workers of the Truth, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1992

 

    "Respect for human dignity and regard for the human rights of every individual - these are the fruits of belief in the Incarnation of God. Anyone who renounces belief in Christ for the sake of a supposedly higher value renounces the basis of human dignity.

    It is from this Christian humanism, from the humanism of the Incarnation, that the uniqueness of Christian culture has evolved. All its specific characteristics are fundamentally rooted in belief in the Incarnation and disintegrate when this belief is lost ....

    Christian culture can never be exclusively a culture of possession. It can never measure an individual's greatest worth in terms of material possessions and pleasures. It does not despise matter. After all God's Son became man.

    He lived in a human body, he rose from the dead in a human body, and in a human body he ascended into heavenly glory. That is the highest imaginable honor to which matter can aspire. That is why Christian culture is careful to let each person live in dignity and receive his proper share of the material goods of this earth.

    But man's highest good is not material possessions. We in the West know from experience how worship of consumer goods can rob a man of his dignity. He falls prey to egoism. But self contempt is the almost inevitable concomitant of contempt for others.

    If man has nothing higher to look forward to than material things, the whole world become loathsome and empty to him. That is why Christian culture prefers moral values to material one. That is why reverence for God is publicly endorsed in Christian culture.

    The great Cathedrals and Churches are an expression of this conviction that the worship of God is a public and universal good of mankind, and in fact, it is precisely in showing reverence for God that the human being reverences himself."

 

January 12th, meditation:

    "What we fear nowadays is the darkness that emanates from man, ... because the law of the sharper elbow is now the only law that prevails in the world, because the tendency in the world is to judge in favor of the violent, the brutal not the saintly. For we see it: what rules the world now is money, the atom bomb, the cynicism of those to whom nothing is sacred. ... Will the good continue to meaning and power in the world? ... Yes! For the Child, God's only-begotten Son, is set as a sign and a surety that in the end God will have the last word in world history and that he is truth and love.

   GEORGE H. KUBECK