Saturday, July 19, 2008

The Power of Prayer

Rules of Engagement – 9 – Power of Prayer
cinops be gone Saturday, July 19, 2008
Dallas, Texas, June 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)
When Bishop Charles Grahmann began leading a monthly “Second Saturday Rosary” outside Dallas abortion clinics (mills) in 1990, there were 13 abortion clinics in the city. Seven clinics closed between 1990 and 2001, and after Aaron (Women’s Health Center, a late-term abortion facility) closes there will remain only 5 freestanding abortion clinics in Dallas. The Catholic Pro-Life Committee and others have vowed to continue to pray and offer alternatives to abortion outside those remaining five clinics, (mills)

The Catholic Pro-Life Committee has maintained a constant presence of peaceful prayer and sidewalk counseling in front of Aaron’s for over a decade and participated in a “ 40 Days for Life Prayer Vigil” there in 2004.”

During the 40 Days Vigil, a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week ecumenical effort was organized, with more than 800 people from 89 churches and several denominations praying and fasting for an end to the killing of babies inside the clinic. The above is a powerful and most inspiring story of the power of prayer.
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Now we share an important e-mail from Alejandra Baker:
Alejandra.baker@gmail.com contact via title, “40 Days for Life.”

This Fall we want Orange County to join together with communities from across the county in the “40 DAYS FOR LIFE” campaign that will be held September 24 to November 2nd. (Crusade for Life had one in 2004.)

The 40 Days For Life Campaign consists of prayer, fasting (i.e. food, TV, internet etc.) and a peaceful vigil – outside a Planned Parenthood center or other abortion facility – to end abortion in America.

Why 40 days? God has used the period of 40 Days throughout history to bring about major transformation. (Noah, Moses, David, Elijah,Nineveh, Jesus and His disciples have experience transformation after a period of 40 Days.)

While nationally this campaign calls for a 24x7 hour vigil and cities with freezing temperatures have done it, we could begin working to cover the 9:00 am to 5:00 pm period and hopefully we could extend it as more people get involved, like other cities have done. (For more information, contact Alejandra Baker)
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Why Prayer? Without prayer in California, we can’t pass Proposition 8 – The marriage amendment or Proposition 4 – Sarah’s Law (Parental Notif.) We need prayer to elect a pro-life president or for a defeat, and or conversion of CINOPS.

To get started, you may want to participate at the Abortion Facility @ 2445 W. Chapman, Orange, on Fridays – 9:10-10 A.M. (This mill also does abortions on Sunday mornings.) OR at the Abortion Site @ 2777 Long Beach Blvd. Long Beach,
On Wednesdays – 9:10-10 A.M. They do at least 30 or more abortions on that day. We have time to pray at least 2- 3 Mysteries of the Rosary.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.

Friday, July 18, 2008

10 Truths - Introduction & 1

10 Truths – Introduction & 1
cinops be gone Friday, July 18, 2008
It will take 10 years or more to vote out of office all CINOPS. The Friday postings only; of the following classic will inform us for this November election.

10 Truths about Christians & Politics- Coral Ridge Ministries-08 – 1 -800-988-7834

Introduction: Truths about God and Government – Excerpts 9-11

Our aim frankly, is to give historical and biblical perspective that will arm you for action. After all, the need is enormous – the cause of defending the unborn alone could absorb the energies of a lifetime.

At the September 2007 memorial service, Dr. James Dobson noted the passing in recent years of a number of Christian moral leaders, including Adrian Rogers, Jerry Falwell, Bill Bright, and D. James Kennedy. He asked who will fill the void left by these moral leaders.

“Who will defend the unborn child; who will speak for them? Who will speak for those who are older and no longer productive? Who will plead for the Terri Schiavos of the world who can be starved to death legally for having the misfortune of being disabled? Who has the courage to speak up to fight for the institution of marriage … and teach young people the dangers of heterosexual and homosexual promiscuity? Who will, in the next generation, be willing to take the heat when it much safer and comfortable to avoid controversy?”

Today, thankfully, we do not need to enter the gladiatorial arena like Tetramachus to stop the killing, but we do need the moral courage of men like Bright, Falwell, Kennedy, and Rogers if these and other evils in our culture are to be challenged.

We cannot wait for a new generation of leaders to rise up to lead us. Each of us must take responsibility for carrying out our own Christian civic duty in the arena of government and politics. Our prayer is that this booklet will help you understand more clearly some of the basic truths about Christian and politics so that you may, along with many others, enter the arena.

Truth 1 – The Foundation of Government and Politics is Religion 13-14
“Strictly separate.” When it comes to religion and politics, that is the rule announced by the courts and enforced by the American Civil Liberties Union over the past sixty years.

In 1947, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a longstanding American legal tradition and declared that the U.S. Constitution has erected a “high and impregnable” wall of separation between church and state. The ACLU then set out to apply that ruling in the decades to follow, sending threatening letters and going into court to force civic officials to remove the ten Commandments display, crèche scenes, the Bible, and even prayer from public life.

But while the ACLU has been tireless in its effects to purge the Christian religion from public life, the truth is, religion is the foundation on which nations are built. ACLU attorneys may shudder at the thought, the Christian religion provides the surest foundation for the moral, political & social order of ournation.”

“Do not wait for leaders, do it on your own, person to person.” Blessed Mother Teresa.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Rules of Engagement - 7 - The Corapi Prophecy

Rules of Engagement – 7 – The Corapi Prophecy
cinops be gone Thursday, July 17. 2008
What’s this all about? This is the dire and awesome prophecy of Rev. John A Corapi’s DEATH WISH: The Impending Suicide of a once great nation. It is four pages long and maybe you can access it on www.fathercorapi.com .

Reverend Corapi hit the nail on the head when he said it was caused by the murderous war on the unborn and it was made respectable by the laws of our nation. They are the endangered species and little has been done to answer their terrified and silent screams from the womb. The following are excerpts:
“When law divorces itself from common sense and spawns the illegitimate offspring of distortions of law, resulting in illegal laws – based neither on the natural law nor divine law – this undermines law itself, generating disdain for the law. Erosion of trust in the courts, or systems in general, is inevitable….

In recent years, it took the form of self-inflicted heart wound when some dissident Catholics rejected the teaching of the Church, a teaching that clearly held that artificial contraception is intrinsically evil. Then, as Pope Paul VI warned, it metastasized into abortion. From abortion it degenerated even further into partial-birth abortion. It was then a short and easy step to infanticide…. We march toward the abyss of oblivion, a society marked for death….

IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE DEGENERATED TO THE POINT THAT WE’LL MURDER A HELPLESS BABY SHOULD IT ESCAPE THE VIOLENCE OF AN ABORTION AND BE BORN ALIVE. CAN A CATHOLIC VOTE FOR SUCH A PERSON? We are told, “yes” for a “proportionate reason.” What I might ask, is the proportionate reason so weighty as to excuse supporting those responsible for what is tantamount to genocide?...

This death wish has marched towards its logical and inexorable conclusion with little opposition from leaders – political, legal, or religious…. WEAK LEADERSHIP, WHETHER IN SOCIETY IN GENERAL, OR IN THE CHURCH IN PARTICULAR, IS PUNISHMENT FOR SIN. THE OLD COVENANT HAS EXAMPLES ENOUGH OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE BEING TURNED OVER TO EXILE AND THEIR ENEMIES BECAUSE OF INFIDELITY…. In recent times large numbers of Catholics and other Christians rejected Pope Paul VI’s landmark and prophetic encyclical Humanae Vitae, on Human Life. A majority of the bishops of Canada did so publicly, formally, and in writing with their infamous Winnipeg Statement.

The great Archbishop Fulton Sheen lamented bitterly in the 1970’s that the prophetic spirit of Christ has all but been extinguished in the contemporary Church…. Are we cowed and intimidated by fallacious notions of the separation of Church and state? … Have we declared détente with evil?

The clock is ticking. Midnight is approaching…. Will God turn his friends over to His enemies as He has done multiple times in the past? Will radical Islam overrun us? Will one too many natural disasters grind us into dust? Will we collapse economically? …

And indeed, “If destruction be our lot we ourselves will be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

May God grant us the grace to awake from this deadly moral slumber, renounce the death wish, and live like truly free men and women – in the glorious freedom of the children of God.” Rev. John Corapi, SOLT – 2008
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Catholic Excuses: 6-24

Catholic Excuses: 6 – 24
cinops be gone Wednesday, July 16, 2006
We continue with excerpts from Chapter 5 - Catholic Excuses in David Carlin’s book, Can a Catholic be a Democrat? This is tough love and the truth hurts.

47. Social Welfare: “We should be more concerned with children already born.”
Often heard as an adjunct to the “seamless garment” excuse is this argument: “You pro-lifers are tremendously concerned about the well being of the unborn baby, but we notice that you lose interest in the baby once it’s born. You don’t support daycare, welfare, and other programs that would lead to happier, healthier lives for children. Your pro-life philosophy is inconsistent, and you personally are hypocrites.”
Two replies can be made to this charge. First, it’s false. When moral conservatives object to social programs such as state-funded daycare and generous welfare payments, it’s usually because they believe that such programs ultimately harm the children by gradually undermining two-parent families. Who can deny that the institution of the married two-parent family is better for children than daycare, welfare, and the like? P. 125

If anybody is hypocritical in this discussion, it’s moral liberals, who profess to be concerned about kids living in poverty yet endorse the ethic of sexual liberation, which for the last three or four decades has contributed greatly to an epidemic of divorce and out-of-wedlock births, pauperizing women and dooming tens of millions of kids to grow up without fathers.126

48. Anti-Hypocrisy: “Conservatives defy the Church too.”
“You fault me as an inconsistent Catholic because I support the Democratic Party,” a Catholic Democrat might say to a morally conservative Catholic pro-lifer who has turned against the Democratic Party. “But this is the case of the pot calling the kettle black. You favor the war in Iraq & the death penalty, yet both of these are condemned by the Church...
Let’s leave aside the question of whether John Paul II’s calls for peace and diplomacy meant he actually believed the American invasion of Iraq to be immoral. For no matter what he thought about the moral status of the war, who can be surprised that he would make a plea for further diplomacy? Calling for peaceful solutions is one of the things you do if you’re pope. …
The Church has a traditional teaching as to what constitutes a “just war,” but there has been no definitive dogmatic pronouncement that the Iraq war in particular was an unjust war: the Church does not make dogmatic statements about things like that. Some Catholics (perhaps the pope among them) held that the war was unjust by Catholic just-war standards; other Catholics, using the same standards held that the war was just. To disagree with the pope’s putative opinion on the Iraq war doesn’t involve rejection of any Catholic doctrine; but to “disagree with the pope”- John Paul II or Benedict XVI or any pope – on abortion is much more than a personal divergence of opinion….it is to reject the authority of the Church itself by dissenting from one of its ancient moral doctrines…. 127
The ancient teaching of the Church is that capital punishment can, in principle, be justified, and the many anti-death penalty statements made by John Paul II in the last twenty years or so do not constitute a repudiation of that teaching. What the pope did say is that the death penalty, while still acceptable as a matter of principle, is for practical purposes unwarranted in modern societies with effective criminal justice system. As a sign to the world of the preciousness of human life, then, criminals who could otherwise be justifiably executed should instead be imprisoned until natural death…. 128

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Rules of Engagement - 5- Cardinal J. Rigali

The Rules of Engagement – 5 – Cardinal Justin Rigali
cinops be gone Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The following is a classic by Cardinal Justin Rigali on Faith and the Eucharist”

Cardinal Rigali is the President of the Pro-Life Committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. He discussed with LifeSiteNews.com June 20, 2008 in Quebec City at the International Eucharistic Congress: THE ISSUE OF WORTHINESS TO RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION IN THE CONTEXT OF CATHOLICS WHO SUPPORT ABORTION AND SAME-SEX “MARRIAGE,” CONTRARY TO CHURCH TEACHING.

“We’re talking about the very life of the church when we’re talking about the Eucharist and participation in the Eucharist,” said Cardinal Rigali. “St. Paul tells us that anyone who receives the Eucharist must be prepared. This is the apostolic catechesis.”

“St. Justin in the second century tells us: “The only people who are to go to Communion are people who believe everything we believe’. So it’s a question of our faith.”

The Cardinal referenced St. Paul warning that, “Anyone that approaches then body of Christ has to examine himself to see where he stands, because if you’re not worthy then you’re heaping condemnation on yourself.”

The Cardinal noted that there are “many people who are confused on the faith, many people are confused on the issue of life,” that is why he said, “the Church has been putting in so much effort to try to clarify the absolute necessity to support, to promote, to cherish human life, & not to do anything to destroy it.”

“We invite people to come to the Eucharist,” he said. “but we are constantly reminding them, ‘just a moment now’ this belongs to our tradition – the Eucharist is not just something we just receive, it’s the body of Christ.”

“We have to accept the teachings on the body of Christ and we have to accept the teaching of the body of Christ, which is the Church, on other things to be fully worthy,” he said.

While he said that the prime responsibility is that of the person to examine himself before God regarding his worthiness to receive Communion, Cardinal Rigali added that “obviously the Church has an obligation to safeguard the Eucharist against abuses.”

“We teach children who prepare for first Holy Communion to be worthy, to be in the state of grace, he said. “That’s what we tell everybody – you have to be in the state of grace.”

He concluded: “To be in the state of grace you must embrace what the Church embraces, you have to embrace the faith of the Church, and you’re not free to receive the Eucharist if you don’t embrace the faith of the Church. This is St. Paul, this is St. Justin, this is the whole history of the Church.”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate in to Spanish and Vietnamese.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Rules of Engagement - 6 - Election Alert - 1

Rules of Engagement – 6- Election Alert- 1
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Preface: Let’s begin with something uplifting: Remembering Tony Snow – 1955-2008
Yesterday, Saturday evening and all through this coming week Fox News will have many tributes to this remarkable man. He was a tremendous husband, father and regular guy.

He was a man of integrity, courage, character, great optimism and deep faith. He was a Catholic convert and a role model and example for everyone. He was charismatic and an old-fashioned sincere patriot. He was in the public area specifically as White House Press secretary and many other areas of public service. Tony fought colon cancer for three years. He left a wife and three children. God bless him! Enlighten your people, Lord.

What a contrast Tony Snow is to the following. When it comes to family values, marriage and the unborn, you can’t trust Catholic-in-name only politicians. I hate a raw deal. These Catholic label politicians are getting away with murder. They are con-artists using the Catholic label. Let’s focus on a few CINOPS in Orange County. They have no respect for the views of their constituents in matters of family, parental rights, marriage etc.

All these CINOPS may be great on material things but man does live on bread alone.
We have legislator Assemblyman Jose Solorio on two critical votes in the 2007 Legislative Scorecard for the California State Assembly.
1.) Bill AB 43 (Laird) - Allows homosexual marriages, despite Proposition 22’s ban. SOLARIO VOTED YES – (Thankfully, the Governor vetoed this bill.)

2.)Bill SB777 (Kuehl) – Requires homosexual indoctrination in public schools. PROHIBITS DISCUSSION OF TRADITIONAL FAMILIES AND FAMILY VALUES. SOLORIO VOTED YES – This law was signed into law.

State Senator Lou Correa did not vote in # 1 but voted for # 2. He is my district. In 2006, I talked to him and he claimed he was for Proposition 85 – parental notification. What good does that do when his political party sends out information to his constituents that tell them to vote No? This is one main reason why Proposition 85 did not pass. His political party is going to do the same for Proposition 8 –the marriage amendment and proposition 4 – Sarah’s law, A NO VOTE.
The CINOP is an enemy of traditional America!

Now let us check out eight voting decisions of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.
1,) Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act- passage (110th) FROM SCORECARD OF
Loretta voted YES, and against the Catholic position. CATHOLICS IN CONGRESS
2.) Marriage Amendment Act (109th) CATHOLIC ADVOCATE A
Loretta voted NO, and against the Catholic position. PROJECT OF THE MORLEY
3.) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (109th) FOR CHURCH &Culture
Loretta voted NO, and against the Catholic position.
4.) Abortion in military medical facilities (109th)
Loretta voted YES, and against the Catholic position.
5.) Coercive abortion, United Nations Population Fund (109th)
Loretta voted YES, and against the Catholic position.
6.) Unborn Children Pain Awareness Act (109th)
Loretta voted NO, and against the Catholic position.
7.) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: passage (108th)
Loretta voted NO, and against the Catholic position.
8.) Unborn Victims of Violence Act (108th)
Loretta voted NO, and against the Catholic position.

Thankfully, we will have grassroots volunteers who we will pass out this information to voters in their districts and prayerfully you will be one of them.

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Rules of Engagement - 4 - Dr. James C. Dobson

The Rules of Engagement – 4 – Dr. James C. Dobson
cinops be gone Saturday, July 12, 2008

As I recall during World War II the Allied powers were fighting the Axis powers and we won. We were a strong traditional and patriotic America.

Today, we have another real war going on in America. It’s a war that the Culture of Death has against traditional America. All Americans and Christian organizations should be well informed allies in this struggle. But they are not. Some are blind to our enemies, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the corrupt news media. For example, if we had the same kind of news media reporting in World War II like we have today on Iraq; we would have lost World War II to Hitler. Now let us turn to one of our major allies in the war for traditional America.

Family News from Focus on the Family Dr. James Dobson – June 2008

Marriage is not simply a Judeo-Christian concept, although it finds its origin in the Garden of Eden. The Creator said to Adam and Eve, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24, niv).
That is the way it has always been. But now four members of the California Supreme Court have come to a different conclusion. They intend to jettison the divine plan and, in so doing, have opened the door to polygamy, group marriage and who knows what else. In his daily update following the shocking ruling, Gary Bauer, president of American Values, highlighted several telling and provocative quotes related to the case. In the first one, he noted that, to their credit, three justices vigorously opposed the same-sex ruling. Writing for the majority, Justice Marvin Baxter stated prophetically:

“The majority … simply does not have the right to erase, then recast the age-old definition of marriage, as virtually all societies have understood it, in order to satisfy it own contemporary notions of equality and justice. The California

Constitution says nothing about the rights of same-sex couples to marry. On the contrary, as the majority concedes, our original Constitution, effective from the moment of statehood, evidenced an assumption that marriage was between partners of the opposite sex.”

How did the ACLU perceive victory? Exactly as you would expect. They are ecstatic. Challenges to state marriage amendments and the federal Defense of Marriage Act are coming. Here are portions of a message sent to supporters of the ACLU following the California decision.

“We won the marriage case in California. No need for hyperbole here; this is big. … And as New York Times recently pointed out, the California Supreme Court is the most influential state high court in America…. Marriage in California will transform the discussion of marriage nationwide…. The fact that California is marrying same-sex couples will put considerable pressure on the rest of the country to recognize those marriages. Even more important, the rest of the country recognizes that California is America’s cultural trendsetter, that cultural change in California is usually a preview of what is to come in the rest of the United States…. This was a prize of inestimable value.”

Now let’s close with Coral Ridge Ministries – 10 Truths about Christians and Politics.
… The majority of American founders were Christians who took their civic duties seriously. Their efforts laid the foundation of the freest and most prosperous nation in history…. P. 9
George H. Kubeck, P.O. box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680-9998