A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP - #2 of 4
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, March 21, 2010
“I’d like to dwell on the issue of science for just another moment, because it will lead us into the rest of our discussion today. I want you to listen to some thoughts from two very different sources. Here is the first one.
“Science, by itself, cannot establish the ends to which it is put. Science can discover vaccines and cures for our diseases, but it can also create infectious agents; it can uncover the physics of semiconductors but also the physics of the hydrogen bomb. Science {as} science is indifferent to whether data are gathered under rules that scrupulously protect the interest of human research subjects… {or by} bending the rules or ignoring them altogether…
“The same source goes on to worry that, today, many of the bioethicists who claim to counsel and guide the moral course of American science “have become nothing more than sophisticated (and sophistic) justifiers of whatever it is the scientific community wants…
“Now listen to these words from my second source:
“What is our contemporary idiocy? What is the enemy within {human} city? If I had to give it a name I would call it “technological secularism.” The idiot today is the technological secularist who knows everything … about the organization of all the instruments and techniques of power that are available in the contemporary world – and who, at the same time, understands nothing about the nature of man or about the nature of true civilization.” The words from my first source appeared in 2002. They come from the author and scholar Francis Fukuyama. …
“The words from my second source were written nearly 50 years ago, in 1961, They come from John Courtney Murray, the great Jesuit priest and Christian scholar. Murray was a thoughtful man and he chose his language very carefully. He used the word “idiot” in the original Greek sense of the term, which is quite different from the meaning in modern slang. For the Greeks, the “idiot” was not a mentally deficient man. Rather, he was a man who does not possess a proper public philosophy; as Murray says, “a man who is not master of the knowledge and skills that underline the life of a civilized city. ‘The idiot, to the Greek, was just one stage removed from the barbarian. He is the man who is ignorant of the meaning of the word “civility.”’…
“Fools with tools are still fools – and the more powerful the tools, the more dangerous the fools. Or to put it another way, neither science nor technology requires a conscience to produce results. The evidence for that is the record of the last century.
“NOW I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THESE THINGS SO FAR FOR A SIMPLE REASON. THE STRUGGLE WE FACE TODAY IN DEFENDING HUMAN DIGNITY IS BECOMING MORE COMPLEX. I’VE BELIEVED FOR MANY YEARS THAT ABORTION IS THE FOUNDATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE OF OUR LIFETIME. WE CAN’T SIMULTANEOUSLY SERVE THE POOR, AND ACCEPT THE LEGAL KILLING OF UNBORN CHILDREN. WE CAN’T BUILD A JUST SOCIETY AND AT THE SAME TIME LEGALLY SANCTIFY THE DESTRUCTION OF GENERATIONS OF UNBORN HUMAN LIFE. THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR AND THE RIGHTS OF THE UNBORN CHILD FLOW FROM EXACTLY THE SAME HUMAN DIGNITY GUARANTEED BY THE GOD WHO CREATED US…
George H. Kubeck, The above is part 2 of Chaput’s speech given to Cleveland Right to Life dinner.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thoughts for CINO Politicians - U.S.A.
Thoughts for CINO Politicians- U.S.A.
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, March 19, 2010
Greetings!
Character in public office does not mean anything anymore. As Americans we need to have one standard for all politicians. There was a time we had this with a fair and unbiased news media. Today, it has turned into what is politically correct. This is wrong. The news media has failed the American public. We want character and truthfulness to be part of the discourse and in the Public Square.
Truthfulness: Let us put the words of Obama into President Bush’s mouth and have him for example promote Obama Health Care. What are some thoughts that would come to your mind? Bush would publicly be called a liar by the media and with the evidence and this could go on and on. We don’t want to be a lying society where some politicians are protected.
“The Christian does not flee from the obligation of his age; he does not malign the world but takes his place fully realizing what I demanded of him. To be a Christian means to be realistic. The Christian does not flee to utopia and does not let the present world go to ruin in the name of utopia.” Pope Benedict XVI – March 18
Your vote for the Obama Care is not being realistic. You are letting our present health care system go to ruin. It is also utopian in the same way that the War on Poverty was in the 1960s. That program seriously hurt and undermined the integrity of the American black family. Expanding abortion, violating the conscience of doctors and health care workers, and religious rights are not American but European ideas. “Obama health care is not American health care”. Your vote for Obama Care is a vote for the new Obama political party versus the traditional Democratic Party.
I believe the CINOP is an intellectual and moral midget when integrating Catholic prudential social economic justice into public policy? I think their spiritual advisors are also in the same category. They fail to consider that the Democratic Party is promoting the absolute evils of abortion, assisted-suicide, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage. This is not right.
I consider Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the CINOP poster boy. Dennis is an opportunist and wants attention. He reminds me of the Catholic label politicians in Germany during the 1930’s. There were many of them hovering over their charismatic leader. Dennis wants the public option which was in Germany’s National Socialism. Our Constitution protects us from big government. Ordinary Americans get things done via our free enterprise system not government.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. We hope that Catholic Tea Party groups will be in your diocese and cheerfully vote you out of office in 2010.
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, March 19, 2010
Greetings!
Character in public office does not mean anything anymore. As Americans we need to have one standard for all politicians. There was a time we had this with a fair and unbiased news media. Today, it has turned into what is politically correct. This is wrong. The news media has failed the American public. We want character and truthfulness to be part of the discourse and in the Public Square.
Truthfulness: Let us put the words of Obama into President Bush’s mouth and have him for example promote Obama Health Care. What are some thoughts that would come to your mind? Bush would publicly be called a liar by the media and with the evidence and this could go on and on. We don’t want to be a lying society where some politicians are protected.
“The Christian does not flee from the obligation of his age; he does not malign the world but takes his place fully realizing what I demanded of him. To be a Christian means to be realistic. The Christian does not flee to utopia and does not let the present world go to ruin in the name of utopia.” Pope Benedict XVI – March 18
Your vote for the Obama Care is not being realistic. You are letting our present health care system go to ruin. It is also utopian in the same way that the War on Poverty was in the 1960s. That program seriously hurt and undermined the integrity of the American black family. Expanding abortion, violating the conscience of doctors and health care workers, and religious rights are not American but European ideas. “Obama health care is not American health care”. Your vote for Obama Care is a vote for the new Obama political party versus the traditional Democratic Party.
I believe the CINOP is an intellectual and moral midget when integrating Catholic prudential social economic justice into public policy? I think their spiritual advisors are also in the same category. They fail to consider that the Democratic Party is promoting the absolute evils of abortion, assisted-suicide, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage. This is not right.
I consider Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the CINOP poster boy. Dennis is an opportunist and wants attention. He reminds me of the Catholic label politicians in Germany during the 1930’s. There were many of them hovering over their charismatic leader. Dennis wants the public option which was in Germany’s National Socialism. Our Constitution protects us from big government. Ordinary Americans get things done via our free enterprise system not government.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. We hope that Catholic Tea Party groups will be in your diocese and cheerfully vote you out of office in 2010.
George H. Kubeck
Thursday, March 18, 2010
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP - # 1 of 4
A Classic by Chaput: Attn. CINOP - # 1 of 4
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, March 18, 2010
The following are excerpts of a talk given by Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Denver Diocese to the Cleveland Right to Life Dinner on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Chaput was introduced by Hugh Hewitt. Hugh is on Talk Radio 870 AM daily from Monday to Friday, 3-6 P.M. "Human Dignity - The Road Ahead - The Future of the Pro-Life Movement"
Archbishop Charles Chaput is to pro-life America what Bishop Fulton Sheen was over all to America. Chaput’s thoughts on life are the past, the present and future for any Catholic American political leader in America.
I have invited the California Democratic Catholic-label Congressional politicians to listen: Joe Baca, Xavier Becerra, Dennis Cardoza, Jim Costa, George Miller, Grace Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Linda Sanchez, Loretta Sanchez, Mike Thompson and Diane Watson. The aforementioned politicians are going to make life and death decisions when they vote for Obama Care this week or any other week. A vote YES is a death decision.
“All law in some sense teaches and informs us, while also regulating our behavior. The same applies to our public policies, including the ones that govern our scientific research. There is no such thing as morally neutral legislation or morally neutral public policy. Every law is the public expression of what somebody thinks we “ought” to do. The question that matters is this: Which moral convictions of which somebodies are going to shape our county’s political and cultural future – including the way we do our science?”
“If you and I as citizens don’t do the shaping, then somebody else will. That’s the nature of democracy. A healthy democracy depends on people of conviction working hard to advance their ideas in the public square – respectfully and peacefully, but vigorously and without apologies. Politics always involves the exercise of power in the pursuit of somebody’s idea of the common good. And politics always and naturally involves the imposition of somebody’s values on the public at large. So if a citizen fails to bring his moral beliefs into our country’s political conversation – if he fails to work for them publicly and energetically – then the only thing he ensures is the defeat of his own beliefs.”
“We also need to remember that most people – not everyone, of course, but most of us – root our moral convictions in our religious beliefs. What we believe about God shapes what we think about the nature of men and women, good human relationships, and our idea of a just society. This has very practical consequences, including the political kind. As a result, the idea of the “separation of Church and state” should force us to wall off our religious beliefs from guiding our political behavior makes no sense at all, even superficially. If we don’t remain true in our public actions to what we claim to believe in our personal lives, then we only deceive ourselves because God isn’t fooled. He sees who and what we really are...”to be cont’d
George H. Kubeck –
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, March 18, 2010
The following are excerpts of a talk given by Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Denver Diocese to the Cleveland Right to Life Dinner on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Chaput was introduced by Hugh Hewitt. Hugh is on Talk Radio 870 AM daily from Monday to Friday, 3-6 P.M. "Human Dignity - The Road Ahead - The Future of the Pro-Life Movement"
Archbishop Charles Chaput is to pro-life America what Bishop Fulton Sheen was over all to America. Chaput’s thoughts on life are the past, the present and future for any Catholic American political leader in America.
I have invited the California Democratic Catholic-label Congressional politicians to listen: Joe Baca, Xavier Becerra, Dennis Cardoza, Jim Costa, George Miller, Grace Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Linda Sanchez, Loretta Sanchez, Mike Thompson and Diane Watson. The aforementioned politicians are going to make life and death decisions when they vote for Obama Care this week or any other week. A vote YES is a death decision.
“All law in some sense teaches and informs us, while also regulating our behavior. The same applies to our public policies, including the ones that govern our scientific research. There is no such thing as morally neutral legislation or morally neutral public policy. Every law is the public expression of what somebody thinks we “ought” to do. The question that matters is this: Which moral convictions of which somebodies are going to shape our county’s political and cultural future – including the way we do our science?”
“If you and I as citizens don’t do the shaping, then somebody else will. That’s the nature of democracy. A healthy democracy depends on people of conviction working hard to advance their ideas in the public square – respectfully and peacefully, but vigorously and without apologies. Politics always involves the exercise of power in the pursuit of somebody’s idea of the common good. And politics always and naturally involves the imposition of somebody’s values on the public at large. So if a citizen fails to bring his moral beliefs into our country’s political conversation – if he fails to work for them publicly and energetically – then the only thing he ensures is the defeat of his own beliefs.”
“We also need to remember that most people – not everyone, of course, but most of us – root our moral convictions in our religious beliefs. What we believe about God shapes what we think about the nature of men and women, good human relationships, and our idea of a just society. This has very practical consequences, including the political kind. As a result, the idea of the “separation of Church and state” should force us to wall off our religious beliefs from guiding our political behavior makes no sense at all, even superficially. If we don’t remain true in our public actions to what we claim to believe in our personal lives, then we only deceive ourselves because God isn’t fooled. He sees who and what we really are...”to be cont’d
George H. Kubeck –
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Masters of Deceit and Deception - Update
Masters of Deceit and Deception – Update
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, March 16, 2010
I wish our President had never lived in the Chicago political environment. It is unique in America. He would have never met conspirators Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod and become part of the “Troika” presidency and their Russian Czars. Chicago is the environment for conspirators not only to change traditional America but also to corrupt and financially bankrupt America.
“We have to pass this bill (Health Care) so that we can find out what’s in it.” said Nancy Pelosi. Our pied piper President is in town selling it. This health care has a Chicago mindset. Are you going to vote for this Chicago mindset? Remember that common sense, honesty & reasonableness are not really part of this mindset. Why?
Health care is about everyone’s involvement in the process. At the table, we must include Republicans, Independents, and Libertarian ideas. But wait! You must understand that in Chicago anything left of center in politics is OK. Anything to the right of center is BAD. You wonder why President Obama can’t compromise for the public good on the Health Care System.
Recall the War on Poverty in the 1960’s: The feel good propaganda that surrounded it. At that time, the progressive Democrats sold the idea to President Johnson. THE WAR ON POVERTY BY THE GOVERNMENT DESTROYED THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILY. OUR NATION AND BLACK AMERICA IS SUFFERING THROUGH THIS TRAGEDY. DOES ANYBODY CARE?
How noble the idea sounds: health care for all Americans. BUT WAIT! OBAMA HEALTH CARE WILL DESTROY THE HEALTH CARE OF MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA, SENIORS, AND EXCELLENCE IN U.S. HEALTH CARE.
We already have all of these unfunded welfare programs that will financially bankrupt our country. How can we add another one? We will have financial bankruptcy in our life time. Remember the Weimar Republic in Germany. It took a wheel barrel of money to go shopping.
There is Rahm Emmanuel arm, nude and foul mouth twisting going on in Congress. Everything is on the Chicago table including blackmail, personal bankruptcy, threats and violence. How many will have the courage to say no?
Whenever I think of corrupt Chicago, I think of their pervasive and fraudulent voting. In the presidential elections of 1960, the mayor of Chicago’s father provided the votes so that Illinois was won by President John Kennedy. It may be from this corrupt 1960 election that A.C.O.R.N. first learned how to do it.
There is much more to say. It goes back to trust. President Obama is not a trustworthy President. He carries Chicago’s culture of corruption on his back.
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, March 16, 2010
I wish our President had never lived in the Chicago political environment. It is unique in America. He would have never met conspirators Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod and become part of the “Troika” presidency and their Russian Czars. Chicago is the environment for conspirators not only to change traditional America but also to corrupt and financially bankrupt America.
“We have to pass this bill (Health Care) so that we can find out what’s in it.” said Nancy Pelosi. Our pied piper President is in town selling it. This health care has a Chicago mindset. Are you going to vote for this Chicago mindset? Remember that common sense, honesty & reasonableness are not really part of this mindset. Why?
Health care is about everyone’s involvement in the process. At the table, we must include Republicans, Independents, and Libertarian ideas. But wait! You must understand that in Chicago anything left of center in politics is OK. Anything to the right of center is BAD. You wonder why President Obama can’t compromise for the public good on the Health Care System.
Recall the War on Poverty in the 1960’s: The feel good propaganda that surrounded it. At that time, the progressive Democrats sold the idea to President Johnson. THE WAR ON POVERTY BY THE GOVERNMENT DESTROYED THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILY. OUR NATION AND BLACK AMERICA IS SUFFERING THROUGH THIS TRAGEDY. DOES ANYBODY CARE?
How noble the idea sounds: health care for all Americans. BUT WAIT! OBAMA HEALTH CARE WILL DESTROY THE HEALTH CARE OF MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA, SENIORS, AND EXCELLENCE IN U.S. HEALTH CARE.
We already have all of these unfunded welfare programs that will financially bankrupt our country. How can we add another one? We will have financial bankruptcy in our life time. Remember the Weimar Republic in Germany. It took a wheel barrel of money to go shopping.
There is Rahm Emmanuel arm, nude and foul mouth twisting going on in Congress. Everything is on the Chicago table including blackmail, personal bankruptcy, threats and violence. How many will have the courage to say no?
Whenever I think of corrupt Chicago, I think of their pervasive and fraudulent voting. In the presidential elections of 1960, the mayor of Chicago’s father provided the votes so that Illinois was won by President John Kennedy. It may be from this corrupt 1960 election that A.C.O.R.N. first learned how to do it.
There is much more to say. It goes back to trust. President Obama is not a trustworthy President. He carries Chicago’s culture of corruption on his back.
George H. Kubeck
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Pelosi Archbishop Slams Her Rationale for Supporting Abortion
Pelosi Archbishop Slams Rationale for Supporting Abortion
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, March 14, 2010
From Catholic News Agency, January 13, 2010: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com /news/pelosis archbishop slams her rationale for supporting abortion/
San Francisco, Calif. (CAN). – Archbishop George Niederaurer responded today to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) recent comments that she has “some concern about the Church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose.” Justifying her position decision to support abortion by citing her free will “is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching.”the archbishop insisted.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi told Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift in a December 21, 2009 interview that she disagrees with the Church on certain issues but considers herself a “practicing Catholic.”
“I have some concerns about the church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose. I have some concerns about the church’s position on gay rights. I am a practicing Catholic, although they are not too happy about that. But it is my faith. I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent to what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. & that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will,” Pelosi said.
Archbishop Niederaurer countered in his January 13 column. Embodied in that statement are some fundamental misconceptions about Catholic teaching on human freedom. God gave human beings the capacity to choose between good and evil in order to give them the gift of freedom, even at the cost of many evil choices, the archbishop said.
But this gift of freedom, the freedom wrongly cited in justifying a woman’s right to choose, among other fallacies, does not justify the position that “all moral choices are good if they are free,” insisted Archbishop Niederauer because “the exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything.”
Addressing those who advocate for “reproductive choice” while claiming to be Catholic, Archbishop Niederaurer emphasized, “it is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching to conclude that our freedom of will justifies choices that are radically contrary to the Gospel – racism, infidelity, abortion, theft. Freedom of will is the capacity to act with moral responsibility: it is not the ability to determine arbitrarily what constitutes moral right.”
The belief in the validity of arbitrarily determining right and wrong is widespread both in and outside of the Church, the archbishop noted. Touching on the meaning of one’s conscience, the San Francisco archbishop described it as “the judgment of reason whereby the human person, guided by God’s grace, recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act. In all we say and do, we are obliged to follow faithfully what we know to be just and right.”
“As participants in the life of the civil community,” Archbishop Niederauer wrote, “we Catholic citizens try to follow our consciences, guided, as describe above, by reason and the grace of God. While we deeply respect the freedom of our fellow citizens, we nevertheless are profoundly convinced that free will cannot be cited as justification for society to allow moral choices that strike at the most fundamental rights of others. Such a choice is abortion, which constitutes the taking of innocent life, and cannot be justified by any Catholic notion of freedom.”
George H. Kubeck, “The Cinop road is self-inflicted excommunication from the Catholic Church.”
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, March 14, 2010
From Catholic News Agency, January 13, 2010: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com /news/pelosis archbishop slams her rationale for supporting abortion/
San Francisco, Calif. (CAN). – Archbishop George Niederaurer responded today to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) recent comments that she has “some concern about the Church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose.” Justifying her position decision to support abortion by citing her free will “is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching.”the archbishop insisted.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi told Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift in a December 21, 2009 interview that she disagrees with the Church on certain issues but considers herself a “practicing Catholic.”
“I have some concerns about the church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose. I have some concerns about the church’s position on gay rights. I am a practicing Catholic, although they are not too happy about that. But it is my faith. I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent to what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. & that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will,” Pelosi said.
Archbishop Niederaurer countered in his January 13 column. Embodied in that statement are some fundamental misconceptions about Catholic teaching on human freedom. God gave human beings the capacity to choose between good and evil in order to give them the gift of freedom, even at the cost of many evil choices, the archbishop said.
But this gift of freedom, the freedom wrongly cited in justifying a woman’s right to choose, among other fallacies, does not justify the position that “all moral choices are good if they are free,” insisted Archbishop Niederauer because “the exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything.”
Addressing those who advocate for “reproductive choice” while claiming to be Catholic, Archbishop Niederaurer emphasized, “it is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching to conclude that our freedom of will justifies choices that are radically contrary to the Gospel – racism, infidelity, abortion, theft. Freedom of will is the capacity to act with moral responsibility: it is not the ability to determine arbitrarily what constitutes moral right.”
The belief in the validity of arbitrarily determining right and wrong is widespread both in and outside of the Church, the archbishop noted. Touching on the meaning of one’s conscience, the San Francisco archbishop described it as “the judgment of reason whereby the human person, guided by God’s grace, recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act. In all we say and do, we are obliged to follow faithfully what we know to be just and right.”
“As participants in the life of the civil community,” Archbishop Niederauer wrote, “we Catholic citizens try to follow our consciences, guided, as describe above, by reason and the grace of God. While we deeply respect the freedom of our fellow citizens, we nevertheless are profoundly convinced that free will cannot be cited as justification for society to allow moral choices that strike at the most fundamental rights of others. Such a choice is abortion, which constitutes the taking of innocent life, and cannot be justified by any Catholic notion of freedom.”
George H. Kubeck, “The Cinop road is self-inflicted excommunication from the Catholic Church.”
Saturday, March 13, 2010
7 Meditations that are good for All Seasons
7 Meditations that are good for All Seasons **
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, March 13, 2010
1.) We need the living Christ, whom we can know only through our encounter with him. But encounter presumes actual presence – the Real Presence, which, in turn, requires the Sacrament and the Church that alone is authorized to give us the Sacrament, the Church that Christ himself willed into existence and continues to support.
2.) There are many persons who live in conflict with themselves. This aversion for oneself, this inability to accept oneself and to be reconciled with oneself is far removed from the self-abnegations that the Lord asks of us. If we fail to love ourselves, we cannot love our neighbor… It is true, moreover, that only when we gave accepted ourselves can we address a genuine Yes to anyone else.
3.) Our way to the other leads by way of God. Without this intermediary of our unity, we will always be separated from one another by abysses that no good will can bridge.
4.) It is a fundamental tenet of morality – perhaps today the most fundamental tent – that the end never justifies the means. What is wrong in itself continues to be wrong however noble the end toward which it is directed… Whatever is done in the name of terrorism affects us precisely as Christians and calls for a Christian response? In the last analysis, all the acts of terrorism that label themselves in one way or another as Marxist share a single characteristic: that man wants to appropriate to himself the role of Divine Providence, to usurp the position of God – the story of paradise and the serpent has an uncanny relevance in our day.
5.) Christianity is no longer tied to the past: it is firmly rooted in today. That was the electrifying thought that Pope John XXIII himself summarized in the word ‘aggiornamento’… Christianity is not linked to any past: Jesus Christ is “yesterday and today and forever” (Heb. 13:8)
6.) A Christianity that believes it has no other function than to be completely in tune with the spirit of the times has nothing to say and no meaning to offer. It can abdicate without more ado.
7.) The conversation between Jesus and the teacher of the law deals with a question that concerns all of us. How do I live as I ought? What must I do to make a success of my life? I must remember that God put me in this world for a purpose and that he will one day demand an account of what I have done with my life… if we fail to keep before our eyes God’s standard, the standard of eternity, then egoism is the only guideline left…
Hence the first guideline is: live not for yourself alone: live under the eye of God; live in such a way that he will be pleased with you and you will some day be eternally welcome in the company of God and his saints.
** Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “Co-Workers of the Truth” Meditations- Mar 5-11th
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, March 13, 2010
1.) We need the living Christ, whom we can know only through our encounter with him. But encounter presumes actual presence – the Real Presence, which, in turn, requires the Sacrament and the Church that alone is authorized to give us the Sacrament, the Church that Christ himself willed into existence and continues to support.
2.) There are many persons who live in conflict with themselves. This aversion for oneself, this inability to accept oneself and to be reconciled with oneself is far removed from the self-abnegations that the Lord asks of us. If we fail to love ourselves, we cannot love our neighbor… It is true, moreover, that only when we gave accepted ourselves can we address a genuine Yes to anyone else.
3.) Our way to the other leads by way of God. Without this intermediary of our unity, we will always be separated from one another by abysses that no good will can bridge.
4.) It is a fundamental tenet of morality – perhaps today the most fundamental tent – that the end never justifies the means. What is wrong in itself continues to be wrong however noble the end toward which it is directed… Whatever is done in the name of terrorism affects us precisely as Christians and calls for a Christian response? In the last analysis, all the acts of terrorism that label themselves in one way or another as Marxist share a single characteristic: that man wants to appropriate to himself the role of Divine Providence, to usurp the position of God – the story of paradise and the serpent has an uncanny relevance in our day.
5.) Christianity is no longer tied to the past: it is firmly rooted in today. That was the electrifying thought that Pope John XXIII himself summarized in the word ‘aggiornamento’… Christianity is not linked to any past: Jesus Christ is “yesterday and today and forever” (Heb. 13:8)
6.) A Christianity that believes it has no other function than to be completely in tune with the spirit of the times has nothing to say and no meaning to offer. It can abdicate without more ado.
7.) The conversation between Jesus and the teacher of the law deals with a question that concerns all of us. How do I live as I ought? What must I do to make a success of my life? I must remember that God put me in this world for a purpose and that he will one day demand an account of what I have done with my life… if we fail to keep before our eyes God’s standard, the standard of eternity, then egoism is the only guideline left…
Hence the first guideline is: live not for yourself alone: live under the eye of God; live in such a way that he will be pleased with you and you will some day be eternally welcome in the company of God and his saints.
** Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “Co-Workers of the Truth” Meditations- Mar 5-11th
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The CINOP in the Obama Health Care
The CINOP in the Obama Health Care
In pursuit of the truth, www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, March 3, 2010
For a breadth of fresh air let’s clear up some of the words we use in every day conversation. Planned Parenthood is really planned termination of unwanted babies in the womb. Abortion Clinic is correctly abortion site, facility, mill or death chamber for the unborn child. “A clinic is a place where one gets healed.”
Pro-choice Catholic politician is Catholic-in-name-only politician. (CINOP) For every pro-life democrat politician like Stupak in Congress we have a dozen or more pro-choice Catholic politicians in Congress. IT IS THE CINOP VOTE IN CONGRESS AND THE SENATE THAT MAY PASS OBAMA HEALTH CARE.
Fortunately, all the Republicans members in Congress are voting pro-life. They want to include the Hyde Amendment (Stupak) in any national health care program. This means that public tax funds will not pay for abortions. Sadly, we have CINOP Loretta Sanchez in Orange County. She is a clone of CINOP Nancy Pelosi. Loretta voted against the Stupak amendment. The CINOP is an opportunist and a participant in a false dysfunctional Catholic belief system.
I called Loretta Sanchez’s local office in Garden Grove at about 1:40 P.M. 1- (714) 621-0102. I talked to Javiara and asked about Loretta’s vote against the Stupak Amendment. Found out that she is an advocate for women’s rights. (She doesn’t give a hoot about the unborn. She voted for partial-birth abortion 3 times.)
Also, she is for equality in marriage. (This means that she is for same-sex marriage. This drives me up the wall. How many of the voters in her district know these facts.) Why AREN’T any pro-life Democrats running against her in the Democratic Congressional primary? I find this to be an absolute CATHOLIC shame on the community. In a primary fight we find out who she really is! Values issues bring out our voters. By the way Republicans, you don’t fight Democrats in California or throughout the country with one hand tied behind your back.
Now let’s check out the CINOP participants in the Bi-Partisan White House Summit. From Congress, we have Nancy Pelosi, D. Calif. George Miller, D. Calif. and Charles Rangel, D. N.Y. Sitting next to President Obama, there Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary.
From the Senate, we have Tom Harkin, D. Iowa, Chris Dodd, D. Connecticut, Dick Durbin, D. Illinois, and Patty Murray, D. State of Washington. The good news is that Congressman Patrick Kennedy and Senator Chris Dodd are not running for office. This decade is dedicated in voting each CINOP out of office.
I will give you one example of what absolute phonies these Democratic Catholic label politicians are. Take for example, Senator Tom Harkin. He voted against the Catholic Social Justice position on the following: 1) Funding of overseas pro-abortion organizations (109th) 2) Funding of embryonic-killing stem cell research (H.R.810) (109th) 3) Child Custody Protection Act (S.403): passage (109th) 4) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CINA) (109th) 5) Federal Marriage Amendment Act (109th) 6) Harkin Amendment to endorse Roe v. Wade (109th) 7) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 passage (108th) 8) Abortion in military medical facilities (108th) 9)Unborn Victims of Violence Act: passage (108th) …
Shame on the American Catholic voters in IOWA and maybe again in Orange County.
George H. Kubeck, Loretta Sanchez’s voting record is similar to the above.
In pursuit of the truth, www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, March 3, 2010
For a breadth of fresh air let’s clear up some of the words we use in every day conversation. Planned Parenthood is really planned termination of unwanted babies in the womb. Abortion Clinic is correctly abortion site, facility, mill or death chamber for the unborn child. “A clinic is a place where one gets healed.”
Pro-choice Catholic politician is Catholic-in-name-only politician. (CINOP) For every pro-life democrat politician like Stupak in Congress we have a dozen or more pro-choice Catholic politicians in Congress. IT IS THE CINOP VOTE IN CONGRESS AND THE SENATE THAT MAY PASS OBAMA HEALTH CARE.
Fortunately, all the Republicans members in Congress are voting pro-life. They want to include the Hyde Amendment (Stupak) in any national health care program. This means that public tax funds will not pay for abortions. Sadly, we have CINOP Loretta Sanchez in Orange County. She is a clone of CINOP Nancy Pelosi. Loretta voted against the Stupak amendment. The CINOP is an opportunist and a participant in a false dysfunctional Catholic belief system.
I called Loretta Sanchez’s local office in Garden Grove at about 1:40 P.M. 1- (714) 621-0102. I talked to Javiara and asked about Loretta’s vote against the Stupak Amendment. Found out that she is an advocate for women’s rights. (She doesn’t give a hoot about the unborn. She voted for partial-birth abortion 3 times.)
Also, she is for equality in marriage. (This means that she is for same-sex marriage. This drives me up the wall. How many of the voters in her district know these facts.) Why AREN’T any pro-life Democrats running against her in the Democratic Congressional primary? I find this to be an absolute CATHOLIC shame on the community. In a primary fight we find out who she really is! Values issues bring out our voters. By the way Republicans, you don’t fight Democrats in California or throughout the country with one hand tied behind your back.
Now let’s check out the CINOP participants in the Bi-Partisan White House Summit. From Congress, we have Nancy Pelosi, D. Calif. George Miller, D. Calif. and Charles Rangel, D. N.Y. Sitting next to President Obama, there Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary.
From the Senate, we have Tom Harkin, D. Iowa, Chris Dodd, D. Connecticut, Dick Durbin, D. Illinois, and Patty Murray, D. State of Washington. The good news is that Congressman Patrick Kennedy and Senator Chris Dodd are not running for office. This decade is dedicated in voting each CINOP out of office.
I will give you one example of what absolute phonies these Democratic Catholic label politicians are. Take for example, Senator Tom Harkin. He voted against the Catholic Social Justice position on the following: 1) Funding of overseas pro-abortion organizations (109th) 2) Funding of embryonic-killing stem cell research (H.R.810) (109th) 3) Child Custody Protection Act (S.403): passage (109th) 4) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CINA) (109th) 5) Federal Marriage Amendment Act (109th) 6) Harkin Amendment to endorse Roe v. Wade (109th) 7) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 passage (108th) 8) Abortion in military medical facilities (108th) 9)Unborn Victims of Violence Act: passage (108th) …
Shame on the American Catholic voters in IOWA and maybe again in Orange County.
George H. Kubeck, Loretta Sanchez’s voting record is similar to the above.
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