Public Notice - 14 Days No-Emails
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012
Dear Reader, Thanks for putting up with the almost daily e-mails of the last five months. The presidential election will be decided today. I was motivated with a real fear of a re-elected Obama presidency. The purpose was to inform, educate and persuade you not to vote for Barack Obama and the CINOP. (Catholic-in-name-only politician.)
In an honest vote count, I expect a Romney victory in the Battle Ground States. Also, I wish each CINOP throughout the country to be voted out of office. Nevertheless, this education battle will go on. [In previous elections, I noticed that on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the Los Angeles Times will provide local and national results in particular the Catholic vote in California.]
May I share with you a disturbing report from CV catholicvote.org - a project of Fidelis:
The result of a Pew Research Center poll done shortly before Labor Day:
1. Currently, 51% of Catholic registered voters support Obama or lean toward him, while 42% support Romney or lean toward him.
2. About half of Catholic voters (51%) say Barack Obama best reflects their views on social issues such as abortion and gay rights: 34% say Mitt Romney best reflects their views on these issues.
3. Here is the Presidential vote in 2008: Obama: 69,456,897 --- McCain: 59, 934, 814
4. Put another way, there were 129,391,711 votes caste for either Obama or John McCain. Thus: Since Catholics make up 27% of the total elections, it means that of the 129,391,711 Americans who voted in 2008, 34,935,761 were Catholics. About 54% voted for Obama.
5. Of those, roughly 18,865,311 voted for Barack Obama … the man Archbishop Charles Chaput had prophetically called “the most committed ‘abortion rights’ presidential candidate of either major party since the Roe v. Wade abortion decision in 1973.” Fewer than 16,000,000 voted for the man who, for the most part, agreed with the Church’s teaching on the sacredness and dignity of innocent human life. [Add this year, same-sex marriage, cloning, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research.]
Understanding the Mindset of a Social Justice Catholic
A) On October 1, 1989, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin released this statement for Respect Life Sunday, a statement, “Deciding for Life.”
B) “Not all values, however, are of equal weight. Some are more fundamental than others. On this Respect Life Sunday, I wish to emphasize that no earthly value is more fundamental than human life itself. Human life is the condition for enjoying freedom and all other values. Consequently, if one must choose between protecting or serving lesser human values that depend upon life for their existence and life itself, human life must take precedence.”
C) But what has occurred within the Church for decades in Catholic education is that the seamless garment was used as if all of the following were equal: family wage, option for the poor, abortion, immigration, environment, climate change, abortion, war, death penalty, torture, etc. There is a big difference between prudential issues and issues that are intrinsically evil.
D) The CINOP is blind to Black racism. The Church is not focusing on that with respect to the CINOP. In the U.S.A., there are about 4,000 babies aborted each day, 1.5 million yearly. Thanks to Planned Parenthood and Associates, 1,600 Black babies are aborted daily. President Romney would defund Planned Parenthood. (about $400 million yearly). The CINOP supports Planned Parenthood.
George H. Kubeck
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
The Case for Mitt Romney - President
The Case for Mitt Romney- President
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Monday, Nov. 5th, 2012
This is an insightful article by Rich Lowry in Time Magazine - Nov. 12, 2012
1.) He and running mate Paul Ryan are the candidates of change at a time when our future depends on it. The welfare state is in crisis around the Western world, especially in Europe but also here at home - acutely in such states as California and Illinois. It is creaking under dated assumptions, aging populations & the unavoidable truth … that you can’t spend money that you don’t have….
2.) For all his invocations of hope and change, President Obama has governed as the last President of the 20th century. He hasn’t reformed government, he has made it larger. His re-election campaign reeks of intellectual and policy exhaustion. He released a purported second-term agenda with more glossy pictures of him than text, just 14 days before the election. His campaign continually resorts to the small-minded and demagogic in defense of a manifestly inadequate status quo…
3.) The dirty secret is that Obama’s central fiscal initiative, a tax increase on the rich, would raise only $80 billion annually at a time of yearly $1 trillion deficits. Eventually funding current levels of government will mean broad based tax increases on the middle class….
4.) The President’s budget have failed to get any votes in the Senate for two years running. The health care entitlements, Medicare and Medicaid are the biggest drivers of the debt. Even Obama says Medicare is unsustainable on its current trajectory, Romney wants to block-grant Medicaid to the states so they can experiment to improve it….
5.) Of course, Romney also famously want to repeal Obamacare. The President’s signature health care program is a sprawling $2 trillion mess sold under false pretenses. The government’s own scorekeepers say it won’t control costs… The Lewin Group a respected health care consultancy says employers could dump million of people out of their health plans…
6.) Romney has talked about a free market alternative that would make it easier for people to own their own insurance. A tax credit for individuals to buy to their own insurance could cover tens of millions more people. Properly designed high risk pools could limit the problems of sick people unable to get coverage. Such a plan could achieve the same goal as Obamacare at a fraction of the expense while encouraging more innovations and cost control in the health care system…
7.) Romney promises a regime of regulatory restraint. His Evironmental Protection Agency, in particular, can be trusted not to interfere with the revolutionary oil and gas boom driven by fracking or to impose cap-and-trade system by administrative fiat….
8.) The President’s case for re-election has been weak, in keeping with the weakness of his record. Let’s stipulate that he inherited a punishing recession. But the argument that Bush’s policies “got us into this mess” (and extension, that Romney’s would do the same) is better partisanship than history. In 2007, years after the Bush tax cuts, the budget deficit was all of $161 billion. There is no plausible economic theory which tax cuts caused the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis.
9.) The mantra that Obama saved us from another Great Depression rings hollow since the recession officially ended in June 2009, before any of his policies had a chance to take effect. He shot $800 billion on the stimulus and got nothing for it except some pleased spendthrift allies in Congress…. His green-energy program has been an expensive fizzle… The vaunted auto bailout, the second half of “the Joe Biden rallying cry “Osama Bin Laden is dead, GM is alive!” doesn’t bear much scrutiny. The GM bailout cost some $35 billion…. Foreign policy … the unraveling of Obama’s Mideast policy, punctuated by the debacle at Benghazi, Libya…. He embraced the basic legal architecture of George W. Bush’s war on terror as President after denouncing it for years…. The retirement of the President Obama is that it would improve the tone of our politics. Whatever his failings, Romney is unlikely to demonstrate the same high-handed contempt for the other party that Obama has, [a Chicago characteristic ] or the same shocking classlessness…. George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Monday, Nov. 5th, 2012
This is an insightful article by Rich Lowry in Time Magazine - Nov. 12, 2012
1.) He and running mate Paul Ryan are the candidates of change at a time when our future depends on it. The welfare state is in crisis around the Western world, especially in Europe but also here at home - acutely in such states as California and Illinois. It is creaking under dated assumptions, aging populations & the unavoidable truth … that you can’t spend money that you don’t have….
2.) For all his invocations of hope and change, President Obama has governed as the last President of the 20th century. He hasn’t reformed government, he has made it larger. His re-election campaign reeks of intellectual and policy exhaustion. He released a purported second-term agenda with more glossy pictures of him than text, just 14 days before the election. His campaign continually resorts to the small-minded and demagogic in defense of a manifestly inadequate status quo…
3.) The dirty secret is that Obama’s central fiscal initiative, a tax increase on the rich, would raise only $80 billion annually at a time of yearly $1 trillion deficits. Eventually funding current levels of government will mean broad based tax increases on the middle class….
4.) The President’s budget have failed to get any votes in the Senate for two years running. The health care entitlements, Medicare and Medicaid are the biggest drivers of the debt. Even Obama says Medicare is unsustainable on its current trajectory, Romney wants to block-grant Medicaid to the states so they can experiment to improve it….
5.) Of course, Romney also famously want to repeal Obamacare. The President’s signature health care program is a sprawling $2 trillion mess sold under false pretenses. The government’s own scorekeepers say it won’t control costs… The Lewin Group a respected health care consultancy says employers could dump million of people out of their health plans…
6.) Romney has talked about a free market alternative that would make it easier for people to own their own insurance. A tax credit for individuals to buy to their own insurance could cover tens of millions more people. Properly designed high risk pools could limit the problems of sick people unable to get coverage. Such a plan could achieve the same goal as Obamacare at a fraction of the expense while encouraging more innovations and cost control in the health care system…
7.) Romney promises a regime of regulatory restraint. His Evironmental Protection Agency, in particular, can be trusted not to interfere with the revolutionary oil and gas boom driven by fracking or to impose cap-and-trade system by administrative fiat….
8.) The President’s case for re-election has been weak, in keeping with the weakness of his record. Let’s stipulate that he inherited a punishing recession. But the argument that Bush’s policies “got us into this mess” (and extension, that Romney’s would do the same) is better partisanship than history. In 2007, years after the Bush tax cuts, the budget deficit was all of $161 billion. There is no plausible economic theory which tax cuts caused the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis.
9.) The mantra that Obama saved us from another Great Depression rings hollow since the recession officially ended in June 2009, before any of his policies had a chance to take effect. He shot $800 billion on the stimulus and got nothing for it except some pleased spendthrift allies in Congress…. His green-energy program has been an expensive fizzle… The vaunted auto bailout, the second half of “the Joe Biden rallying cry “Osama Bin Laden is dead, GM is alive!” doesn’t bear much scrutiny. The GM bailout cost some $35 billion…. Foreign policy … the unraveling of Obama’s Mideast policy, punctuated by the debacle at Benghazi, Libya…. He embraced the basic legal architecture of George W. Bush’s war on terror as President after denouncing it for years…. The retirement of the President Obama is that it would improve the tone of our politics. Whatever his failings, Romney is unlikely to demonstrate the same high-handed contempt for the other party that Obama has, [a Chicago characteristic ] or the same shocking classlessness…. George H. Kubeck
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Father M. Habiger OSB's Homily for Election Weekend
Father M. Habiger OSB’s Homily for Election Weekend*
Truth - Justice - Righteousness - cinops be gone - Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012
LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART
At St. Leo’s in Horton and St. Mary’s in Purcell, KS- 31st Sunday in Oct. 4
Jesus gives us the two great commandments in today’s Gospel. We are to love God with all that we have and are. Why? Because everything that we have is God’s gift to us. He has given us everything; so also must we respond to Him with all our love. Tuesday is the great Election Day. How do we relate the two great commandments to this?
It helps to remember that God gave us life and liberty so that we could make good decisions, and do good works during our brief journey in this world. Last Friday was All Souls Day. It reminds us that we cannot stay here. We must eventually move to another world. Then God will ask us for an accounting for all decisions, and for all our deeds.
God knows what is right, and He knows what is wrong. He designed the entire moral order. If we love God, then we will pursue the good in all that we do: in our choices, our decisions, deeds, the way we treat other people, and the way we live & value our Faith.
Keep thinking about voting. This is a serious moral responsibility. We vote in secrecy at the voting booth, but God knows how we vote. He holds us accountable for choosing good leaders, who live and govern by moral principles, who fear and honor God, who have a clear sense of the common good, and who are not swayed by fickle public opinion, self-interest, secularism and materialism.
Vote like it affects your eternal relationship with God, because it does. Our choices have consequences Archbishop Chaput, a good Kansan, said recently: “We are Catholics before we are Democrats, we are Catholics before we are Republican, and we are even Catholics before we are Americans.” If you love God with your full being, as Jesus states in today’ Gospel, then you will understand what Christ is saying.
Last week I was in Peoria, IL., helping give a clergy conference to 125 priests on the theme: “How to Preach God’s Plan for Marriage, Spousal Life and Family. The bishop there is Daniel Jenky, CSC. Here is what he is having read at all the Masses in his diocese this weekend: [The following are key excerpts:]
Dear Catholic Believers,
Since the foundation of the American Republic and the adoption of the Bill of Rights, I do not think there has ever been a time more threatening to our religious liberty than the present. Neither the president of the United States nor the current majority of the Federal Senate have been willing to even consider the Catholic community’s grave objections to those HHS mandates that would require all Catholic institutions, exempting only our church buildings, to fund abortion, sterilization, and artificial contraception. This assault upon our religious freedom is simply without precedent in the American political and legal system. Contrary to the guarantees embedded in the First Amendment, the HHS mandates attempt to now narrowly define and thereby drastically limit our traditional religious works. They grossly and intentionally intrude upon the deeply held moral convictions that have always guided our Catholic schools, hospitals, and other apostolic ministries…
I therefore call upon every practicing Catholic in this Diocese to vote. Be faithful to Christ and to your Catholic Faith. May God guide & protect His Holy Church, & may God bless America.
Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, Catholic Bishop of Peoria.
George H. Kubeck *Thanks to Brian Murphy, Chairman God’s Plan For Life - http://www.godsplanforlife.org - (949)- 235-4045 (Cell)
Truth - Justice - Righteousness - cinops be gone - Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012
LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART
At St. Leo’s in Horton and St. Mary’s in Purcell, KS- 31st Sunday in Oct. 4
Jesus gives us the two great commandments in today’s Gospel. We are to love God with all that we have and are. Why? Because everything that we have is God’s gift to us. He has given us everything; so also must we respond to Him with all our love. Tuesday is the great Election Day. How do we relate the two great commandments to this?
It helps to remember that God gave us life and liberty so that we could make good decisions, and do good works during our brief journey in this world. Last Friday was All Souls Day. It reminds us that we cannot stay here. We must eventually move to another world. Then God will ask us for an accounting for all decisions, and for all our deeds.
God knows what is right, and He knows what is wrong. He designed the entire moral order. If we love God, then we will pursue the good in all that we do: in our choices, our decisions, deeds, the way we treat other people, and the way we live & value our Faith.
Keep thinking about voting. This is a serious moral responsibility. We vote in secrecy at the voting booth, but God knows how we vote. He holds us accountable for choosing good leaders, who live and govern by moral principles, who fear and honor God, who have a clear sense of the common good, and who are not swayed by fickle public opinion, self-interest, secularism and materialism.
Vote like it affects your eternal relationship with God, because it does. Our choices have consequences Archbishop Chaput, a good Kansan, said recently: “We are Catholics before we are Democrats, we are Catholics before we are Republican, and we are even Catholics before we are Americans.” If you love God with your full being, as Jesus states in today’ Gospel, then you will understand what Christ is saying.
Last week I was in Peoria, IL., helping give a clergy conference to 125 priests on the theme: “How to Preach God’s Plan for Marriage, Spousal Life and Family. The bishop there is Daniel Jenky, CSC. Here is what he is having read at all the Masses in his diocese this weekend: [The following are key excerpts:]
Dear Catholic Believers,
Since the foundation of the American Republic and the adoption of the Bill of Rights, I do not think there has ever been a time more threatening to our religious liberty than the present. Neither the president of the United States nor the current majority of the Federal Senate have been willing to even consider the Catholic community’s grave objections to those HHS mandates that would require all Catholic institutions, exempting only our church buildings, to fund abortion, sterilization, and artificial contraception. This assault upon our religious freedom is simply without precedent in the American political and legal system. Contrary to the guarantees embedded in the First Amendment, the HHS mandates attempt to now narrowly define and thereby drastically limit our traditional religious works. They grossly and intentionally intrude upon the deeply held moral convictions that have always guided our Catholic schools, hospitals, and other apostolic ministries…
I therefore call upon every practicing Catholic in this Diocese to vote. Be faithful to Christ and to your Catholic Faith. May God guide & protect His Holy Church, & may God bless America.
Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, Catholic Bishop of Peoria.
George H. Kubeck *Thanks to Brian Murphy, Chairman God’s Plan For Life - http://www.godsplanforlife.org - (949)- 235-4045 (Cell)
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Win or Lose, Obamaism must go!
Win or Lose, Obamaism must go!
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012
1.) What is frightening is the ideal we once had of the Office of the Presidency. The ideal was spoiled by the presence of President Obama’s policies, Czars and lies in the White House. With his defeat, we will restore the respect the Office of the Presidency.
2.) Never again are we going to elect a liberal democrat Alinskyite community organizer with no business or executive experience. But it happened. Why?
3.) What is frightening in America is the existence of a Pravda news media mindset. They are not journalists. They just love liberal progressivism. It is their daily religion. They promote it. That is why they love Obama! They would have done the same thing for Hillary Clinton. They can influence at least 5% of the electorate and in a close election Obama wins. After the election, we need to talk and identify these public scoundrels. I call them the two-face-double-standard news media. Our nation can’t be secure with a “Pravda.”
This media sends out talking points and a narrative that covers for Obama. For example, what occurred in Libya is not discussed. So is the scandal of “Fast and Furious.”
4.) What is frightening is that in America, 40% of the population is conservative, 20% liberal and 40% independent or undecided. Except for Fox News, Talk Radio and Drudge Report etc. liberal propaganda is flooding the nation promoting abortion on demand as a women’s health issue and same-sex marriage, etc. This will not stand.
5.) What is frightening is that about 25% of Catholic voters in a CatholicVote.com poll, identify themselves as agreeing with the so-called social justice fake issues of Obama on abortion and same-sex marriage. That’s scandalous and heretical.
6.) What is frightening is what happened at the Ft. Hood Massacre. There was a military investigation and the influence of Obama on the military was to come up with a lie that the massacre was done by a “gunman,” and not by an American Islamic terrorist. What other fiendish influence has President Obama had on the military, particularly in the promotion of the gay agenda in the military and our national security in the world.
7.) What is frightening is the influence of President Obama and his lackeys in persuading Home Depot, Star Bucks and I understand Nordstrom in Washington State in supporting same-sex marriage. That is wrong. Penney’s support for s-s-marriage is leading that company into bankruptcy. I tore up their $10, coupon. I made some great purchases at Sears this morning.
8.) What is frightening about Obamaism is that during Barack’ presidency over 5 million jobs were created? But then about 5 million other people were put on disability. What he did was deliberately lower the requirement standards for disability. Then put all the people on the government dole for the rest of their lives as we borrow the money from China. Why? This keeps the unemployment figures under 8 %. We never have had a President with Obama’s mindset, hate the rich, class warfare, income redistribution etc.
9.) What is frightening are his deliberate policies to change the very soul and nature of an American. Government is big, citizen small. Obama is at war with traditional American values of private enterprise, freedom of religion and conscience. Check out his promotion of values like sexualityism.
George H. Kubeck
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012
1.) What is frightening is the ideal we once had of the Office of the Presidency. The ideal was spoiled by the presence of President Obama’s policies, Czars and lies in the White House. With his defeat, we will restore the respect the Office of the Presidency.
2.) Never again are we going to elect a liberal democrat Alinskyite community organizer with no business or executive experience. But it happened. Why?
3.) What is frightening in America is the existence of a Pravda news media mindset. They are not journalists. They just love liberal progressivism. It is their daily religion. They promote it. That is why they love Obama! They would have done the same thing for Hillary Clinton. They can influence at least 5% of the electorate and in a close election Obama wins. After the election, we need to talk and identify these public scoundrels. I call them the two-face-double-standard news media. Our nation can’t be secure with a “Pravda.”
This media sends out talking points and a narrative that covers for Obama. For example, what occurred in Libya is not discussed. So is the scandal of “Fast and Furious.”
4.) What is frightening is that in America, 40% of the population is conservative, 20% liberal and 40% independent or undecided. Except for Fox News, Talk Radio and Drudge Report etc. liberal propaganda is flooding the nation promoting abortion on demand as a women’s health issue and same-sex marriage, etc. This will not stand.
5.) What is frightening is that about 25% of Catholic voters in a CatholicVote.com poll, identify themselves as agreeing with the so-called social justice fake issues of Obama on abortion and same-sex marriage. That’s scandalous and heretical.
6.) What is frightening is what happened at the Ft. Hood Massacre. There was a military investigation and the influence of Obama on the military was to come up with a lie that the massacre was done by a “gunman,” and not by an American Islamic terrorist. What other fiendish influence has President Obama had on the military, particularly in the promotion of the gay agenda in the military and our national security in the world.
7.) What is frightening is the influence of President Obama and his lackeys in persuading Home Depot, Star Bucks and I understand Nordstrom in Washington State in supporting same-sex marriage. That is wrong. Penney’s support for s-s-marriage is leading that company into bankruptcy. I tore up their $10, coupon. I made some great purchases at Sears this morning.
8.) What is frightening about Obamaism is that during Barack’ presidency over 5 million jobs were created? But then about 5 million other people were put on disability. What he did was deliberately lower the requirement standards for disability. Then put all the people on the government dole for the rest of their lives as we borrow the money from China. Why? This keeps the unemployment figures under 8 %. We never have had a President with Obama’s mindset, hate the rich, class warfare, income redistribution etc.
9.) What is frightening are his deliberate policies to change the very soul and nature of an American. Government is big, citizen small. Obama is at war with traditional American values of private enterprise, freedom of religion and conscience. Check out his promotion of values like sexualityism.
George H. Kubeck
Which direction in this Year of Faith?
Which Direction in this Year of Faith?
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012
Here is another classic from Ratzinger’s Co-Workers of the Truth - Oct. 31st meditation.
“What directions does a person choose for his existence if he has decided to tune the instrument of his life to the keynote of “faith”? This question is not an easy one to answer because it obviously reaches down to the deeper levels of human nature, to attributes that are not always visible on the surface but that penetrate and leave their imprint on the whole, yet without being anywhere measurable.
“All the important fundamental of human existence that go beyond our ordinary concern about the details of every day living can be understood if we ourselves make some small effort to enter into the movement from which they flow - whether it is a question of a great love, of the passion of the inventor, or of a renunciation required of those who devote their lives to a revolutionary idea; whether is a question of the attitude expressed in the smile of the Buddha or the faith of a Christian….
“We can explain what faith really means for any individual only by pointing to the lives of those who have lived it in its fullness: Francis of Assisi, Francis Xavier, Ignatius Loyola, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Vincent de Paul, John XXIII; in such persons, and basically only in them, can we come to know what kind of decision faith is.
“As we can see in the lives of such individuals faith is a kind of passion, or, more correctly, a love that seizes an individual and shows him the direction the must go, however fatiguing it may be - the spiritual equivalent, perhaps, of a mountain to climb, which to the ordinary Christian would seem foolish indeed but to one who has committed himself to the venture is clearly the only direction to take - a direction he would not exchange for any conceivably more comfortable one.”
George H. Kubeck,
P.S. “The existence of Jesus Christ and his message has introduced a new dynamic into humanity, and the Church is, as it were, nothing other than this dynamic, this beginning of humanity’s movement toward God… In the lives of the saints, this dynamic has reached exemplary proportions…. The fact that Nietzsche and Marx, all too often, replaced biblical readings evidences the rapidity with which a false purism avenges itself and is transformed into its opposite.
“The uniqueness of the Christ-event does not depreciate human life but rather gives it share in the power of his presence. In the great personages of faith from Polycarp to Maximilian Kolbe we have genuine example of what life in imitation of Christ really is - we see the challenge and the hope of such a life.
“Each of them is an exegesis of Jesus; in them he becomes concrete. Anyone who begins to consider the lives of the saints finds there an inexhaustible richness of histories that are more than homiletic models; the confirmation of the call of Christ through centuries full of blood and tears.
“Only when we have rediscovered the saints will we also rediscover the Church and in doing so will likewise rediscover the Lord himself as one who lived amid all the darkness, who will not die again, who will not leave us orphans.” Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Co-Workers of the Truth - Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1992 Nov. 2nd Meditation.
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012
Here is another classic from Ratzinger’s Co-Workers of the Truth - Oct. 31st meditation.
“What directions does a person choose for his existence if he has decided to tune the instrument of his life to the keynote of “faith”? This question is not an easy one to answer because it obviously reaches down to the deeper levels of human nature, to attributes that are not always visible on the surface but that penetrate and leave their imprint on the whole, yet without being anywhere measurable.
“All the important fundamental of human existence that go beyond our ordinary concern about the details of every day living can be understood if we ourselves make some small effort to enter into the movement from which they flow - whether it is a question of a great love, of the passion of the inventor, or of a renunciation required of those who devote their lives to a revolutionary idea; whether is a question of the attitude expressed in the smile of the Buddha or the faith of a Christian….
“We can explain what faith really means for any individual only by pointing to the lives of those who have lived it in its fullness: Francis of Assisi, Francis Xavier, Ignatius Loyola, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Vincent de Paul, John XXIII; in such persons, and basically only in them, can we come to know what kind of decision faith is.
“As we can see in the lives of such individuals faith is a kind of passion, or, more correctly, a love that seizes an individual and shows him the direction the must go, however fatiguing it may be - the spiritual equivalent, perhaps, of a mountain to climb, which to the ordinary Christian would seem foolish indeed but to one who has committed himself to the venture is clearly the only direction to take - a direction he would not exchange for any conceivably more comfortable one.”
George H. Kubeck,
P.S. “The existence of Jesus Christ and his message has introduced a new dynamic into humanity, and the Church is, as it were, nothing other than this dynamic, this beginning of humanity’s movement toward God… In the lives of the saints, this dynamic has reached exemplary proportions…. The fact that Nietzsche and Marx, all too often, replaced biblical readings evidences the rapidity with which a false purism avenges itself and is transformed into its opposite.
“The uniqueness of the Christ-event does not depreciate human life but rather gives it share in the power of his presence. In the great personages of faith from Polycarp to Maximilian Kolbe we have genuine example of what life in imitation of Christ really is - we see the challenge and the hope of such a life.
“Each of them is an exegesis of Jesus; in them he becomes concrete. Anyone who begins to consider the lives of the saints finds there an inexhaustible richness of histories that are more than homiletic models; the confirmation of the call of Christ through centuries full of blood and tears.
“Only when we have rediscovered the saints will we also rediscover the Church and in doing so will likewise rediscover the Lord himself as one who lived amid all the darkness, who will not die again, who will not leave us orphans.” Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Co-Workers of the Truth - Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1992 Nov. 2nd Meditation.
Friday, November 2, 2012
The Fruits of Same-Sex Marriage
The Fruits of Same-Sex Marriage
Truth and Righteousness - cinops be gone - Friday, Nov. 2, 2012
Here is a Canadian story that will send cold chills and anger up your spine. Can it happen with the reelection of President Obama and the HHS Mandate? Definitely!
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IT’S WAR: CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TOLD THEY CAN’T TEACH ABORTION IS WRONG
On Wednesday, Ontario’s Minister of Education rocked Ontario taxpayers, sending shockwave across Canada, and even beyond our borders, with and announcement that can only be described as “totalitarian.”
Laurel Broten, Minister of Education told reporters that under its new anti-bullying law, Bill 13, The Accepting Schools Act, Catholic schools would no longer be permitted to teach that abortion is wrong!
A transcript of the remarks from Premier McGuinty’s office to LifeSiteNews.com quoted Minister Broten:
“We do not allow and we’re very clear with the passage of Bill 13 that Catholic teachings cannot be taught in our schools that violate human rights and which brings a lack of acceptance to participation in schools,” she said.
“I don’t think that there is a contrast or a conflict between choosing a Catholic education for your children and supporting a woman’s right to choose,” she added.
“Asked for clarification she said again: “Bill 13 has in it a clear indication of ensuring that our schools are safe, accepting places for all students. That includes LGBTQ students. That includes young girls in our school. Bill 13 is about tackling misogyny, taking away a woman’s right to choose could arguably be one of the most misogynistic actions that one could take.” …
Already Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins has affirmed that Catholic schools are protected by Section 93 of the Canadian Constitution…
In another article from LifeSiteNews.com, Minneapolis, Oct. 12, 2012, titled, Canadian Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast began his address to St. Thomas University Law School on Monday, October 8th as he warns U.S. of dire consequences of gay “marriage.”
“You are summoned to a tribunal where you cannot have a defense lawyer and you cannot record the proceedings nor have a witness present. The people judging and prosecuting you have no legal qualifications. The accusation is ambiguous, having to do with ideas the state does not like. The penalties could include fines equal to several thousands of dollars, public recanting, and rehabilitation classes. Your are a bishop. This is not China. This is Canada. The offense: explaining why homosexual relations are a sin.”… Enumerating the “consequences of same-sex marriage and related sexual licenses are already manifesting themselves,” the Archbishop noted. -restrictions on freedoms; forced sex education; sexually confused children; sexual experimentation among children; muzzling and debilitating the Church; more births out of wedlock; more vito ; more abortions, poverty, misery, disease, addictions and higher health care costs…
George H. Kubeck, How did all of this come about in Canada? Briefly, Catholic label liberal politicians in Canada passed same-sex marriage in July 2005 and the Canadian bishops did not excommunicate them. The despicable CINOP Nancy Pelosi bribed Knights of Columbus legislators in Massachusetts … I have letters posted on this blog in 2007 and 2008.
Truth and Righteousness - cinops be gone - Friday, Nov. 2, 2012
Here is a Canadian story that will send cold chills and anger up your spine. Can it happen with the reelection of President Obama and the HHS Mandate? Definitely!
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IT’S WAR: CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TOLD THEY CAN’T TEACH ABORTION IS WRONG
On Wednesday, Ontario’s Minister of Education rocked Ontario taxpayers, sending shockwave across Canada, and even beyond our borders, with and announcement that can only be described as “totalitarian.”
Laurel Broten, Minister of Education told reporters that under its new anti-bullying law, Bill 13, The Accepting Schools Act, Catholic schools would no longer be permitted to teach that abortion is wrong!
A transcript of the remarks from Premier McGuinty’s office to LifeSiteNews.com quoted Minister Broten:
“We do not allow and we’re very clear with the passage of Bill 13 that Catholic teachings cannot be taught in our schools that violate human rights and which brings a lack of acceptance to participation in schools,” she said.
“I don’t think that there is a contrast or a conflict between choosing a Catholic education for your children and supporting a woman’s right to choose,” she added.
“Asked for clarification she said again: “Bill 13 has in it a clear indication of ensuring that our schools are safe, accepting places for all students. That includes LGBTQ students. That includes young girls in our school. Bill 13 is about tackling misogyny, taking away a woman’s right to choose could arguably be one of the most misogynistic actions that one could take.” …
Already Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins has affirmed that Catholic schools are protected by Section 93 of the Canadian Constitution…
In another article from LifeSiteNews.com, Minneapolis, Oct. 12, 2012, titled, Canadian Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast began his address to St. Thomas University Law School on Monday, October 8th as he warns U.S. of dire consequences of gay “marriage.”
“You are summoned to a tribunal where you cannot have a defense lawyer and you cannot record the proceedings nor have a witness present. The people judging and prosecuting you have no legal qualifications. The accusation is ambiguous, having to do with ideas the state does not like. The penalties could include fines equal to several thousands of dollars, public recanting, and rehabilitation classes. Your are a bishop. This is not China. This is Canada. The offense: explaining why homosexual relations are a sin.”… Enumerating the “consequences of same-sex marriage and related sexual licenses are already manifesting themselves,” the Archbishop noted. -restrictions on freedoms; forced sex education; sexually confused children; sexual experimentation among children; muzzling and debilitating the Church; more births out of wedlock; more vito ; more abortions, poverty, misery, disease, addictions and higher health care costs…
George H. Kubeck, How did all of this come about in Canada? Briefly, Catholic label liberal politicians in Canada passed same-sex marriage in July 2005 and the Canadian bishops did not excommunicate them. The despicable CINOP Nancy Pelosi bribed Knights of Columbus legislators in Massachusetts … I have letters posted on this blog in 2007 and 2008.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Judi Brown and Russell Shaw
Judie Brown and Russell Shaw
Truth and righteousness - cinops be gone - Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012
1.) Pro-lifers can be naïve and idealistic. I recall delivering a hand delivered letter to the office of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez on Lewis St. on May 4, 2001. Dear Loretta,
“It seems to me that the idea of a pro-abortion Catholic is about as ridiculous as Catholics for free choice or the pro-adultery Catholic sitting in the church pew.
Could we talk or communicate on this subject? Please share the three enclosures with your pastor or bishop?
I believe that the independent and informed Catholic laity prefers persuasion and dialogue on this subject rather than protest or teach-ins.” Maybe I am still naïve and idealistic.
2.) May I share with you excerpts of Judie Brown’s “For whom should I vote in the November 2012 election? This is from “Celebrate Life” issue Sept. - Oct. 2012. She is President of American Life League and my family supports her cause with $120, yearly.
a) “With regard to intrinsic human rights, there are four actions that are so intrinsically evil* that no Catholic can knowingly advocate for or promote them without imperiling his salvation: abortion, euthanasia, human embryonic stem cell research, and human cloning. They are non-negotiable.”
*JUDIE, IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YOU FORGOT EVIL SAME-SEX MARRIAGE!
b) “If your well-formed Catholic conscience tells you the third-party candidate is the best choice for the babies, the disabled, the elderly, and the inform, then that’s a pretty indication of what you should do in the voting booth on Election Day.” THIS IS A VERY CLOSE ELECTION, JUDIE, IN THE BATTLE GROUNDS STATES, A VOTE FOR A 3RD PARTY IS A VOTE FOR OBAMA!
What I fear is that George Soros will pour money into “Catholics United” which supports Obama With Your Message besides telling Catholic clergy to shut up about moral issues!
Please rescind your “For whom should I vote in the November 2012 election!”
3.) Now, let’s take a look at “Our Sunday Visitor” issue October 28, 2012 and the article by Russell Shaw who is a great Catholic writer. The headline was assuredly set up by Our Sunday Visitor titled, “Pro-Life and Social Justice Catholics increasingly at odds” - Pick-in-and-choose approach to Church teaching on each side appears to be at the heart of political divide.
Now we have issues that are intrinsically evil. Let’s repeat them again. Cloning, Euthanasia, Abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Same-Sex Marriage. This is the side of Pro-Life, Pro-Marriage and Pro-Family. Now what in the world are the prudential issues of Social Justice Catholics that we can hover over, argue or agree upon?
Now let’s review authentic Catholic Social Teaching: Are we on the same mind-level? Subsidiary, Solidarity and the Principle of Gratuity: Do you believe that the secular War on Poverty was a good thing for America? No! It killed the Black American family.
Now let’s talk about the Welfare Reform Bill that was signed by President Clinton.
It was a great success. Sadly, the American Catholic Church, so-called Catholic social justice group opposed and fought the Welfare Reform Bill for years. It was a prudential issue and they were wrong.
There is also this so-called social justice Catholic liberation theology which our Popes have strongly opposed. Sadly, with Obama’s church of Jeremiah Wright, it has become energized into black liberation theology, a false religion. Catholic liberation theology is a waste of time for Catholics or anyone in our colleges and universities. It definitely may have screwed up Catholic voters in Venezuela. Enough said.
George H. Kubeck
Truth and righteousness - cinops be gone - Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012
1.) Pro-lifers can be naïve and idealistic. I recall delivering a hand delivered letter to the office of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez on Lewis St. on May 4, 2001. Dear Loretta,
“It seems to me that the idea of a pro-abortion Catholic is about as ridiculous as Catholics for free choice or the pro-adultery Catholic sitting in the church pew.
Could we talk or communicate on this subject? Please share the three enclosures with your pastor or bishop?
I believe that the independent and informed Catholic laity prefers persuasion and dialogue on this subject rather than protest or teach-ins.” Maybe I am still naïve and idealistic.
2.) May I share with you excerpts of Judie Brown’s “For whom should I vote in the November 2012 election? This is from “Celebrate Life” issue Sept. - Oct. 2012. She is President of American Life League and my family supports her cause with $120, yearly.
a) “With regard to intrinsic human rights, there are four actions that are so intrinsically evil* that no Catholic can knowingly advocate for or promote them without imperiling his salvation: abortion, euthanasia, human embryonic stem cell research, and human cloning. They are non-negotiable.”
*JUDIE, IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YOU FORGOT EVIL SAME-SEX MARRIAGE!
b) “If your well-formed Catholic conscience tells you the third-party candidate is the best choice for the babies, the disabled, the elderly, and the inform, then that’s a pretty indication of what you should do in the voting booth on Election Day.” THIS IS A VERY CLOSE ELECTION, JUDIE, IN THE BATTLE GROUNDS STATES, A VOTE FOR A 3RD PARTY IS A VOTE FOR OBAMA!
What I fear is that George Soros will pour money into “Catholics United” which supports Obama With Your Message besides telling Catholic clergy to shut up about moral issues!
Please rescind your “For whom should I vote in the November 2012 election!”
3.) Now, let’s take a look at “Our Sunday Visitor” issue October 28, 2012 and the article by Russell Shaw who is a great Catholic writer. The headline was assuredly set up by Our Sunday Visitor titled, “Pro-Life and Social Justice Catholics increasingly at odds” - Pick-in-and-choose approach to Church teaching on each side appears to be at the heart of political divide.
Now we have issues that are intrinsically evil. Let’s repeat them again. Cloning, Euthanasia, Abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Same-Sex Marriage. This is the side of Pro-Life, Pro-Marriage and Pro-Family. Now what in the world are the prudential issues of Social Justice Catholics that we can hover over, argue or agree upon?
Now let’s review authentic Catholic Social Teaching: Are we on the same mind-level? Subsidiary, Solidarity and the Principle of Gratuity: Do you believe that the secular War on Poverty was a good thing for America? No! It killed the Black American family.
Now let’s talk about the Welfare Reform Bill that was signed by President Clinton.
It was a great success. Sadly, the American Catholic Church, so-called Catholic social justice group opposed and fought the Welfare Reform Bill for years. It was a prudential issue and they were wrong.
There is also this so-called social justice Catholic liberation theology which our Popes have strongly opposed. Sadly, with Obama’s church of Jeremiah Wright, it has become energized into black liberation theology, a false religion. Catholic liberation theology is a waste of time for Catholics or anyone in our colleges and universities. It definitely may have screwed up Catholic voters in Venezuela. Enough said.
George H. Kubeck
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