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Our Lord sends us crosses but they are marks of his love. It is a rose in disguise. The crosses give him an excuse for entering into closer union with us. They are a message of a lover to somebody whom he loves and with whom he wants to be more intimate and more closely [...]
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PATRIOT POST, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2009
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. … We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of [...]
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PATRIOT POST, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2009
“Chicago politics is not about ideology. It is about, ‘Who Gets What, When, and How,’ to quote the inimitable Harold D. Laswell, one of the outstanding political theorists of the last century. The sine qua non of Chicago politics is power, getting it and keeping it. Everything else is incidental. [...]
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30-August-2009 — Catholic News Agency
CNA STAFF, Aug 30, 2009 (CNA).- This Saturday, the Church will celebrate the feast day of Mother Teresa, a universal symbol of God’s merciful and preferential love for the poor and forgotten.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, the youngest of three children. [...]
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By Michael Keehn, American Thinker, August 29, 2009
Healthcare is a personal service, not a group service such as National Defense, Law Enforcement, and Fire Suppression. Each of those entities do not serve the individual, they serve the community as a whole. The police are under no obligation to protect you personally; if you need that, [...]
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By Matt Cover Monday, August 31, 2009
CNSNews.com – According to the Obama administration’s mid-session budget update, the federal government will have to borrow nearly 40 percent of its total expenditures in 2010, a level not seen since World War II.
The report, “Mid-Session Review, Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2010,” shows that 39.9 percent of [...]
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By Human Events, 08/31/2009
1. “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.” — President Obama at an August [...]
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….Beck argues that the Obama administration’s appointment of czars unaccountable to Congress, ramming massive legislation through Congress, and especially his health-care plan, bear close resemblance to how Germany’s National Socialists consolidated overwhelming powers under the executive led by Adolf Hitler in such a way that strangled democracy in Germany….
By Peter J. Smith, Catholic Exchange, August [...]
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….Let’s Face It…..Ted Kennedy hasn’t exactly acted as a model Catholic . . . With Boston archbishop Sean O’Malley offering a blessing at the senator’s funeral, and the former archbishop of Washington, D.C. presiding over the burial, many of Kennedy’s political antagonists are outraged, not that the Church was silent, but that it so loudly honored [...]
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By Monsignor Dennis Clark, Ph.D., Catholic Exchange, August 31st, 2009
Thessalonians: 4:13-18 / Lk 4:16-30
The Good News that Jesus brought to the people of his hometown, Nazareth, was the best news they’d ever heard or even hoped for. But they didn’t listen, they didn’t take it seriously, because they didn’t take Jesus seriously. And why? “Because we [...]
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Source: Lisa Arneill, Editor, The Milk of Human Kindness, December 7, 2007
Sometimes a preemie doesn’t need to be hooked up to 10 different machines to be given the chance to survive.
When Carolyn Isbister put her 20oz baby on her chest for a cuddle, she thought that it would be the only chance she would ever [...]
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….Obama’s speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such a quasi “religious” impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming . . . When you fall for someone to the [...]
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….Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to “direct the national response to the cyber threat” if necessary for “the national defense and security.” The White House is supposed to engage in “periodic mapping” of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies “shall share” requested information with [...]
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Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, Human Life International, Friday, August 28, 2009
We must, as a matter of precept, pray for the salvation of heretical Catholics like Senator Edward Kennedy, but we do not have to praise him let alone extol him with the full honors of a public Catholic funeral and all the adulation that attends such [...]
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UPDATED: Pro-Life Leaders to Cardinal O’Malley: Do Not Honor Kennedy with Public Catholic Funeral - Catholics urged to contact Cardinal O’Malley to protest the funeral in the hours leading up to the event, and to “pray for the Church.” Full Story
Kennedy’s Letter to Pope: “I’ve never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings” of Catholic Faith - [...]
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TERRI SCHIAVO’S FATHER ROBERT SCHINDLER DIES, PRO-LIFE GROUP MOURNS HIS DEATH
St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) – Robert Schindler, the father of Terri Schiavo, whose former husband subjected her to a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death, died overnight. Schindler, 72, had been battling health issues and he died of apparent heart failure.
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI RELEASES [...]
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“The people can never wilfully betray their own interests; but they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in [...]
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Father Andrew Mulcahey, LC
Luke 4:16-30
Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, AUGUST 31, 2009
Raymond became a priest due to his quiet persistence in prayer and study.
He was born to a noble Spanish family in 1204. His father had planned a career for Raymond in the royal court, but the young Raymond felt drawn to religious life. In an attempt to dissuade him, [...]
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Ephesians
Chapter 6: 10-20
For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/ephesians/ephesians6.htm
Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to [...]
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Congressman Mike Rogers’ opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C.
YouTube, July 16, 2009
Mike Rogers,(R-Michigan)
Website: http://www.mikerogers.house.gov
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‘Beginnings of Another Enemy?’:
Beck Targets Barack Obama’s Civilian Army
August 28, 2009 at 10:02 am – Glenn Beck
Dateline: New York, NY
“Mr. President, is your civilian national security force to protect us from things the Missouri State Police, your own Homeland Security and the liberal Southern Law Poverty Center have come out and said were a threat: [...]
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….Are our marriages worth the humbling work needed to reconcile as quickly as possible, or are we going to pout or shout or talk behind our spouse’s back until we “win” this one?….
By Heidi Bratton, Catholic Exchange, August 28th, 2009
I heard a shocker the other day. One evening, while out with a few girlfriends, a [...]
