The Foundation
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“Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
–Thomas Jefferson
Digest, Patriot Post, Friday, October 30, 2009
http://patriotpost.us/edition/2009/10/30/digest/
How to Talk to Democrats About Abortion: Five Strategies for Making the Pro-Life Case
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By Eric Pavlat, Inside Catholic, October 29, 2009
Strategy No. 1: Oppose Violence Against Women
Strategy No. 2: Support Women Facing Crisis Pregnancies
Strategy No. 3: Explain the Harmful Health Effects of Abortion
Strategy No. 4: Emphasize the Inherent Discrimination of Abortion
Strategy No. 5: Discuss the Science of Fetal Development
In the 1970s, when about 40 percent of Democratic [...]
Mike Pence: Reading Guide to the Pelosi Health Care Reform Bill
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Mike Pence’s Notes
Please read and forward the link to this note ( http://bit.ly/1rGrpW ) to your friends and family. This reading guide includes what we have uncovered in our initial reading of the Pelosi health “reform” legislation (H.R. 3962) introduced by House Democrats.
Page 94—Section 202(c) prohibits the sale of private individual health insurance policies, beginning [...]
MARK ALEXANDER: Advocates Individual Liberty, Restoring Constitutional Limits on Government . . . . .
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….the Republic is at high risk of following the same cycle as democracies, unless there is intervention by Patriot leadership — those committed to a higher calling than their own self interests . . . We believe the fundamental duty of the federal government is to secure the rights of its citizens. This is accomplished [...]
IS IT TOO LITTLE TOO LATE FOR THE BISHOPS TO TAKE ACTION?
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U.S. Bishops Launch Grassroots Effort to Fight for Catholic Concerns on Health Care
Washington D.C., Oct 30, 2009 / 05:27 am (CNA) – After attempting to persuade lawmakers to listen to Catholic concerns about health care reform, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has initiated a grassroots campaign to mobilize the faithful across the [...]
The Sunday Homily – ALL SAINTS DAY
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Fr. James Farfaglia, Pastor, St. Helena of the True Cross of Jesus Catholic Church in Corpus Christi, Tx, November 1, 2009
At an important point in the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi, a missionary gave him a book that contained the four Gospels. This of course, was the Indian leader’s first exposure to Christianity. He read the Gospels with [...]
CCHD “Has Nothing to Do With Catholicism, Except That Catholics Are Asked to Pay For It”?
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CCHD: Catholic Campaign for Human Development
….Criticisms based upon the CCHD’s questionable funding practices are not new. The late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus claimed last year, in the wake of the ACORN scandal, that the CCHD “has nothing to do with Catholicism, except that Catholics are asked to pay for it.”
He called the organization “misbegotten in concept and corrupt [...]
A New Campaign to Reform the CCHD
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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, October 30, 2009
A coalition of Catholic and pro-life groups– including Human Life International, the American Life League, and the new Bellarmine Veritas Ministry– has joined in a call for the American bishops to reform the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).
The Bellarmine Veritas Ministry burst on the scene this year with [...]
GOSPEL & MEDITATION: Friend, Go Up Higher
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Father James Swanson, LC
Luke 14:1, 7-11
On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. “When you are [...]
The Eve of All Saints: Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time
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All Hallows’ Eve, October 31, 2009
Today we celebrate the eve of All Saints. Pope Sixtus IV in 1484 established November 1, the feast of All Saints, as a holy day of obligation and gave it both a vigil (known today as “All Hallows’ Eve” or “Hallowe’en”) and an eight-day period or octave to celebrate the [...]
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
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The Immaculate Heart of Mary Our Hope
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The Immaculate Heart of Mary Our Hope
*THE STORY OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA By Brother Ernest, C.S.C.
Imprimatur
Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, D.D.
Bishop of Fort Wayne
1957
http://www.theimmaculateheart.com/
What Do Catholics Believe …The Lord Is The Giver of Life?
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NICENE CREED (Profession of Faith)
We believe in God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and all that is seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, [...]
Then Cardinal Ratzinger on Marxist Ideology
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Then-Cardinal Ratzinger offered the ultimate warning against such (Marxist) ideology when he wrote in Truth and Tolerance,
[W]here the Marxist ideology of liberation had been consistently applied, a total lack of freedom had developed, whose horrors were now laid bare before the eyes of the entire world. Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising [...]
ONE YEAR AGO: The Other Side of Change: Obama and Saul Alinsky
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….Alinsky is well-known for his second book, Rules for Radicals, which begins with praise for Lucifer, a rebel who achieved his own kingdom. The book stressed that activists must be “people committed to change.” (Sound familiar?) He taught his agitators to avoid the “useless self-indulgence” of despising their own middle-class roots, instead exploiting the contempt [...]
LET’S BE CLEAR! Obama Follows Saul Alinsky’s Teachings Who Acknowledged Lucifer as the First Radical!
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….Saul Alinsky’s radicalism was expressed in his 1971 book, “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.” In that book, Alinsky said, “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins [...]
Saint Michael the Archangel Defend Us in This Battle!
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Prayer to St Michael (Long Version)
O glorious Archangel Saint Michael, Prince of the heavenly host, be our defense in the terrible warfare which we carry on against principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, spirits of evil. Come to the aid of man, whom God created immortal, made in His own [...]
STICKING IT TO THE TAXPAYERS!
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By Brian Farrington
Krauthammer: The Three Envelopes
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Charles Krauthammer, TownHall, October 30, 2009
WASHINGTON — Old Soviet joke:
Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev.
“Niki, I’m dying. Don’t have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble.”
A few years later, first crisis. Khrushchev opens envelope 1: “Blame everything on me. Uncle Joe.” [...]
MADNESS! 2,000 Pages of Mandates, Taxes, and Bureaucracy
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Posted by: Michele Bachmann, TownHall, October 29, 2009
This morning, House Democrats held a press conference to unveil their health care reform bill, which they claim will expand coverage for all and decrease costs. Sounds good, but once you peel away the “feel good” rhetoric, there’s nothing to be excited about. This 2,000-page bill includes [...]
Dismantling America: Part II
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…..No one– not even the President of the United States– has an entitlement to a “positive” response to his actions. The entitlement mentality has eroded the once common belief that you earned things, including respect, instead of being given them . . . Barack Obama has made every mistake that was made by the Western democracies [...]
Gardasil Researcher Admits Vaccine May Be More Dangerous than the Disease
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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski, October 28, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
A researcher with Merck Pharmaceutical who helped develop the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, has revealed that the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and may cause more illness than the disease they are intended to prevent.
Dr. Diane Harper, director of [...]
Founder’s Quote Daily
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“The most important consequence of marriage is, that the husband and the wife become in law only one person… Upon this principle of union, almost all the other legal consequences of marriage depend. This principle, sublime and refined, deserves to be viewed and examined on every side.”
–James Wilson, Of the Natural Rights of Individuals, 1792
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GOSPEL & MEDITATION: You Are Being Watched
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Father Patrick Langan, LC
Luke 14: 1-6
On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking, “Is it [...]